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Facts and Events
Samuel Gregg was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Parentage Discrepancy
Some sources claim that this Samuel Gragg was a son of Thomas Gragg of Augusta Co., VA [Oren Morton in his "History of Pendleton County, West Virginia surmised this to possibly be the case], but there are no apparent records to support that Thomas Gragg was Samuel's father. Other sources including Find-a-Grave have Samuel as a son of Robert Gragg/Gregg of Greene County, Tennessee, who DID name a son Samuel in his will written in 1796, so this appears to be more likely Samuel's correct parentage and Thomas Gragg was likely Samuel Gragg's uncle and not his father. Additional research may be needed.
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 2, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Gregg, Samuel, entered service 1774, Augusta County, Virginia, where he was born; eldest brother killed by indians; father killed halfbreed Indian Chief McCormack; soldier moved after Revolutionary War to East Tennessee, thence Alabama where Pensioned at age 75 in Lawrence County, as Samuel Sr., when resided there 23 years; resided 1838 in Washington County, Arkansas, where he moved to be near children; query letter in file states soldier was buried in Arkansas, was probably youngest of 12 children and may have had brothers William, Nathan and James (Note: this last query letter is NOT for this Samuel Gregg/Gragg).. F-S16840, R1126.
Records in Tennessee
- Greene Co. TN Tax List 1787/88
- Hennery Gragg, 400 acres, 1 poll
- Samuel Gragg (1787), 200 acres, 1 poll
- Samuel Gragg (1788), 300 acres, 1 poll
- Robert Gragg, Junr. - 1 poll.
- Rootsweb.com
- Greene Co. TN Taxables, 1791 & 1792, Captain Samuel Gragg's Company.
- Henry Gragg, 240 acres - 1; 400 acres - 1
- Saml. Gragg, 300 acres - 1, 300 acres - 1
- Thomas Gragg, 271 acres, 1, 271 acres - 1
- Robert Gragg, Jr., 600 acres - 2, 200 acres- 1
- Robert Gragg, Sr., 200 acres, 1, 500 acres - 2
- Rootsweb.com
- Greene Co. TN Taxables, for 1796, Captain Samuel Gragg's Company.
- Henry Gragg 600 acres - 1
- John Gragg 250 acres -1
- Robert Jr Gragg 340 acres - 1
- Samuel Gragg 300 acres -1
- Thomas Gragg 525 acres - 1
- William Gragg 250 acres
- Rootsweb.com
- Greene Co. TN Taxables, for 1800, Captain Gragg's Company
- Henry Gragg 575 acres - 1
- John Gragg 250 acres - 1
- Robert Gragg 426 acres - 1
- Samuel Gragg 300 acres - 1
- Thomas Gragg 762 acres - 1
- Wm Gragg 200 acres - 1
- Rootsweb.com
- Greene Co. TN Land Grant: Page 269, No. 941. John Loyd - 150 acres on Meadow Creek on waters of Nolachucky River, adjoining Hugh Heir[Weir?], John Grant, Samuel Gregg, Richard Gullet. Alexander Martin at Newbern, 26 December 1791. [North Carolina Land Grants recorded in Greene County, Tennessee, compiled by Goldene Fillers Burgner, pg. 122].
- Tennessee Land Grant, No. 508. Surveyed. Samuel Gragg, by Virtue of a Guard Right Warrant for two hundred and fifty acres Enters one hundred and fifty acres of the same theirs being a balance of one hundred acres gets to be Satisfied Situate in the Second District & on the Waters of Glebe Creek of Fountain Creek of Deich? River Beginning on a sugar tree marked T.F. arising South and one hundred & sixty poles to Lewis or Hardemans Line, thence West for Compt.? 14th June 1808. Gedion Brilow Do.
- Greene Co. TN Deeds: 20 Jul 1805, Indenture between Samuel Gragg of Roan County and John Ness of Green County, for $464... a Certain tract or parcel of land Containing one hundred and fifty acres Lying and being in Greene County on Me[a]dow Creek on the South side of said Grags two hundred acre patent... [Signed] Samuel Gragg. Signed, Seald. and Declared in presence of Claudius Buster. [Greene Co. TN Geed Book 7, pg. 6].
- Tennessee, Early Land Registers, 1806; 46. Samuel Gragg, 1158, 200 acres. [Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Registers, 1778-1927, Series 05: Board of Commissions Office Files 1806-1809].
Information on Samuel Gregg
Samuel Gregg, aged 77, and a resident of Lawrence County; private, Virginia Militia; enrolled on April 23, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance $33.33; sums received to date of publication of list, $99.99.—Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
Sources
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/n/David-Jones-GROVER-BEACH/PDFBOOK1.pdf'
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References
- Morton, Oren Frederic. A history of Pendleton County, West Virginia. (Franklin, West Virginia: O.F. Morton, 1910)
Pages 167, 208.
Page 167, Gragg, Scotch-Irish, before 1792, Reed's Creek.
Page 208, Gragg, Thomas (____ ____)-left a minor daughter, Mary and appears to have had these sons:
1. Henry
2. William (Mary ____)-d. Jan. 24, 1795.
3. Samuel (Ann Black)-m. 1785? [Samuel appears to be a son of Robert Gragg/Gregg and Alice Harrison based upon other sources including Find-a-Grave]
A daughter of William was killed by the Indians in 1781 (see Page 64,65). Elizabeth (Peter Cassell-m. 1794) was a daughter of Henry.
The family seems afterward to have moved to the South Fork above Sugar Grove. J. Robert and Amby Gragg of that district are present representatives of the family...
Page 64, 65 - In 1781 took place what seems the last Indian raid into this county. A party of redskins, led by Tim Dahmer, a white renegade, came by the Seneca trail to the house of William Gragg, who lived on the highland a mile east of Onego. Dahmer had lived with the Graggs, and held a grudge against a daughter of the family. Gragg was away from the house getting a supply of firewood, and seeing Indians at the house he kept out of danger. His mother, a feeble old lady, and with whom Dahmer had been on good terms, was taken out into the yard in her chair. The wife was also unharmed, but the daughter was scalped and the house set on fire, after which the renegade and his helpers made a prudent retreat. The girl was taken up the river, probably to the house of Philip Harper, but died of her injuries.
- ↑ Samuel Ole Gregg, in Find A Grave.
Samuel Ole Gregg
Birth 12 Dec 1757
Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Death 12 Jan 1841 (aged 83)
Washington County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Stearns Cemetery
Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA
FATHER: Robert Gregg
MOTHER: Alice Lydia Harrison
WIFE: Jane Ann Black, married about 1783 in Augusta Co, Virginia.
CHILDREN:
Elizabeth b: 1782
Lydia b: 1790
Henry b: 1792
Jane b: 1794
James b: 1798
Samuel Jr b: 1800
John b: 1801
Ellis b: 1805
In 1838 he moved to Washington County, Arkansas from Alabama.
- Tennessee, United States. Early Land Registers, 1778-1927.
Name Saml Gregg
Register Place Tennessee, USA
Acct. of Hardin's Warrants
27. Saml. Gregg, 200 acres.
- Tennessee, United States. Early Land Registers, 1778-1927.
Name Samuel Gregg
Register Date 1807
Register Place Tennessee, USA
Grant or Warrant Number 46
No. of Acres: 200
- Tennessee, United States. Early Land Registers, 1778-1927.
Name Samuel Gragg
Register Date 2 Nov 1789
Register Place Tennessee, USA
Grant or Warrant Number 4141
- Arkansas, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1819-1870.
Name Samuel Gregg
Age 83
Birth Date abt 1757
Residence Date 1840
Residence Place Washington, Arkansas, USA
Page 191
Database Ar 1840 Pensioners List
- 1840 United States Federal Census.
Name Samuel Gregg
Home in 1840 (City, County, State) Prairie, Washington, Arkansas
Birth Year abt 1757
Age 83
Military service Veteran
- McLane, Bobbie Lee Jones. An index to fifth census of the United States, 1830, population schedules, territory of Arkansas. (Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: B.J. McLane, 1965).
Name Samuel Gregg
Residence Date 1840
Residence Place Wash., Arkansas, USA
Page number page 38
Title An Index to Fifth United States Census of Arkansas
- The Pension Roll of 1835: Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, in Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. (Washington, District of Columbia: Duff Green, 1835).
Name Samuel Gregg
Rank Private
Annual Allowance: 33.33
Sums Received: 99.99
Description of Service: Virginia militia
Age 77
Birth Year abt 1754
Pension Enrollment Date 4 Mar 1831
Residence Place Lawrence, Alabama, USA
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