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ter of Colonel Edmund Berkeley, of "■jiarn l.lnis." .Middlesex county, Xiri^inia.

Griffin, Samuel, of Northumberland coun- t\ ; justice of the peace in 1702 ; died in 1703. Katherine. his only daughter, married (first) W illiam Fauntleroy. of Richmond county, (second) David Gwyn. of Richmond county.

Griffin, Thomas, son of Colonel Leroy drifiln, of Richmond county; burgess, 1718- 1723; married Elizabeth Lee, and his will was proved in Richmond county in 1733. Leroy Griffin, high sheriff of Richmond county, who married Mary Anne liertrand, onlv daughter and heiress o\ Rev. John Ber- trand. was his son. One of his daughters, Winifred, married Captain Samuel Peachy.

Griffin, William, of King and Oueen coun- t\ ; sherilif of that county, and colonel com- manding the militia. 1781 ; married. 1771. Susanna, daughter of Colonel John Chiswell. and widow of Speaker John Robinson, lie was son of Leroy Griffin and ]\Iary Anne Bertrand, his wife.

Griffith, Edward, was major of the militia and burgess for Warwick count}- in 1660 and 1663.

Grymes, Benjamin, was a son of Hon. John Grymes, of "Brandon," Middlesex county. He was a burgess from Spottsyl- vania county in the assemblies of 1761-17^)5 and 1766-1768, 1769-1771. He married (first) Elizabeth L. Fitzhugh, (second) Miss Rootes. He left issue.

Grymes, Charles, of "Moratico." Rich- mond county, was a grandson of Rev. Charles Grymes. who came from England to Virginia and was minister of Hampton parish, York county, in 1645. He was son

L>! John Grymes and Alice Townley, his wife, and brother of Hon. John Grymes, of ■r.randon." He was justice from 1721 ; sherilT, 1724, 1725, and member of the house o^ burgesses. He was educated at William and Mary College, married Frances, daugh- ter of lion. Edmund Jenings, and died in

Grymes, Philip Ludwell, eldest son of Philip Grymes, of 'Tirandon'" on the Rappa- hannock river, was burgess for Middlesex county in the assemblies of May, 17O9, 1769- 1771 ; member of the house of delegates, 1778, and of the state council. 1803. lie died May 18. 1803.

Grymes, William, son of Sir Thomas Cirymes. of Peckham, luigland, was living in X'irginia in 1694.

Gwyn, David, was burgess from Rich- mond in the session of March 19, 1702-03. He died in 1704. He had a sister, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Benjamin Gwyn, of Bristol, and a brother, Edward Gwyn, clerk, in Wales. Left to his sister Mary all of his real estate v\ Wales lying in and about Harford West.

Gwyn, Hugh, was an early settler in Charles River county, subsequently York county. He was a justice from 1641. and a burgess for York in 1639 and 1646. He patented lands at the mouth of the Pyanke- tank river in 1642 and removed to that region, and in 1652 was one of the two first burgesses for the new county of Gloucester. He died about 1654, and Ciwyn's Island per- petuates his name. He left issue.

Gwyn, Rev. John, was a cavalier minister, who came to \Trginia during Cromwell's time. In 1672 he was rector of Ware parish, Gloucester county, and of Abington in 1674