Volume 2 , Issue 9

Warwick Lineage

9th Generation of Warwick's
(beginning in Williamsburg, Virginia)

8. William Warwick married Mrs. Warwick

7. William Warwick III married Nancy Agnes Craig

6. Robert Craig Warwick married Esther Hull

5. William Fechtig Warwick married Phebea Anthea (Pray) Prey

4. John Robert Warwick married Signora Belle Guinn

3. Constance Estella Warwick married William Jacob McGill

2. Gene M. McGill married Vada Eileen Paris

1. Linda K. McGill married David M. Wagner

The father of Jacob Warwick came to Augusta County from Williamsburg about 1740. He was a Lieutenant in the service of British Government and employed in surveying land grants in Augusta County.

A deed on record dated March 21, 1759 shows that Wm. Jacob Warwick (who married Elizabeth Dunlap) obtained for himself a tract of land called Dunmore in the present County of Pocahontas, then a part of Augusta, after the birth of four (4) children (Charles, Elizabeth, Jacob & John).

Lt. Wm Jacob Warwick concluded to visit England. He was never heard of after wife married Robert Sitlington. The Dunmore Estate was settled on son, Jacob.

Jacob Warwick the II married Miss Mary Vance (daughter of Col. John Vance of North Carolina). He lived at Dunmore and all his children were born. He was a man of great enterprise and wealth in land and cattle. Like all frontiersmen he was of necessity an Indian fighter. Warwick was a member of Capt. George Mathews Company and served in lower Virginia. The early part of 1781 when Bath County was engaged. In 1791 he was Justice of the Peace. He died January 1826 at 83 years of age. Lt. Warwick is buried on west bank of Jackson River at Mtn. Grove. Mrs. Warwick died 1823 at 80 years of age. They had one son (Andrew) and six (6) Daughters.

Point Pleasant Battle

Lt. Wm. Jacob Warwick

Lt. Warwick was one of the English gentry whose family settled in Virginia in consequence of political revolt in England and whose history is so graphically given in Wm. Thackeray's "The Virginia.".