Ancestry of
Meriwether Lewis

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Francis Thornton Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of Meriwether Lewis — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Francis Thornton 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Savage   
  • Birth Date:
  • 04 or 24 JAN 1682 
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  • AFT 1703 
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  • Mary Taliaferro
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  Francis Thornton

  Elizabeth Thornton (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  Mildred Thornton

  Mary Thornton

• Sources for Francis Thornton Jr.

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, pp. 26-27.
  • ² Davis, Lottie Wright, Records of Lewis, Meriwether and Kindred Families; Genealogical Records of Minor, Davis, . . ., Columbia, MO: Artcraft Press (1951), 154, 155.
  • ³ Dorman, John Frederick, ed., The Virginia Genealogist, 2003, Vol. 47, p. 177.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 6.
  • ⁵ Stanard, W. G., "The Thornton Family", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2 (October 1895), 91-92.
  • ⁶ Stanard, W. G., "The Thornton Family", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3 (January 1896), 157.
  • ⁷ Tyler, Lyon G., ed, William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 22, Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson (1914), 299.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Meriwether Lewis", (accessed 03/20/2010).
  • ⁹ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1893), 491.