GRAYSON COUNTY was settled in the late 1700s. Among the early landowners was George Washington, who purchased 5,000 acres on the southern shore of Rough River from Henry Lee in 1788. Grayson County became the fifty-fourth county of Kentucky when it was formed on 25 January 1810, from the western part of Hardin and a small, eastern portion of Ohio County. The county was named for Col. William Grayson, an aide to Gen. Washington. Leitchfield, founded as the county seat that same year, was named for Major David Leitch, whose widow donated land for the town.
Grayson County is located in the Western Coal Field region of Kentucky, in the West-Central part of the state, with an area of 493 square miles. Grayson County is partly bounded by Rough River on the north and Nolin River on the southeast, and bordered by Breckinridge, Hardin, Hart, Edmonson, Butler, and Ohio counties. The elevation in the county ranges from 395 to 963 feet above sea level
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Colonial Virginia Source Records, 1600-1700s
Marriages of Virginia residents Vol LL, Part II, Page 147
William, Col, b 1736, Prince William Co., d 12 Mar, 1790, Dumfries, VA., son of Benjamin and Susan Monroe Grayson. m Eleanor Smallwood, (not Hebe), sis of Heabard Smallwood, whose will was dater 1778, Charles Co., MD, and dau of Gen Smallwood of MD. 5T205, 207; 8T119-20.
Loudoun County, Virginia
Civilian Patriots
1780-1783 Minute Book
March 13th, 1782 Listing
107 Colo. Wm Grayson for 350 lb Do @@ Do
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Dictionary of American Biography; Bristow, Weston. William Grayson, A Study in Virginia Biography of the Eighteenth Century. Richmond College Historical Papers 2 (June 1917); DuPriest, James E., Jr. William Grayson: A Political Biography of Virginias First United States Senator. Manassas, VA: Prince William County Historical Commission, 1977.
GRAYSON, William, (uncle of Alexander Dalrymple Orr), a Delegate and a Senator from Virginia; born in Prince William County, Va., around 1740; attended the College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania; pursued classical studies in England at the University of Oxford and studied law in London; returned to Virginia and practiced law in Dumfries; during the Revolutionary War was commissioned lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp to General George Washington and promoted to colonel January 1777; commissioner of the Board of War 1780-1781; resumed the practice of law; member, Virginia house of delegates 1784-1785, 1788; member of the Continental Congress 1785-1787; delegate to the Virginia convention of 1788 for the adoption of the Federal Constitution, which he opposed; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1789, until his death in Dumfries, Va., March 12, 1790; interment on the old family estate at Belle Air, near Dumfries, Va.
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A LIST OF LETTERS Remaining in the Post Office, Dumfries, which, if not
taken out by the 1st of October next, will be returned to the General Post
Office.
JOHN HUIE, a letters; HENRY WASHINGTON; CHARLES TYLER, merchant, near the
Red House; WILLIAM BRENT, Fauquier county; The Clerk of Dumfries district
court, 2; JOHN McCALLY, Fauquier; Mrs. MARY GRAHAM; The Coroners of Prince
William; The Executors of WILLIAM GRAYSON, deceased; JAMES G. TALIAFERRO,
Brent Town; THEODORICK BLAND, near Dumfries, 2; THOMAS SWAN, Esquire;
THOMAS MONTGOMERIE, 2; ZACHARIAH COX, Esq. 2; RICHARD ROE, near Fauquier
court house; ALEXANDER BROWN Esq.; The Rev. SPENCER GRAYSON; LANDON
CARTER, care of C. WILSON; BERNARD HOOE, Sen. Esq.; JAMES GWATKIN, ROBERT
RANDOLPH, Fauquier, Mrs. ANNA HANSON, at Doctor HORNERs, Fauquier;
WILLIAM GUNYON, EDWARD CARTER, Esq.; Prince William; Colonel JOHN COOKE;
G. F. STRAS; NATHANIEL H. TRIPLETT.
TIMOTHY BRUNDIDGE, Post Master Dumfries, July 1, 1795
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