Son of Capt. Benjamin Grayson and Susannah (Monroe) Tyler Linton (1695-1752). After Susanna's death in 1752, Benjamin married the Widow Ewell. There were four children, all by Susanna Monroe; Benjamin, Spence, William and Susanna. Benjamin Grayson died in 1757 and was buried at "Belle Air."
Married Elizabeth Osborn Neale, daughter of Christopher Neale and Anne Osborne.
Siblings:
1. Rev. Spence Grayson II (1734-1798). He inherited and resided on the Belle Aire estate, former residence of his father in Prince William County Virginia. He married Mary Elizabeth Wagener. Spence Grayson after marriage studied for the ministry. Chosen minister of Dettinger Parish, Prince William County 1784. His sermons were masterpieces of composition. He was a personal friend and great favorite of General Washington. When General Washington's nephew Major George Washington was married there were three clergymen present. General Washington chose Rev. Spence Grayson to perform the ceremony and gave him a fee of $100 dollars in gold. There was no family in closer communion or more fraternally regarded by General Washington than the Grayson family. Daughter Susan Monroe Grayson (1768-1822) m. Lund Washington (1767-1853). 1765 - The Reverend Mr. Grayson, and Doctr. Griffith; Lund Washington, his wife, & Miss Stuart came to Dinner—All of whom remained the Evening except L. W. After the Candles were lighted George Auge. Washington and Frances Bassett were married by Mr. Grayson.
2. William Grayson III (1736-1790). Like his brother Spence he received a classical education and practiced law at Dumfiies, Prince William County Virginia. At the commencement of the Revolution General Washington appointed William Grayson Captain and he entered into the Washington military family. In 1776 he was appointed Colonel in a Virginia regiment. In the battles of Brandenburg, Germantown and Monmouth, the regiment was destroyed and Col. Grayson was appointed to Gen. Washington's staff. He was twice a member of the Board of War and a member of the Continental Congress, a member of the Virginia Convention that ratified it and was the first senator elected from the state of Virginia. William Grayson married the Governor of Maryland's sister, (General Smallwood).
3. Susannah Monroe Grayson (1743-1822) m. John Orr (1726-1791) in 1761.
Benjamin Grayson, II, continued his father's business at Colchester. An able merchant, he prospered and expanded into new ventures. He added additional lots in Colchester to those inherited from his father. He acquired , BELMONT, the thousand acre Mason Neck plantation. Young Benjamin involved himself in development of a flour mill, bakery and store on the Occoquan, the construction of a new tobacco warehouse in Colchester and even a commercial winery. He became a justice of the Fairfax Court in 1763. Debt accumulated as a result of these ventures, and in 1765 and 1766 his creditors were foreclosing or forcing the sale of his holdings. Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth left for Loudoun County to begin anew. He died in 1768, leaving Elizabeth in a comfortable condition. She, in turn, left a son and a daughter with what has been described as a "handsome estate."
Eastern Loudoun County was also the seat of large plantations owned by rich Tidewater planters. The McCarty land, along the Potomac floodplain near the mouth of Sugarland Run was cleared and planted for tobacco under the direction of Daniel McCarty (grandson of the original Daniel), certainly by 1760. Planting may have begun here earlier, under his father, Dennis. Several large landholdings owned by the Carter's were being worked by numerous tenant farmers and a small number of slaves by 1760 and probably earlier. Benjamin Grayson, who owned the large tract that later became the Belmont plantation (on Route 7), was tithed in 1758 for nine slaves working his property under overseer Moses Botts (Loudoun County, Cameron Parish Tithe Books, Leesburg Courthouse). Daniel McCarty was tithed in 1765 for eight slaves working under overseer William Veal on his Sugarland plantation, and various Carter-family landholders were tithed for thirty-three slaves working several distinct tracts in the same year. Tobacco, corn, wheat, pork, and beef were the products mentioned in the plantation records of Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, for his tracts In the uplands of eastern Loudoun County (Morton 1946). Tobacco was apparently the dominant crop, and we could expect it to have been even more dominant in the floodplain plantation of Daniel McCarty. Tobacco and slaves were part of an agricultural complex not represented among the Quakers and Germans of northern and central Loudoun.
George was not the only Washington in Fairfax County. Seven miles south of Mount Vernon, the home of the nation’s first president, lived his cousin Lawrence Washington. He owned about 1,000 acres on the north shore of the Occoquan River in Mason Neck, the first area in the county to be claimed by 17th-century explorers who came up into the branches of the Potomac River. Mason Neck was one of the first areas in present-day Fairfax County to be settled; Gervais Dodson first claimed what was to be Lawrence Washington’s land in the 1650s. The land changed hands a few times until Belmont Plantation, one of the county’s oldest dwellings, was built before 1727 by Thomas Simpson. The brick house, 25 feet by 19 feet in size, sat on Belmont Plantation, which became Washington’s sometime in the 1780s or 1790s. A modest plantation at about 1,000 acres, Belmont was rich in natural resources, overlooking Belmont Bay. A 1765 advertisement in the Maryland Gazette described it in glowing terms: “There is on the Land about 60 Acres of good Meadow, it abounds in Timber … but above all the Fishery is exceeding valuable.” Lawrence Washington, who also owned property in Colchester, was a quiet man. He was not given to heavy political involvement as neighbors like George Mason: although Mason was his next-door neighbor (they shared a property line), Mason never mentions Lawrence Washington. Washington married his first cousin Catherine Foote. He waited a long time to propose to her, as his cousin Lund Washington remarked: “I have since been informed that [Washington] did not ask Mr. Foote’s [father of Catherine] consent because he knew it would be refused on account of their near relationship, being children of sisters.” The Washington's had no children, and when Lawrence died Belmont went to Anne Washington Thompson who lived at Belmont until she died in 1824. Her son took possession of the house after her death and mortgaged the property in pieces when an economic depression caused several local estates (Lexington and Gunston Hall included) to be sold.
Children:
1. Benjamin Grayson III
2. girl Grayson. She married ?? Bronaugh
3. William Grayson
4. John Grayson
5. Alexander Grayson
6. Robert Grayson
7. Richard G. Grayson
8. George Grayson
9. Mary Josephine Grayson
10. Betty Osborne Grayson
Married Elizabeth Osborn Neale, daughter of Christopher Neale and Anne Osborne.
Siblings:
1. Rev. Spence Grayson II (1734-1798). He inherited and resided on the Belle Aire estate, former residence of his father in Prince William County Virginia. He married Mary Elizabeth Wagener. Spence Grayson after marriage studied for the ministry. Chosen minister of Dettinger Parish, Prince William County 1784. His sermons were masterpieces of composition. He was a personal friend and great favorite of General Washington. When General Washington's nephew Major George Washington was married there were three clergymen present. General Washington chose Rev. Spence Grayson to perform the ceremony and gave him a fee of $100 dollars in gold. There was no family in closer communion or more fraternally regarded by General Washington than the Grayson family. Daughter Susan Monroe Grayson (1768-1822) m. Lund Washington (1767-1853). 1765 - The Reverend Mr. Grayson, and Doctr. Griffith; Lund Washington, his wife, & Miss Stuart came to Dinner—All of whom remained the Evening except L. W. After the Candles were lighted George Auge. Washington and Frances Bassett were married by Mr. Grayson.
2. William Grayson III (1736-1790). Like his brother Spence he received a classical education and practiced law at Dumfiies, Prince William County Virginia. At the commencement of the Revolution General Washington appointed William Grayson Captain and he entered into the Washington military family. In 1776 he was appointed Colonel in a Virginia regiment. In the battles of Brandenburg, Germantown and Monmouth, the regiment was destroyed and Col. Grayson was appointed to Gen. Washington's staff. He was twice a member of the Board of War and a member of the Continental Congress, a member of the Virginia Convention that ratified it and was the first senator elected from the state of Virginia. William Grayson married the Governor of Maryland's sister, (General Smallwood).
3. Susannah Monroe Grayson (1743-1822) m. John Orr (1726-1791) in 1761.
Benjamin Grayson, II, continued his father's business at Colchester. An able merchant, he prospered and expanded into new ventures. He added additional lots in Colchester to those inherited from his father. He acquired , BELMONT, the thousand acre Mason Neck plantation. Young Benjamin involved himself in development of a flour mill, bakery and store on the Occoquan, the construction of a new tobacco warehouse in Colchester and even a commercial winery. He became a justice of the Fairfax Court in 1763. Debt accumulated as a result of these ventures, and in 1765 and 1766 his creditors were foreclosing or forcing the sale of his holdings. Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth left for Loudoun County to begin anew. He died in 1768, leaving Elizabeth in a comfortable condition. She, in turn, left a son and a daughter with what has been described as a "handsome estate."
Eastern Loudoun County was also the seat of large plantations owned by rich Tidewater planters. The McCarty land, along the Potomac floodplain near the mouth of Sugarland Run was cleared and planted for tobacco under the direction of Daniel McCarty (grandson of the original Daniel), certainly by 1760. Planting may have begun here earlier, under his father, Dennis. Several large landholdings owned by the Carter's were being worked by numerous tenant farmers and a small number of slaves by 1760 and probably earlier. Benjamin Grayson, who owned the large tract that later became the Belmont plantation (on Route 7), was tithed in 1758 for nine slaves working his property under overseer Moses Botts (Loudoun County, Cameron Parish Tithe Books, Leesburg Courthouse). Daniel McCarty was tithed in 1765 for eight slaves working under overseer William Veal on his Sugarland plantation, and various Carter-family landholders were tithed for thirty-three slaves working several distinct tracts in the same year. Tobacco, corn, wheat, pork, and beef were the products mentioned in the plantation records of Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, for his tracts In the uplands of eastern Loudoun County (Morton 1946). Tobacco was apparently the dominant crop, and we could expect it to have been even more dominant in the floodplain plantation of Daniel McCarty. Tobacco and slaves were part of an agricultural complex not represented among the Quakers and Germans of northern and central Loudoun.
George was not the only Washington in Fairfax County. Seven miles south of Mount Vernon, the home of the nation’s first president, lived his cousin Lawrence Washington. He owned about 1,000 acres on the north shore of the Occoquan River in Mason Neck, the first area in the county to be claimed by 17th-century explorers who came up into the branches of the Potomac River. Mason Neck was one of the first areas in present-day Fairfax County to be settled; Gervais Dodson first claimed what was to be Lawrence Washington’s land in the 1650s. The land changed hands a few times until Belmont Plantation, one of the county’s oldest dwellings, was built before 1727 by Thomas Simpson. The brick house, 25 feet by 19 feet in size, sat on Belmont Plantation, which became Washington’s sometime in the 1780s or 1790s. A modest plantation at about 1,000 acres, Belmont was rich in natural resources, overlooking Belmont Bay. A 1765 advertisement in the Maryland Gazette described it in glowing terms: “There is on the Land about 60 Acres of good Meadow, it abounds in Timber … but above all the Fishery is exceeding valuable.” Lawrence Washington, who also owned property in Colchester, was a quiet man. He was not given to heavy political involvement as neighbors like George Mason: although Mason was his next-door neighbor (they shared a property line), Mason never mentions Lawrence Washington. Washington married his first cousin Catherine Foote. He waited a long time to propose to her, as his cousin Lund Washington remarked: “I have since been informed that [Washington] did not ask Mr. Foote’s [father of Catherine] consent because he knew it would be refused on account of their near relationship, being children of sisters.” The Washington's had no children, and when Lawrence died Belmont went to Anne Washington Thompson who lived at Belmont until she died in 1824. Her son took possession of the house after her death and mortgaged the property in pieces when an economic depression caused several local estates (Lexington and Gunston Hall included) to be sold.
Children:
1. Benjamin Grayson III
2. girl Grayson. She married ?? Bronaugh
3. William Grayson
4. John Grayson
5. Alexander Grayson
6. Robert Grayson
7. Richard G. Grayson
8. George Grayson
9. Mary Josephine Grayson
10. Betty Osborne Grayson
Son of Capt. Benjamin Grayson and Susannah (Monroe) Tyler Linton (1695-1752). After Susanna's death in 1752, Benjamin married the Widow Ewell. There were four children, all by Susanna Monroe; Benjamin, Spence, William and Susanna. Benjamin Grayson died in 1757 and was buried at "Belle Air."
Married Elizabeth Osborn Neale, daughter of Christopher Neale and Anne Osborne.
Siblings:
1. Rev. Spence Grayson II (1734-1798). He inherited and resided on the Belle Aire estate, former residence of his father in Prince William County Virginia. He married Mary Elizabeth Wagener. Spence Grayson after marriage studied for the ministry. Chosen minister of Dettinger Parish, Prince William County 1784. His sermons were masterpieces of composition. He was a personal friend and great favorite of General Washington. When General Washington's nephew Major George Washington was married there were three clergymen present. General Washington chose Rev. Spence Grayson to perform the ceremony and gave him a fee of $100 dollars in gold. There was no family in closer communion or more fraternally regarded by General Washington than the Grayson family. Daughter Susan Monroe Grayson (1768-1822) m. Lund Washington (1767-1853). 1765 - The Reverend Mr. Grayson, and Doctr. Griffith; Lund Washington, his wife, & Miss Stuart came to Dinner—All of whom remained the Evening except L. W. After the Candles were lighted George Auge. Washington and Frances Bassett were married by Mr. Grayson.
2. William Grayson III (1736-1790). Like his brother Spence he received a classical education and practiced law at Dumfiies, Prince William County Virginia. At the commencement of the Revolution General Washington appointed William Grayson Captain and he entered into the Washington military family. In 1776 he was appointed Colonel in a Virginia regiment. In the battles of Brandenburg, Germantown and Monmouth, the regiment was destroyed and Col. Grayson was appointed to Gen. Washington's staff. He was twice a member of the Board of War and a member of the Continental Congress, a member of the Virginia Convention that ratified it and was the first senator elected from the state of Virginia. William Grayson married the Governor of Maryland's sister, (General Smallwood).
3. Susannah Monroe Grayson (1743-1822) m. John Orr (1726-1791) in 1761.
Benjamin Grayson, II, continued his father's business at Colchester. An able merchant, he prospered and expanded into new ventures. He added additional lots in Colchester to those inherited from his father. He acquired , BELMONT, the thousand acre Mason Neck plantation. Young Benjamin involved himself in development of a flour mill, bakery and store on the Occoquan, the construction of a new tobacco warehouse in Colchester and even a commercial winery. He became a justice of the Fairfax Court in 1763. Debt accumulated as a result of these ventures, and in 1765 and 1766 his creditors were foreclosing or forcing the sale of his holdings. Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth left for Loudoun County to begin anew. He died in 1768, leaving Elizabeth in a comfortable condition. She, in turn, left a son and a daughter with what has been described as a "handsome estate."
Eastern Loudoun County was also the seat of large plantations owned by rich Tidewater planters. The McCarty land, along the Potomac floodplain near the mouth of Sugarland Run was cleared and planted for tobacco under the direction of Daniel McCarty (grandson of the original Daniel), certainly by 1760. Planting may have begun here earlier, under his father, Dennis. Several large landholdings owned by the Carter's were being worked by numerous tenant farmers and a small number of slaves by 1760 and probably earlier. Benjamin Grayson, who owned the large tract that later became the Belmont plantation (on Route 7), was tithed in 1758 for nine slaves working his property under overseer Moses Botts (Loudoun County, Cameron Parish Tithe Books, Leesburg Courthouse). Daniel McCarty was tithed in 1765 for eight slaves working under overseer William Veal on his Sugarland plantation, and various Carter-family landholders were tithed for thirty-three slaves working several distinct tracts in the same year. Tobacco, corn, wheat, pork, and beef were the products mentioned in the plantation records of Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, for his tracts In the uplands of eastern Loudoun County (Morton 1946). Tobacco was apparently the dominant crop, and we could expect it to have been even more dominant in the floodplain plantation of Daniel McCarty. Tobacco and slaves were part of an agricultural complex not represented among the Quakers and Germans of northern and central Loudoun.
George was not the only Washington in Fairfax County. Seven miles south of Mount Vernon, the home of the nation’s first president, lived his cousin Lawrence Washington. He owned about 1,000 acres on the north shore of the Occoquan River in Mason Neck, the first area in the county to be claimed by 17th-century explorers who came up into the branches of the Potomac River. Mason Neck was one of the first areas in present-day Fairfax County to be settled; Gervais Dodson first claimed what was to be Lawrence Washington’s land in the 1650s. The land changed hands a few times until Belmont Plantation, one of the county’s oldest dwellings, was built before 1727 by Thomas Simpson. The brick house, 25 feet by 19 feet in size, sat on Belmont Plantation, which became Washington’s sometime in the 1780s or 1790s. A modest plantation at about 1,000 acres, Belmont was rich in natural resources, overlooking Belmont Bay. A 1765 advertisement in the Maryland Gazette described it in glowing terms: “There is on the Land about 60 Acres of good Meadow, it abounds in Timber … but above all the Fishery is exceeding valuable.” Lawrence Washington, who also owned property in Colchester, was a quiet man. He was not given to heavy political involvement as neighbors like George Mason: although Mason was his next-door neighbor (they shared a property line), Mason never mentions Lawrence Washington. Washington married his first cousin Catherine Foote. He waited a long time to propose to her, as his cousin Lund Washington remarked: “I have since been informed that [Washington] did not ask Mr. Foote’s [father of Catherine] consent because he knew it would be refused on account of their near relationship, being children of sisters.” The Washington's had no children, and when Lawrence died Belmont went to Anne Washington Thompson who lived at Belmont until she died in 1824. Her son took possession of the house after her death and mortgaged the property in pieces when an economic depression caused several local estates (Lexington and Gunston Hall included) to be sold.
Children:
1. Benjamin Grayson III
2. girl Grayson. She married ?? Bronaugh
3. William Grayson
4. John Grayson
5. Alexander Grayson
6. Robert Grayson
7. Richard G. Grayson
8. George Grayson
9. Mary Josephine Grayson
10. Betty Osborne Grayson
Married Elizabeth Osborn Neale, daughter of Christopher Neale and Anne Osborne.
Siblings:
1. Rev. Spence Grayson II (1734-1798). He inherited and resided on the Belle Aire estate, former residence of his father in Prince William County Virginia. He married Mary Elizabeth Wagener. Spence Grayson after marriage studied for the ministry. Chosen minister of Dettinger Parish, Prince William County 1784. His sermons were masterpieces of composition. He was a personal friend and great favorite of General Washington. When General Washington's nephew Major George Washington was married there were three clergymen present. General Washington chose Rev. Spence Grayson to perform the ceremony and gave him a fee of $100 dollars in gold. There was no family in closer communion or more fraternally regarded by General Washington than the Grayson family. Daughter Susan Monroe Grayson (1768-1822) m. Lund Washington (1767-1853). 1765 - The Reverend Mr. Grayson, and Doctr. Griffith; Lund Washington, his wife, & Miss Stuart came to Dinner—All of whom remained the Evening except L. W. After the Candles were lighted George Auge. Washington and Frances Bassett were married by Mr. Grayson.
2. William Grayson III (1736-1790). Like his brother Spence he received a classical education and practiced law at Dumfiies, Prince William County Virginia. At the commencement of the Revolution General Washington appointed William Grayson Captain and he entered into the Washington military family. In 1776 he was appointed Colonel in a Virginia regiment. In the battles of Brandenburg, Germantown and Monmouth, the regiment was destroyed and Col. Grayson was appointed to Gen. Washington's staff. He was twice a member of the Board of War and a member of the Continental Congress, a member of the Virginia Convention that ratified it and was the first senator elected from the state of Virginia. William Grayson married the Governor of Maryland's sister, (General Smallwood).
3. Susannah Monroe Grayson (1743-1822) m. John Orr (1726-1791) in 1761.
Benjamin Grayson, II, continued his father's business at Colchester. An able merchant, he prospered and expanded into new ventures. He added additional lots in Colchester to those inherited from his father. He acquired , BELMONT, the thousand acre Mason Neck plantation. Young Benjamin involved himself in development of a flour mill, bakery and store on the Occoquan, the construction of a new tobacco warehouse in Colchester and even a commercial winery. He became a justice of the Fairfax Court in 1763. Debt accumulated as a result of these ventures, and in 1765 and 1766 his creditors were foreclosing or forcing the sale of his holdings. Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth left for Loudoun County to begin anew. He died in 1768, leaving Elizabeth in a comfortable condition. She, in turn, left a son and a daughter with what has been described as a "handsome estate."
Eastern Loudoun County was also the seat of large plantations owned by rich Tidewater planters. The McCarty land, along the Potomac floodplain near the mouth of Sugarland Run was cleared and planted for tobacco under the direction of Daniel McCarty (grandson of the original Daniel), certainly by 1760. Planting may have begun here earlier, under his father, Dennis. Several large landholdings owned by the Carter's were being worked by numerous tenant farmers and a small number of slaves by 1760 and probably earlier. Benjamin Grayson, who owned the large tract that later became the Belmont plantation (on Route 7), was tithed in 1758 for nine slaves working his property under overseer Moses Botts (Loudoun County, Cameron Parish Tithe Books, Leesburg Courthouse). Daniel McCarty was tithed in 1765 for eight slaves working under overseer William Veal on his Sugarland plantation, and various Carter-family landholders were tithed for thirty-three slaves working several distinct tracts in the same year. Tobacco, corn, wheat, pork, and beef were the products mentioned in the plantation records of Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, for his tracts In the uplands of eastern Loudoun County (Morton 1946). Tobacco was apparently the dominant crop, and we could expect it to have been even more dominant in the floodplain plantation of Daniel McCarty. Tobacco and slaves were part of an agricultural complex not represented among the Quakers and Germans of northern and central Loudoun.
George was not the only Washington in Fairfax County. Seven miles south of Mount Vernon, the home of the nation’s first president, lived his cousin Lawrence Washington. He owned about 1,000 acres on the north shore of the Occoquan River in Mason Neck, the first area in the county to be claimed by 17th-century explorers who came up into the branches of the Potomac River. Mason Neck was one of the first areas in present-day Fairfax County to be settled; Gervais Dodson first claimed what was to be Lawrence Washington’s land in the 1650s. The land changed hands a few times until Belmont Plantation, one of the county’s oldest dwellings, was built before 1727 by Thomas Simpson. The brick house, 25 feet by 19 feet in size, sat on Belmont Plantation, which became Washington’s sometime in the 1780s or 1790s. A modest plantation at about 1,000 acres, Belmont was rich in natural resources, overlooking Belmont Bay. A 1765 advertisement in the Maryland Gazette described it in glowing terms: “There is on the Land about 60 Acres of good Meadow, it abounds in Timber … but above all the Fishery is exceeding valuable.” Lawrence Washington, who also owned property in Colchester, was a quiet man. He was not given to heavy political involvement as neighbors like George Mason: although Mason was his next-door neighbor (they shared a property line), Mason never mentions Lawrence Washington. Washington married his first cousin Catherine Foote. He waited a long time to propose to her, as his cousin Lund Washington remarked: “I have since been informed that [Washington] did not ask Mr. Foote’s [father of Catherine] consent because he knew it would be refused on account of their near relationship, being children of sisters.” The Washington's had no children, and when Lawrence died Belmont went to Anne Washington Thompson who lived at Belmont until she died in 1824. Her son took possession of the house after her death and mortgaged the property in pieces when an economic depression caused several local estates (Lexington and Gunston Hall included) to be sold.
Children:
1. Benjamin Grayson III
2. girl Grayson. She married ?? Bronaugh
3. William Grayson
4. John Grayson
5. Alexander Grayson
6. Robert Grayson
7. Richard G. Grayson
8. George Grayson
9. Mary Josephine Grayson
10. Betty Osborne Grayson
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