Last night I began reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to my six year old son. It was our Halloween selection. My husband had recently attended a meeting just outside Tarry Town, NY, and was amused to find out he was in Sleepy Hollow. We told our son that there was a famous story about Sleepy Hollow. It has been years since I read the real thing, so I checked it out of the library. With that introduction, let me transcribe the first paragraph... "In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail, and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days...." I had to send this out to see if I can find any Greens researching the vicinity of the Hudson for the 1800's. My cousin and I are still looking for clues to the parents of our anscestor, Adelia Green, born Bergen County, NJ, about 1849 or 1850, married to Charles Vincent Helms in Monroe Works (now Monroe), NY, April 14, 1864 (witnessed by Henry Morgan and Nelson Wilson). With all due respect to our cousins south of the Mason-Dixon, please, please, aren't there any Yankee Greens out there?