about 16221 - before 21st Apr 16762
Notes
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
John Gregory
Birth Year 1623
Spouse Elizabeth Bishop
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
John Gregory, Birth 1623 En[gland?]
Elizabeth Bishop, Birth 1625 VA
Marriage 1655 VA
Another edition of the above longer version of marriage records collection has the same information as the longer record above, but has no birth place for John Gregory. A third has John's birth place as Virginia, rather than England. The marriage info and info for Elizabeth is the same.
Many researchers take this to be the record for John Gregory and his wife referred to in some sources as only Elizabeth, parents of John, Richard, Elizabeth and Mary Gregory, all of Rappahannock County, Virginia.
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
John Gregory, Birth Year 1622 VA
Elizabeth Bishop, Birth 1625 VA
Marriage 1655 VA
The following record of birth for Richard Gregory matches John and Richard known of in Rappahannock (later Essex) County, Virginia. But the birth place reported is Caroline County, Virginia. Caroline was cut from the same area that used to be Rappahannock, in 1727 from parts of Essex, King William and King and Queen counties.
Other records seem to indicate a separate Gregory family in Caroline County, but John Gregory with son Richard and other children is also independently documented by sources on Rappahannock-Essex history (see below). Gregorys were a large early clan in northern Virginia and southern Pennsylvania. Some sources have no name for the wife of John Gregory of Rappahannock County.
Family Data Collection - Births
Richard Gregory
Parents John Gregory, Elizabeth Bishop
Birth 1669 Caroline County, VA
A couple of sources report another wife or another name for Elizabeth Bishop, reporting John first married to an Elizabeth Harrison, with only one child reported, a son named Joshua. But dates do not match with dates reported for births in Virginia. But seems quite certain several genealogies have mixed two or more Gregory families in England with one or more colonial families.
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Colonial Families of the United States of America
Volume IV, Pendleton Family
"Henry Pendleton, b 1683, in King and Queen County, d. May, 1721, in Caroline County; m. 1701, in Caroline County, Mary Bishop Taylor, dau of Col. James Taylor and Mary Gregory, and gd. dau. of John and Elizabeth (Bishop) Gregory of Sittenbourned (Cettenbourne) Parish, Rappahannock County."
-- Colonial Families of the United States of America (Volume IV, Pendleton Family) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co Inc), 1912, reprinted 1966, 1995, p 428
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According to the above record, in their later years, John and Elizabeth (Bishop) Gregory were living in Sittenbourned (Cettenbourne) Parish, Rappahannock County.
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The earliest known ancestor of the GREGORY family which lived in that portion of the colony of VIRGINIA at that time called RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, and which is now (and has been since 1692) ESSEX COUNTY, was JOHN GREGORY.1 His name first appears in the records of Rappahannock County in 1661 as a witness to a power of attorney.2 After this date his name appears frequently as a landowner in the county and as a witness to various transactions.
On February 20, 1663, JOHN GREGORY purchased of William Johnson and Constance, his wife, six hundred acres of land on Hoskins Creek and Rappahannock River, in Rappahannock County.3 In November, 1665, JOHN GREGORY appears as a vestryman of Sittenbourne and Farnham Parishes, Rappahannock County.4
On April 16, 1666, JOHN GREGORY conveyed, by deed, to his "son in law," Thomas Edmondson (both parties being [continued to page 238]
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1 It is not unlikely that John Gregory who appears in Rappahannock County in 1661 was identical with John Gregory who appears in a list of tithables for Lancaster County in 1654 Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume V., page 162). The "identity" has not, however, been proved. Lancaster County originally lay on both sides of Rappahannock River. In 1652 Rappahannock County was erected out of the upper part of Lancaster.
2 Rappahannock County Records, Volume 1656-1664, page 181. An exhaustive search has been made in the records of Rappahannock County, 1652-1692 (when it became extinct), and in the records of Essex County, 1692-1750, for Gregory data; and the results of this search are embodied in the account of the family here given.
3 Rappahannock County Records, Volume 1656-1664, pages 357-8.
4 Ibid., Volume 1664-1673, pages 19 and 54.
-- "Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 237
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[continued from page 237] of Rappahannock County), eight head of cattle.1 On January 5, 1674, JOHN GREGORY and ELIZABETH, his wife (for 520 pounds of tobacco) conveyed to Edmund Pagett (all the parties being of Rappahannock County) certain lands (not described in the deed),2 On October 4, 1675, a patent was issued to JOHN GREGORY and Hugh Mead for 200 acres of land in Rappahannock County, said land due for transportation of four persons into the colony.3
In 1677 the name of JOHN GREGORY appears as a member of jury.4 [How, if, as the next statement indicates, he died before that time? The jury member was likely his son John Gregory Jr.] JOHN GREGORY died between April 21 and December 9, 1676. 5
JOHN GREGORY was father of the following children.6
1. John Gregory, of Rappahannock County. In June, 1671, he witnessed a deed of John Prosser to John Stephens, recorded in Rappahannock County.7 In his will, dated April 21, 1676, Robert Bishop, of Rappahannock County, made John Gregory, Junior, his [continued to page 239]
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1 Ibid., Volume 1663-1668, page 70. "Son in law" in this deed probably carries the significance of "step-son." It is not unlikely that John Gregory had married the mother of Thomas Edmondson.
2 Rappahanock [sic] County Records, Volume 1671-1676, page 204.
3 Register of the Land Office, Patent Book 6, page 565. Among the headrights to this patent is the name of "Tho: Edmunson." This was doubtless Thomas Edmondson, called "son in law" in John Gregory's conveyance to him of eight head cattle on April 16, 1666 (see above).
4 Rappahannock County Records, Volume 1677-1682, page 142.
5 This "date" for John Gregory's death is obtained thus: Robert Bishop, of Rappahannock County, in his will, dated April 21, 1676, leaves his property to John Gregory, Junior (see will of Robert Bishop, post page 329). On December 9, 1676, appears John Gregory, of Rappahannock County, Tanner, son and heir of John Gregory, deceased (see post page 329). No record of the will, or administration on the estate of John Gregory, the elder, has been discovered.
[It is not clear how these two dates in FN 5 provide a range for John Gregory's death. It seems that Robert Bishop was kin to John Sr's wife Elizabeth, whom many report as maiden-named Bishop or surnamed from a previous marriage. Previous land transactions had occurred between John Gregory Sr and Robert Bishop. Since Robert Bishop willed his property to John Gregory Jr, rather than John Gregory Sr, it seems a likely implication that John Gregory Sr had already passed away. We would surmise from this that John Gregory Sr had passed away before 21 April 1676. -- OBJ]
6 John Gregory was probably married more than once. In January, 1674, the name of his wife was Elizabeth (surname unknown). (Rappahannock Records, Volume 1671-6, page 201). Whether she was the mother of his children is not now known.
7 Rappahannock County Records. Volume 1668-1672, page 514-19.
-- "Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 238
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4. MARY 2 GREGORY (born 1665; died post 1745), married, first, JAMES TAYLOR, of KING AND QUEEN COUNTY (see TAYLOR FAMILY. ante page 213); second, Rowland Thomas, of Caroline County.1
RICHARD 2 GREGORY (son of JOHN 1 GREGORY) was born circa 1650; died 1701. He lived in Rappahannock and Essex counties. On February 11, 1679, RICHARD GREGORY" of Rappahannock County, planter, sold to William Stone, of Gloucester County, planter, 250 acres on south side Hoskins Creek, Rappahannock County, adjoining lands of John Meador, John Gatewood, Thomas Wheeler and Mary Gregory.2 On October 8, 1680, RICHARD GREGORY, of Rappahannock, planter, brother and heir at law of JOHN GREGORY. late of the same county, planter, conveyed to Thomas Wheeler 250 acres in Rappahannock County, which said John Gregory had by deed June 20, 1677 conveyed to his sister, Elizabeth, wife of said Thomas Wheeler; the said land having been granted by patent, with other lands, to John Gregory, father of said John and Richard Gregory.3
RICHARD GREGORY patented upwards of seventeen hundred acres of land in the County of New Kent and small acreage in Rappahannock (later Essex) County. The tracts granted in New Kent fell on division of that county in 1691 into King and Queen County and on di[vision ... to p 271]
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[... continued form footnotes page 240] Ann; sons Thomas, Robert, Richard and John (the last three under fifteen years of age) ; wife Elizabeth (Essex County Records).
1 In April, 1687, James Taylor had a patent for land left by Robert Bishop to John Gregory and by said John Gregory to his sister Mary, now wife of said James Taylor. See Taylor Family, ante page 213, where the evidence is given for Mary Gregory's first marriage to James Taylor, and second marriage to Rowland Thomas.
2 Rappahannock County Records, Volume 1677-1682, page 270
3 Ibid., Volume 1677-1682. page 282.
-- "Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 241
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"Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties Virginia"
Winston of Virginia and Allied Families
In light of the suggestions made in the above notes, the following pedigree of the Rappahannock County Gregorys is offered:
John Gregory, of Rappa- =
hannock Co.; died 1677 |
(See ante page 237 et seq.) |
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John Gregory, Richard Gregory, of = Kath- Elizabeth Mary Gregory
of Rappahan- Rappahannock | erine, Gregory, m m. (1) Jas. Taylor
nock Co.; died; and Essex Cos.; | widow of Thos. Weel- (2) Rowland (see
1678 (see died 1700 (see | Thos. ler (see ante ante page 241).
ante page 241). ante page 241). | Bourne. page 240)
| She m. 3
| Thos. Snead
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Richard Gregory, of Elizabeth ? = John Meadows, John Gregory; |
Essex Co.; died 1725 Gregory | Jr., of Essex Co.; died ante 1718. |
(see ante page 245). | died -----------. |
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Susannah Meadows |
"heir at law" to Richd. |
Gregory in 1725. |
Sarah ? = Thos. Moor
Gregory of Essex Co.
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Betty Thomas Richard Mary
Moor Moor Moor Moor
All named as legatees in the will of
Richard Gregory, 1725.
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-- "Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 250
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