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From Linton Research Fund Inc., Publication © 1995 LINTON & BIRD CHRONICLES, Volume V, Issue 2, Summer © 2010, ISSN 1941-3521
Susanna was the daughter of Andrew MONROE (1664-1708) and Eleanor SPENCE (1664-1708) of Monrovia Plantation, on Monroes Creek and old Linton Bay in old Northumberland County (now Westmoreland County), Virginia. Widow Susanna MONROE Tyler’s first husband, Charles TYLER (1695-1724) died at age twenty-nine, leaving Susanna his Stafford tobacco plantation (in present day, Woodbridge, Prince William County, Virginia) and five small children.
According to the Hamilton Parish Episcopalian Church records, of Westmoreland County, Virginia, William Linton and Susanna Tyler were married in 1728. William’s household family at this time included his mother and his guardian sister, two year old, Letice LINTON. Susanna’s household family at this time included her five Tyler children. William and Susanna had three children together.
After William's LINTON death in late 1733, widow Susanna MONROE Tyler Linton married Captain Benjamin GRAYSON (1684-1758) in 1734. Benjamin, is first recorded in the Westmoreland County records in 1715. In 1731 Benjamin made a large land speculation grant on Limestone Creek near Kitchen Mountain in the Catoctin Mountain Range (present day Loudoun County, Virginia). On November 4, 1731, Benjamin was appointed a Commissioners of Peace of the newly formed Prince William County, which included his Limestone Creek land grant.
Charles Tyler and Susanna Monroe had five children together:
William Linton and Susanna MONROE Tyler had three children together:
Benjamin GRAYSON and Susanna MONROE Tyler Linton had four children together:
Susannah (or Susanna or Susan) Monroe was married three times and had issue by (2) Charles Tyler, and (3) Captain (or Colonel) Benjamin Grayson. The Holt reference says she was the aunt of President James Monroe, but she was probably his first cousin twice removed.
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1695
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Westmoreland, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1705 |
June 1, 1705
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Westmoreland County, Province of Virginia
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1712
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Virginia, United States
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1716 |
1716
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Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Province of Virginia
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1717 |
1717
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Westmoreland County, Virginia
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1718
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Stafford County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
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1723 |
1723
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Westmoreland, Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States
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1728 |
1728
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Stafford County, Province of Virginia
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