Prosser

More About John GRIGSBY:

Date born 2: 1680, Stafford, VA, USA.

Date born 3: 1680, Stafford, VA, USA.

Brookfield was the 2,000 acre plantation of the Prosser family in the late 18th century. It was here, in the year 1800, More About John GRIGSBY and Sarah Jane ROSSER:

that Thomas Prosser’s most trusted slave , a 24-year old black preacher named Gabriel, masterminded a massive slave Marriage: 1678, St Pauls, Stafford, VA, USA.

uprising. The plot failed because of two slave informers belonging to the Sheppard family of Meadow Farm and because of a torrential thunderstorm that severely impeded transportation and communications.Gabriel and most of his inner Children of John GRIGSBY and Jane Redmond are:

circle were captured, brought to trial and subsequently hanged.

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, b. 1720, Stafford, VA, USA, d. 1804, Gibson, IN, USA.

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, b. 1704, King George, VA, USA, d. 1764, King Geo, VA, USA.

Sarah Jane Prosser

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, b. 1703, VA, USA, d. date unknown.

Birth 1660 Essex, VA

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, d. date unknown.

Death1709

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, d. 1747.

Aged: 49 years

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, d. Oct 1740, Stafford, VA, USA.

m. John Grigsby

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, d. 1752.

Birth8 AUG 1624

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, b. 1686, Stafford, VA, USA, d. 11 Apr 1752, Stafford, VA, USA,

Death11 OCT 1730

Children of John GRIGSBY are:

Aged: 106.2 years

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, b. 1720, Stafford, VA, USA, d. 07 Apr 1794, Rockbridge, VA, USA.

Many American families, particularly Virginians trace their descent from John Grigsby, whose ancestors were

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, b. 1688, St Pauls, Stafford, VA, USA , d. 30 May 1782, King George, VA, USA, , .

unquestionably of Welch origin, and who settled in this Country at a very early day, and were a potent factor in the social and intellectual development of the Communities in which they lived. As a people, they have been noted for their refined Charles Grigsby

tastes, gracious manners, broadmindedness and liberality, and entire absence of anything like narrow clannishness, in Charles Grigsby

religion or political matters, and for unswerving devotion to the interests of higher education.

Birth1 720-04-17 at

The members of this family with which the present records deal, were two brothers, James and John, who emigrated to Death 1794-04-07 at

America about 1660, and settled in Stafford County Virginia.