Life History

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  FENDALL GREGORY, MD (son of WILLIAM and ANN [SOUTHERLAND] GREGORY), of "PIPING TREE," KING WILLIAM COUNTY, born June 6, 1797; died April 4, 1867.  He was a physician of the "old school," greatly beloved by the hundreds to whom he ministered during the course of a long life. From 1835-1842 DOCTOR GREGORY was a magistrate in King William County.
  
  In May, 1838, WILLIAM GREROGY [sic] conveyed to his son, FENDALL GREROGY [sic] , the "PIPING TREE" estate on the PAMUNKEY RIVER in KING WILLIAM COUNTY.  To this estate DOCTOR GREROGY [sic] removed with his family and there continued to reside until his death.  DOCTOR and MRS. GREGORY are buried in the old graveyard at "PIPING TREE.''1
  
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  1 On May 28, 1838, William Gregory conveyed to his son, Doctor Fendall Gregory, in fee, 530 acres on Pamunkey River, King Willlam County, called "Piping Tree" together with ferry thereunto belonging as established by [law?] (King William County Records. Book 5, page 209).  William Greg­ory (as trustee for Mary King and her daughter Elizabeth) and Roger Gregory, commissioners appointed by the Court of King William for that purpose, make deed to Fendall Gregory for 500 acres in King Wiliam called "Piping Tree," which land Miles [King] gave to his son, Robert J. King, who sold same to William [Gregory], and which said William Gregory afterwards by his last [will] gave to his son, the said Fendall Gregory.  Recorded January 25, 1841. (lbid., Book 1. page 160).
  
  --  "Gregory Family of King William County, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 261
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  FENDALL GREGORY (1797-1867) married, October 15, 1818, ELIZABETH SOUTHERLAND LITTLEPAGE (1794-1866), only daughter of THOMAS and SARAH COLEMAN (QUARLES) LITTLEPAGE, of KING WILLIAM COUNTY (see LITTLEPAGE FAMILY, post page 403).
  
  FENDALL and ELIZABETH SOUTHERLAND (LITTLEPAGE) GREGORY had issue:
  
  1. SARAH ANN GREGORY, born December 9, 1823; died March 28, 1901; married, September 13, 1842, WILLIAM OVERTON WINSTON (1812-1862), of "COURTLAND," HANOVER COUNTY, son of PHILIP BICKERTON and SARAH MADISON (PENDLETON) WINSTON (see WINSTON FAMILY. ante page 51).
  
  2. Thomas Littlepage Gregory, married, first. Sally Day Nelson; second, Sarah Pendleton Winston (daughter of Philip B. and Jane D. [Price] Winston.  (See Winston Family,allte page 48.)
  
  3. Fendall Gregory, member Virginia Secession Convention, 1861; married, first, April 4, 1861, Bettie S., daughter of William Dew, of King and Queen County; second, December 20, 1865, Alice T., widow of Doctor Owen B. Hill and daughter of Edmund and Maria H. Turner.
  --  "Gregory Family of King William County, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 262
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  1850 Federal Census, King William County, Virginia, 9 November, page 515 (scan 258), Hse #394, Fam #355
  Fendall Gregory 53 M Physician $17,320 Real Estate b Virginia [b abt 1797]
  Sarah C Littlepage 74 F b Virginia [b abt 1776]
  Eliza L Gregory 55 F b Virginia [b abt 1795]
  Thomas Gregory M 21 M Physician b Virginia [b abt 1829]
  Sally D Gregory 21 F b Virginia [b abt 1829]

Sources

• 1. Virginia Will Records
• 2. 1850 Federal Census, King William County, Virginia
  • 9 November, page 515 (scan 258), Hse #394, Fam #355
• 3. Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
• 4. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
• 5. Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917