Susanna MONROE (1695-1752)

Susanna MONROE (1695-1752)

Mother of William GRAYSON ((1740-1790)

grandaunt of President James MONROE (1758-1831)

4^th great-grandmother of Annie Lucretia CRONK (1888-1956) 

5^th great-grandmother of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987)

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Susanna Monroe (1695-1752) was the mother of General William GRAYSON ((1740-1790) Sentor, the grandaunt of President James MONROE (1758-1831), the 4^th great-grandmother of Annie Lucretia CRONK (1888-1956) and the 5^th great-grandmother of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987).

Susanna was the daughter of Captain Andrew MONROE (1661-1714) & Eleanor SPENCE (1664-1708) She was born in 1695 at Monrovia Plantation, Monroes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Susanna died on November 8, 1752 at Belle Aire Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Prince William County, Virginia, at age 57. She was buried in November 1752, at Belle Aire Plantation, in Woodbridge, Prince William County, Virginia. [i]  She attended the Truro Parish Occoquan Church, today known as the Pohick Church. [ii]

Susanna first married Charles TYLER Jr., (1695-1724) the son of Charles TYLER Sr., (1667-1722) & Jane JORDAN (1660-1627) in 1713, in Stafford County, Virginia. Charles was born in 1695 in Stafford County, Virginia and died in 1724, in Stafford County, Virginia, at age 29. [iii]

Susanna & Charles had five children:

i. Charles TYLER (1716-1767) was born in 1716 in Cameron Parish, London, Virginia. and died in 1767, in Cameron, Loudoun, Virginia. at age 51. [iv]ii.

ii. Jane TYLER (1718-1761) was born in 1718 in Westmoreland County, Virginia and died in 1761 in North Carolina. at age 43. Jane married James LOVELL. [v]

iii. Monroe TYLER (1718-?) was born in 1718 in Virginia. [vi]

iv  Sallie TYLER (1720-1781) was born in 1720, in Westmoreland County, Virginia and died in 1781 in Prince William, Virginia, at age 61. Sallie married Francis JACKSON. [vii]

v. John TYLER (1724-1792) was born in 1724 in Westmoreland County, Virginia and died in 1792 in Prince William, Virginia. at age 68. ^[viii]

Susanna next married William LINTON (1700-1733)

William LINTON (1700-1733) was the son of Ship Captain John LINTON (1670-1726) & Ann BARTON (1679-1734) in 1728. [ix] They were married in Hamilton Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia. [x]  William was born in 1700 at Linton Neck Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia.   Linton Neck Tract was William’s third great grandfather’s, emigrant Moses LINTON (1562–1622) Esquire land, which was passed down from generation to generation.  Moses had emigrated in 1609, on board the ship Sea Venture from York, Yorkshire, England. [xi]  In 1729 William was elected Justice of Peace of Stafford County, Virginia. In 1731 he was elected Commissioner of Peace [xii] of the newly formed Prince William County, Virginia [xiii] Williiam died in 1733, at his Linton Neck Plantation, Woodbridge, Prince William County, Virginia, at age 33.  [xiv]

Susanna & William had three children:

i.  Ann LINTON (1728-1785) was born in 1728 in Prince William County, Virginia. [xv] She died after 1784, in Colchester, Fairfax County, Virginia. Ann married James NESBETT on January 30, 1749 in Prince William County, Virginia. James was born in 1704 in Prince William County, Virginia and died in April 1783 in Colchester, Fairfax County, Virginia, at age 79. [xvi]

ii.  John Taylor LINTON (1730-1775) was born in 1730, at Linton Neck Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia. He died in 1775 at Lintonsford Plantation, Prince William County, Virginia, at age 45. He was buried in 1775 in the Lintonsford Plantation Cemetery, Prince William County, Virginia. John married Elizabeth "Betty" ELLICOT (1729-?) the daughter of John Augustine ELLICOTT (1693-1750) & Sibella HIGGINS (1685-1750), in 1752, in Dumphries, Prince William County, Virginia. Elizabeth was born in 1729, in Westmoreland County, Virginia and died at Lintonsford Plantation, Prince William County, Virginia. [xvii]

iii.  William LINTON (1732-1790) was born in 1732 at Linton Neck Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Stafford (now Prince William) County, Virginia and died in 1770, Fairfax County, Virginia, at age 38.  William married Mary about 1752 in Stafford County, Virginia. Mary was born circa 1732 in Virginia and died in Colchester, Fairfax County, Virginia. [xviii]  William acquired and rented numerus town lots in Colchester and operated a tavern from his “Linton enclosure” at the crossroads. He first acquired a tavern license in 1761 and then in 1763. From 1765 to 1770 he was a vestryman of Truro Parish serving with brother John and George Washington  [xix] In 1788, William was one of the Founders and Trustees of Carrborough. [xx]

Susanna next married Caption Benjamin GRAYSON (1684-1758) the son of John Benjamin GRAYSON (1656-1736) Susanna WHITE (1663-1736) emigrants from Deal, Kent, England. They married in 1729, in Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia.  Benjamin was born in 1684 in Lancaster County, Virginia and died in 1758 in Hamilton, Prince William County, Virginia, at age 74.  [xxi]  Benjamin was one of the earliest of the Scottish merchants to establish Quantico, where Dumfries was to arise. He became a successful merchant and planter, as well as militia officer. In 1731. appointed one of the justices of the peace of Prince William County. He was a land speculator throughout Virginia. He established a tobacco warehouse at Dumphries then Occoquan.  [xxii]

Susanna & Benjamin six had children:

i.  Benjamin GRAYSON (1735-1768) was born in 1735 at Belle Air Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Prince William County, Virginia and died in 1768 in Colchester, Fairfax County, Virginia, at age 33. In 1754, Benjamin married Elizabeth OSBORNE (1735-1828) the daughter of Robert OSBORNE (1710-?) in Prince William County, Virginia. Elizabeth was born in 1735 in Prince William County, Virginia and died on December 20, 1828, in Ashe County, North Carolina, at age 93.  [xxiii]

ii.  Reverent Spence Monroe GRAYSON (1737–1798) was born in 1737 at Belle Air Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Prince William County, Virginia Spence married Mary Elizabeth WAGENER (1742-1810) the daughter of Reverent Peter WAGENER (1717–1798) & Catherine Beverley ROBINSON (1715–1776). Spence in 1757, inherited Belle Air Plantation from his father. Spencer fought in the American Revolutionary War in his brother William’s Regiment. In 1788, Spence was one of the Founders and Trustees of Carrborough. He died in 1798, at Belle Air Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Woodbridge, Prince William County, Virginia, at age 58.   [xxiv]

Spence & Mary had fifteen known children:

Elizabeth GRAYSON (1752–1838); Samuel GRAYSON (1758–?); Catherine GRAYSON Hedgeman (1760–1795); Benjamin GRAYSON (1761–1833); Mary GRAYSON (1764–1795); Susannah Monroe GRAYSON (1768–1822); Colonel Peter Wagener GRAYSON (1770–1816); Anne GRAYSON (1772–1772); Spence Monroe Grayson II (1774–1829); John Robinson GRAYSON (1779–1822); Thomas Robinson GRAYSON (1779–1800); Judith GRAYSON (1780–1851); Beverly Robinson GRAYSON (1782–1843); Sally GRAYSON (1784–?); Caroline Ann GRAYSON (1786–1830).

iii.  General William GRAYSON (1740-1789) Virginia Senator was born in 1740 at Belle Air Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia. He died on September 29, 1789, in  Dumphries, Prince William County, Virginia, at age 49. William married Eleanor SMALLWOOD (1744-1789)  the daughter of Bayne SMALLWOOD & Priscilla HEABARD, in 1764, in Charles County, Maryland.  Eleanor was born in 1744 in Saint Charles, Charles County, Maryland and died on September 22, 1789, in Frederick County, Virginia, at age 45. [xxv]

William & Eleanor eight known had children

Hebe Smallwood GRAYSON (1766–1813); Frederick GRAYSON (1778–1832); George Washington GRAYSON (1778–1832); John Robinson GRAYSON (1779–?); Alfred William GRAYSON (1780–1811); William GRAYSON (1785–1863); Susannah GRAYSON (1786–?); Robert Harrison Hanson GRAYSON (1788–1838)

iv.  Elizabeth Monroe GRAYSON (1743-1780) was born in 1743 at Belle Air Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Dumphries, Prince William County, Virginia. She died in 1780 in Leestown, Westmoreland County, Virginia, at age 37. Elizabeth married John ORR the son of Alexander ORR & Agnes DALRYMPLE, in  1751 in Virginia. John was born on July 25, 1726 at Waterside, Westmoreland County, Virginia. and died in Leestown, Westmoreland County, Virginia. [xxvi]

v. Susanna Monroe GRAYSON (1745-1822)  was born in 1745 at Belle Air Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Dumphries, Prince William County, Virginia. She died in 1822 in Mason County, Kentucky at age  77. [xxvii]

vi. Betty Osborne GRAYSON (1748-?) was born in 1748, at Belle Air Plantation, Hamilton Parish, Dumphries, Prince William County, Virginia. [xxviii]

Sources:

[i]   John P. Alcock, Five Generations Of The Family Of Burr Harrison Of Virginia 1650 - 1800 (Heritage Books, INC., 1991, Bowie, Maryland), page 207… Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - Chalkley, Lyman.  Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing). … Lineages, Inc., comp, Westmoreland County, Virginia Wills, 1654-1800 - Records transcribed from LDS Family History Library microfilm copies of wills for this locality. Original data: Records transcribed from LDS Family History Library microfiche). 

[ii]  Slaughter, Rev. Phillip (1907). "The History of Truro Parish in Virginia". George W. Jacobs and Company. Retrieved July 8, 2012.

[iii]   Global, Find A Grave Index for Non-Burials, Burials at Sea, and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2012 Place: Provo, UT, USA). 

[iv]  John P. Alcock, Five Generations Of The Family Of Burr Harrison Of Virginia 1650 - 1800 (Heritage Books, INC., 1991, Bowie, Maryland), page 207 

[v] John P. Alcock, Five Generations Of The Family Of Burr Harrison Of Virginia 1650 - 1800 (Heritage Books, INC., 1991, Bowie, Maryland), page 207 

[vi] John P. Alcock, Five Generations Of The Family Of Burr Harrison Of Virginia 1650 - 1800 (Heritage Books, INC., 1991, Bowie, Maryland), page 207 

[vii] John P. Alcock, Five Generations Of The Family Of Burr Harrison Of Virginia 1650 - 1800 (Heritage Books, INC., 1991, Bowie, Maryland), page 207 

[viii]  Lineages, Inc., comp, Westmoreland County, Virginia Wills, 1654-1800 - Records transcribed from LDS Family History Library microfilm copies of wills for this locality. Original data: Records transcribed from LDS Family History Library microfiche).

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[x]   Selected Virginia Parish Histories & Land Descriptions: Hamilton Parish of Prince William was created by an Act of the Assembly adopted May 1730, effective 01 Jan 1730/31, providing that effective that date that the parish of Overwharton "be divided into two distinct parishes, by Chappawamsic Creek, and a southwest line to be made from the head of the North branch of the said Creek to the parish of Hanover, and that all that part of sd. parish which lies below the said bounds shall forever thereafter remain and be called and known by the name of Overwharton, and that all that other part of the said parish which lies above the said bounds, shall thereafter be called and known by the name of Hamilton. " (4 Hening 304). In other words, the county boundary lines of Prince William, created in 1730/1, and the Parish lines of Hamilton were practically the same. (See Also Truro Parish & Leeds Parish of Fauquier) 

[xi]   American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI): Details Name William Linton, Birth Place Virginia, Volume 104, Page number 417; Reference Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941. (the Greatest Single Source of Material For Gen. Data For the N.E. Area and For the Period 1600-1800. Completely Indexed in the Index.): 16 Apr 1924, 1670 

[xii]   Landmarks of Old Prince William, A study of origins in Northern Virginia, Volumes I & II, 2nd Reprint Edition; Detail pages 314, 664, Author Fairfax Harrison, Call number LCCCN 24-24847, Publisher Prince William County Historical Commission, Gatewway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1987 

[xiii]  The General Assembly of the colony of Virginia split Stafford County, Virginia in 1731, and added a section which had previously been part of King George County in order to create Prince William County.[6] The county was named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, the third son of King George II.[7] The area encompassed by the 1731 act creating Prince William County originally included all of what later became the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, and Loudoun; and the independent cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park. 

[xiv]   Prince William County Probate Records Virginia Wills, Part 2, 1734-1920; Detail Source Given Name William Surname Linton, Year 1736, Inventory Book C, Inventory Page # 72, Account Book C, Account Page # 432 

[xv]  "Legislation creating Prince William County, Virginia". Historic Prince William. Archived from the original on April 22, 2000. Retrieved September 20, 2008: Content; General Assembly of the colony of Virginia split Stafford County, Virginia in 1731, and added a section which had previously been part of King George County to create Prince William County. The county was named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, the third son of King George II. The area encompassed by the 1731 act creating Prince William County originally included all of what later became the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, and Loudoun; and the independent cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park. 

[xvi]  Edmund West, comp, Family Data Collection - Individual Records (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.), Birth year: 1695; Birth city: Westmoreland; Birth state: VA. 

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[xix] Sprouse, Edith Moore, COLCHESTER Colonial Port on the Potomac; Published by the Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning under the direction of the County Board of Supervisors in cooperation with the Fairfax County History Commission; Fairfax, Virginia, March 1975, second printing 1977; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-7787. P 179. 

[xx]   Landmarks of Old Prince William, A study of origins in Northern Virginia, Volumes I & II, 2nd Reprint Edition; Detail pages 664, Author Fairfax Harrison, Call number LCCCN 24-24847, Publisher Prince William County Historical Commission, Gatewway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1987 

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[xxii]   Fairfax Harrison,  Landmarks of Old Prince William, A study of origins in Northern Virginia, Volumes I & II, 2nd Reprint Edition; Detail pages 151,156,272,339;   Call number LCCCN 24-24847, Publisher Prince William County Historical Commission, Gatewway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1987 

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[xxvi]  John P. Alcock, Five Generations Of The Family Of Burr Harrison Of Virginia 1650 - 1800 (Heritage Books, INC., 1991, Bowie, Maryland), page 78. 

[xxvii]  John P. Alcock, Five Generations Of The Family Of Burr Harrison Of Virginia 1650 - 1800 (Heritage Books, INC., 1991, Bowie, Maryland), page 78. 

[xxviii]   John P. Alcock, Five Generations Of The Family Of Burr Harrison Of Virginia 1650 - 1800 (Heritage Books, INC., 1991, Bowie, Maryland), page 78.