Display Patriot - P-341584 - William GRAGG/GREGG Sr
William GRAGG/GREGG Sr
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P-341584
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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
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Author: James Michael Yohe
William Obediah Gragg, Sr., was born about 1736,1 a son of John Gragg and Nancy Ann Wood.2
Gragg married Elizabeth Martin.3 They were the parents of Nancy,4 William,5 Beniah, Sarah,6 Robert, Mary, Susanna and Elizabeth. They lived at Augusta County, Virginia.
By 1769, William Gragg moved to adjacent Albemarle County. Augusta County fee books are said to have entries for “William Gragg of Albemarle County” in 1769 and 1777.7 Gragg appeared in the Albemarle County, Virginia, census of 10 April 1782, with one male over the age of 21 years, ten head of cattle, and three horses or mules.8 Gragg lived out his life at Albemarle County.
William Gragg provided patriotic service by furnishing supplies for Revolutionary War.9
William Gragg wrote his Last Will and Testament, dated 14 January 1789. His Will was admitted to probate in the Albemarle County October court session the same year.10 In his will, named his children and designated his wife as executor. It is not known when Elizabeth Martin Gragg died, or where she and William Gragg were buried.
1. Daughters of the American Revolution, profile page for William Gragg Sr. Online at https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A046609.
2. Gragg, George Robert. Gragg Descent. Manuscript, undated (probably circa 1975), Pg. 47, 49. Online at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/337085-gragg-descent Note: this book is unsourced and, as such, cannot be regarded as genealogically reliable.
3. Ibid.
4. FindaGrave Memorial for Nancy Bryant. Online at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126128496/nancy-ann-bryant.
5. FindaGrave Memorial for William Gragg Jr. Online at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40556904/grag. Also: Pension application S*W7570, U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, filed at Burke County, North Carolina, 28 January 1833. Online at https://www.fold3.com/image/22751319.
6. DAR lineage 801723 – William Gragg Sr. Online at https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=400049&MyLineageCount=1.
7. Gragg, George Robert, op. cit., Pg. 49.
8. Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782 [Virginia State Library]; Call Number: FHL Film 2024443; Pg. Number: 25; Family Number: 2. Online at https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2234&h=8259.
9. Daughters of the American Revolution, profile page for William Gragg Sr., op. cit.
10. King, J. Estelle Stewart. Abstract of wills, inventories, and administration accounts of Albemarle County, Virginia, 1748-1800 : Will Books A, B, 3, and 4 Beverly Hills, California, J.E.S. King, 1940, Pg. 36. Online at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/284475-abstract-of-wills-inventories-and-administration-accounts-of-albemarle-county-virginia-1748-1800?viewer=1&offset=0#page=38&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=.
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