Colonel William Grayson

ID: 2942
This file appears in: County Named, 1810

Colonel William Grayson was the aide-de-camp to George Washington soon after the Revolutionary War began, eventually becoming a colonel for a regiment in the Continental Army known as Grayson’s Regiment. Courtesy of Grayson County, Virginia.

This file appears in: County Named, 1810

By Ashlee Chilton
Historical Marker #873 notes the naming of Grayson County for Colonel William Grayson, an aide to General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. George Washington purchased five thousand…