Notes for Spence Monroe Grayson

Notes for Spence Monroe Grayson

!UNPROVEN NOTE: Peter Wagoner and English gentleman and physician and clerk of Stafford County, Va. married Miss Catherine Beverly Robinson, sister of John Robinson, who was speaker of the House of Burgesses of Va. 1750. Their issue; Mary Elizabeth Wagoner, who married Rev. Spence Grayson, 2nd son of Benjamin Grayson and Susanna Monroe. Peter Wagoner clerk of Fairfax County, married Dinah, daughter of Col. Daniel MacCarty, a gentleman of large estate " I saw Mrs. Catherine Beverly Robinson Wagoner at his houses in Colchester in1787 and she was fine looking and elegant old lady". ( Lund Washington) Issue of Peter Wagoner and Dianh MacCarty were Beverly Robinson Wagoner born 1771, married 1790 to Miss Margaret Harrison, age 14, the only child of Captain Benjamin Harrison an office of the Revolution and a near relative of President Harrison, and who was descended from the sister of the Benjamin Grayson who married daughter Mary Elizabeth, who married her first cousin Lt. Russell Butlor Harrison, U. S. N. by which marriage she had four children, Wm. B. Harrison, married a daughter of Wm. F. Purcel of Washington D. C.; Margaret Penelope Russell Harrison, who married Betram Ewell Hays, and Julia A. Harrison married Thomas I. Maury; third Dinah Wagoner who married Dr. Morton, of Colchester leaving no issue. Fourth Mary Elizabeth Wagoner (called Polly) married her first cousin Wm. Grayson and after his death Richard Beale a farmer of Culpeper, Va.