John Grigsby

John Grigsby

• Birth: 1720 - Stafford, Virginia
• Death: Apr 7 1794 - Rockbridge, Virginia
• Parents: Charles Grigsby, Sarah Wilkerson
• Wife: Rosanna Etchison, Elizabeth Porter

DAR Ancestor #: A048485

notes

1774 Augusta Co., VA, Capt. Wm Nalle's Company, in Dunsmore's Expedition, French & Indian War, VA vs OH valley natives, compensated 1775 for 118 days service, paid £8, 17 shillings, p 103, notes on R & L sides not legible. They marched to Fort Pitt in August 1774.

Oct 1780 & Jan 1781, Culpeper Co., VA War Public Service Claims for Rev. War service, drafted miliamen John Grigsby, troops for the Continental Army militia to service for 18 months, in class 49. 1780 General Assembly Act signed to fill VA quota of troops for the Continental Army.

"On Monday morning, February 28, 1781, the militia marched away from Lexington and Bivouacked that night at "Fruit Hill," the home of "Soldier John" Grigsby, in the neighborhood of Faling Spring Presbyterian Church; the Grigsby family had come to Rockbridge County only a little over a year before." Rockbridge Co., VA Notebook, Complied from Articles by Dr. George W. Diehl as published in the News-Gazette, Lexington, VA, compiled by A. Maxim Coppage, III.

His burial was the first one at Falling Spring Cemetery

Links

• Find A Grave Memorial# 22765536

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a soldier

A Veteran of the Revolutionary War
Inscription: " Pause, Reader here and look with solemn dread upon the last lone dwelling of the dead; Tho num'rous graves appear on every hand, This was the first of all the silent band."

expedition against Cartagena in 1741. He also commanded a company in the

Revolutionary War. His soldierly qualities were stamped on his descendants, four of

whom were brigadier-generals in the Confederate army, and many others were

officers of lower rank who followed the stars and bars.

(Source: Memoir and Memorials:

Elisha Franklin Paxton, Brigadier-General, C.S.A.;

Composed of his Letters from Camp and Field While an Officer

in the Confederate Army, with an Introductory and Connecting Narrative

Collected

and Arranged by his Son, John Gallatin Paxton:

Electronic Edition.

Paxton, Elisha Franklin, 1828-1863

Have seen it listed that his "first burial" was in Falling Spring Cemetery. I'm presuming this means he was later moved somewhere else.

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IN THE NAME OF GOD, Amen I John Grigsby of Rockbridge County being

at this time in a low state of health but having the due exercise of

reason and knowing the uncertainty oflife and that it may please God to

call me hence do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament.

Item I desire that all my just debts be duly paid.

Item I give unto my eldest son James Grigsby five shillings

current money of Virginia over and above what he has already received.

Item I give unto my son John Grigsby five shillings current money

of Virginia over and above what he has already received.

Item I give unto my son Charles Grigsby thirty pounds Virginia

Currency, likewise a feather bed with furniture and a couple of sheep.

Item I give unto my son William Grigsby thirty pounds Virginia

currency.

Item I give unto my daughter Sarah Welch exclusive of what she

has already received twenty-five pounds Virginia currency.

Item I give unto my daughter Jane Paxton five shillings current

money of the State of Virginia over and above what I have already given

her.

Item I give unto my daughter Rachel McNut five shillings current

money of the State of Virginia over and above what I have already given her.

Item I lend unto my loving wife Elizabeth Grigsby all my estate

real and personal to have and to hold the same during her natural life in

joint trust discharging debts and gifts or legacies as above in a

reasonable time, and that she my said wife in joint trust with chosen

Executors herein mentioned do act discretionary with my younger sons and

daughters in manner following:

That Martha, Elizabeth and Franky shall have at age or marriage

equal to their sisters Jane Paxton and Rachel McNut including all they

received at marriage and my sons Joseph, Elisha and Reuben to have the

plantation whereon I now live divided equally amongst them by any three

or more neighbors whom they shall appoint and at the decease of my wife

the remainder shall be divided equally among my sons and daughters, viz:

Joseph, Jane, Rachel, Martha, Elisha, Elizabeth, Franky and

Reuben having no respect in the division to such sum as shall be given

to any of them either at age or marriage and further it is my will that

if any of my last named sons and daughters should die intestate his, her,

or their share of the estate as above mentioned shall be equally divided

among the survivor or survivors.

Lastly, I appoint and nominate my beloved wife Elizabeth Grigsby

Executrix and Joseph Grigsby Executor of this my last will and testament

hereby making nul and void any will or wills heretofore made by me

acknowledging this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this

eleventh day of May, Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety two.

Signed, sealed and acknowledged His

in the presence of: John X Grigsby (seal)

John Paxton Robert Snodgrass mark

His

William X Arnold David Willock

Mark A Copy Teste: Harry B. Wright,Clerk