Hi Loreen, I can't do much to make a connection here. My husband has two different Green lines, but both of them end with a marriage of a female before 1800, so I haven't followed the name much beyond that. Joy Loreen Wells wrote: > Joyce, > > I was interested in your post since I see you are researching GREEN in the > northeast. I am doing the same. I just wondered if we might intersect > somewhere, although I don't recognize your other names. > > My ggrandfather was Francis Green. I have not found his family of origin. He > came from England. He is in Newark, New Jersey in the 1850 census. This is > the earliest I find him. He is single there and in his very early 20s. He > married my ggrandmother in 1855. She was from Poughkeepsie. They settled > there, had their children there and lived in that area for many years. I am > researching the possibility that he had other family members in the same > general area. He served in the Civil War. I have obtained NY state Civil War > records for several Greens that signed up with him. I am sending for a whole > slew of pension records from that war, a few at a time. All of them look > like potential relatives. I recently sent for three of them, one was John L. > Green. This family eventually ended up in Fairfield, CT. I believe they > already had relatives there. > > If any of this interests you, let me know. > > Loreen Wells