Life History

Notes

• Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850
  George Gregory
  Betsy German
  Marriage 29 Nov 1803 Fauquier County, Virginia
  
  Carolyn Cooper's genealogy reports a son of George Washington Gregory also named George.  He is matched by an 1840 census for a George Gregory in Jefferson County, next door to a single George W Gregory and on the other side a Few H Gregory.
  
  Carolyn also reports a Few Hall Gregory as a sibling of George and son of George Washington Gregory, who was reported in the 1850 census in Jefferson County with his wife Martha.  Another Few H Hall appears to be a nephew of this Few Hall Gregory, and a son of Richard.  Richard's son Few, named Few Hugh in some genealogies, is found in Arkansas in the 1850 census.
  
  George Washington Gregory
  BIRTH 14 Dec 1790 England [This date can't make sense, since his son Richard is reported born only 5 years after this date]
  DEATH Unknown
  Spouse Mary Hawkins
  BIRTH England, DEATH Unknown
  Richard Gregory BIRTH 20 Aug 1795, DEATH Unknown
  Few Hall Gregory
  Susannah H Gregory
  George Gregory
  --  Carolyn Cooper, Ancestry, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/82712569/person/48465534249/facts
  
  The folloiwng record could be for this George, indicating he served in the War of 1812.
  
  U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815
  George Gregory
  Company Bunch's Regiment (1814), E Tennessee Militia
  Rank Captain
  
  In 1810, George bought fmo the state of Tennessee 194 acres of land along the French Broad River.
  
  North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931
  George Gregory
  Jefferson County, Tennessee
  194 8/10 acres, lying in the District south of the French Broad and Holston on Seahorn's Creek there being due and chargeable on said land the sum of one hundred and ninety four dollars and eighty centy with the interest due thereon.  (Survey description of land follows)
  Tennessee Land Records, Warrant #1736
  Record Date 23 June 1810
  
  In 1825 and 1926 George received land in Jefferson County, Tennessee, along the French Broad River, added to a previous adjoining acreage.
  
  North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931
  George Gregory
  Jefferson County, Tennessee
  25 acres beginning at French Broad.  Beginning at his corner or a dogwood and downwood, thence with his line soSouth fifty-five East, 98 poles, with his old survery to a dogwood, thence with the same South , twelve West, 48 poles to a post oak, thence with the line, of the old survery, North seventy-seven West, 71 poles to a stake, thence South 87 poles to the Beginning.
  Surveyed the 15th of August 1824
  Tennessee Land Records, p 632, Warrant #12290
  Record Date 31 Dec 1825
  
  North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931
  George Gregory
  Jefferson County, Tennessee
  50 acres, south side of French Broad River ..., beginning at a Gregory's corner of his old tract ...
  Tennessee Land Records, p 554, Warrant #12974
  Record Date 31 July 1826
  
  Marriage records tell us Elizabeth Hoskins was George's second wife.  They married in 1836 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
  
  Tennessee, State Marriages, 1780-2002
  George Gregory
  Elizabeth Hoskins
  Marriage License issued 21 July 1836 Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
  Ceremony performed 21 July 1836 by A Birdwell, Minister of the Gospel
  Jefferson County Marriage Book, p 281, record #2897
  
  Elizabeth is reported as George's widow in his War of 1812 pension record.
  
  War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815
  Soldier George Gregory
  Widow Elizabeth
  Military Service Location Tennessee
  Pension Number - #1
  OW Inv File 433
  
  Three members of the Gregory family appeared in the 1840 census, as well as members of other families related in various ways to the Gregorys on the same page.  This George appears to be the one listed here as George Gregory, and the younger George W Gregory is the son of Richard and brother of Few.
  
  1840 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee, Enumeration Date 1 June 1840, no date on this page, p 344
  Gabriel Lewis
  - 1 Male 10-15,  - 1 Male 20-30,  - 1 Male 50-60;   - 2 Female 15-20,  - 2 Females 20-30,  - 1 Female 40-50
  Crisman Lewis
  - 1 Male 20-30,  - 1 Female Under 5,  - 1 Female 20-30
  George W Gregory   - 1 Male 20-30, Total 1
  George Gregory
  - 1 Male 15-20,  - 1 Male 60-70,  - 1 Female 10-15,  - 2 Females 20-30,  - 1 Female 50-60
  Few H Gregory
  - 2 Males Under 5,  - 1 Male 15-20,  - 1 Male 20-30,  - 1 Female Under 5,  - 1 Female 20-30
  Green Hance
  - 2 Males Under 5,  - 1 Male 20-30,  - 1 Female 15-20
  Philip Rinehart
  - 2 Males 5-10,  - 2 Males 10-15,  - 1 Male 15-20,  - 1 Male 20-30,  - 1 Male 50-60,  - 1 Female 20-30,  - 1 Female 50-60
  Michael Rinehart,  - 1 Male 20-30,  - 1 Female 20-30
  Robert Lewis
  - 1 Male 20-30,  - 1 Female 15-20,  - 1 Female 20-30
  
  There was a 1840 listing in military pensioners records for George Gregory age 61.
  
  Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891
  George Gregory
  Southern Division, Jefferson County, Tennessee
  Age 61 (b abt 1779)
  1840 Tennessee Pensioners List, 1840, Page 153
  
  Steve Squier reports George's father was also named George, but has not confirmed his mother's identity.  My research correlates this George's father with George Washington Gregory, as reported by Carolyn Cooper, and his mother with George Washington Gregory's second wife Susannah Few.  It also seems to fit that George Washington Gregory is Richard Gregory's father, but Steve Squier has confirmed no parents for Richard Gregory.  He has some doubts about the connection of Richard and George Washington Gregory.
  --  Steve Squier, RootsWeb, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sasquier&id=I128765&style=TABLE
  
  Note, however, that Washingtons and Gregorys are kin; George Washington's aunt married a Gregory, then together with her husband, deeded Mt Vernon plantation to the Washington family, and George, later President, inherited it.  There is a paucity of records for George Washington Gregory, and the identity of George's putative wife Susannah Few is even less documented.
  
  The records available seem to indicate that George is the son of George Washington Gregory and the brother of Richard Gregory.  There are other siblings to be confirmed as research continues.  The tax rolls and related census records seem, at any rate, to indicate all these Gregorys of Jefferson County and Cherokee County, Alabama, are closely related in the same lineage.
  
  There was a legal case involving George's estate, attempting to recover a surety bond he had paid to a Baltimore legal firm in an earlier case.
  
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  1852
  
  William Evans and Hamilton Copeland admrs. V. Joseph Hamilton et al
  Jefferson County, Tennessee
  
  Debt
  Plaintiffs sued defendant to recover $1769.50, paid by deceased George Gregory to defendant as surety in a case against Sewell and Arnest of Baltimore, Maryland.  Gregory died at his home in Jefferson Co., October 1847.
  
  East Range 18, Section G, Shelf 4, Box Number 2005, p 78
  
  --  Tennessee Supreme Court Cases, Tennessee State Library and Archives, https://supreme-court-cases.tennsos.org/search?search=1&search_fields%5B%5D=case_name%2Ccause%2Cnotes&search_fields%5B%5D=case_name&search_fields%5B%5D=cause&search_fields%5B%5D=notes&county=Jefferson&start_year=&end_year=&search_keywords=Gregory
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Sources

• 1. 1840 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee
  • 1 June 1840, no number on this page, p 344
• 2. Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891
  • 1840 Jefferson County, Tennessee, Southern Division, p 153
• 3. 1850 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee
  • 29 October, District 13, p 150, Hse/Fam #1042
• 4. Ancestry Messaging
• 5. Tennessee State Archives
• 6. Ancestry Trees
• 7. Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850
• 8. Tennessee, State Marriages, 1780-2002
• 9. U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815
• 10. War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815
• 11. North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931
• 12. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 13. 1860 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama
  • 22 June, District 3, PO Taylorsville, pages 37-38 (scan 123-124), Hse/Fam #256
• 14. 1850 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama
  • 6 February, District 20, p 117, Hse/Fam #813
• 15. 1840 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama