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- "Katherine (Debnam) Grymes and Some Relatives" by Rudolf Loeser,
The Virginia Genealogist, v. 41, #3 1997, pp 163-171.
"Robert Taliaferro married Katherine Grimes, the step-daughter of Charles Grimes. He was Rector of a Church of England parish on the south side of the York River in his early years, and later moved to the parish in present Middlesex County, VA. Robert Taliaferro's home was located in Petsworth Parish in Gloucester Co., yet one searches in vain for references to the early Taliaferro family in the well preserved and published records of this parish. The Taliaferros lived fairly near the parish where Katherine Grimes Taliaferro's father ministered, so they probably carried out the baptisms of their children and fulfilled their other religious obligations at his church in Middlesex."
Tyler's Quarterly, vol. XXI, pp 83-84 and vol. V, p. 260; Rappahannock County Records D.B. 5, p. 99;
"Every now and then a reference in the body of a deed reveals a startling fact that throws unexpected light on a tradition, or claim, that has long been accepted as fact. Such a discovery has been my recent lot and it would seem to definitely settle the question of the identity of the wife of Robert Taliaferro, I, The Immigrant. she has long been placed as Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Charles Grymes (1612/3 - 1662/3), who was born in Igtham, Kent, England, and who died in Virginia, matriculated at Cambridge at the age of 18 in 1631. It is shown by me the wife of the first Robert Taliaferro was not Sarah, but Katherine (Sarah being the wife of the second Robert; and nee Catlett). On November 20, 1672, "Mrs. Katherine Taliaferro" was granted 600 acres of land for the transportation of 8 Negroes and 4 English servants "which rights I doe hereby assigne over to my son Robert Taliaferro." (Rappahannock Co. Rec). Since Katherine Taliaferro received this patent it would seem that she was a widow and therefore Robert Taliaferro, I, had died before this date. The rev. Charles Grymes died 1662/3 and left a will which was offered for probate by his widow, Katherine Grymes, who on August 26, 1678, as his executrix, was sued by Thomas Godlington of London.
"Although the record of the proving of the will of the Rev. Charles Grymes does not appear, his widow Katherine must have finally succeeded in proving its validity, for on August 9, ????, in Essex County court, Robert Taliaferro, III (grandson of Robert Taliaferro, I, and Katherine, his wife) sold to Augustine Smith 200 acres of land "part of 600 acres formerly granted to Mr. Charles Grymes September 4, 1654 and by his last will and testament bequeathed to Katherine Dedman, grandmother of the said Robert Taliaferro." (Essex County records D.B. 12, p. 426). On August 9, 1692, John Smith, of Ware Parish, Gloucester County, made a deed to John Taliaferro, of St. Mary's Parish, Gloucester County, made a deed to John Taliaferro, of St. Mary's Parish, Essex County, for 200 acres of land, "the one half Moiety of the land taken up by Charles Grymes, dec'd, November 22, 1661, and bequeathed by him to Mary Dedman. (Essex County records, Book I, p. 40).
Other information on this family can be found in:
THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST, Vol. 41, No. 3, Whole No. 163, July-September, 1997. The article is continued in Vol. 41, No. 4, Whole No. 160, October-December, 1997.
This source list Katherine “Sarah” Grymes Dedmans’s mother as Frances Jennings. [5]
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