General Notes

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Unmarried, no issue

Burwell Grigg I was born to William Grigg III and Elizabeth circa 1718.  He is mentioned in his father's will as "my well beloved son Burwell Grigg," to whom "I give a certain piece of land lying on both sides of the Creek, the bounds on the inner side beginning at the mouth of the Great Branch, so running up the said branch to the line, thence keeping the line to the corner, thence following the line down to the Edward Mitchell's line, so down to the Great Branch, and down the branch to the creek, it being for 100 acres or less, this I give to my son Burwell Grigg and his heirs forever."

We do not know where the Burwell name comes from, whether from a grandmother or a relative, or from teh prominent Lewis Burwell family of the Virginina Colony.  Burwell Grigg I doew not appear in the Virginia records again, but in November 1752 he is found in Anson County, North Carolina, living with the Preston Goforth family.  He is charged seven pounds for one year's accomodation.  Preston and Rachel Goforth lived on 250 acres on the east side of the South Fork of Catawba River.  Burwell I seemed to be a trapper.  He is credited with various red(fox?) skins, beaver furr, and dried leather; and he is charged for horses on the Goforth account.  This account runs from November 1752 until August 1756, when Burwell I died in the home of the Goforths.

Meanwhile, Burwell Grigg I had bought a 500 acre plantation for 70 pounds on September 1755 from John Clark on the south side of the South Fork of the Carawba River at Rockyford.  This was hald of the 1000 acres Clark had bought from Samuel Williams on September 7, 1751(Anson County, North Carolina, book 4, page 363).

It seems that Burwell's brothers, Abner Grigg I and Jesse Grigg I, of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, had come with Abner's "black fellows" to help clear Burwell's land six months before his death. 

Mecklenburg Couty, North Carolina was divided off from Anson County in 1762.  Burwell's land fell into Mecklenburg County.  Burwell Grigg's deed for 500 acres is not recorded until September 1767 in Salisbury Court, NC.

On May 12, 1768 Abner Grigg I of Dinwidded County, Virginia deeded to Jonathon Robertson this 500 acres on the South Fork of Catawba River for 160 pounds.  His brother, Jesse Grigg I is one of the witnesses(Mechlenberg County, NC deeds, book 4, page 812).