The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Robert Gresham was born before 1754. He married Katherine (family name not known) in 1772. She was born about 1757. They were the parents of at least nine children: Robert, David, Frances, Nancy, Ann, George, Charles, Prudence and William.
Gresham served in the Montgomery County, Virginia, Militia, during the Revolution. He appears in the Roll of the companies of Captains John Taylor and James Byrn. No record has been found of the specific campaigns he was involved in.
He appears in the Montgomery County property tax rolls of 1782, which documents his farm as 199 acres, valued at 30 pounds, with a tax of six shillings.
Gresham died before 10 May 1796, the date his estate inventory was filed at Montgomery County. Estate records indicate he may have died as early as 1 February 1795. Katherine Gresham died before October 1824 at Montgomery County.
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