Life History

Notes

• Roger Gregory and Frances Lowry
  March 30, 1776 [bond date]
  Security, Drury McDaniel
  Source: Virginia Marriage Records, From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly
  Indexed by Elizabeth Bentley, Published by Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. Baltimore 1984, p 315
  (Ancestry.com, accessed 29 May 2018)
  
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  GREGORY FAMILY of KING WILLIAM COUNTY VIRGINIA
  
  ROGER GREGORY (1729-1803) married, first, September 2, 1756, MARY COLE CLAIBORNE (circa 1730-1771), daughter of NATHANIEL and JANE (COLE) CLAIBORNE, of KING WILLIAM COUNTY (see CLAIBORNE FAMILY, post page 293). MRS. MARY COLE (CLAIBORNE) GREGORY died November 10, 1771.1  Roger Gregory married, second (in Lunenburg County), March 31, 1776, Mrs. Fanny (Garland) Loury, widow of Thomas Loury.2  Mrs. Fanny (Garland) Loury-Gregory died June 30, 1816.3
  
  ROGER GREGORY (1729-1803) and his first wife, MARY COLE CLAIBORNE (circa 1730-1771) had issue:
  
  1. Richard Gregory (born January 12, 1758; died December 20, 1844); married, first, September 20, 1777, Mary (1749-1787), widow of William Broadnax and daughter of Colonel Seth Ward; and, second, July 6, 17891 Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Wilkinson, of Henrico County.
  
  2. Roger Gregory, of Henrico County, born February 12, 1761; married Sarah ---------.4
  
  3. Nathaniel Gregory, born March 11, 1763, of King William County, married Mary Ann Beckley.5
  
  4. Thomas Gregory, born March 3, 1765; died April 9, 1783.
  
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  1 On Sunday last, 10th of this month, in King William County, died Mrs. Mary Gregory, lady of Roger Gregory, Esq.  (Virginia Gazette, November 14, 1771).
  
  2 This marriage took place in Lunenburg County. The marriage bond of Roger Gregory and Fanny Loury, dated March 30, 1176, is on file in Lunenburg County (William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume IX., page 177) .
  
  3 For dates of the births, marriages, deaths of Roger Gregory, Mrs. Mary Cole (Claiborne) Gregory and Mrs. Fanny Loury-Gregory and their children, see post excerpts from the Gregory family Bible .
  
  4 This Roger Gregory (born 1761) had a son:  Fendall Gregory, who married Maria Gregory (daughter of Richard Gregory [1758-1840], son of Roger and Mary Cole [Claiborne] Gregory), Clarke, Old King William Homes and Families.
  
  5 Nathaniel and Mary Ann (Beckley) Gregory had a son:  Thomas West Sidney Gregory, Member Virginia House of Delegates from King William County, 1827 and 1828, who married Mary Gregory, daughter of William and Ann (Sutherland) Gregory.
  
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  5. WILLIAM GREGORY (1767-1840) of "ELSING GREBN," KING WILLIAM COUNTY; of whom hereafter.
  
  6. Molly Gregory, born August 25, 1769; died August 26, 1798; married Herbert Claiborne, of Dinwiddie County.
  
  Roger" Gregory (1729-1803) and his second wife, Mrs. Fanny (Garland) Loury, had issue:
  
  7. Herbert Gregory, born April 3, 1777; died October 2, 1824; married Lucy Osborne Thweatt.1
  
  8. Francis Gregory, born December 25, 1780.
  
  9. Fanny Gregory, born January 27, 1783.
  
  10. Patsy Gregory, born March 16, 1786.
  
  WILLIAM GREGORY (son of ROGER and MARY COLE [CLAIBORNE] GREGORY) was born May 12, 1767; died January 21, 1840.2  In 1808 he was sheriff of King William County, and for half a century, 1790-1840, an honored magistrate.  He was a representative from King William County in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1798-9, 1801-7 and 1815-16.3  In 1820 he acquired by purchase the estate of "ELSING GREEN" in [continued on page 260]
  
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  1 We are indebted to George Craghead Gregory, Esquire, Richmond, Virginia, an authority on the Gregory family history, for a critical reading of the data herein offered relative to Richard and Agnes (West) Gregory, their children and grandchildren, and for permission to reproduce in facsimile the records from leaves of the family Bible of Roger Gregory (1729-1803) which are in his possession.  George Craghead Gregory is the son of Archibald Hatchett Gregory and his (first) wife, Lucy Jane Brodie; grandson of Richard Henry Gregory and Mary Elizabeth Hatchett; great­ grandson of Herbert Gregory and Lucy Osborne Thweatt.
  
  2 Died Jan. 21, 1840, aged 73, William Gregory, Sr. of "Elsing Green," King William County, a Justice for 50 years and a member of the House of Delegates for 13, beginning in 1798-9; descended from ancestors of more than ordinary celebrity in England, and maternally from John West, Governor of Virginia, left many children (an obituary quoted in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume V., page 163).
  
  3 King WilIiam County Records and Swem & Williams, A Register of the Gentral Assembly of Virginia, 1176-1918, page 381.
  
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  --  "Gregory Family of King William County, Virginia," in Winston of Virginia and Allied Families, by Clayton Torrence (Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927), pp 258-259
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  Fanny Gregory
  Birth unknown
  Death Jun 30, 1816 Mecklenburg County, Virginia, USA
  SECOND WIFE OF ROGER GREGORY
  Spouse Roger Gregory (1729 - 1803)
  Son Herbert Gregory (1777 - 1821)
  Burial Phillips Finch Cemetery, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, USA
  Maintained by Find A Grave, Originally Created by traciedcurnellApr 05, 2013
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #107870080, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107870080/fanny-gregory

Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. Virginia Will Records
• 3. Virginia Marriage Records