John Grymes (burgess)

[1] The elder of two sons born to the former Alice Townley (1675–1710) of Gloucester County (granddaughter of burgess Augustine Warner) and her husband John Grymes (1660–1709).

The family included a younger brother Charles Grymes (1693–1743) and sisters Anne (1689–1730; who never married) and Elizabeth Lucy Grymes (1692–1750) who married John Holcomb, and whose son (also John Holcombe) would serve in the House of Virginia Delegates, as would several of this man's grandsons.

In 1717 Middlesex County voters elected John Grymes as one of their delegates in the House of Burgesses, where he served alongside fellow planter Gawin Corbin and was re-elected once.

Although his namesake son John never reached adulthood (or died at a plantation also named Green Spring in Louisa County, Virginia in 1749) and Charles died as a boy in 1727, this man hired a painter to portray his youngest sons, Benjamin Grymes (1725-1774; who moved to Spotsylvania County, which he represented in the House of Burgesses) and Ludwell Grymes (1733-1795).

Both are buried at Christ Church in Middlesex County, on whose vestry this man had served for decades.