Marriages
In October 1789 Polk married Grizelda Gilchrist, a granddaughter of a former colonial attorney general of North Carolina. She was born in Suffolk, Virginia, on October 24, 1768. The couple had two children, Thomas Gilchrist Polk, born February 22, 1791, and William Julius Polk, born March 21, 1793. Grizelda Polk died in 1799.
Polk remarried on New Year's Day 1801 Sarah Hawkins, whose brother William later became governor of North Carolina. Sarah bore thirteen children, two of whom died in infancy.
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