Benjamin Grayson Jr. (abt. 1730 - 1768)

Born about 1730 in Colchester, Fairfax, Virginia

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Biography

Benjamin was born about 1730. He is the son of Benjamin Grayson and Susannah Monroe. He passed away in 1768.

Benjamin Grayson served as a justice in both Loudoun and Fairfax county courts during his lifetime, at one time with overlapping commissions.

Loudoun County Order Book A 1757-62, p. 130; Deed Book A1757-60, pp. 161-62, shows Charles Binns clerk of the Loudoun court. Anthony Russell was named first and Charles Tyler tenth in the original commission for the new county in 1757. Benjamin Grayson was added in the second commission later in the year. All four resided in Cameron Parish, of which Russell was a vestryman from 1749 and the other three from 1759. Benjamin's replacement was named when he moved to Fairfax County in 1762. He was dropped from the Loudoun commission in 1763 a few months before being temporarily confined to the jail yard in Leesburg for debt. (Loudoun County O.B. A 1757-62, pp 1-2, 60, 266, 595-99; O.B. B 1762-65, pp. 119, 131-38, 270; D.B. D 1763-65, pp. 177-78; Rev. Charles Green's list of tithables, 1748/49 [Melvin Lee Steadman, Jr., Falls Church by Fence and Fireside (Falls Church, VA., 1964), pp 527-37])^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Notes and Documents, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Oct., 1984), pp. 416-473, Published by: Virginia Historical Society, 426-27.