Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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children appears in the will of Aaron Deveny, dated 2/15/1832, d
prmd in 1842, in Rutherford Co,, N.C.
"Landmarks of 0.d Prince William: A stlady of origins in Northern
Virginia, " by Fairf ax .Xarrison. 1924.
p, 151 Catesby Cocke and Benjamin Grayson, earliest
speculators in Loudoun lands, folluwed (1731) with &rants on the
head waters of Lhestone.
p.156. Footnota 37, Benjamin Grayson, who voted at bhe
Prince William election in 1741 (Boogher, 117) was one of the earliest
of the Scots merchants to be established on Quantico, where Dumfries
was to wise, for there, in 1736, was born his well known son, ~lillim.
The latter, after brilliant service as colonel of a regbent of the
line in the Continental army and subsequently ih the Continent21
Congress, was the first Senator to represent Virginia in the Congress
of the United States. Dying in 1790, he left a reputation which,
says Grigsby, 'may fray fill one of the brightest pages in our
annals (See Virginia Convention of 1783, i, 194). Grayson County
was named for him in 1793,
p. 402. In January., 1762, John Ballendim snd Benjamin
Grayson entered into a partnership fox the manufacturing of wheat
and baking of bread at or near the falls of Occaquan.
p, 664. 1788. CARWCROUG9. Record: bning, xii, 684.
Description: 50 acres of land lying on the south side of the mouth
of Quantico creek and on Potowmack river in the county of Prince
William, the property of WiUoughby Tebbs , Trustees : Cuthbert
Bullit%, liilliam Carr; John I-Iedges, Spence Grayson, John Linton,
William Linton, William Grayson, Burr Harrison, John Cannon.
p, 668, 11313. UNION. Records: Acts, 1812-13, ch. 69,
p, 98, Description: 20 acres of land at the village called ancl
known by the name of Union in the county of Loudoun. Trustees:
William Bronaugh, Benjamin Grayaon, William Harned, William H, Handr.
"Upper County Zstary," by Ralph Pavers Green, Part I I, p, 80.
Travers Cooke, son of John, m. Ivlary, dau. of lbtbam
Doniphan, and hd Col. John Cooke, of"Uest Farms,"Stafford, who m.
Mary Thompson, dau, of George I~Lzson, of "Gunston &ill." fillion,
dau. of Col, Jno. Cooke, of "IJfest Fnnns,' m. Hon, John iJ. Green, of
Culpeper, of the Virginia Court of Appeals, and had Jno, Cooke, m,
Morton; Thamns Claiborne, m, JkDonald; Jas. 1Jilliams, me hkDonald;
George Yuon rn. 1 st. Ashby, 2nd. Lockwood; and Lucy bJilliam, died
single,
Sarah lhon, dau. of Col. John Cooke, of "West Farms, m.
Is t Cay Selden; 2nd Dr. Robert 0, Grayson, by wham she had John
Cooke Grayson, of Stevensburg, Culpeper county, ard Robert 0- Grayson,
of Culpeper,