Person:Robert Gragg (1)

Robert Gragg was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Land

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 166.--16th February, 1763. William Wilson and Agness to Robt. Gragg, £20, 200 acres, part of 400 acres on North Fork of North River of Shanandoe patented to William, 25th March, 1752; David Williams' land. Delivered: Frederick Michael, 7th March, 1792.

• Page 258.--19th May, 1767. William Shannon and Jean ( ) to Robert Gragg, £35, 100 acres, part of 400 patented to William Humphrey, 25th June, 1747, and by him conveyed to Henry Smith, and by him to Wm. Shannon, on North River Shanando, white oak on Castle Hill. Teste: Samuel McFeeters, Moses Hall, John ( ) Cozby. Delivered: Frederick Michael, 7th March, 1792.

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 332.--31st October, 1788. Robert Gragg to Frederick Michel, of Rockingham, 513 acres patented to Robert, 6th April, 1769; 70 acres on Nores Run of North River of Shanidore, patented to Robert, 10th April, 1781; 400 acres patented to Robert, 1st June, 1782; near Castle Hill.

Will Transcript

Third day of May 1796. The Will of Robert Gragg Being low in body, but in perfect mind, and of good memory, I make this my last will and testament.

I do give and bequeath to my two Beloved sons John and William, the land I now possess to them and their heirs forever. And the executors shall so divide the land so as to have each an equal in value and improvements considered and that one shall not dispose of his part without the consent of the other.

I give to John my sorrel horse, bay mare, old cattle, four sheep and half the hogs. To William, the young sorrel mare, gray horse, one grown cow, two young cattle, four sheep and half the hogs, my wifes gun, the big pot and crook. To John the little oven and little pot and crook and one plow to William.

I do bequeath to my beloved daughter Abigail Gregg the young rone mare, one cow, three sheep, her bed and bedding and half the dresser.

To my Beloved daughter Betsy Gregg one bed and bedding.

To my Beloved son Robert Gragg, my big Bible.

To my Beloved son Samuel Gragg, my sword. All that remains at my death over and above paying legatees above mentioned and what money is coming from Virginia that may remain at my death, after paying Col. Kelley, also it is my desire that out of the price of the Steed named Shakespeare that there shall be 25 lbs Virginia currency to be paid to my daughter Betsy when she marries.

I do bequeath to my sons Thomas Gragg, Henry Gragg, Samuel Gragg, and Robert Gragg, Benjamin Crow, George Malcolm, and Joseph McMurtry an equal share of what remains after paying legatees above.

I do bequeath to my sons John and William each of them their axes, and what books remain at my death except the Bible and the harrow, to be equally divided.

I do likewise constitute and appoint, make and ordain my two beloved sons Samuel and Robert to be my sole executors. My desire is that John and William live and work together. That William trade none, but John be sole actor for him while they work together, but if they separate the executors is to take William's estate all in their hands and keep it till he is twenty-one years old. I ratify this to be my last will and hereby revoke all others.

[Signed] Robert Gregg

Benjamin Crow, Jurat William Wall

[Note: Dated 23 May 1793, Greene County, Tennnessee Wills, 1793-1890, Compiled by Goldene Fillers Burgner, pg. 9].

Citation: Wikitree.com

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Page 519.--Patent to Alex. Brownlee, 20th June, 1749, on north side of the southermost branch of the North River. Delivered: Robert and Samuel Gragg.

• Page 341.--1st June, 1756. Silas Hart, gent., and Jane to John Smith, Jr., 230 acres, part of 400 acres patented to Jno. McClure, 15th December, 1749, and conveyed by McClure to Hart, on South Fork of North River of Shannandore. Teste: Jno. Malkem, Alexander Herring, Robert Gragg. Recorded on motion of Daniel Smith on behalf of John. Delivered: Henry Smith, 28th July, 1764.

• Page 423.--20th May, 1765. Walter Trimble and Rosanna ( ) to their son, Robert Trimble, £95, 370 acres on Free Mason's Run, a branch of North River Shanandore. Teste: George Moffet, William Shanan, Robert Gragg.

• Page 417.--18th August, 1767. Edwad Erwin to William Shannon, release deed for 400 acres mortgaged by grantee to grantor, 20th March, 1765. Moses Hall, Samuel McFeeters, Robert Gragg. Delivered: Col. Abraham Smith, 25th October, 1768.

• Page 325.--19th September, 1780. Edward Erwin (Irvine) and Mary, to Benj. Crow. of Rockingham, part of 400 acres patented to Alex. Brownlee, 12th June, 1749. Teste: James Gauy (Guy), Francis Mara, Robert ( ) Gregg.

• Page 280.--Patent to David Hogshead, 1st June, 1782. Teste: Robert Gragg, John Davis, Jas. Hogshead.

• Page 117.--26th March, 1785. Arthur Edwards and Jane ( ) to Thos. Gragg. Teste: Robert Gragg. Sr., John Hair. Robert Gragg, Jr.

• Vol. 1 - August, 1787. Robert Gragg vs. John McDonald. - Plaintiff of Augusta County, 18th August 1785. On that day plaintiff contracted to sell 37 acres to defendant. Consideration, bar iron and horses.

• Page 76.--On Thorn Branch, patented to Robert Gragg, Jr. Teste: Thomas Greene, Wm. McKemy, Richard ( ) Cain.

Records in Tennessee

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

Land Entry in TN: Solomon Cline assignee of George Gordon locates and Enters twenty five acres of land in Greene County Sixth District on the waters of Meddow Creek joining the land John Henderson purchased of Robert Gregg including an enfernereament? purchased by said Cline from Robert Gregg, By Virtue of a certificate by Jacob Grafton? Register of East Tennessee to George Gordon of No. 1183 dated March 9th 1816, Entered Sept. 11th 1817. [Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Registers, 1778-1927, Entries 1816-1823].

Greene Co. TN Deeds: 21 Oct 1818, This Indenture entered into this twenty first day of October one thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen, Between John Gragg and William Gragg of the one part, and Hugh Melay of the other part all of the County of Greene and State of Tennessee. Witnesseth, that for and in Consideration of the sum of Six Hundred and Eighty five Dollars in hand paid the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged ~ the said John and William Gragg both bargained sold Granted aliend? and Confirmed unto the said Hugh Meloy his Heirs and assigns, and by these presents do Bargain, Sell, Grant, alien? and Confirm unto the said Hugh Meloy heirs and assigns forever a certain Tract or parcel of Land, Lying and being in the said County of Greene on the south side of Nolachuckey River bounded as follows: ..., then four poles of ___ the same course to a stake on the North side of a Tract Conveyed by Alexander Kelly to Robert Gragg Deceased, thence with the same, North Eighty seven and a fourth East, ....thence South Fifty two and a half west Ninety four poles to a Black oak on the open line of said Tract Conveyed by Alexander Kelly to Robert Gragg Deceased.... to the Beginning Containing one Hundred and Fifty three acres, (viz) John Gragg conveys on his part Fifty Three Acres, and William Gragg on his part one hundred acres, Together with all the woods, ways, waters, water-courses, profits, Commodidies, hereditaments and appurtenances to said Land Belonging or Right appertaining ~ Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders, Rents Issued and profits thereof, to have and to hold the aforesaid one Hundred and Fifty three acres of land, hereby sold and conveyed, and all the singular the premises, and every part and parcel thereof, with these and every their appurtenances to the said Hugh Meloy, and to the only proper use and Behoof of the said Hugh Meloy his Heirs and assigns forever, and the said John and William Gragg by these presents to convenant and agree with the said Hugh Meloy that the said Land now is and forever shall be clear of all Bargains, sales or Grants by them made, Rite of Power or any Incumbrance whatsoever So as to make unto the said Hugh Meloy a perfect Title or Estate of Inheritance in fee simple, and Lastly said John and William Gragg doth promise and agree to warrant and forever Defend such land against themselves their Heirs and Assigns to the said Hugh Meloy his Heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof they have hereunto set their Hands and Seals the Day and Date first above written. [Signed] John Gragg [Seal], William Gragg [Seal]. Registered this 19th Day of December 1818.

Greene Co., TN Deed: 1830, This Indenture made this Eighteenth Day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Between William Gragg (farmer) of the County of Greene and State of Tennessee of the one part and Joseph E. Bell (Physician) of the County and State aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth, that the said William Gragg for and in Consideration of the Sum of one Thousand five Hundred Dollars to him in hand paid by the said Joseph E. Bell the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, does Give, Grant, Bargain and Sell, assign and Confirm to the said Joseph E. Bell his Heirs and assigns forever, all that Tract piece or parcel of Land Situate Lying and being in the County of Greene and State aforesaid being part of a Tract of Land that Robert Gragg purchased of Alexander Kelly by Deed Dated February 3rd 1789, and which the said Robert Gragg by his Last Will and Testament, Gave to the said William Gragg, also mart of a Tract of Land that the said William Gragg Received of John Harris by Deed dated October 15th 1817. Beginning at a Stake, thence North Sixty East? West one hundred and Twenty poles to a pine Stump at Devisias Line Between the said William Gragg and his Brother John Gragg thence with Said Division Line as now Established between said Graggs. [boundaries omitted] In Testimony whereof the said William Gragg does Hereunto Set his hand and affixed his Seal the day and year first above written [Signed] William Gragg. In the presence of Samuel Henderson, John W. Bell. Registered this 11th Day of February 1831.

Notes

From "The Gregg Family History Project Website":

Robert Gragg lived in Augusta County, Virginia, approximately 38 years and all of his known children were born there. As nearly as can be determined, he moved into the county with his father's family, about the year 1750. According to historians, the country now embraced in Augusta County was not entered by white men until the year 1716. The area was originally inhabited by Shawnee Indians. The first permanent settlement by white people in this section of Virginia was in 1726, on the Shenandoah River, a few miles below the present town of Port Republic. Although some were of German and English decent, the early settlers were almost exclusively of the Scotch-Irish race, natives of the north of Ireland, but of Scottish ancestry. Many had first settled in the south-central part of Pennsylvania, then migrated farther to the south and west to the Shenandoah Valley. Most of those early immigrants were dissenters from the Church of England - they were Presbyterian faith and victims of religious persecution in their native land. They were generally a profoundly religious people, bringing the Bible with them and as soon as possible erected log meeting houses in which to assemble for the worship of God. The Church of England was established by law throughout the colony but while a spirit of intolerance and inseparation from such a system prevailed in other parts of Virginia, the dissenters of the Valley had very little to complain about. The first Presbyterian minister in the Valley was the Rev. John Craig, born 1709, in County Antrim, Ireland. He was educated at Edinburg, was licensed to preach in 1737, and came to Augusta County in 1740. Augusta County was formed from Orange County in 1738. The new county consisted of all that portion of the Colony of Virginia, which lay west of the Blue Ridge Mountains; bounded on the north by the boundaries of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Rappahannock River on the west its territory embraced all of the land claimed by the British, without limit or extent and on the south by the Carolina line. Augusta County was named in honor of Princess Augusta, wife of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, the father of George

III. After about 35 years of pioneering and living in Augusta County, Robert sold his land and buildings and moved to Holston Country (Tennessee). Augusta County court records show, "22 October 1788, Robert Gragg about to move to the frontier of North Carolina." The records also reveal that Robert sold his 513 acres of land to Frederick Michel of Rockingham County, Virginia.

3. Robert Gragg (son of John Gragg). See book written by George Robert Gragg -- "Gragg Descent."

Source: http://www.colonialgreggs.gfhp.co.uk/

1.   Find A Grave.

   Robert Gregg Sr.
   Birth 1732
   Ireland
   Death 5 May 1796 (aged 63–64)
   Greene County, Tennessee, USA
   Burial Gregg Family Farm Cemetery
   Greene County, Tennessee, USA
   
   Robert Gragg Sr was born about 1732, born in Northern Ireland, and emigrated from Ireland to America in the early 1740s with his parents John Gregg and Nancy Wood, to America with his brothers Thomas, John, William, and sister Margaret.
   
   Robert married Lydia Alice Harrison in 1754,in Augusta County, Virginia
   
   The family lived in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, for a period of years, then migrated southwest through the Shenandoah Valley, to Augusta County, Virginia* , in the early 1750s.
   
   Robert sold his Virginia Farm, and removed to Greene County, Tennessee (Nolichucky Settlement) to develop a new 500 acre farm out of the Tennessee forest.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160077987/robert_gregg

2.   Bates, Lucy Womack; Daughters of the American Revolution (Tennessee); and Helen C. (Helen Crawford) Marsh. Roster of soldiers and patriots of the American Revolution buried in Tennessee. (Brentwood, Tennessee: Tennessee Society, NSDAR, c1979).

   
   
   
   Note: the spouses of children Samuel and Elizabeth appear to be incorrect based upon other records.