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    1. [GREEN-L] Culpeper Co, VA Greens
    2. Jo Orvik
    3. Hi List, I subscribe to an online library and found the following. There are more Greens listed if anyone wants me to publish to list or send privately, let me know. Jo Genealogical and Historical NOTES ON CULPEPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of DR. PHILIP SLAUGHTER'S HISTORY OF ST. MARK'S PARISH. COMPILED BY RALEIGH TRAVERS GREEN. BALTIMORE SOUTHERN BOOK COMPANY 1958 THE GREEN FAMILY. ROBERT GREEN, son of William Green, an Englishman, emigrated from Ireland with his uncle, William Duff, a Quaker, to Virginia, and settled in King George county about the year, 1710. He was born in the year, 1695. He soon left his uncle and settled in what is now Culpeper county, near Brandy Station on the Southern Railway. He built his home near a large spring, which is on the road leading from Brandy Station to Rixeyville, and took up large tracts of land in what was, in 1712 Essex, in 1721 Spotsylvania, in 1735 Orange, and in 1749 Culpeper. His father was an officer in the body guard of William, Prince of Orange. He died in 1748, his will and inventory of his estate being recorded in the Orange county Clerk's Office. He was member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1736, and was one of the first vestrymen of St. Mark's Parish. When a young man, he married Eleanor Dunn, of Scotland, and had seven sons, as follows. [Note: The names in parenthesis or brackets signify the line of descent. Thus Joseph Green, [Francis, Wm., Wm., Robt.] means that Joseph Green was the son of Francis, the grand son of William, the great grandson of the first William and the great great grandson of the first Robert.] 1. William, born in Essex county; m. Miss Coleman, of Caroline county; was vestryman of St. Mark's Parish from 1749 to his death in Culpeper county in 1770. He was called Colonel Green, probably from military service against the Indians. 2. Robert, m Patty Ball, of Northumberland, and died in Culpeper. 3. Duff, m. 1st., Miss Thomas, 2nd., Anne Willis; he died in Culpeper about the beginning of the Revolution. His three youngest sons moved to Kentucky about 1779, and afterwards carried out their mother and younger sister. 4. John, m. Susanna Blackwell; was Colonel in the Revolution; succeeded William Green in the vestry of St. Mark's Parish in 1770; was member of the House of Burgesses in 1769, and died in Culpeper in 1793. 5. Nicholas, m. Elizabeth Price, dau. of Ajola Price, of Orange, whose mother was a dau. of Capt. Wm. Barbour; died in what is now Madison county, and left many children, who moved to Kentucky. 6. James, m. Elizabeth Jones, and died in Culpeper. 7. Moses, m. Mary Blackwell, sister of Susanna, and died in Culpeper.

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