Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES OF INTEREST
...baa m a letten @om Rk. A.T.
Ghaybon to hid baothen, Claude.
"Ghcen Bottom Inn betonged to you4 gkeat ghand{athck, John Urn.
Connatly. Hi4 daug hteh, Jeku~ha Ann, rnahnied Ro bext Whig kt,
$4. Theih hoi~, WilLiam, had a dauglttetr, Pahatee. She WUA
y~uk g4andrnothca. 'I
...dkom Atabama aecoad~ in the PAR tibnany in Wa~hington, P.C.
NPahaLee WaighX, 6. 1820, wiie 06 Jarned Goadon G. who NUA bohn
i n 1817, waA gnanddaughiea 06 Robcnt Whight who wab bonn in
1762 in Amhundk Co., Va. fle en.teked the Vinginia Sltalte Alititia
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dub4equcntly irrducted into the patkiot Akmy 06 Jlfie Wah a 6 1776
the watr 06 the Arnehican Revolution. He Wad at the Siege 06
Yohk and ad~idted in the captuhc 06 Cohnwallib. In 1808 he
pukcha~ed 160 acke~ 06 Land neah Flint Riven in N, A&abama
* whehe he Lived untie hi4 death at 85 in 1847."
... dkom a lettek inviting Judge C.A. Gnay~on to become a membek
06 the S0nb 06 the Amenican Revolution whitten by CoL. Wm. T.
Calrpentca, hibtokian, Octobeh 1, 1956. "Knowing that ale
Glraydond ane eligible doh Membehbhip i n thc S0nb 06 the
Arnehican Revolu.tion, the ALabama Socie.ty extend4 to you a
coadiat invita-tion to become a membek. ...Thehe weae dive
Vhginia Gaaybon4 in .that watr; Robeat, Spence, Thomad and ;t~oo
Wiltiamd, one c6 whom wa4 the darnoud COL. Wm. Ghaybon. We
have heae in Tubcaloo~a DL, ChakLeh G.rraq40n Surnmelrde.tt ad a
nembea 06 .the S.A.R. and alao ob ihe Son4 06 Coniedehate
Vexeaanb. "
8 Thomab Gkaqdon, eldebt AOn 06 John 34. and Su4annah Ghaydon
wa4 a mencha~zt 06 Peal CounXy, Kent, England. (Recahded in a
deed.)
Fan rnembeuhip in Son4 on Daughtehb 06 the Amehican Revo.tution,
i d w i hed: ~
Robcht Wkight [name on PAR plaque in Hunk~ville, Ata.
hononing vetekand 06 the RevoLuXionahy Waa = Keziah Bibob.
Theik &on, Wittiam Whight Jchuhiia Connetty, whoa e daughtet
Pabalee Waight = Jarneb Gokdon'Gkagbon, whode &on, John Wm.
Gkayhon =' Sanah Smith Attidon, pahenth 06 Nannie Pahatee,
Jameh Gokdon, David Allibon, Ambao~e Titden, and Claude
ALb eat.
Fok membek~hip in ColoniaL Darned i 6 wihked:
John Ghaydon, Jn. "took ye oath a4 an odbicek OcX. 7, 1729
in Vikginia Cotoniat Militian (Chozieh, p. 122). He died
in 7784 in Spott~yLvania Ca., Va.
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