Hi Lee, I was wondering if you saw this site also posted by Joel Hager. I was wondering if this was the John and Elizabeth Jones you talked about below.. John Green b: Abt 1762 in Rock Creek, Fairfield County, South Carolina Martha Elizabeth Jones b: Abt 1763 Let me know Please.. Thanks Sherry http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagerj&id=I134157 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 6:59 PM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Roll Call .. > Yep Sherry, the Greens are a mess somewhat. We are not sure of their true > orgin as several Greens were in the area at the same time. > Maybe you can "connect" somhow to what I'm sending. > Lee > > GREEN > It is said the Green’s originated in England in the 12th Century. We find > a > John Green who came to America from Wiltshire England in about the year > 1635 > and settled in Massachusetts. > > Late in the 17th Century, William Green, a branch of the Nathaniel Greens, > left England and arrived in Philadelphia. From there he went to New York > where > he first settled at Newtown on Long Island in the area of what is now > Brooklyn. It was here he met and married Joanna Reeder in about the year > 1692. > William and his family later removed to Ewing, N.J. shortly before 1700. > There he > purchased 350 acres of land from the Severns and Brearly families and > first > occupied the wooden farmhouse on the Severn farm. > > William Green Sr. died June 16, 1722 in Trenton New Jersey and is buried > in > the Ewing Church Cemetery. > > Among the children of William Green Sr. and Joanna Reeder were: Richard; > Joseph, William, Benjamin, John, Geremiah, Isaac, Joanna, Sarah, Esther, > and > Mary Green. William Green died June 16, 1722 in Trenton, Mercer County, > New > Jersey > > Geremiah Green, a son of William Green and Joanna Reeder, was born in > Hunterdon County New Jersey where he married Joanna Hunt. In about the > year 1762, > Geremiah and his family, along with other families, removed as “The New > Jersey > Settlers” down the Old Wagon Road through Virginia to Rowan County North > Carolina. Here they formed the “Jersey Settlement”. Shortly after their > arrival, > Geremiah Green was granted some 541 acres of land in November 1762. His > grant was located on the waters of the Athus, also known as the Pee Dee > River.. > > From records and researchers, we note that Geremiah and Joanna had 7 known > children: Richard who married Eleanor Sullivan, a daughter of E.C. > Sullivan; > Joanna “Hannah” married Landrine Eggers; Sarah married a Wilson; Jeremiah > (Jr) > married Polly Wiseman; John married Hannah Hunt on January 16, 1779, a > daughter of Daniel Hunt; Isaac Green married Margaret ___; Stephen Green, > a Tory, > settled in Davidson County. > > Geremiah Green Sr. died prior to January 12, 1763, where on that date, the > Rowan County Court ordered that Hannah Green, Richard Green and Isaac > Green to > be the administrators of his estate. (Hannah was the wife of John Green) > > Jeremiah Green, a son of Geremiah, married Mary “Polly” Wiseman October > 31, > 1775. They raised 11 children, among whom were Isaac who probably married > Mary Booth December 22, 1793; Stephen; Richard who settled in the Blowing > Rock > community; Jeremiah Jr. who married Anne Hartley April 2, 1790; and John > Green. > > John Green, who, as a Revolutionary War Veteran, was living in Yancy > County > at the home of James Buckhanon in 1840 at age 73. He received a pension > October 22, 1832. In his application he failed to provide the names of > his parents, > however from family tradition he married Elizabeth Jones. John Green died > June 2, 1853 at the home of Sidney Young leaving no widow. In 1856 his > surviving children were James, Joseph, Arthur, Aaron and Isabella > > JOSHUA GREEN: > Considerable research has been done on the lineage of Joshua Green who > migrated into what is now Wyoming County with a large family. As yet > there is no > evidence on the ancestry of Joshua back to William Green and Joanna > Reeder, or > to their son Geremiah who settled in Yancy County, North Carolina. > > It has been said Joshua, born in about the year 1799, was a son of Stephen > Green with no proof in fact that he was. It has been reported that Stephen > had > settled on the forks of the Yadkin River in 1786. However we find records > of > a Stephen Green who married Polly Buchanan in Wythe County, Virginia on > June > 9, 1790. He was not present there in the Tax Census for 1793. We do > locate > Drury, John, Joseph, Alasha, Joseph, Isaac and Ruben Green in Wythe > County > during that period. Isaac and Ruben were recorded north of Walkers > Mountain > during that Census with 4 horses. No land transactions have been found > for a > Green in that area. The afore Greens listed were without horses. > > > > > > **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message