Re: Archibald Gracie, 1832-1864 NY
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Re: Archibald Gracie, 1832-1864 NY
Jim 8/13/06
The line of Archibald Gracie (6/25/1755 - 4/11/1829) goes back to Dumfries, Scotland.According to our family papers, his father was William Gracie (b abt. 1728 - d. 8/16/1778), son of Francis Gracie. His mother was Margaret McGowan, daughter of Samuel McGowan and Elizabeth Bell(daughter of John Bell).William and Margaet were married in Dumfries 12/14/1752.William Gracie and three young offspring were buried in St. Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries.
My great-Great Aunt, Elizabeth Gracie Ogden, and her cousin Adelaine Gracie visited Dumfries one hundred years ago to look for distant cousins and try and track back the family line.I have a copy of a book they purchased there - "Memorials of St. Michaels" by William M'Dowall (1876) - with notes of Gracie inscriptions written on the end papers but no solid connections made beyond the assumption that Gracies in Dumfries must be related somehow.I regret that I cannot at this time establish a definite link between our Gracies and the other Archibald Gracie, son of Thomas Gracie of Dumries, but the likelihood is goos that they are distant kin.
Archibald Gracie married Esther Rogers (1759 - 11/15/1833, daughter of Nehemiah Rogers (1719-1760) and Elizabeth Fitch of Connecticut.There is a good biography of him in "The Old Merchants of New York City" vol. I by Walter Barrett (1870).It may take me a while to unearth, but our family archive includes information on descendants in the next three generations and several branches to the present day.
"The Truth About Chickamauga" was written by Archibald Gracie IV, the Titanic survivor whose second work, "The Truth About the Titanic" is far more widely known.His father was Archibald Gracie III (1832-1864), whose Alabama brigade was heavily engaged at Chickamauga.Brigadier General Gracie married Josephine Mayo of Virginia and had been in Mobile for several years managing the merchant shipping business of his father, Archibald Gracie Jr.(1795-1865), but was actually from Elizabeth New Jersey.
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Re: Archibald Gracie, 1832-1864 NY
Jim 8/13/06