Richard Grinstead
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Bef 1755 - (Henrico Co., Virginia) Christening: Death: 1830-1840 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Grinstead (1718-1791) Mother: Elizabeth ( -Bef 1791)
Spouses and Children
1. *Barsheba Hix ( - Bef 1787) 1 Marriage: Abt 1774 - Virginia Children: 1. Naomi Grinstead (Abt 1775-1858) 2. Jasper Grinstead (Abt 1778-1850/1860) 2. Elizabeth Warren (Abt 1760 - 1850-1860) 1 Marriage: Abt 1787 - Virginia Children: 1. Betsy Grinstead ( - ) 2. Richard Grinstead (1788-1875) 3. Bersheba Grinstead (Abt 1792-After 1860) 4. Lucy Grinstead (Abt 1794-Abt 1817)
Notes
General:
CENSUS:
<pre>1800 Louisa Co., Virginia
Richard Grinstead 21101 -- 11110; no slaves
male female
2 <10 1
1 10-15 1
1 16-25 1
26-44 1
1 >45 </pre>
The 1800 census is in "Louisa County Historical Magazine", Vol. 4, No. 1, June 1972.
<pre>1810 Warren Co., Kentucky
Rich'd Grinsted 10101 -- 30101; no slaves
male female
1 <10 3
10-15
1 16-25 1
26-44
1 >45 1 </pre>
<pre>1820 Warren Co., Kentucky
Richard Grinstead 000101 -- 01101; 2 in agriculture; no slaves
male female
<10
10-16 1
16-18
1 16-26 1
26-45
1 >45 1 </pre>
His brother David is the next entry. He is in the sequence Thomas Potter, Felix Potter, David Grinstead, Richard Grinstead, x, Thomas Meek, x, x, x, Richard Raglen, 9x, Bartholomew Grinstead.
In 1830 Richard and his wife are probably living with their son Richard in Warren Co.
In 1840 and in 1850 Richard's widow is living with her stepson Jasper Grinstead in Todd Co., Kentucky.
<pre>
CENSUS COMPARISON:
1800 1810 1820
Louisa Warren Warren
male:
<10 16-26
<10
<10
10-15(12) 16-25(22) Richard, b. 1788, m. Apr 1810
16-25(22) Jasper, b. 1778, m. 1802
>45 >45 >45 Richard
female:
<10
<10 10-16 Betsy, m. 1824
<10 16-26
<10 Bersheba, b. 1792, m. Sep 1810
16-25(18) Fannie Potter, b. 1792, m. Apr 1810
10-15
16-25(25) Naomi, b. 1775, m. 1807
26-44 >45 >45 Elizabeth Warren
</pre>
The age in parentheses is the age at the time of an earlier census based on the age in a later census.
The official enumeration day of the 1810 census was 6 August 1810. All questions asked were supposed to refer to that date. The enumeration was to be completed within nine months, but the due date was extended by law to ten months.
Based on this policy Bersheba, who married in September 1810, should be counted in the household of her father. One suspects that this policy was routinely ignored; in the census Bersheba is living with her husband Thomas Potter. There is no 1810 census entry for young Richard. It is reasonable to suppose that he and his wife Fannie are living in the household of his father.
Most researchers says that Bartholomew was Richard's son. Since he was born about 1796, he does not fit very well into the 1810 census for Richard.
WARREN CO. TAX LISTS:
Richard Grinstead is in the Warren Co. tax list for the first time in 1807. He is taxed on 230 acres in Warren Co. on Sinking Creek. His entry is "10003", meaning that he has 3 horses and no slaves and that there is one white male over 21 in the household. In 1808 his entry is "11003" -- 1 white male over 21 and 1 white male between 16 and 21 in the household.
Richard Grinstead, Jr. has an entry of his own for the first time in 1811. He is "0003". He has 3 horses, but he is not yet 21. "Horses and mares" is now the 4th rather than the 5th item. His father is "1005" and is taxed on 4 separate tracts on Sinking Creek -- 200 acres, 174 acres, 56 acres, and 50 acres. There is no list for 1810.
Richard, Jr. has land for the first time in 1815. He is "1002" and is taxed on 400 acres in Warren Co. on the Barren River which in subsequent years will be said to have been patented to him. His land is worth $1.50/acre, and it appears that his tax is $6.80. It appears that land is taxed at 1% of its value and that horses are taxed at varying amounts in the range of $.30 to $.40. His father is "1005" and has 4 tracts of 174 ($2/acre), 50 ($2/acre), 100 ($2/acre), and 50 ($1/acre) acres said to be on Doughty Creek. His tax is $8.50.
In 1818 Richard Grinstead is "2003" and pays $12.74 on 3 horses and 3 tracts of land of 174 ($3.50/acre), 55 ($3/acre), and 100 ($4/acre) acres. His son Richard is "1002" and pays $12.35. His 400 acres on the Barren River is worth $3/acre. We don't know who the second white male over 21 in the father's household is.
WGFA:
The William Grinstead Family in America (Gorrell Shumaker and John L. N. Grinstead, April 1974):
pg 12 & pg 20: "Richard Grinstead, born in Virginia in 1750, married Elizabeth Warren, a native of Louisa County, Virginia. They brought their children to Barren County, Kentucky in 1805, at the time that Richard's brothers, David and Philip made the move. A year or so later, Richard moved his family to Warren County, on the north side of Barren River, where they afterward resided. He died in Warren Co. about 1840. His son, Thomas Bartholomew Grinstead, who lived and died at this same location, gave the land for the Grinstead Cemetery, and there many of the Grinstead descendants have been buried. William Warren Grinstead, a son of Bartholomew, lived on at this same location as did his daughter (maiden), Lucinda Margaret. She died 2-6-1941, having been attended in her last years by a nephew and his wife, Roy Elrod, a son of Lucinda's younger sister, Rebecca.
"The six children for whom we have definite records were all born in Virginia. It seems that Henry, Sarah, Naomi and Richard had all been married by the time of the 1810 Census of Warren county and so we must assume that the son of 16 to 25 years, listed in that Census must have been Bartholomew; and that the daughter of 10 to 16 years was Betsy. Also listed in the 1810 Census were three daughters and one son, all under ten years of age. These may all have died in early childhood for we have been unable to find any further account of them."
Information about the children of this family is largely through the efforts of Mrs. Curtis Grinstead of Rt. 1, Oakland, Kentucky.
COMMENT ABOUT WGFA:
In the internet version 'Henry, Sarah' has been marked out and replaced by 'Bersheba'. In fact, Naomi (1807), Richard (1810), and Bersheba (1810) all married in Warren Co., Kentucky. Since they married in Warren Co. and since David Grinstead only arrived in Warren Co. in about 1818, we can feel confident that they are children of David's brother Richard.
DATABASE 'williamgrinstead' in WORLDCONNECT:
Notes from Pearl Wolf, Seattle, Washington in 1973:
"In reading the film of the tax records of Warren County, Kentucky, I found Lewis Potter first in 1800. Richard Grinstead Sr. in 1808; Richard Jr. in 1811. Sr. is listed until 1825 with Jr. Thereafter, until 1834, there is only one Richard Grinstead. The 1830 Census for the county lists an old man of about 80 with the younger Richard Grinstead. Does this not sound as if the elder Richard was living at least until after 1830? I haven't found any will or conveyance of property from the elder to the younger, but transfer to Thomas, Naomi Meeks and a few others in 1834."
Warren County, Kentucky Court House Records (Sent by Mrs. R. O. Yeager, 2620 Kiwanis Drive, Bowling Green, KY 42101 14 Mar 1972):
Bk. 10, p. 247: 5 Oct 1821 Covington, Loving, Hobson, Graham, Barclay, Lapsley, Sharp and Solomon, Trustees of the Warren Seminary, for $135 to Richard Grinstead 135 acres.
Bk. 12, p. 299: 6 Dec 1826. Jonathan Hobson for $300.00 to Richard Grinstead, north of Barron River, 450 acres.
Bk. 13, p. 178: 7 Oct 1828. Robert Hendrick for $250.00, sold 2 parcels of land to Richard Grinstead. Land, north side of Big Barren River. Witness: Bartholomew Grinstead (owner of adjointing land)
Bk. 14, p. 42: 11 May 1830. Richard Grinstead sold for $250.00 to Thomas (Jonathon) 100 acres (Note: Richard made his mark) Witness: Thomas Potter.
Bk. 14, p. 158. 18 Aug 1830. Richard Grinstead to John Wells of Butler County for $176.00, 88 acres.
ABSTRACTS OF LOUISA COUNTY, VIGINIA WILL BOOKS 1743-1801, Nancy Chappelear and Kate Binford Hatch:
p. 142 - WB4, p. 109: "Account of sales of estate of Robert Harris by Duke Cosbey, administrator, lists among others John Grinstead and Richard Grinstead."
p. 148 - WB4, p. 143: "Account of sales of estate of John Winston 16 Dec 1800 lists among others Richard Grinstead."
Deeds of Louisa County, VA: Richard Grinstead and Elizabeth, his wife, to P. M. Daniel, 196 acres - Recorded Nov. 18, 1806
DATABASE 'lesanne17' in WORLDCONNECT:
A supplement to " The Frost and Related Families of Bedford County, Tennessee " by Wright W. Frost (page 364) relates : " 8. Barsheba Hix, at an unknown date and in an unknown county, married Richard Grinstead, as evidenced in the indenture dated December 2, 1828, by which their son, Jasper Grinstead of Louisa County, Va. and their daughter Naomi Meek of Warren County, Ky., conveyed to William Walker their interest in the share of the 514 acre tract due Barsheba Hix ( sister of Sabra ) who married Richard Grinstead and by him had two children Jasper Grinstead and Naomi Meek, who are entitled to one equal share in said land which is believed to be one eighth between them or half of one eighth to each." (Charlotte County, Va. Deed Book 19, page 156)
The Kentucky Land Grants, Part 1, Chapter IV, Grants South of Green River, 1797 - 1866, Page 321 notes the following for Richard Grinstead. This information is contained in both Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com databases but the information contained in those databases is rather sketchy and does not provide a definite tie to Richard ( 1 ).
Acres Book Page Survey Date County Watercourse
400 18 459 5-1-1815 Warren Barren R.
20 28 109 6-12-1800 Warren Doughertys Sinking Cr.
1/2 37 295 2-26-1850 Todd Red R.
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Maridell Fisher Fryar, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: williamgrinstead.
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