Notes for: James WARNER

James Warner was of the Quaker religion and elected Warden of Sewells Point Puritan Church, Elizabeth River Parish, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia to August 15, 1649. One source notes that "James Warner was a church warden of the liberal variety." In late 1651, he moved to the Severn River area in Anne Arundel County, MD. The first Colonial settlement on the Severn, in Anne Arundel County, was settled in 1649 and called Providence (also called Towne Neck). It was abandoned in about 1670 because Annapolis had a better harbor. This "lost town" was in the Carr Creek watershed near Greenbury Point, across the river from Annapolis. This was on what are now grounds of the US Naval Station Annapolis

At sometime around 1651, possibly the reason for his leaving Virginia, James Warner and his wife, Ann (Unk.) Warner, converted to the Quaker religion. Apparently Ann's convictions were not as strong as her husband's, as witnessed by a 1657 letter:

In 1661 Henry Ridgely and James Warner, a neighbor in South River Hundred, received jointly a warrant of 600 acres of land which they called "Waldridge" on the north side of South River which bordered the plantation "Broome".

1670, James Warner's first wife, Ann (Unknown) Warner, passed away, (possibly in childbirth) leaving him a widower. In about 1671 he remarried to a Quaker widow, Elizabeth (Lee) Harris. She was about his age and the widow of plantation-owner, William Harris. They had no children together.