William J Gragg Jr. (abt. 1760 - abt. 1850)

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William Gragg Jr. was a Virginia colonist.

William J. Gragg Jr. was born about 1760, probably in Augusta County, Virginia, the son of William Gragg Sr. and his wife Mary Dunkle.^[1][2]

Virginia Militia vouchers of 1788, show William Gragg, Sr., and his two sons, William, and Samuel, providing a total of 11 horses to Capt. Harrison's Company.

On 4 March, 1793, he bought 120 acres of land on Seneca Creek, in Pendleton County, near his father,^[1] who had settled about 1777 on the plateau between the mouth of Seneca and Roaring Creek.

In 1794 William Gragg was a Captain in the Virginia State Militia, his district being the Lower North Fork Company, with his Lieutenant Thomas Gillespie. In 1793, officers of the Forty-Sixth Regiment of militia Company Officers of the Second Battalion included Captain William Gragg.^[3]

He married Peggy Henchel.^[1]

He may be the same William Gragg who was Sheriff of Pendleton County in 1800.^[3]

Research Note

He may have married m1, Peggy Dunkle. A source for this marriage is needed.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} gregg-graggancestry, Genealogy and Ancestry, Family histories., The Gragg Book, MacGregor Clan
2. ↑ Heads of Fams. at the first U.S. census. Va. By U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, 1908. (189p.):77, 81; American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Volume 66 page 32
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Morton, Oren Frederic, 1857-1926, A history of Pendleton County, West Virginia, published by the author, Franklin, W. Va., 1910, pages 54, 363, 395 and 396

See also:

• http://gregg-graggancestry.webs.com/pedigreeofjohngragg.htm