Life History

Notes

• “INDEX TO MARRIAGES OF OLD RAPPAHANNOCK AND ESSEX COUNTIES, VIRGINIA 1655-1900” by Eva Eubank Wilkerson
  1677 Grigory, Elizabeth, Sister of John, married Thomas Wheeler
  1745 Grigory, Elizabeth, Daughter of Richard, married Thomas Moore
  1726 Grigory, John, Married Jane Kidd
  1702 Grigory, Katherine, widow of Richard, married Thomas Snead
  1745 Grigory, Sarah, daughter of Richard married John Meador
  
  Essex County, Virginia, Marriage Index, 1655-1900
  Thomas Wheeler
  Marriage 1677 Richmond and Essex, Virginia, USA
  Spouse Elizabeth Grigory, Sister of John Grigory
  1677, WHEELER, THOMAS Married Elizabeth, sister of John Grigory
  Page 247
  
  Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800
  "WHEELER, Thomas & GREGORY] Elizabeth;  bef 20 July 1677;  groom was a shoemaker; bride was a sister of Jn GREGORY dec'd;  (RapC DW 1677-82:134, 283)"
  Page 372
  
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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 division [p 242] of this latter in 1701 within the County of King William.
  
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  [... continued from p 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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  RICHARD GREGORY (son of RICHARD and KATHE­RINE GREGORY) was born circa 1685-90;1 died 1725.  He lived in Essex County and died there, evidently un­married.  There are many references to him in the Essex County records.
  
  On November 24, 1718, RICH­ARD GREGORY, of Essex County, sold to Thomas Wheeler, of Essex, 300 acres in Essex County as by measures signified in a plot tested by George Morris, surveyor, dated December 1, 1668; which said 300 acres are part of a patent for 103 acres granted to Thomas Gaines, deceased, on February 12, 1665, and by the said Gaines sold to John Gregory on November 4, 1667.2
  
  FN 2 Essex County Records, Deeds and Wills, 1716-1718, page 252.  The de­scription of the property in this deed suggests that the 300 acres hereby conveyed were the 300 acres bequeathed by Richard Gregory, of Essex County, by his will dated February 1700, to his son John Gregory (see will of Richard Gregory, ante page 243.  Query:  Did John Gregory die and thus this land pass to his brother Richard Gregory who now sells it to Thomas Wheeler?
  
  --  "Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 245
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Sources

• 1. Virginia Will Records
• 2. Virginia Marriage Records
• 3. Essex County, Virginia, Marriage Index, 1655-1900
• 4. Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800