biography

The original ancestor of the New England Warriners joined the settlers of Springfield, Mass. in 1638. His birthplace and ancestry are unknown. That England was the land of his nativity is probable beyond all doubt. He seems to have been one of the earliest of that name of whom history or tradition gives us any account. Tradition says that William Warriner about the year 1600, eloped from Lincolnshire, England, with Lady Clifford (?), daughter of Lord Howe, or Howard, an English admiral, and made his escape — with other members of the family, who naturally would want to get out of the way of the offended and insulted nobleman — into Yorkshire. While crossing a river one or two of the Warriners were drowned. William and another were saved, also the lady. And the tradition further states that William settled in Yorkshire.