Charles Grymes
Charles Grymes or Grimes was Virginia planter and politician who represented Richmond County on Virginia's Northern Neck in the House of Burgesses.The younger of two sons born to the former Alice Townley of Gloucester County and her husband John Grymes. His grandfather, Rev. Charles Grymes had emigrated from England to then-large Gloucester County, Virginia. He had an elder brother also John Grymes and sisters Anne and Elizabeth Lucy Grymes who married John Holcomb, and whose son would twice serve in the Virginia House of Delegates. Their father built a plantation called "Grymesby" in Middlesex County. Their grandfather Rev. Chales Grymes had emigrated from Kent, England to become rector of Hampton parish in York County in 1645, and had two sons and a daughter, as well as occasionally preached at what became North Farnham Parish in 1783 married John Reynolds.Career
Grymes ultimately inherited Morattico plantation in Richmond County, Virginia, as well as about 1000 acres at the headwaters of the Rappahanock River in what became Rappahannock County. Grymes became the Richmond County sheriff in 1724–1725. Richmond County voters elected him as one of their two representatives in the House of Burgesses in 1728, for the session that lasted until 1734, when they replaced both burgesses by J. Woodbridge and William Fantleroy.Death and legacy
Grymes died intestate in 1743 and his son in law Philip Ludlow was appointed as executor of his estate.