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- The first of the name of whom there is any record is said to
have come from Yorkshire. On May 11, 1646, William Thornton
obliged himself, by a paper recorded in York county (including Gloucester), to care for the cattle of John Liptrot until the latter came of age. On February 16th, 1665-'66, as "IV Mr William' Thornton," he had a grant of 161 acres of land, in Petsworth parish, Gloucester, adjoining the land where he lived, and that of Mr. Richard Barnard. He was a vestryman of Petsworth parish in 1677. There is on record in Essex a power of attorney, dated September, 1673, from William' Thornton, o of Gloucester, to James Kay, of Rappahannock county, concerning 2,000 acres of laud in the freshes of Rappahannock, on the north side of the river, adjoining the lands of Andrew Buckner, Col. Wm. Ball, and Mr. Richard Whitehead, and Muddy Creek, a tract of land which he had bought from Mott. There is also recorded in Essex, in 1708, a deed, dated July 16, 1675, from William Thornton, of Gloucester, gentleman, to Francis and Rowland, " two of his sons,"' conveying 2,000 acres in Rappahannock county, and also a power of attorney, dated 1708, from Wmi Thornton, formerly of Gloucester, but now of Stafford, authorizing the confirmation of said deed. So in his old age Wm. Thornton removed from Gloucester to Stafford.
From the William and Mary Quarterly V3 No. 92
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