Benjamin
"Dutch Bennie"
Grigsby
Born in Fauquier County, Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Richard Grigsby
and Amie (Rush) Grigsby
Husband of
Elizabeth (Duncan) Grigsby
— married
23 Dec 1786 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Susan Elizabeth (Grigsby) Ritchie, John Darb Grigsby Sr, Sylvia (Grisby) Everidge and Benjamin William Grigsby
Died before
before age 93
in Perry County, Kentucky, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 7 May 2013
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Biography
Benjamin Grigsby was born in 1747 in Fauquier, Colony of Viriginia. His parents were Richard Grigsby and Amie Rush. He married Elizabeth Duncan on December 23, 1786 Together they had at least three children:
He died in 1840 in Perry County, Kentucky, USA
Research Notes
- There were two marriages for Benjamin in the Quaker records. His first wife was Elizabeth Duncan (unless he had an uncle or cousin of the same name) and would have died before those children were born. He married Alice Browning in 1790.
Sources
- Bentley, Elizabeth Petty. Virginia Marriage Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography... (Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company Inc, 1982), pp. 633-635, 417, 646. These records were taken from bonds, ministers' returns, licenses, registers, ministerial records, and newspapers. See the text in the biography for details on this specific marriage. Benjamin Grigsby & Elizabeth Duncan, 23 Dec 1786, (Daughter Jane); Benjamin Grigsby & Alice Browning 24 Jun 1790
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Jennifer Smith for creating WikiTree profile Grigsby-194 through the import of Jennifer Bidwell family tree.ged on May 4, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jennifer and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin:
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~1.56%
Laura (Grigsby) McRae
:
23andMe, GEDmatch CF9495674 [compare]
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~1.56%
James Young :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member 6jrysr
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~1.56%
Daniel Canter :
AncestryDNA
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~1.37%
April Stacy :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch PP5085775 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Val (Morris) Stafford :
23andMe, GEDmatch M727065 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A462036 [compare], Ancestry member valera1110
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Living DNA
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~0.78%
Levi Patrick :
23andMe
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~0.78%
D. Brenner :
23andMe, GEDmatch AB5854972 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch ZP7328906 [compare]
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~0.78%
Gail Baumgardner :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A670381 [compare], Ancestry member NGLies1220
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~0.78%
T (Deaton) Goad :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A829883 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Linda (Jones) Coursey :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A883317 [compare], Ancestry member courseyl
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Sheryl (Hamilton) Jeffries :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A715815 [compare], yourDNAportal SHEd862f28a, Ancestry member SherylLea
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~0.78%
Bridget (Lawson- Goens) Lawson :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Rebecca Rogers :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~6.25%
John Graves :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T309365 [compare], FTDNA kit #1378
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Stoney Bell :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member stoneyrbell
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~0.39%
Gina Hawkins :
23andMe, GEDmatch NT1712648 [compare]
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Rebecca (Hicks) Ware :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Barbara Belanger :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A689678 [compare], Ancestry member covingtonmom
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Marriage Bonds in Fauquier County The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 12, No. 4 (Apr., 1904), pp. 256-258 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture DOI: 10.2307/1915583 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915583 Page Count: 3 page 258