Notes
- After Richard Gregory died in 1701, his wife Katherine married Thomas Snead the next year. When Katherine died, all her inheritance and those of her children with Thomas Bourne and Richard Gregory fell to her husband Thomas Snead. They were minors at time of writing his wil in 1700 and his death in 1701. They later had to sue Thomas Snead to spur him to make distribution of their inheritance. The ultimate fate of the three youngest, Elizabeth, John and Sarah is unknown.
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RICHARD 2 GREGORY (circa 1650-1701) and KATHERINE, his wife, had issue:
1. RICHARD 3 GREGORY of Essex County; of whom hereafter.
2. Elizabeth 3 Gregory.
3. John 3 Gregory.
4. Sarah 3 Gregory
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... of the sd. deed. their ful proportion of the sd. decd [es]tate. [Rich]ard & Katherine by virtue of the sd admraton, possessed themselves • • • aforesd the sd Richard Dyed making his wife the sd Katherine his • • • [the sd Kath]erine since intermarried with the sd Thomas, the deft & dyed, by virtue of • • • the sd Thomas Snead became possest of all & singular the goods & chattels of the [said Thomas Bo]urne decd. & of the sd Richard Gregory & Katherine, his wife & therefore ought to have paid to the orphans of the sd. decd. Thomas Bourne all their parts or portions of the sd. decd's estate, but so it is that upon denial of Thomas Snead to pay to the orphans of the sd Thomas Bourne decd their parts or shares of the sd decds estate they recovered agt. the pltf as exr of the sd James Taylor decd [certain items of personalty, cattle, tobacco &c], Thomas Snead appears and confesses same. Ordered that the deft pay to pltf the like property out of the estate of sd. Richard Gregory; also costs. (Essex Records, Order Book, 1708-14. page 311.)
1 Richard Gregory by his will, dated February 17, 1700, bequeathed to his sons Richard and John and to his daughter Elizabeth certain lands which by their descriptions in the said will were certainly in Essex County; to his daughters Sarah and to his sons in law [step-sons]: Thomas and William Bourne he bequeathed lands which by their descriptions were at that date in King and Queen County. later King William. (See will of Richard Gregory, above).
It is not positively known what eventually became of Elizabeth, John and Sarah Gregory. All four of Richard Gregory's children were under age when their father made his will in February, 1700. At Essex Court, December, 1712, John Gregory and Sarah Gregory were given liberty to choose their guardians and they thereupon made choice of William Bourne, who gave bond for his guardianship in the sum of £100 sterling (Essex County Records). For suggestions as to what may have eventually become of John, Elizabeth and Sarah Gregory, see post page 247, the discussion in the notes to the will of their brother, Richard Gregory, who died in 1725.
-- Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 243
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Now as to the Moors. Richard Gregory devises to Betty Moor, a negro man named Sam; to Thomas, Richard, Mary and Sarah [Moor, children of Thomas Moor], 340 acres of 1 nd to be equally divided between them;2 and to Thomas Moor, sundry articles of personalty. In Richard Gregory's will (see ante page 246) there occurs this peculiarly worded clause:
"To Thos. Bene, 2 dishes, 3 plates, a couch, one pott the biggest. To Thos Moor, a chest. To Will Bone a case of drawers. The fodder to be divided amongst 3 Broth. [brothers]."
This clause would seem to signify that Thos. Bone, Thos. Moor and Wm. Bone were the "3 Broth." amongst whom the fodder was to be divided. There seems here a suggestion that Thomas Moor may have married a sister of Richard Gregory's and thus a half-sister to Thomas and William Bourne and in that way have been "brother" to all three of these men.
By his will Richard Gregory makes a bequest: "to my sister." The clause is most curiously worded (see ante page 246) and we will not atempt to unravel it; but though the name of "my sister" is not given, that lady was probably the wife of Thomas Moor.
-- "Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 249
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All these facts and references, especailly with the name of Betty Moore, would indicate that Richard's sister Elizabeth (Betty) married Thomas Moor, As the above researcher notes, the given names of the Moor children supports this relationship to names repeated in the Gregory generations.
"Essex Court, March 1739, Thos. Emerson being sworn concerning the last will & testament of Richard Gregory, deceased, declared that by Tho. Rich. Mary, Sarah to whom 340 acres of land is given by the said will equally to be divided he verily believes was by the testator meant Thomas Moor, Richard Moor, Mary Moor and Sarah Moor children of Thomas Moor (Essex County Records, Order Book. 1738-1740, page 308)."
-- "Gregory Family of Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), p 249
“INDEX TO MARRIAGES OF OLD RAPPAHANNOCK AND ESSEX COUNTIES, VIRGINIA 1655-1900” by Eva Eubank Wilkerson
1677 Grigory, Elizabeth, Sister of John, married Thomas Wheeler
1745 Grigory, Elizabeth, Daughter of Richard, married Thomas Moore
1726 Grigory, John, Married Jane Kidd
1702 Grigory, Katherine, widow of Richard, married Thomas Snead
1745 Grigory, Sarah, daughter of Richard married John Meador
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