FWIW, This is author Manly Wade Wellman's version of the early history of William & Mary [Green] Duke. According to this, Mary Green was "a North Carolina girl," and md Duke in 1728. from: “The County of Warren North Carolina 1586-1917,” by Manly Wade Wellman; published 1959 by UNC Press, Chapel Hill, NC: pg 17: “Among the first to come to the new district was a young kinsman of [William] Byrd by the name of William Duke. Born in Devonshire in 1709, Duke had been left an orphan. Byrd had brought him to America, treating him half as a protege, half as an apprentice. It is of record that the master of Westover taught young Duke to work hard and to cherish dreams of wealth and power. The orphan boy had married, in the year of his patron’s boundary survey [1728], a North Carolina girl named Mary Green. He listened eagerly to Byrd’s description of the Land of Eden. Down below the Roanoke he moved in 1735 into the future Warren County. He was able to get considerable land to begin with and later added more. Upon his new holdings he built a house, as much like Byrd’s Westover mansion as he could contrive in the new country, and named it Purchase Patent. That house ws remarkable in having glass windows, thought by many to be the first seen in all that part of the world. [source cited: Dr. Lena J. Hawks, ‘Between the Lines,’ typescript genealogical notes, pg. 11.] Such glass windows, at once clear to see through and elegantly fragile, constituted a symbol of what had come to the country once called Chawnis Temoatan, then New Brittaine and later the Land of Eden, and destined eventually to bear the name of Warren. The frontier was moving westward, even as Byrd had foreseen on the banks of the Hycootee. Civilization and even elegance were supplanting it along the Roanoke, once domain of the Tuscarora. Duke’s claim to the first glass windows was challenged by young Gideon Macon, a bachelor pioneer of good family from New Kent County, Virginia.” ------- fyi, while I have not located a marriage record for William Duke & Mary Green, I have found numerous abstracts of deeds which name William's wife as "Mary." -Sandy