Life History

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• Robert Gregory is listed in the 1779 South Carolina state census.
  
  South Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
  Robert Gregory
  No Township Listed, Ninety-sixth District, South Carolina
  1779 SC Early Census Index
  
  Ancestry.com's library has a record for Robert in their collection on "census substitute" records.  This entry was found in a jury list for Spartanburg in Old 96 District, South Carolina.  (Ancestry's index transcription has the designation district for both the County and the town.)  The colony of South Carolina established administrative districts in 1789.  The Ninety-Six District existed form 1769 to 1800.
  
  In 1785 six counties were organized inside Ninety-Six District:  Abbeville, Edgefield, Laurens, Newberry, Spartan, and Union.  The county where Spartanburg was located was named Spartan county.  In 1791, the state legislature changed the name from Spartan County to Spartanburg County.  The old districts were abolished in 1800 and the various counties that had been established within the state's districts became the primary regional administrative jurisdictions of the state.
  --  "Ninety-Six District, South Carolina" and "Spartan County, South Carolina," Carolina.com, http://www.carolana.com/SC/Counties/ninety_six_district_sc.html
  
  U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820
  Robert Gregory
  Spartanburg, Ninety Six District, South Carolina
  1780 He is on "A List of Petit-Jury Men and Jury Men in Civil Causes."
  
  In the 1790 census, Robert was enumerated in Union District, South Caroina, with his brothers John, Jeremiah and Isaac, and his father Isaac following on the next few pages.
  
  1790 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina, p 41
  Robert Gregory
  1 Free White Males - 16 and over
  3 Free White Males - Under 16
  5 Free White Females
  0 slaves
  
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  Robert Gregory
  
  Robert Gregory was the third son of Isaac and Alse Gregory.  Our earliest written record of Robert is a Colonial Land Grant of 100 acres under the hand of Governor William Bull.  the acreage, granted 4 March 1773, was situated on Little Brown's Creek.
  
  --  A Gregory Colonial Family, Ben T Gregory, MD, editor, published by New South Press, Pensacola, Florida, 1986, p 79, https://books.google.com/books?id=GCxPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+Gregory+Colonial+Family%22&dq=%22A+Gregory+Colonial+Family%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu4L_hnsjbAhXIi7wKHQ0xDiMQ6AEIJzAA
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  Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, p 386
  Gregorys listed in the roster:
  (The following appear to be a family, Isaac and his sons)
  Isaac, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, horseman and infantry, during 1782 and 1783
  Jeremiah, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, from 1779 to 1781 alternatively
  Jerrel (Jarrod), militia under Col Brandon, before and after the fall of Charleston
  Benjamin, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, from 1782 to 1783 alternatively
  John, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, from 1780 to 1782 alternatively
  Robert, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, from 1781 to 1782 alternatively
  (These appear to be from other families)
  Henry, Third Regiment, 10 February 1779 to 1 February 1780
  John, Fifth Regiment, enlisted on 16 April 1776
  John, Ediston Island Volunteer Militia, under Capt Joseph Jenkins and Col Joseph Glover
  Thomas, Second Dragoons under Capt Isaac Ross, Col Myddleton and Gen Sumter and was dead about September 1781

Sources

• 1. South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980
• 2. Google Books
• 3. U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820
• 4. South Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
• 5. Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution
  • p 386
• 6. 1790 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina
  • p 41
• 7. Find a Grave Memorial Registry