Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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I mas living at Yealand Stors.
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was nwied in 1567 to BDes Fanshed; and in 1593 Gervao or Corvase Graveson
In the follo~ci~~g century record was made of
George Grayson, who r m living at Sc.-I&ckc in 1639; of John Grenson, of , .
County Lancaster, in 1637; and of Parnoll Grejrs011, of Sal~cLclc about the year
1668, These records are, however, f rapentasy.
John Gresson, an early member of the Irish brmch of the family, was
living about the beginning of the eighteenth century, if not before, at Augher,
County Tyrone.
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I children, George and Mary.
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He died in 1733, leaving issue by his rrife ELizaheth of bm
Of these, George Gresson resided at &adinbar,
in the County of Cam, Irelar.d, and was married in l'j'14U
to the Widorr biary
His son, 1'Jilliam, married L!argaret Leslie, by whom he had issue of the
Reverend George Leslie, Henry, the Reverend Slrelton, Alice, Kary, md Penelope
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Gresson. '
While the exact ancestry of the first emigrmts of the family to Imerica
is not in evidence, itj seas probable that all of the Grqrsons were of comon
origin with the before-mentj.oned lines.
One of the first of the family in America Tias John Grqson, YTIIO purchased
five hundred acres of land in Spotsylvmia Counvj, Va.,
in 17l4, Ee tm
I Uving at that time, and possibly earlier, in Christ Church Parish, Lancaster ' /
County, Va. I!@ died in 1736, 1eavi-n~ at lezst Gii~ sons, T:iomcs a d John Jr.
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Ambrose and Benjamin Grayson, ~ h viere o living in Vkrginia during the same
period, are believed to have been brothers of the first John, a d
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had a sister nmed LIary, vdlo m~ried John Cstlett. Ambrose
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bought two hundred of Johnls five hundred acres of Spotrylvania land in
1729 and twu years earlier had patented another hundred acres in that county.
By his wife Nice, Ambrose vras the father of at least one son, nmed John,
Benjamin Grayson, vfho is generally believed to have cozc to incrica
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from Scotland in the early eighteenth ,cent.wdr, settled for tine TI estnorelznd
County, Va,,
and later made his home on the Occoquan River, now the >lace
which later became Colchester, in Prince Viilliam County. He
marj cd ~usant-~)3&
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