When Mary Grigsby was born about 1748, in Stafford Courthouse, Stafford, Virginia, United States, her father, Redmond Grigsby Sr, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Thomas, was 26. She married William Davis about 1766, in Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died on 18 January 1831, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 84.
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Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
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English (Kent): habitational name from a lost or unidentified place called Gregby, apparently in Lincolnshire. Although it is not certain that the surname in Kent is connected with the early bearers in Lincolnshire and Norfolk, it seems plausible. A habitational name with the Scandinavian generic -by (Old Danish bȳ ‘settlement, village’), while typical of the Danelaw, is an impossible coinage in southeastern England.
English: perhaps a variant of Grebby from a place so called in Scremby (Lincolnshire).
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