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Hannah Gregory
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 7×-great-grandmother · Temple line
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Research note · 3 Aug 2026
AUDITED 3 Aug 2026 — BIRTH '1698' AND DEATH '1719' DELETED AS IMPOSSIBLE AND UNSOURCED: daughter [2033] Frances is recorded b. 1708 (a mother aged 10, dead 11 years before nothing). Dates now deliberately EMPTY. Whether Hannah Gregory was [2033]'s mother AT ALL is disputed: VMHB 25 (1917) pp. 319-321 assigns Frances to Col. Robert Baylor's FIRST wife Frances (deed-based), against the pamphlets' Hannah Gregory; and a Spotsylvania dower acknowledgement of 4 Apr 1730 names 'Agnes, wife of Richd. Gregory' where the pamphlets expect Mary-or-Ann Whiting as her mother. Three names compete; not resolved by preference. Evidence file: baylor-rereads-2026-08-03.md.
7 Oct 2026 (round-10 triage, Owen) - LINK KEPT, MARKED DISPUTED. The 7 Oct 2026 agent report (agent-report-2086-hannah-gregory-2026-10-07.md) found two things. (1) The Richard Gregory of King William whose wife Agnes signed the 1730 dower is identified in compiled sources as Richard Gregory II x Agnes West (she b. 1704, m. 1727): Agnes West is excluded as Hannah's mother; Richard is unlikely as her father, on that compiled dating only. (2) VMHB 17 (1909) p. 319 has 'Lucy Baylor dau. Robert and Frances Baylor', a second printed placement of a Baylor-Hill daughter under the first wife Frances. Next: a FamilySearch Full Text search for 'Hannah Gregory', Virginia 1690-1740; Beahm 2003 (Va. Genealogist 47:4) on the Gregorys of Old Rappahannock.
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