Colonel Francis Thornton Jr..

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Home. Lived near Fredericksburg, Va. ca 1703. Justice of Caroline Co. and Burgess.

Francis married Mary Taliaferro, daughter of Colonel John Taliaferro and Sarah Smith, in 1703 in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia, USA. (Mary Taliaferro was born about 1684 in Powhattan Plantation, Essex, Virginia, USA.)