Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . n, and at one time gov-ernor of Jamaica. From 1766 till 1773 he heldthe office of governor of South Carolina. Duringhis administration, in 1769, the circuit court lawwas passed, and courts of justice were establishedat Ninety-Six, Orangeburg, and Camden. Mon-tague street, in Charleston, is named for him. GREY, Charles, British soldier, b. in England,23 Oct., 1729; d. 14 Nov., 1807. In 1757 he wasaide-de-camp to the Duke of Brunswick, and tookpart in the battle of Minden, in which he waswounded. He was appointed lieutenant-colonelin 1761, and comman
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . n, and at one time gov-ernor of Jamaica. From 1766 till 1773 he heldthe office of governor of South Carolina. Duringhis administration, in 1769, the circuit court lawwas passed, and courts of justice were establishedat Ninety-Six, Orangeburg, and Camden. Mon-tague street, in Charleston, is named for him. GREY, Charles, British soldier, b. in England,23 Oct., 1729; d. 14 Nov., 1807. In 1757 he wasaide-de-camp to the Duke of Brunswick, and tookpart in the battle of Minden, in which he waswounded. He was appointed lieutenant-colonelin 1761, and commanded the 98th regiment atthe capture of Belle Isle in 1763. In 1772 he re-ceived the commission of colonel. He accompaniedto Boston in 1775, and was raised by him tothe local rank of major-general. On the night ofpt., 1777. he surprised Gen. Wayne near thePaoli Tavern on the Lancaster road, where thelatter was encamped. Grey approached stealth-ily, and, ordering the flints to be taken from theLrun-, attacked the patriots with the bayonet, de-. feating them with great slaughter. For this acthe received the name of No Flint Grey. Hetook an active part in the battle of Germantown,4 Oct., 1777, and in the following year destroyedthe shipping and stores in New Bedford and Mar-thas Vineyard. On 7 Sept., 1778, he surprisedBaylors Virginia regiment, which lay at Tappanon the Hudson, and massacred the entire corps ofdragoons. In 1793 he wTas employed in the beginning of hostilities between Great Brit-ain and France in the following year, he was ap-pointed to command the land forces that were sent,in conjunction with the naval armament underLord Howe, to reduce the West Indies to submis-sion, and captured the islands of Martinique andSt. Lucie. In 1795 he was made general. He wasraised to the peerage in 1801, received the title ofEarl Grey in 1807, and was the father of the cele-brated English statesman of that name. GRIDLEY, Jeremiah, lawyer, b. in Boston,Mass., 10 March, 17
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