When Joseph A Grayson was born on 23 September 1784, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States, his father, John Grayson, was 32 and his mother, Ida Sally Southerland, was 22. He married Rhoda H White on 1 December 1817, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Albemarle Parish, Sussex, Virginia, United States in 1830. He died on 1 August 1849, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Miller School, Albemarle, Virginia, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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English (northern): variant of Graveson, ‘son of the steward, farm bailiff, or village headman’. From the North Midlands through Yorkshire to the north-west, the source is Middle English grayve, grayve, greve, a borrowing of Old Norse greifi ‘earl, count’ (see Grave ). In Durham and Northumberland the source is Middle English greve, from Old (Northumbrian) English grǣfa with the same meaning (see Grieve ).
English: possibly a habitational name from Greysouthen (Cumbria), recorded as Graysone in 1505.
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