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 1722 - 1794 (71 years)
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| Name |
Tscharnes De Graffenreidt |
| Birth |
28 Nov 1722 |
Williamsburg, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
10 Apr 1794 |
Lunenburg, Virginia |
| Person ID |
I20849 |
Gregory Gen |
| Last Modified |
12 Aug 2023 |
| Family |
Mary Baker, b. Abt 1723, Chowan Co., North Carolina d. Abt 1756, Lunenburg, Virginia (Age ~ 33 years) |
| Marriage |
5 Jul 1742 |
Lunenburg, Virginia |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F7675 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
12 Aug 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Mary, b. 1768; m. Metcalf de Graffenriedt
Metcalf de Graffenriedt was probably a grandson of Christopher, Baron de Graffenriedt, who received from the Lord Proprietors of North Carolina, in 1709, a grant of 10,000 acres of land on the Neuse and Cape Fear rivers, at the rate of ś10 sterling for every thousand acres, and five shillings quit-rent. A great number of Palatines and fifteen hundred Swiss followed the Baron and settled at the confluence of the Trent and the Neuse. The town was called New Berne, after Berne, in Switzerland, the birthplace of the Baron. But the settlers were so disheartened by the Indian ravages in September, 1711, in which more than sixty of them were massacred, that De Graffenriedt sold his landed interests to Thomas Pollock for ś800 and removed to Virginia. Many of his followers were employed by Governor Spotswood in his iron-works, inaugurated at Germanna in 1714.
The following grants of land are of record in the Virginia Land Registry Office:
Christopher De Graffenriedt, "Gent.," of Prince George county, 1,845 acres in Brunswick county, February 27, 1734, Book No. 5, p. 462;
Tscharner De Graffenriedt, 414 acres in Brunswick county, November 25, 1743, Book No. 20, p. 596.
In the Virginia Gazette of October 31, 1739, a Mrs. De Graffenriedt announces an entertainment to be given at her house in Williamsburg, Va.
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