On 09/03/98 21:50:04 you wrote: > >Hi David, > >My last two messages to you have been returned. Don't know what is going >on???? > >Thank you for all your work! I have been looking back at my records of Prince >Edward County, Amelia County, and several others that I have researched, and >agree that the John Green who purchased land from Nathaniel Harris on >Vaughan's Creek December 3, 1754 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, could be >our man. I have not yet located Vaughan's Creek where this land was located. >Have you located this creek? > >>From the deed book (1) records it appears that this same John Green and Edward >Gresham who witnessed a land sell of Robert Gresham on Harriss' Creek, and >Miller's Spring Branch January 28, 1757. If these two pieces of property are >near each other, I would think this is the same John Green. > >The only other Greens mentioned in Deed Book (1) of Prince Edward County, Va. >are the Thomas Green who married Lucy Davis, and the William Green that >witnessed his April 25, 1761 land purchases from Thomas' father-in-law, Peter >Davis. > >As you said, it appears one of these men was the father of our ancestors. I >don't see anything in Deed Book (2) of Prince Edward County, Va. that appears >to contirdict this theory. These two seem to be the only Greens in the >county. The deed on page 142b. of Deed Book (2) is the one that gives >Christiana as the name of John Green's wife, and it is dated February 21, >1763, so that would prove they were in the county when my William Green was >born on February 6, 1762. The only thing that bothers me about this theory is >William and Kezziah Green didn't name a daughter Christiana Green. > >The early marriage records don't help much, as only the family of the Thomas >Green who married Lucy Davis appear to be recorded. There is a Betsy Green >who married James Baven May 4, 1792 that is not identified as being a daughter >of Thomas and Lucy David Green, but other than her, the others all belong to >Thomas and Lucy. > >Where do we go from here??? > >Tom Green > > > Hi Tom and All, Can't speak for others, but I really like it when you folks post messages such as this on the Green list. Makes for interesting reading. Thanks, Brenda Jo