In a message dated 98-09-07 00:48:50 EDT, RGreene431 writes: << In 1653 Roger GREENE had taken a hundred settlers to the coast of the broad Sound which was afterwards to be called Albemarle,--after the great General Monk's new ducal title,--and had established them on a grant at "Chowan." given to him by the Virginia House of Burgesses as a reward for the "hazard and trouble of first discovery," and as an "encouragement of others for seating those southern parts of Virginia." Nine years later (1662) George Durant followed with other settlers, Quakers driven out of Maryland and Virginia, whom the Virginian authorities were glad to be rid of and have settled out of sight in the wilderness. They began to build to the eastward of Mr. Greene's people at "Chowan," upon the next peninsula of the same Indented coast, in what was called the "Perquimans" region. And then, the next year, 1663, the King handed their lands over to be governed by the eight lords proprietors of "Carolina >> Hi Ron, Thanks for sending the info on Roger Greene, as this is the most I have seen about him. Roger Greene is one of the first Greenes to appear in Virginia, but I have not seen much info about him. Tom Green