I hope this may help you. You will want to check the book for many! mentions of Green's Run & two families into which they married. I had thought it contained more of the account of the Green family but could not find any more ref's. Good Luck! Carolyn My direct lines - Preston, Garrett, Hardy/Grant co's, -------- Pa., Md, WV, Va., & over "there": Roth - Wotring - Lantz - Core/Kohr - Carrico - Harsh - Rinehart -Robinett - Stemple - Whitehair/Weishaar - Bohem - Fredlock - Bishoff - Troxell- Me/artz - Armstrong - Berchten - Askins - - Brandon - Bre/ingle - Brodt - Dietz - Ehl - Elrod/Elroth - Fike- Gingelbach - Griesson - Hazlett - Gunset - Hendershott - Jacki - Nie - Kunzel - Minear - Niss - Nischicker - Nyce - Ringer - Roberts - Sad/tler - Schneider - Stark - Sy/imm - Taylor - Parks - Switzer/etc.sps.- Custer/etc.sps.- De/wBerry - Garner- Kelley/Kelly - Brandon - Dellenbach - Watson/Wasson - W/Rightmire/etc sps.. +++++> =========== src.: "History of Preston Co., WV" Oren Morton, vol. I & II, Journal Pub. Co., 1914,(out of print---McClain Printing Co., Parsons, WV repub. 1st vol. only / local libraries have the book) ======= households of Preston in 1782. Green, John ==== For a while the growing of wheat was seldom attempted. The grinding of corn was all the work the first gristmills had to do. Perhaps the earliest of these was the corn-cracker of Anthony Worley built at Hazelton in 1784. Samuel Morton built a mill on the Big Sandy in 1791, yet there was an older mill on Little Sandy, where Mathias Stuck afterward settled. John Green was making ready for a mill at the time of his murder in 1788, and it was probably on the same spot that a mill was operated a few years later by Burkett Minor. The Rev John Stough had a mill on Wolf Creek in 1790, and a little afterward John Fairfax built one on Field’s Creek. ==== In 1796, Joseph Friend sold 100 acres of the John Green farm for $200. === Let us now come forward to the year 1832, and see to what proportions the town has grown during the third of a century since it was surveyed. We come up the old road from Albright, then known as Snider’s Ferry. The highway does not take its present course after leaving Green’s Run, but turns to the right and mounts a level ridge, passing near the homes of David Trowbridge and James Brown and not far from the Green cabin of tragic memory. Beyond, and when abreast of the Jordan residence, we pass a comfortable log church with glass windows. A little further, and we come into the road that climbs the river-hill from the Fairfax ferry. Somewhat further yet we arrive at a fork, the older road pursuing a direct line to the courthouse, while the other passes the log house of Major Charles Byrne, where J.W. Parks was lately residing. It does not pursue its present curve around the hollow, but keeps a direct course to the present schoolhouse, crossing the ravine on a log bridge. === About 1815 a number of families settled in this locality and cleared some land. But learning afterwhile that there seemed to be a flaw in the title to their places, they abandoned them quite abruptly and moved away. It is said that this was needless, their fears not being well-founded. It is related that one of the men left corn in his crib. By 1830 their cabins had sunk into ruin and fawns gamboled amid the logs and brush in the deserted clearings. One of these men, named Lankford, set out some apple trees which continued to thrive, the fruit being known as the “Lankford Sweets.” Others of those settlers were Toler, King, Sypolt, Dewees, Grim, Green, and Moses Menear. Toler lived where is now the Herring church, Grim was at I.B. Fields’, Menear at Titchnell’s, Green at J.E. Forman’s, Sypolt at the Watson place, and King over the hill eastward from Herring. Other settlers were on the Strahin and Jacob Spiker places. ==== To the right of the pike is Green’s Run where David Trowbridge plied his trade of miller for a half a century. Some distance beyond the mill is the spot, scarcely identifiable now, where lived the family of John Green, broken up by Indians in 1788. The railroad from Albright skirts the ravine of Green’s Run, but leaves it awhile to make a long loop up a tributary in order to reach the county seat. Near where the loop begins, the Rev. John J. Dolliver lived in a log house and there was born his talented son, the late Jonathan P. Dolliver, senator from Iowa. When Green came here the stream was known as Buffalo Run. ==== In the Central we find these: Ashby, Beatty, Braham, Brown (A), Bucklew, Butler, Calhoun, Calvert, Carroll, Chiles, Connor (B), Cresap, Darling, Dodge, Elliot, eisey, Fawcett, Felton, Freeland, Funk, Garner, Gibbs, Green, Hanshaw, Hardesty, Hays, Herndon, Hooton, Jackson (A), Johnson, Knisell, Lee, Mason, McGinnis, Merrill, Messenger, Miller, Morgan, Murdock, Paugh, Potter, Price, Rhodes, Royse, Scott, Sheets, Snider (A), Stone, Taylor, Trowbridge, White (A), Whetsell. ==== Friend is a pioneer name of the northwest of Garrett, but members of the connection have crossed the Preston line. John came with his wife and five children to the site of Friendsville in 1760. Five more were born in his blockhouse. Nicholas, the oldest son, was killed by Indians in 1776. Two other sons went to Missouri and the four sisters to Ohio. Gabriel, Joseph and John remained in Garrett and have a numerous posterity. Joseph married Sarah, a daughter of John Green. Their children were Andrew, John G., Josiah G., William E., and two daughters. ===== The Greens are of particular interest because of the tragic breaking up of their home by the Indians. In 1783 John Green patented 4000 acres on the stream which took his name, but which was first called Buffalo Run. His cabin stood on what was afterward the Samuel R. Trowbridge farm. It was near to the top of the bluff on the right bank of the run. The Indian surprise is elsewhere mentioned. The family of Green, so far as known, included three partially grown daughters and an infant child. The latter was murdered. Sarah, the youngest of the girls, married Joseph Friend. Another girl married a trader to the Indians named Sauerhaver. She did not return to Preston to live. Elizabeth, the third daughter, had married a trader named King, but as he did not wish to leave the natives he sold his helpmate to Andrew Johnson, who is hereinafter mentioned. The widow of Green married a Moore and had by him two daughters, Hannah and Cissia. The former married a Ruble, and the latter married Jonathan Trowbridge. There was also a son, Edmission, elsewhere mentioned. After the death of Moore, the widow married a Spurgeon and had a daughter named Lydia, who married a Ruble and lived in Monongalia, as did also Hannah. Mrs. Spurgeon was buried by her three husbands. She was one of the Methodist class that worshipped in the old church between her home and Kingwood. ===== Andrew Johnson, a native of Scotland, was a soldier under General Wayne. He was several times wounded, was once left for dead, and he carried a silver plate in his skull. In 1799 he settled on the Charles C. Craig farm near Irona. His wife, Elizabeth Green, is elsewhere mentioned. ===== Edmission Moore, a son of Mrs. Green by her second marriage, lived a little east of Fellowsville. His wife attained the age of precisely one hundred years and seven months. ===== LAND PATENTS, 1783 Green, John -400- Buffalo (Green’s) Run, adjoining James Morgan. ===== There the brother of Mrs. Brown, James Hawthorne, dissuaded them of their purpose of going to Ohio and told them of some good settlements across the mountains near what is now Kingwood, where land could be had at a reasonable price. In accordance with the advice of his brother-in-law, James Brown rode over to the settlement at Kingwood and bought a piece of land, which was located at and around the old Green Cabin, about one mile from Kingwood, where Green had been killed the fall before by the Indians, and without waiting further he moved into the Green Cabin and began preparations for raising a crop the following spring. ===== The killing of Green was the last outrage of the kind perpetrated by the Indians in Preston county. ====== [email protected] wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1124 >Message Board Post: >Hi: My 5th greatgrandparents were John and Mary Green from Preston Co, WV. John was killed by indians as well as his son. His wife and two daughters held captive, and another daughter escaped capture. Is there any info I can obtain on this History. I believe the place where this all happened was called Green,s run. Thanks Brenda King Line > > > >