| His son was of age in March 1694/5, indicating he was married by 1673. He was a witness to the Belson-Crew quaker marriage at Chuckatuck on "13th day 10th mo " (December, not October) 1684, though not, himself, a Quaker. He was on the Rent Roll of 1704 for 300 acres "held of her majestie" and must therefore have had a grant of such land, but no record of any patent covering it has been found, and it must be presumed that it was among the records known to have been lost. From the topography, surveys of adjoining grants and of modern surveys as late as 1916 and 1944, it appears that it was the tract "on the South side of the main at bennetts Creek' leased to Thomas Minton on Sepbemver 27, 1770, but there is nothing to confirm this. It could have been "the plantation Samuel Granbery lies on" on November 17, 1749, for that was leased to Mr. Stockdale, and then, to the fourth William Granbery. It may, however, have been the same 300 acres owned by another William Granbery, the son of John and Abigial in 1782 , since quit rents had then been abolished and the land was held in fee simple. "The plantation Samuel Granbery lies on" was that bequeathed by Richard Bennett "unto the parish where I now live all that parcel of land being 300 acres more or less with Thos. Bolton holdeth by lease' as quoted in his letter of June 19, 1749 by Richard Bennett, grandson of the testator, from the latter's will. This William Granbery died in 1710. Much of the information provided from " The Granberry Family and Allied Families" by E.F. Watterman (1945) and the work of Mary Collins Landin in "The Collins and Travis Families and Their Allies", 1982. She graciously gives permission for its use when not for financial gain. |