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Gregory, or Grigg, as he [is] commonly called, was a soldier in General Green's army in the Revolutionary war, and tradition says that he was married when he came to S.C.; he was mustered out of the army at Hilton's Head on the seacoast of S.C. and liked the country there so well, he went back to N.C. and persuaded his father, Charles Clark and family to move to that place. The climate on the coast proving sickly for them, they started back to their old home in North Carolina. But when they got to Congaree Creek in Lexington County they stopped to rest and recruit, but they never went any further.
Grigg bought him a home on a small branch of the Congaree called Turkey Creek and lived there until he died about 1835. He was about 85 year old when he died and was buried at Nazareth then known as Lybrand's church six miles south of Lexington, S.C ......
Gregory and his wife Lurena nee Parker had nine children, Sally, Rachel, Cornelius, Parker, Clarissa, Nancy, Fanny, Katy and Charity.
Sally married John Berry,
Cornelius married Nancy Lee,
Parker, the writer does not know if he ever married;
Rachel married Johnathan Taylor,
Clarissa married a Seay,
Nancy married Dave Shotts;
Fanny and Katy married Arnolds and
Charity married a Harman.
Grigg Birth: ABT 1752 at Hillsborough District, North Carolina 1 Death: Jan 1837 at Lexington Co., South Carolina 2 Burial: Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery, Lexington Co., South Carolina 3 Sex: M Event: Revolutionary War Patriot, registered with the DAR Military Service 4 5 Notes: Was a Patriot, registered with the DAR under National Number 670338
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