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Mother: Frances Thornton WASHINGTON |
_James BALL of "Bewdley"_________+
| (1678 - 1754) m 1707
_Jeduthun BALL ______|
| (1725 - 1749) m 1748|
| |_Mary CONWAY ____________________+
| (1686 - 1730) m 1707
_Burgess BALL of Springwood___|
| (1749 - 1800) m 1781 |
| | _Charles BURGESS "the Immigrant"_
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| |_Elizabeth BURGESS __|
| (1720 - ....) m 1748|
| |_Frances FOX ____________________
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| _Augustine WASHINGTON Sr.________+
| | (1694 - 1743) m 1731
| _Charles WASHINGTON _|
| | (1738 - 1799) m 1757|
| | |_Mary BALL ______________________+
| | (1707 - 1790) m 1731
|_Frances Thornton WASHINGTON _|
(1763 - 1815) m 1781 |
| _Francis THORNTON III____________+
| | (1714 - 1749) m 1736
|_Mildred THORNTON ___|
(1739 - 1804) m 1757|
|_Mary Frances GREGORY ___________+
(1720 - 1790) m 1736
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Mother: Mildred TAYLOR |
_James BARBOUR II____+
| (1707 - 1775) m 1733
_Ambrose BARBOUR ____________|
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| |_Sarah TODD _________+
| (1717 - 1781) m 1733
_Richard Thomas BARBOUR _|
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| | _Joseph THOMAS ______+
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| |_Catherine Pendleton THOMAS _|
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| |_Sarah PENDLETON ____+
| (1711 - 1794)
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Mother: JEANNE de CHATEAUDUN |
_ERHARD II de BRIENNE of Brienne__+
| (1140 - 1191) m 1166
_JEAN (JOHN I) de BRIENNE of Constantinople_|
| (1168 - 1237) m 1224 |
| |_AGNES de MONTFAUCON _____________+
| (1140 - ....) m 1166
_JEAN de BRIENNE ______|
| (1225 - 1296) m 1251 |
| | _ALFONSO IX of Leon_______________+
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| |_BERENGARIA of Leon_________________________|
| (1199 - 1237) m 1224 |
| |_BERENGUELA de CASTILE of Castile_+
| (1180 - 1246)
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|--BLANCHE de BRIENNE of Loupeland
| (1245 - 1302)
| _GEOFFREY V de CHATEAUDUN ________+
| | (1170 - ....)
| _GEOFFREY VI de CHATEAUDUN _________________|
| | (1200 - ....) |
| | |_ADELE de NEVERS _________________
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|_JEANNE de CHATEAUDUN _|
(1227 - ....) m 1251 |
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|_CLEMENCE des ROCHES _______________________|
(1200 - ....) |
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Thomas A. Crenshaw, Samuel S. Weiseger & Ann E., his wife, deed
of Trust to Henry Gordon to secure above debt due sd. Thos. A.
Crenshaw . $900.00. 77 acres in Amelia Co. Nov. 5, 1848 . D. B.
37, p. 565.
Thomas A. Crenshaw , and Ann his wife, formerly Ann S. Jeter.
deed to John M. Jeter . Recites that whereas there are 217 acres
in Amelia Co., of land, belonging to the estate of Samuel S.
Jeter, decd. which land was alloted to the said John M. Jeter
and Ann S. Crenshaw, formerly Ann S. Jeter , as joint tenants
the right to ½ of said 217 acres the sd. Thos. A. Crenshaw has
acquired in right of his sd. wife Ann. S., and there are 80
acres more of said land which was assigned to Mrs. Martha A.
Jeter, widow of said Saml. T. Jeter, during her life time, ½ of
which sd. Crenshaw and his sd. wife are entitled at the death of
sd. Martha A. Jeter. For $1000,00. The above estate. Jan. 10,
1850 . D. B. 38, p. 128.
T. A. Crenshaw , Edwin E. Cosby , John A. Hillsman & Saml. R.
Seay Commrs. deed to Beverley C. Sadler . Mch. 23, 1852 . D. B.
38, p.
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Mother: Caroline Malinda TAYLOR |
During the 1820s Grayson suffered serious mental illness.
Temporary recovery came by 1830, when he received a league of
land in Stephen F. Austin's Texas colony. By 1832 he had settled
and developed a large plantation near Matagorda and had also
become a confidant of Austin. In time he had substantial
landholdings and owned many slaves. When Austin was imprisoned
in Mexico City, Grayson and Spencer H. Jack journeyed there in
late 1834 to procure his release. When in late 1835 Austin
called for volunteers to repel the Mexican army, Grayson
responded. On October 7 the soldiers elected him president of a
board of war at Gonzales, which served until Austin's arrival.
Then Grayson became Austin's aide-de-camp. During his service he
was elected to the Consultation (1835) but did not leave the
army to attend.
During the early stages of the Texas Revolution Grayson helped
raise volunteers in the United States. On May 4, 1836, president
ad interim David Burnet named him attorney general; he signed
the Treaties of Velasco on May 14. Two weeks later he and James
Collinsworth were named commissioners to the United States to
seek recognition and annexation. They arrived in Washington on
July 8 but could do little before Burnet's term ended in
October. Texas president Sam Houston named Grayson attorney
general in February 1837; he served until leaving for Washington
in August as special envoy for annexation. In December 1837 the
president made him naval agent to the United States.
Grayson reluctantly agreed to be the Houston party candidate for
president in 1838. His candidacy was passive, since after
initially declining he agreed to be minister plenipotentiary to
the United States. On June 20 he left Galveston for Washington.
July 8 found him in Bean's Station, northeast of Knoxville. That
evening, he wrote of the terrible mental "fiend that possessed
me" and bemoaned his acceptance of the presidential nomination,
which had led to falsified, bitter campaign charges against him.
The next morning he fatally shot himself. Besides a history of
mental illness and the terrible calumnies of the campaign, his
suicide has been blamed on an alleged rebuff to his marriage
proposal by a Louisville woman whom he had long courted. In 1846
Grayson County was named in his honor.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Nina Covington, The Presidential Campaigns of the
Republic of Texas of 1836 and 1838 (M.A. thesis, University of
Texas, 1929). William Barrow Floyd, Jouett-Bush-Frazer: Early
Kentucky Artists (Lexington, Kentucky, 1968). Frederick William
Grayson, comp, "The Grayson Family," Tyler's Quarterly
Historical and Genealogical Magazine 5 (January, April 1924).
Peter W. Grayson Papers, Rosenberg Library, Galveston. Thomas
Clarence Richardson, East Texas: Its History and Its Makers (4
vols., New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1940). Telegraph
and Texas Register, May 26, 1838. Vertical Files, Barker Texas
History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Minnie S. Wilder,
comp., Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Baltimore:
Genealogical Publishing, 1969). Louis J. Wortham, A History of
Texas (5 vols., Fort Worth: Wortham-Molyneaux, 1924).
Leslie H. Southwick
Recommended citation:
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"GRAYSON, PETER WILLIAM." The Handbook of Texas Online.
http://www.rra.dst.tx.us/c_t/history/grayson/people/pwGRAYSON.cfm
fatally shot himself.
_Benjamin GRAYSON I__+
| (1684 - 1757) m 1735
_Spence Monroe GRAYSON __|
| (1734 - ....) |
| |_Susannah MONROE ____+
| (1695 - 1752) m 1735
_Benjamin GRAYSON ________|
| (1760 - ....) m 1785 |
| | _Peter WAGENER ______
| | | (1710 - ....)
| |_Mary Elizabeth WAGENER _|
| (1740 - ....) |
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| (1788 - 1838)
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|_Caroline Malinda TAYLOR _|
(1763 - ....) m 1785 |
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Mother: Elizabeth ARMISTEAD |
_Thomas LEE of Stratford_____________+
| (1690 - 1750) m 1722
_Richard Henry LEE of Chantilly_|
| (1732 - 1794) m 1757 |
| |_Hannah Philippa Harrison LUDWELL ___+
| (1701 - 1750) m 1722
_Ludwell LEE of "Belmont"_|
| (1760 - 1836) m 1797 |
| | _William AYLETT Jr. of Fairfield_____+
| | | (1695 - 1780) m 1737
| |_Anne AYLETT ___________________|
| (1738 - 1768) m 1757 |
| |_Elizabeth ESKRIDGE of "Sandy Point"_+
| (1715 - 1744) m 1737
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|--Emily LEE
| (1800 - 1875)
| _William ARMISTEAD of "Hesse"________+
| | (1715 - 1775) m 1740
| _Bowles ARMISTEAD ______________|
| | (1750 - ....) m 1780 |
| | |_Mary BOWLES ________________________+
| | (1725 - ....) m 1740
|_Elizabeth ARMISTEAD _____|
(1780 - 1820) m 1797 |
| _Peter FONTAINE II Gent._____________+
| | (1720 - ....) m 1749
|_Mary Ann FONTAINE _____________|
(1750 - 1799) m 1780 |
|_Elizabeth Louise WINSTON ___________+
(1734 - ....) m 1749
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Mother: Emma ROURK |
_Thomas Whitfield MCCANTS _+
| (1814 - 1874) m 1853
_John Williams MCCANTS _____________|
| (1850 - 1926) m 1872 |
| |_Mary AUSTIN ______________
| (1830 - ....) m 1853
_Clarence Herbert MCCANTS _|
| (1883 - 1910) |
| | _Charles S. EDWARDS C.S.A._+
| | | (1825 - 1874) m 1849
| |_Cynthia Caroline "Carrie" EDWARDS _|
| (1854 - 1926) m 1872 |
| |_Cynthia Sarah HARVEY _____+
| (1832 - 1893) m 1849
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|--Alma MCCANTS
| (1900 - ....)
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|_Emma ROURK _______________|
(1880 - ....) |
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Mother: Elizabeth SCOTT? |
_ANDREW CANT II________________________________+
| (1630 - 1685)
_ANDREW CANT III_____|
| (1650 - 1689) |
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_David MCCANTS Sr. "the Immigrant"_|
| (1670 - 1759) |
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|--Mary MCCANTS
| (1700 - ....)
| _(RESEARCH QUERY) SCOTT of SC and LA and MS-GA_
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| | (1640 - ....) |
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|_Elizabeth SCOTT? _________________|
(1680 - ....) |
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Father: Christopher REYNOLDS Mother: Charissa HUNTINGTON |
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_Robert REINOLDS ____|
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| |_Agnes HALL _________|
| (1505 - 1570) m 1526|
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(1534 - 1578) m 1554 |
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Mother: Elizabeth Ann WHITLEY |
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_Roger or Robert WILLIAMS _|
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_John WILLIAMS Sr.______|
| (1648 - 1691) m 1670 |
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|--John WILLIAMS Jr.
| (1671 - 1758)
| _George WHITLEY "the Immigrant"_
| | (1576 - 1645) m 1596
| _John WHITLEY I____________|
| | (1628 - 1668) m 1648 |
| | |_Margaret FISHER _______________+
| | (1578 - 1655) m 1596
|_Elizabeth Ann WHITLEY _|
(1656 - 1694) m 1670 |
| _Thomas MOSS ___________________
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|_Anne MOSS ________________|
(1634 - 1694) m 1648 |
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