Thomas Griggs (1746–1839)
Griggs was an overseer for Bushrod Washington's father.
Thomas Griggs Sr. was born on 11 October 1746 in Lancaster County, Virginia. An overseer for Samuel Washington, he began to work in that capacity for John Augustine Washington in late 1782. Two years later he rented 200 acres in George Washington's Bullskin Run tract in Berkeley County, for which he paid £24. In 1788 he purchased a property from Charles Washington in Charles Town (in present-day Jefferson County, West Virginia), where he worked as a merchant and landowner.
"From George Washington to Battaile Muse, 8 March 1786," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-03-02-0509. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 3, 19 May 1785 – 31 March 1786, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 589–591.]
Ledger B, 1772–1793, pages 101, 176, 199, The George Washington Financial Papers Project.
"Genealogical Notes and Queries," The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 23, Number 2 (April 1943), 212–19.
History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke (Chicago: 1890), 635–36, 658–59.
Alexandria Gazette (VA), 25 February 1839, page 3, column 2 (Newspapers.com).
Downtown Charles Town Historic District: 200 Block West Liberty Street at Clio.
Thomas Griggs at FamilySearch.