Life History

Notes

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  RICHARD  GREGORY (circa 1650-1701) and KATHERINE, his wife
  
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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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  Richard Gregory willed to Betty Moor a negro man named Sam and willed land to children Thomas, Richard, Mary & Sarah Moor, known to be children of Thomas Moor, other items directly to Thomas Moor.  He also included Thomas and William Bone [Bourne], his half-brothers, then wills some fodder, stating:  "The fodder to be divided amongst 3 Broth. [brothers]."  There seems here a suggestion that Thomas Moor may have married Richard sister, thus being his brother-in-law.  Richard also makes a bequest "to my sister," "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

Sources

• 1. Virginia Will Records