Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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the daughter of Richard and Catherine Burdyne. She lived. the
majority of her adult life in Culpeper County, Virginia. Unto
this union, seven known children were born:
i. Ambrose Grayson -- killed by Indians near
Logan's Ford two miles from Danville, Kentucky,
on August 22, 1777, as was reported
by George Rogers Clack, see Kentucky History
Illustrated 1885 by J. H. Battle.
ii. William Grayson -- married Rachel Conley in
Montgomery County, Virginia, leaving issue.
iii. John Grayson -- married Sally Carter in
Montgomery County, Virginia and hence moved
to Alaba~aa territory.
iv.
Molly Grayson -- married William Hall, died
leav k g issue.
v. Susan Grayson -- married one Thompson of
vi.
vii.
Wyethe County, Virginia.
Nancy Grayson
Elizabeth Grayson -- married John Gordon,
XI, direct lineage.
John Grayson died in 1802, a resident of Montgomery
County, ~irginia. During his lifetime, however, he received a
lease from George Taylor on July 7,1749, for a plantation in
Orange County, Virginia, Deed Book 11, page 169. ~dditionally,
John Grayson served in Fincastle County Militia during the
Revolutionary War. Barbara Burdyne died 1881, a resident of
Montgomery County, Virginia.
On November 24, 1767, of record in Culpeper County
Deed aook El page 474, John Grayson and his wife conveyed to
John Gordon 254 acres of land in Bromfield Parish on the
Courdvine Fork of the Rappahannock and Beaver Run, which property
seems to have been received by him under the will of his father,
Arnbrose Grayson.