Hi Tom, It just adds to the Puzzle. According to the Introduction, written by E.B. Crisman, of this book, "the story is founded on facts in the youth and early manhood of the author's father". I have found this book very interesting but very confusing. F. F. V. does mean First Family of Virginia. It is used throught the book refering to the aristocrats of the erea. When Nat was courting Mary, Mr. McRobson, Mary's guardian, stated "Well, yes; I like him well enough. He appears to be a young man of good sense, and good habits; but you know his father was not one of the first families." This was about 1812. Nat was an Orphans prior to the war of 1812 and Mary was an Infant when Mr. Fielding Died. When Nat was leaving to go to fight in the war of 1812 he had one of his servents, he called Uncle Primus, take care of the farm until he came back. I have a few names I cannot place in Amelia, yet they appear in the Book: Mr. Miller a horse doctor who lived half a mile from the "Grafton Farm" Polly Taylor a cousin of Nat. Simon Witter a teacher whom was considered a gentleman from Maryland. Harry Preston a friend of Nat and a F. F. V. whom also favored Mary. Mr. McRobson Mary's Guardian and her Uncle. Lorenzo Dow a preacher belonging to the Methodist Church. Does any one know more about these people? Bill Green >From TBGreen3@aol.com Wed Jan 20 21:20:18 1999 >Received: from [198.81.17.4] by hotmail.com (1.0) with SMTP id MHotMail3094348817383506532497332720154046460; Wed Jan 20 21:20:18 1999 >Received: from TBGreen3@aol.com > by imo14.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id XWYCa05506; > Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:19:25 -0500 (EST) >From: TBGreen3@aol.com >Message-ID: <46c76c3.36a6b8dd@aol.com> >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:19:25 EST >To: DavidTGreen@usa.net, wagii@hotmail.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: Re: Judge Nathan Green of Granville County, NC. >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 64 > >In a message dated 99-01-20 17:45:09 EST, DavidTGreen@usa.net writes: > ><< Just today, I have prepared a 26 page report for Tom and Lawrence which > clearly ties "our" John Green back to the early days of Prince Edward amd > Amelia County. The early days in Amelia and P.E. will be the subject of > another report later this month that I am also working on. > >> >Hi David, > >I can hardly wait to read your report! I have been reviewing my files on >Amelia and Prince Edward counties as well as Orange, Burke and Haywood, so I >can discuss what you have found. Thanks again for all the work you continue >to perform! > >Hi Bill, > >I don't know what to make of the information you found on the family of Judge >Nathan Green. It has been my understanding that Nathan Green, Jr. wrote "The >Tall Man of Winston" about his father, but wrote it much like Mark Twain by >writing a fictional novel about his father, and used the name Nat Grafton for >his father. Maybe the story you found was part of the fiction, I don't know. > >I did find a little small piece of information the other night. In the >Granville County, North Carolina marriage records, Nathan Green married Mary >Field on July 23, 1813. I though the Judge married Mary Field in Virginia, >probably in Amelia County. You probably know that Granville County, NC was >very large in the early days, and David Green has done a lot of research in >that county looking for our Elijah and William Green, but I did not know about >the Granville County, NC marriage of Judge Nathan Green and Mary Fields. What >do you think this means? > >Tom Green ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com