Taliaferro Grigsby (abt. 1754 - 1826)

Born about 1754 in Virginia

Died 1826 at about age 72 in Union, Kentucky, United States

Biography

Matross Taliaferro Grigsby served with 1st Continental Artillery Regiment (1779), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Taliaferro Grigsby is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A048515.

Tolivar married Elizabeth Keith. Taliaferro Grigsby, son of Samuel Grigsby,^[1] was born about 1754.^[2]

In 1770, he was living in Fauquier county, as shown in a land transaction: "Conveyand between Pearson Chapman of Charles County, Province of Maryland and Samuel Grigsby of Fauquier, lease of plantation next where said Samuel now lives, to said Samuel, his wife Anne and Taliaferro Grigsby his son, 25 March 1770."^[1]

Another Virginia land record shows additional children of Samuel: "...lease of plantation next to where John Grigsby now dwells, to Samuel Grigsby and his son Aaron Grigsby and his daughter Susannah Grigsby. Recorded 26 March 1770."^[1]

An abstract of Samuel's will does not name his children:^[1]

"Will of Samuel Grigsby of Leeds parish, Fauquier, dated 11 May, 1781, probated 22 October, 1781. To wife Ann, all the estate during her widowhood; my children and the child she now goes with. Executors Henry Peyton, William Grigsby, James Grigsby."

His name, Taliaferro, was sometimes spelled more like it was pronounced: Toliver.

A marriage bond dated February 15, 1885 for Taliaferro Grigsby and Elizabeth Kent (in the transcription) was issued in Fauquier County, Virginia.^[3]

On February 15, 1785, he married Elizabeth Keith, who was born in Virginia about 1768 and died September 8, 1832, Henderson County, Kentucky.^[4]

Taliaferro and Elizabeth had at least two children:

• Nancy Grigsby m George McClanahan^[2] in Fauquier County in 1808 (Nancy was born in Fauquier Co. c1790)^[4]
• William Alexander Grigsby, m Priscilla Ann Powell^[2] on February 18, 1836 (William was born February 6, 1810 in Culpeper County; his wife was born in Kentucky)^[5]

Taliaferro Grigsby was a resident of Fauquier County^[1][2] and served in Virginia during the American War for Independence with the "Continental Line of Artilley & Infantry". He died in Union County, Kentucky before 1826.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} William Armstrong Crozier, Virginia County Records, Volume 7 (land transactions, page 130; Samuel's will, page 127)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Nov. 26, 2016), "Record of Taliaferro Grigsby", Ancestor # A048515.
3. ↑ "Marriage Bonds in Fauquier County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Apr., 1904), pp. 256-258 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; DOI: 10.2307/1915583). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915583 (page 258)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} DAR record for a descendant of Nancy.
5. ↑ DAR record for a descendant of William

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• Service Record of Toliver Grigsby