OTHER GREGORYS: A second family of Gregorys settled in the same general area as the Isaac Gregory family. The connection, if any, to the Union County Gregorys has not been determined. Information regarding this clan is included with the hope that the link, if any, may one day be discovered.

John Gregory, formerly of East Jersey (now New Jersey), came to South Carolina in May 1748. He was the father of at least three sons: John, Benjamin and Richard. The elder John petitioned for his headright grant of fifty acres on 2 February 1749. Within this petition, he asked that his grant be included with or laid out beside that of his son, Benjamin. The Council Journal of South Carolina for 3 October 1749 reveals that Benjamin and his father planned to make flour.

Benjamin's grant of 350 acres was located on the south side of the Broad River on Crim's Creek. The plat was recorded 4 October 1749 and recorded in the Council Journals: 2 February and 3 October 1749, respectively. The grant application on Benjamin mentions a wife and four children. (Grant recorded: R.G. [Royal Grant] v. 6, p. 87. Plat recorded: R.P., v. 5, p. 79, 6 August 1750.)

Speculation exists as to whether this Benjamin was the person who was the subject of the following advertisement in the American Weekly Mercury, 8 May 1734. "Runaway: Ben Gregory, servant, age 19, born in East Jersey, who works as a carpenter; from Thomas Mercer of Cecil County, Maryland."

The Rising Sun, an early Newberry newspaper, reported the death of Benjamin Gregory, Sr. on 25 September 1761. If this was the same Benjamin, he would have been forty-six years old.

Data regarding John, son of John, is scant. The only reference to this son may be found in Leah Townsend's South Carolina Baptists (p. 173).

Richard Gregory was granted 278 acres of land for himself, his wife and four small children in Craven County. His grant was located at the juncture of Wateree Creek and Wateree River. Richard's grant was recorded in RG v. 4, p. 427; and the plat in RP v. 4, p. 519, 23 May 1750.

Leah Townsend's South Carolina Baptists (pp. 172-174) reinforces the theory that these Gregorys were related to the Union County group of the same name. Townsend discusses a group of Sabbatarians (also called Tinker or Seventh Day Baptists) who settled along the Broad and Wateree rivers. Using Townsen's documentation, as well as the land grant, the settlements of these pioneers were plotted on James Cook's Map of South Carolina (charted in 1773). This group settled roughly twenty-five miles south of the Brown's Creek area of the Broad River, the home of Isaac Gregory, the first proven ancestor of the Union County Gregorys.