REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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THIS BOOK RECORDS THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM GREGG THE FRIEND IMMI¬ GRANT TO DELAWARE 1682 FROM WHICH NUCLEUS DISSEMINATED NESTS OF GREGGS TO PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, AND NORTH CAROLINA.
That you may know:
“Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim Picked from wormholes of long vanished days, Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak d,
He sends you the most memorable line,
In everv branch truly demonstrative.
—King Henry V.
Published by
HAZEL MAY MIDDLETON KENDALL 203 WEST FIFTH STREET ANDERSON, INDIANA 1944
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A debt of gratitude is due the author of this volume for making accessible members and friends of the Gregg family something of the origin, history, activi ties, and personalities of this numerous and widely distributed kinship. The wor*. is the result of years of patient, persistent effort entailing a vast amount of .e search, correspondence, travel, and expense, which have been expended wh1, enthusiasm and determination. The record should appeal to all who have a. interest in honorable ancestry, family tradition, and worthy achievement. T should be an inspiration to noble effort and high aspiration.
In the collection of reliable- data concerning events of the distant past, law of diminishing returns appears to operate. The further we are removed . time from the events to be recorded, the difficulties increase, like gravity, as " square of the distance from the source. Such being the case; it is surprising hv 1 much of the history of the Gregg family in America has been brought to light recorded by those interested enough to delve into the available sources and spe: the time and energy necessary for the examination of public records and document
No other experience tends so much to create enthusiasm for, and make re- the records, traditions, and imaginations of the past as visiting the scenes of events described by the historian. To visit the homes of distinguished persons past generations, to iook upon the scenes they once beheld, to walk where the; walked and wrought, to sit where they sat, and to see where their mortal re” . * forever lie, afford an experience that is truly inspiring. x'
In the summer of 1936, it was the writer’s privilege, in company with .. relatives, to attend the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the er ion of the Hopewell Meeting House of the Society of Friends, about four i north of Winchester, Va. It was in this antiquated edifice that his great-g) parents, Thomas Gregg and Sarah Coulson, exchanged their marriage vows became husband and wife according to Quaker custom and usage. It was a thnl! ing experience to witness the dignified and impressive ceremonies of the celebra¬ tion. A large concourse of people from widely scattered areas assembled to d honor to the memory of these who in pioneer days sought the guidance of th¬ inner Light and found spiritual consolation in pure and holy worship within thou sacred walls. Many of those present were descendants of the founders of this Meeting and had come long distances to participate in the celebration.
This was followed by a visit to places of historic and family interest in and around Loudoun County, Va. Our party was entertained for several days at the home of the late John W. Gregg in Lincoln (formerly Goose Creek), Va., who.'"' generous hospitality was greatly enjoyed and appreciated, and whose untirir. • research has made available much of the information herein recorded. Here th writer had the pleasure of first meeting the author of this volume. It w’as on th visit that he first saw the farm and home owned and occupied by his granafathe. Thomas C. Gregg, before his migration to Ohio in 1834 or 5. On this farm locate about two miles south-west of Lincoln, his father, Issachar Brown Gregg, was bor
Other places of interest to Gregg progeny were visited, especially the o • Quaker Meeting House at Lincoln (Goose Creek) where Thomas C. Gregg used worship before being disowned for marrying Mary Brown out of meeting “contra to discipline.” This ancient building has long since ceased to be used as a pla- of worship. It has been remodeled and is now occupied as a residence. It stanr at the corner of the cemetery wherein many of the Greggs that once lived in th neighborhood lie buried.
Our party had the privilege of attending public worship at the “Hlcksitc Quaker Meeting at Lincoln, Sunday morning, June 21, 1935. The quiet scrcni-
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and spiritual exhortations of the service made it a most impressive one. All honor (,o our Quaker ancestors.
The history of the Gregg family is one of heroism, of adventure and achieve¬ ment. While their activities have been mainly agrarian in character, they have attained to positions of eminence and distinction in the fields of education, the¬ ology, medicine, industry, jurisprudence, and statecraft, and the name is written large in the armed forces of the nation. Notwithstanding the peaceable traditions of their Quaker heritage, they have not forborne to draw the sword in defense of what they believed to be right and just. Many of them have reached high rank in both army and navy. Though not aspiring to political preferment, they never shirk a patriotic duty. . ■*
May the readers of this volume find in it inspiration to high and worthy en¬ deavor, to keep the family escutcheon forever free from blot or blemish, to pass on future generations the heritage of an ancient and honorary ancestry. “ ’S Rioghail Mo Dhream.”
A. S. Gregg, Lorain, Ohio, May 12, 1944.
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Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Deut. XXXH:7.
— Gilbert Cope (greatest genealogist of the Friends.)
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In this compilation an almost unbroken line of Greggs from the man who first bore the name portrays with warm fidelity the Gregg lineage patterns in a manifold variety despite regional and time divergences.
Devotion to the Gregg clan distinguishes any Gregg descendant, for a mutual pride of common ancestry enchants loyal Gregg descendants. Much fragmentary material of names and dates has previously been sketched, but not connected into a pattern revealing whole lineages traced to the immigrant ancestral Gregg father.
This book represents all that is known at present of each person. Many personalities, -characteristic family traits and incidents are lost because infor¬ mation is lacking; yet the bare statistics constitute a required link between generations. If little is written of some persons, it is because no data are available. Under great pressure, exhaustive investigations have yielded valuable facts. Not all lines are complete, but this book is a source for those who are ambitious to intensify personal research.
It is evident that many Gregg families migrated from time to time in groups, for various progeny are found living side by side at later dates; but in many cases there are no records established to connect various groups to the common stem. Nearly all the early generations were farmers, a heritage of land owners from the era as a Scottish highlander whose possession of land meant every¬ thing to a Gregg.
The terms Friend and Quaker are used interchangeably for the purpose of this publication. Early spellings, and sometimes the punctuation, have been copied from the original records. For some families two or more spellings of a name have been transcribed. All possible dates and addresses or places of last known residence are given.
It is regrettable that it is impossible to thank individually the many des¬ cendants, librarians, court officials, attendants for census records, trustees of various church records, land abstract and title companies, and many local historians in various state communities who have given invaluable aid. To all I now make acknowledgment of gratefulness.
Hazel M. Kendall,
Descendant of John Gregg and Elizabeth Cooke.
To weave together the fading dates of old manuscripts with the traditions that have survived sleeping generations, until the joy and tears, the quaint speech and early piety, stand out upon the tapestry in the semblance of a living — this gives a pleasure which he only who has stood at the loom can feel and understand. — Charles Knowlton Bolton.
CHAPTER I
GREGG FOUNDATIONS
Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now with’ring on the ground;
The foll’wing spring another race supplies.
They rise successive and successive fall;
So generations in their course decay,
So flourish these, when those are passed away.
Pope’s Translation Homer’s ILIAD.
The Macgregor* was one of the purest of all Celtic tribes, the principal sept of Siol Alpine, unmixed in direct descent from the Alpinian stock which formed the aboriginal inhabitants of Scotland with the original seat in Glenorchy, Argyllshire. The Macgregor2 v/as the most persecuted and oppressed clan in all Scotland. “Don’t mister me nor Campbell me! My foot is on my native heath and my name is MacGregor” — expresses the feelings and history of the famous clan3. No tribe was more proud of its ancient name, none had to suffer more for bearing the name or more cruelly compelled to abandon it. Through all the centuries they were noted for their deeds of valor. In the early feudal centuries they possessed a wride stretch of territory across the middle of the Highlands from Ben Cruashan to the locale of Fortingall in Glen Lyon, the home of a famous race of Macgregor pipers, as far south as the Pass of Balmaha on Lock Lomondside and the chain of lochs wThich runs eastward to Coilantogle ford in Menteith.
And step by step since Time began I see the steady gain of man.
For still the new' transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold.
— Whittier.
The strain of Gregg blood originated dually in two Gaelic speaking bran¬ ches of the Celtic race — one, the Piets — the other, the Milesians.
From Partholan, who invaded Ireland from middle Greece 600 or 500 B. C„ descended the Irish Cruithni or Piets, the bronze-armed Goidelic branch of Celts. They subdued and intermarried freely with the older race found there. In the first half of the fourth century they acquired the northeastern county of Antrim called Dal Riada.
The Milesians arrived 350 B. C. primarily from Scythia11 after so-journing in Egypt, Crete, and in Scythia again, then Spam. Their ancestral line ex¬ tended unbroken to Noah. The leader was Galam. His followers were called Milesians from Gal, “valour,” a name which might be expressed by the Latin miles, a knight from which comes the name Milesians. These Scots were the last invasion of prehistorical races to settle Meath County, Ireland, whose coast wras most accessible for landing purposes. They used the Ogam inscribed stones from Spain, their last residence before invading Ireland.
After the sons of Galam had defeated the other tribes, they partitioned Ireland between themselves and kinsmen. Eremon received Leinster and Con¬ naught: Eber Find, the rest. They fought until Eber Find lost his life. In the reign of Eremon some Piets arrived from Scythia, hut the main body of them was forced to Scotland and centuries later produced the great Pictish King Hungus. A long (centuries) struggle ensued betw'een the descendants of Eber
‘ Johnston W. & A. K. “Historical Geog. of Clans -of Scotland.”
- Robertson “History of Scotland.”
: Eyre- -Todd VI “Highland Clans of Scotland.”
4 Baoth received Scythia as his lot upon division by Japhet, son of Noah.
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Find and Eremon, and displacements of tribes took place. The victors were the Scots (Milesians) ; the conquered or vassal tribes paid a daer or base rent to the Scots, the free clans during our first century. The line of Eremon was restored with the emerging of a powerful leader, Tuathal Techlmar, who not only founded a phase of feudal system based on the monarchy of Meath but also organized a religious system. He reigned A. D. 130-160. His grandson, the famous Conn Cetchathoch (“the hundred fighter”), reigned 157-177, was con¬ stantly at war with the descendants of Eber Find’s followers who drove them into Dalriada (county Antrim) which was inhabited by the Piets. These Mile¬ sian Scots overran that province of Antrim and settled there.
In 503 a body of the Irish Dalriad tribe of Scots from Dalriada in northern Antrim migrated fourteen miles to Mull1 of Kintyre in Airgelli (Araghael), Alba (Scotland) under the leadership of the great Fergus Mac, son of Ferchard (Ere), and his brothers. He brought writh him the palladium of Scotland, a sacred relic (pillar of Jacob) which Iber (Hiber) the Phoenician had brough from the Holy Land to Spain, thence to Ireland. A new colony was established on the basis of a previous one which became known as Air Goedel, or region of the Gael, a name now condensed to Argyle. The Scots wrere a Gaelic speaking people. These Gaelic Dalriadic settlers in Argyll were Christians in the Irish manner. For the next three hundred years the Scots and Piets warred with apparnet intermissions of peace, and intermarried generally.
They lived by the tribal system. The word “tuath” means tribe. Each tribe was divided into communities called sept, with a head, his kinsmen, slaves, and other retainers. The head of a homestead was an aire, a repre¬ sentative freeman capable of acting as a witness, compurgator, and bail. An aire whose family held the same land for three generations was called a laird (lord). In many respects the Gaels were barbarous, with a musical and fervent nature, w7ere keenly aware to appreciate the beauties of nature though wild and reckless in heroic deeds. Their two passions were to fight well and talk clev¬ erly; they were fierce in battle but cultivated sentimental poetry or ballads. Bards sang of tribal conquests and history of family deeds.
The greatest Pictish King Hungus (Angus MacFergus) laid wraste all of western Argyll 730 A. D. to revenge his son Brude’s capture by Dungal, son of the Dalriad Scot King Selvach, and then ruled 731-761. His daughter, Princess Fergusia of royal Alpine line, married Achauis, a descendant of Fergus MacErc, thus uniting the Scottich and Pictish dynasties. These were the Scots from whom Scotland took its name wdien generally applied to Malcom’s reign 1005- 1034. They brought Scotland its name, its Christianity, and its first kings.
Achauis’s son Alpin claimed the right to rule and was slain near Dundee 836 in eastern Scotland on the Firth of Tay. His son Kinath (Kenneth) of Al¬ pine maintained the right and w7as the first king of the modern kingdom of Scotland. Kenneth, the son of a Scottish father, but of a Pictish mother, wTas entitled to the crowrn by a peculiarity of Pictish law- which recognized descent by the mother as a test of legitimacy. By constant raids Kenneth of Alpine, King of the Dalriada Scots of Argyll, conquered the Piets and their King Brude, son of Ferot, in 843 and ruled 844-860, gradually extending his power across central Scotland from sea to sea wTith Scone for the capital on left bank of Loch Tay. His kingdom was first called Albia, then Scotia, and included Argyle and the Isles, Perth, Anges, Mearns, and Fife. He moved the palladium to Scone and fixed it in the royal chair in wTiich all the succeeding kings of Scotland were crowned. Edward I of England had it placed in Westminster
1 The Scot’s word “mull,” meaning a promontory or headland, represents the Gaelic maol.
7 he custom to trace descent from mother to daughter instead of from father ° son a practice found only among primitive people.
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Abbey. Tradition is that the empire abides where it stays (Porter). Scone was the second capitol of Pictavia, kingdom of the northern Piets. All Scot¬ tish kings were crowned there; the last, Charles II, on January 1, 1551.
Kenneth Macalpine died at Forteviot 860 and was buried at Iona, and it is he who is the progenitor of the Greggs. His descendants, either through the male or female line, occupied the throne of Scotland down through James VI who became James I of England, whose descendants, either in the male or female line, have occupied the throne of Great Britain to the present time. Kenneth Macalpine’s successors were chosen by tanistry, the king being elected durum his life from the oldest and worthiest of his kin.
Wk?n the tribal system began to break up by conquest, the rise of towns and t?~?:toriaI government, the rise of a common surname furnished a new bond for keeping alive the connection between kindred. The Gails, estranged from their native kings, gathered themselves in sections under their own chiefs.
The Gaelic word eland or clann is synonymous with siol, meaning children of a common ancestor bound together by ties of blood, loyal to the chief of their race, and sharing his fortunes. Primary virtues of the clan system were those of a military community based on personal strength, courage, hardihood, and devotion in skills of hunting and fighting. The clans were homogeneous down to the reign of Malcolm III slain 1093.
In the reign of David I (1124-1153) of Scotland, clans were a distinctive and prominent phase of the Gaelic population, distinguished by patronymics for surnames, as such were known. The word “Mat meant “son of.” Siol Alpine, a great clan, included the smaller clans of the Macgregors, Grants, Mackinnons, Macnabs, Macphies, Macquarries, and Macaulays. Their common emblem was the pine which is now confined to the MacGregors (Taylor). In old documents their patronymic is often given as Vic-Alpine instead of Mhic-Griogar, thus doubly proving their royal origin. The MacGregors were the senior branch of the Clan Alpine.
The Alpine had brown hair, broad faces, blue or gray eyes. Before Christ¬ ianity they worshipped gods of earth and forests, believing in devils and fairies. Alpein means son of alp, high or tall (Celtic). Greg means fierce.
The territories occupied by the Macgregors for some centuries were more considerable than those of any older tribe. A Lord Macgregor each built the castles of Kilchurn on a peninsulated rock in Lochawe, the castle of Finlarg at the west, and that of Ballach (Taymouth) at the east end of Loch Tay, together with the old castle in the lake of Lochdochert and the older strong holds.
When Alexander II conquered Argyll in 1222, Chief Hugh of the MacGreg¬ ors was one of the leaders of his army as vassel of the Earl of Ross. When spoils of the conquest were divided, the MacGregors received Glenurchy (Orchey ) to which they added much land by conquest. The stupendous aspect of these rugged declivities, the deep retirement of their woods, and the security of their valleys renderd those regions difficult of access and sheltered the MacGregors from the sudden and desultory intrusion of other marauding and ferocious bands, while they were equally safe from the immediate cognition of the law and the consecutive infliction of the military.
In the valley of Glen Orchy (Urchy) the district known as Lorn, repre¬ sented in 1296 by Alexander de Argle as Lord of Lorn and undoubtedly closely allied with the MacGregors, was forfeited 1297 to staunch adherents of King Bruce (who dethroned King John Baliol of Scotland 1293) from whose reign is dated the downfall of the ancient tribe of Macgregors.
The clan Gregor became one of the most powerful. King David II of Scot¬ land (1331-1371), dreading this increasing power, determined to destroy the clan whose claim to royal honors menaced his own security.
His method was fatefully successful. The Clan Campbell, represented by
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the Duke of Argyll, had settled near by on the shores of Loch Awe and were nearest neighbors of the ancient Clan MacGregor of Alpine. The king, assum¬ ing a despotic power, presented the lands of Glenorchay, rightful possessions of Clan Gregor, to his favorites, the Campbells who were to gain access to his gift at the point of the sword. Thus a deadly feud was established between the two clans. John Macgregor died 1390 was a contemporary with Sir Colin Campbell. ,
The Campbells induced the MacNabs of Loch Tayside to quarrel wTith the Macgregor chiefs. The two clans met in a bloody battle at Crianlarich where the MacNabs were defeated and practically exterminated by the Macgregors. Forthwith the Campbells produced a commission from the king to punish both breakers of peace. Soon the MacGregors were forced to procure a cessation of hostilities, yielding to the Campbells a considerable part of their territory. Once the MacGregors made a sudden descent upon a small island stronghold in Loch Dochart, considered impregnable. MacGregors chose a winter day when the loch was frozen. Sheltered from arrows by brushwood which they pushed across the ice in front of them, they stormed and took the place. In the gorge of Glen Lyon is a MacGregor’s Leap. After a fierce conflict, the Maclvers, all but cut to pieces— their chief, fleeing before his enemies, came to the narrowest part of the gorge and by a wild leap from rock to rock across the torrent, made his escape.
After 1390 we find the Campbells of Lochawe in possession of Glenurchy and a family of MacGregors as vassals of the Earl of Argyle in Glenstrae.
Dalmally wras the burying place of the Chiefs of MacGregors 1390-1528. On the north side of the east end of the church are twelve stone coffins.
By 1442 the Macgregors w'ere without an acre of land held free of the Crown. The MacGregors could not understand how the mere word of a king, though supported by law, could make an act tolerable when dictated by injus¬ tice. They found themselves in opposition of occupants of. land whose owners were unacceptable to them and those owners determined to get rid of the MacGregors at any price. The inevitable appalling consequences were evict¬ ion. resistance, and retaliation. The MacGregors resisted energetically thereby gaining a reputation for lawlessness. They regarded the Campbells as ruthless intruding spoilers to be assailed and harrassed unceasingly. They found them¬ selves dispossessed of their lands by charters, instruments inexplicable to them, bestowed upon others. In their minds a sense of wrrong and injustice prevailed. The chiefs of Clan Gregor scorned to hold their land by “Sheep-skin rights.” Even after Campbells procured legal grant, the MacGregors held actual pos¬ session for a long time. For generations Clan Alpine held almost regal sway in Glen Orchy (Orcay). Their existence depended upon their skill in raising cattle, their agility in the chase, and their art in luring trout and perch from the lochs and streams in their domain.
Years later the ancient race of Alpine was finally deprived of its strong¬ hold. One group withdrew to the remote wrilds whose western end abbutted north Loch Lomond; two others retired north west to the desolate barren Muir of Rannoch, encircled by misty hills. Some of the evicted ones found refuge among their kinsmen who still possessed lands as sub-tenants or squatters of the Campbells. The majority formed themselves into little family bands, taking themselves to the hills to eke out a precarious existence by predatory incur¬ sions and plunder upon flocks and herds of their enemies upon the very lands from which they had been ejected. Their numbers increased; among the craggy heights in deep glens and straths they had little means of subsistence. With no other channel in which to spend their energy, cramped in their means
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to earn a livelihood, and goaded by those eager to prosper by their fall, the MacGregors lived by predatory forays and hostile raids. They became “broken men” and their mood is indicated by Scott’s poem:
“The stranger came with iron hand And from our fathers reft the land.
Where dwell we now? See, rudely swell
Crag over crag, and fell o’er fell. |
Ask we this savage hill to tread
For fatten’d steer or household bread;
Ask we for flocks these shingles dry, j*
And well the mountain might reply —
‘To you, as to your sires of yore,
Belong the target and claymore.
I give you shelter in my breast;
{ Your own good blades must win the rest.’
Pent up in this fortress of the North,
Think’st thou we will not sally forth To spoil the spoiler as we may,
And from the robber rend the Prey?”
The Campbells steadily pursued their policy of acquisition. The implaca¬ ble hatred between the two Cans, due to a long series of injuries, caused their avenging to become a sacred trust among the lofty unbending resolute Mac¬ Gregors “to be bequeathed from bleeding sire to son.” They suffered from severe penal laws and vigorous persecution. The devoted clan was represented at court as a group with an untamable innate ferocity which nothing could remedy but cutting off the sept of MacGregor root and all. The clan lived under acts of outlawry beginning when James IV wTas crowned (1438-1513) for a reign of almost constant battle, murders, and executions.
King James IV, on a surprise visit in 1506 to Laird MacGregor, was amazed at his large following and asked how he could afford to keep so large a retinue, to which the now-landless Chief replied, “My wash basin is sixteen miles long and my towel twelve yards,” alluding to Loch Tay and his belted plaid. “Thou art greater than a king” is said to have been the reply of the Sovereign James IV. — Rev. Mm. MacGregor Sterling.
At Stirling Court on September 23, 1563, during the reign of Queen Mary (1542-1577) a commission granted the most powerful nobles and chiefs to pur¬ sue Clan Gregor with fire and sword. A similar warrant in 1563 granted the same powers to Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy, but also charged him neither to receive or assist any of the Clan Gregor or give them under any circumstan¬ ces, meat, drink, or clothes. In 1589 Clan Gregor caused another Act of Privy Council directing another crusade against the “wicked Clan Gregor, so long continuing in blood, slaughter, theft, and robbery.” Fire and sword were de¬ nounced against them for three years. They sought revenge for the murder of John Drummond, a forester of the royal forest of Glenartney.
Southwest of Loch Lomond the MacGregors continued to exercise much authority by “coir a glaive.” In 1603 a memorable conflict took place between Clan Gregor and Clan Colquhouns of Luss in the valley of Glenfruin (Glen of Sorrow) on the west side of Loch Lomond in Dunbar (Lennox). The famous battle of Glenfruin, 1527, was a reprisal for the sacrifice of two MacGregor lives because they had killed two wedders for food enroute home from a dis¬ tance. Forty-four years later the revenge wras still proceeding. No grych (ghost) would have appeared to a pursuing MacGregor a sufficient reason for sparing the life of a fleeing Colquhoun. The Crowm had done little to entitle the respect of the “Gregaraich.” Because the Clan MacGregor wron against superior numbers, the authorities were so exasperated that they took actions to annihilate the wrhole clan against which legislation wras repeatedly passed.
At Scone in parliament the Macgregors were referred to as “lawless lim-
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mers,” “the disorderit and wicked thevis and lymmaris of the Clangregor,” “a viperous and unhappie generation,” and “miserable captives.” They w'ere for¬ bidden to carry weapons and as a crowning insult they were ordered to change their names to other surnames. By an Act of Privy Council during the rule of James I (1603-1625 a reign of religious intrigues) on April 3, 1603, the name of MacGregor w'as abolished. No one could be baptized, married, or buried with the name Gregor or MacGregor, under penalty of death. Under this same act and denounced penalty those who fought at Glenfruin or helped in mention forays were prohibited from carrying any weapon except a pointless knife with which to eat. Allaster MacGregor of Glenstrae, the brave chief, was executed at Edinburgh in January, 1604. On February 14th nine more MacGregors ■were executed after a long imprisonment, and several others in March.
“Sir Colin Campbell' was ane greate Justician all his tyme, throch the guhilk he sustenit that deidly feid of the Clan Gregor ane lang space.
And besydis that, he causit execute to the death money notable lym- mars, and beheided the .Laird of MacGregor himself at Keanmoir, in presence of the Erie of Atholl, the Justice Clerk, and sundrie uther nobillmen.”
On May 24, 1611, wives and children of MacGregor fugitives v,rere marked “with a key upon the face” and sent to some appointed place as virtual pris¬ oners. People who owned boats or skows were prohibited from carrying any of Clan Gregor across a waterway. After MacGregor youngsters tried to escape in 1613, orders v/ere that fugitives under fourteen were “to be scourged and burnt upon the cheek,, and if over fourteen, “to be hanged at once.” An Act of June 24, 1613, decreed death for any persons of the former Clan MacGregor who should assemble in greater numbers than four. By act of Scottish Parliament 1617 the§e laws were continued and extended to the rising generation. The men were branded on the cheek with a red-hot iron, and yet the Clansmen clung to the only virtues they knew — courage, endurance, and fidelity.
They became an outlawed, lawless, landless clan. Contrasting their for¬ mer greatness with their present misery stirred their ardent Celtic mind wTith fierce emotions of regret and revenge:
“Glenorchay’s proud mountain, Coalchuirn and her Towers, Glenstrae1 2 and Glenlyon no longer are ours;
We’re landless, landless, landless, Grigalach (Fate of Grigs)!
But, doom’d and devoted by vassal and lord,
Macgregor has still both his heart and his sword!
Then courage, courage, courage, Grigalach!
If they rob us of name, and pursue us with beagles,
Give their roofs to the flame, and their flesh to the eagles;
Then vengeance, vengeance, vengeance, Grigalach!”
The clansmen’s habit wras to make incursions into the neighboring low¬ lands to plunder and lay waste the country. These habits were fostered by the rugged and almost inaccessible character of the coulq-y which prevented the Low'landers from retaliating.
The rugged and wild rich variety of the savage character in Highland scenery of Argyllshire culminates in the gloomy grandeur of Glencoe3 one of the wildest and grandest of the glens — the stream through its lonely recesses is Cona. A characteristic feature, the “corry” is a crescent-shaped hollow' or half- cauldron cut out of a steep mountain recess where a number of small torrents converge. The sharp narrow, knife-like crests low’er into cols or passes. A suc¬ cession of parallel confluent ridges trending northeast to southwest are sep¬ arated by furrowed transverse valleys. Lofty eminences of rocks project in innumerable bosses and crags which roughen the sides and crests of the ridges
1 Nimmo “History of Stirlingshire”— Morris.
2 Glenstrae was at southwest end of Glen Orchy, west of Orchy River.
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whose sides are seamed with torrents which tear and sweep solid rock. Broad expanses of low ground called straths lie between bounding hills and are usually traversed by one main stream and its tributaries. The glens are the narrower and steeper-sided valleys.
The appearance of the Highland mountains is that of dark-blue clouds of vapcr hovering high over lofty hills and rocks in whose recesses and sides gullies are rent and ravines are torn by rock or breccia fallen from precipitious cliffs. Amid a profusion of thickets, knolls, and steep crags lay the lakes abounding in trout, grilses, and salmon. Alders, poplars, and birch overhang the banks amid forests of oak, ash, and pine through which red deers stalk over-circled by the golden and the white-tailed eagle, the osprey, and the kite. The average temperature is 48 degrees F; rainfall is 100 inches — 113.62 inches at Bridge of Orchy; 127.65 inches at Upper Clencoe; 130 inches in Glencroe.
Yet kind are the hearts, and undaunted the clans,
That roam on these mountains so drear —
Hogg (Rogers, “Traits and Stories of the Scottish People”)
There, clansmen lived in groups of four or five huts surrounded by patches of arable land cut out of the copsewood and small enough that each could be worked with a spade to grow barley and oats. These “bourocks” were usually near a brook that hurtled its way down the flinty mountain side, and were made of loose rubble stones, blocks of peat (Rogers), or broom — no mortar, but the walls were three to six feet thick. Often there W'ere two walls, the hollow between filled solidly with moss and earth, thatched by turfs on rafters of un¬ hewn birches and oaks which sloped almost to the ground.
Each home consisted of one room, but had a partition of wattles and clay. In the middle of the floor of the larger apartment or living room was the fire; the smaller apartment was reserved for live stock. There was one door and no windows. Each spring the thatch was removed to manure the crops. One third of the children died under twelve years of age.
The Highlanders of Scotland called themselves Gael Albinnich (Gaels of Albin). Their head-gear was a cloth cap or “bonnet” in wrhich a sprig of heath¬ er was stuck, or an eagle’s feather, if a chief. Gentlemen wore saffron (yellow war-coat) tunic for battle and ancient hauberk or jersey of iron rings. Lesser folk wore jackets of quilted linen smeared with wax or pitch, and over it a deerskin. The beard was worn long. Men as wTell as -women wore long hair, but women braided their hair. Their feet wrere encased in raw-hide fastened with thongs. This brog (Celtic) or shoon was a very rude shoe of undressed dun deer’s hide with the hair outwards, which obtained for the Highlanders the well-known epithat of Reddschankes (Red Shanks) because the entire hoof was used which projected from the toes of the wearer. It made a high shoe protecting also the shins. Their dress the skin was a shirt of fine texture. Over this was a tightly fitting tunic reaching below the hips, with a girdle at the waist. On women it fell to the feet. Over the left shoulder and fastened with a brooch hung the loose tartan, a thin light woolen cloth — “Short mantles or plaids of divers colours sundry ways divided” (Buchanan 1582). “They who have seen those places are able at the first view of a man’s plaid to guess the place of his residence” (Martin). Women w/ore the tartan over their heads and shoulders.
Tartan was believed to have been invented by Margaret, queen of Malcolm Canmore (ruled 1058-1093), as a substitute for the system of tattooing prev¬ iously practised. Every Celt wTore a kilt or philabey with a plaid of the same material swung across his shoulders; some wTore a plume and carried a pouch. The plaid of seven or eight yards long served as a protection against rains by days; and at night it served as a blanket, sheet, and counterpane. Clan Gregor wore tartan v/hen everything connected with the Clan was proscribed. “The Glengyle branch wears a peculiar old sett” (Maclan). Clan Gregarach wTore a
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tartan of scarlet red with narrow black checks. The slogan of the clan was Ardchoille, meaning “The Woody Height.” Their badge was the pine Scot Fir, Giuthas (Gaelic), which was the forerunner of the Gregg coat-of-arms com¬ piled 1565-66. Their motto, “Is Rioghal Mo Dhream” (royal is my race); their pibroch was the Gregor salute and the Glen Fruin.
Highlanders were never idle at home (Rogers). The women’s chores were spinning, weaving, mending, or knitting. The men mended, repaired weapons, or wove baskets.
On shady passes and thickets overhanging paths little highland shelties (ponies) were used.
Bagpipes, not lyres, the Highland hills adorn,
MacLean’s loud hello, and MacGregor’s horn.
John Cooper’s Reply to Allan Ramsay.
Their weapons were a small axe, spear or halbert, and a broadsword or “claymore” having a straight blade and a basket-hilt attached to a broad baudrich which passed over the right shoulder. A dirk was often worn on the right side, the sheath of which was provided with a hunting knife with a single sharp edge. When away from home a circular target was carried on the left arm for defense. The clansmen had bows and arrows for heavy ptarmigan. Sentinels and beacon flames were messages.
The chief food was venison prepared without fire by compressing slices between two battens of wood so as to force out all the blood, thus making it acceptable at all hours. Other food consisted of broiled moor-game, ewe-milk cheese, dried salmon, oaten bread, and berries picked from the brambles. Straggling sheep were black, bluish or orange color with black predominating in legs and faces. Sturdy and picturesque kyloes (cattle) thrived on the harsh climate and scanty rations amidst the wild romatic scenery, and furnished meat of the choicest quality. They had long horns and were shaggy. Although black was the predominating color, the shaggy hair of some was pure white, light dun, brindle, tawny yellow. Scott refers to these sagacious cattle:
Mightiest of all the beasts of chase That roam in woody Caledon,
Crashing the forest in his race,
The mountain bull comes thundering on.
The Highlanders (Rogers) could read Gaelic and knew church discipline. The first Gaelic book was printed 1567. The clergy, physicians, and even the bards possessed real learning. Sir James Macgregor, the Dean of Lismore, pub¬ lished a book of poetry and an obituary of the McGregor chiefs. The “Book of Deer” was a religious manual of the early 12th Century.
The subtle character of the Scottish mind caused the clansmen to debate the most paltry differences with singular energy (Rogers). They were very imaginative and were given to spontaneous utterances of their convictions. Their language structure was metaphorical and emotional; the traditional highland tales were full of mythology. It excelled in expressing love and hate. The clansmen’s natures were affectionate and tender; their love-songs of ex¬ quisite delicacy breathed the most pathetic air in tender words. Proverbs abound to give force and pungency to the Highlander’s sentiment as:
Is le duine an ni a shnigeas e — There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. Ach cha leis an ni a chagaineas e — What a man swallows is his own, but not what he chews.
An uair a theid a’chailleach’n a ruith — It never rains but it pours.
Common Gaelic words:
Cionnus tha thu? — How beog — little
art thou? mart — fattened ox
tigh — house mor — big
salach — dirty sith — peace
rath — circle of good fortune Cha-n'eil rath air — There is no circle on him.
buidh — yellow dubh — black ruadh — red crom — bent
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Common Gregg names were Eoin (John) and Villeam (William).
Pressure of moistened thumbs was made as a solemn ratification of engage¬ ment or bargain making (lick thumbs) till close of 18th Century. One supersti¬ tion of the Argyllshire Highlander was that the spirit of the last person buried watched the churchyard till occurence of the next funeral. Many ghost stories originated in the sheepstealer who threw a white sheet over his shoulders to con¬ ceal his person while he plundered and to frighten those who may have otherwise guessed his intent and sought his detection.
The clan Gregor, "the clan that wfas nameless by day,” form the theme of many interesting and stirring ballads. The authoress of "Macgregor’s Lullaby” was a daughter of Colin Campbell4 of Glenorchy and the wife of Gregor Macgregor whose death she laments. Her husband1, his brother Malcom Roy with their father Duncan Macgregor2 were beheaded 15511 by Colin Campbell:
“Early on a Lammas3 4 morning with my husband was I gay,
But my heart got sorely wounded ere the middle of the day,
Malison on judge and kindred, they have wrought me mickle woe;
With deceit they came about us, with deceit they laid him low.
Chorus:
Ochan, ochay, uiri,
Tho I cry, my child, with thee —
Ochan, ochan, uiri,
Now he hears not thee nor me.
Had they not but twelve Macgregors with my Gregor as their head;
Now my child had not been orphaned, nor these bitter tears been shed. Chorus:
On an oaken block they laid him, and they spilt his blood around;
I’ve have drunk it in a goblet largely, ere it reached the ground.
Chorus:
Far, far better be with Gregor where the heather’s in its prime,
Than with mean and Lowland barons in a house of stone and lime.
Chorus:
Other Macgregor songs of the same era are "Macgregor’s O’Ruara” —
There is sorrow, and sorrow, and sorrow now fills me —
Poor pitiful sorrow no man can record;
It is sorrow and sighing, and sadness that thrills me —
Oh! terrible sadness I cannot repress.
Macgregor has perished — MacGregor, pine — bannered —
Macgregor, beloved in Glenlyon the green;
Macgregor, the brave, by whose foes ever honoured The threatening roar of our pibroch has been.
"The Braes of the Ceathach (Mist)” is one of the sweetest and most affecting songs in any language (Porter). The singer, a woman, concealed her Macgregor husband and two sons in a bed as enemies were approaching the house. She sat by the fire and began singing her song of solitude. The enemies listened, accept¬ ed it as true, and passed on without troubling her:
I sit here alone, by the plain of the highway.
For my poor hunted kin, watching mist, wratching by the way;
I’ve yet got no sign that they’re near to my dwelling;
1 Porter.
2 Son of Gregor of Roro (O’Ruara). See chart of descent.
3 First of August.
4 Twenty years later another such marriage ended tragic when Duncan Campbell
intended giving his daughter in marriage to the Baron of Dal! on the south side of Loch Tay. She having met young Gregor MacGregor of Glenstrae, gave to him her heart’s wrarm affections which he fully returned. In spite of all opposition she left her father’s house and married. Duncan and relatives, so bitterly vexed, they followed Gregor and his wife with the most unrelenting enmity. They were often obliged to wander from place to place taking shelter under rocks and in thickets of woods. On the night preceding April 7, 1570, they had rested under a rock on a hillside above Loch Tay before overtaken the following morning.
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At Loch Fyne they were last seen — if true be that telling.
After winning their livelihood by strength of arms for dreary generations, brighter days dawned for the Gregors. During' the broken reign of Charles II (1651-1682) they gave some material aid to help him regain his kingdom, and in 1661 an Act was passed annulling all previous statutes against the Macgregors and permitting them to resume their family name. The king thus explained such clemency: “That those who were formerly designed Macgregors had, during the late troubles, conducted themselves with such loyalty and affection to His Majesty as might justly wipe off all memory of former miscarriages, and take all marks of reproach for the same.”
Ours is no sapling, chance — sown by the fountain Blooming at Beltane, in winter to fade;
When the whirlwind has stripped every leaf on the mountain The more shall Clan Alpine exult in her shades.
— Scott.
The unquenchable spirit of the Gregs was never broken; and when the per¬ iod of persecution was over, they revived their noble qualities and brought them to a better use. Throughout their hardships they remained loyal to their king. The British have numbered many heroes from this lion-hearted race. More Greggs live today in Glen Orchy in Arhylshire than any where else. Many arc buried there at Dalmally.
Their history was that of several others of the original Highland clans, who were suppressed by more powerful neighbors.
The peculiarity in the story of the MacGregors is their retaining wTith such tenacity their separate existence and union as a clan under circumstances of the utmost urgency (Scott).
I mark’d a material race portrayed in colours strong;
Bold, soldier-featur’d, undismayed they strode along.
— Burns; “The Vision.”
The clan Gregor is generally believed to be one of the most ancient and re¬ nowned of the Highland tribes and from time immemorial has been called the “Clan Alpin.” A Highland proverb says, “The hills, the MacAlpins, and the Devil came into the world at the same time.” A Celtic proverb says, “The Mountains, the Rivers, and the MacGregors are Coeval.”
“When I asked a very learned minister in the Islands,” says Dr. Johnson, “which they considered their most savage clan.” “Those that live next the Low¬ lands — among them the MacGregors whose ancient territory was on both sides of Loch Tay.” The history of the loss of their lands and titles furnish Sir Walter Scott the foundation and material for his “Rob Roy,” “Legend of Montrose,” and the famous character of Roderick Dhu in “Lady of the Lake.”
And though the warriors sun has set
Its light shall linger round us yet,
Bright, radiant and blest.
— Coplan De Maurique.
References :
History of the Clan Gregor— MacGregor.
The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland.
Origin of the Greg, Grig, and MacGregor Families. Clans. Septs of Scottish Highlanders — Adams.
The Clans of Scotland— Scott.
Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Story of Rob Roy — Millar and Scot.
Traits and Stories of the Highlanders — Rogers. Historical Geography of the Clans of Scotland. Historv of Scotland — Robertson.
Highland Clans of Scotland— Eyre -Todd VI. Memorials of Argleshire — Wm. Brown.
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CHAPTER II
Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions* private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages -of Books and the Like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of Time.
— Bacon.
The Highlander is porverbially tenacious of the memories of his race and al¬ most invariably well-informed regarding the descent and relationship of his clan (Eyre-Todd). The group containing the Clan Gregor appear to have emerged from Glendochart in western Perth, at least to be connected with the old Colum- ban monastries.
From the repressed Gregs who still possessed lands as sub-tenants of the Campbells at the south end of Glen Orchy arose the chiefs who legitimately rep¬ resented Clan Greg and maintained proper relationships. Our Gregs stem from this locale of northeastern Argyle whose history is synonymous with Greg activ¬ ities. These clansmen were descendants of a second son Gregor.
Doungheal, the elder son of Gregor (Grig- (hi ere), was the first MacGregor1 known as Dongallus or Doun-gheal, so-called from his light-brown complexion. Doungheal’s younger brother, Guarsi, became the ancestor of the Clan MacQuary. Doungheal’s eldest son, Gregor, was the progenitor of John Macgregor of Glen- urchy, listed in the Ragman Roll 1296 as John de Glenurchy, tenant of the Camp¬ bells. His grandson John Macgregor of Glenorchy died 1390 leaving three sons; Patrick Macgregor, John Dubh Macgregor of Glenstrae, and Gregor O’Ruara2. Of these three sons the oldest one, Patrick, succeeded as chief in 1390. Chief Pat¬ rick’s younger brothers were John dubh (black-Dow) McGregor of Glenstrae and Gregor M’Gregor of Roro in Glenlyon. Chief Patrick’s line became extinct and the chieftainship came to the MacGregors of Glenstrae but only the title as cap¬ tain of the clan. In 1520 the MacGregors of Roro lost their lands to the Campbells of Glenorchy though remained as tenants and their descendants still survive. After the lands of Glenorchy passed away by the marriage of an heiress the MacGregors of Glenstrae exercised the chiefship for several centuries.
John Dubh (Dow) M’Gregor of Glenstrae had son Malcorn who had a son Patrick who was the father of Black John Macgregor of the Coat-of-Mail buried at Dysart in Glenorchy on May 26, 1519. The Christian names Patrick and John denote religious connotation and reveal close adherence to Christianity.
The name John Greg, escutcheoned indelibly, permeates each generation. We descend from the oldest son of John Dow (dubh-black) M’Gregor of Glenstrae, ancestor of the family at Glenstrae at northeast end of Loch Awe. They became leaders of the Clan. There was no freeholder or baron amongst them, no chief¬ tain3. His great-grandson, Black John Macgregor of the Coat-of-Mail of Glen¬ strae, was buried at Dysart in Glenorchy May 26, 1519. He was a kind patron to the red-haired bard MacNab who praised Macgregor as:
“A prince indeed is he who knows the craft of ruling;
Well taught in each degree of proper princely schooling.”
The Gregs of Glenstrae aided in all Macgregor projects, but their serious natures nurtured a strain of quietness and calm embracing Christianity in its fullest. In 1559 adjacent Perth declared itself Protestant and districts were placed under traveling ministers to establish churches. Clan Gregor was visited and some clansmen took up the covenanter’s cause. The church reformed Clan Greg¬ or’s method of justice so that retaliation for murder and other injuries was re¬ linquished.
1 Robertson “Highlands of Scotland.”
2 MacGregor of Roro in Glenyon is oldest cadet of the clan mentioned in 15th Century.
3 Johnston “Hist. Geog. of Clans of Scotland.”
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Chronicles, History of Clan Gregor noted 1512; .compiled 1898 by Wm. Brown of
Edinburgh in his “Memorials of Argleshire.”
From the prosperous Fergus McErc Alpine of stately mien and
Kenneth of the pointed spear buried 860 at Iona Hugh of Urchy (Urguhay) famous
GiUefealan, William of the ambush, noble, gave to friends j. Duncan from Srulee (Strwlee) a second son
Duncan the little (surly and smart) great by many spoils, of great soul Malcolm
Frincely John the lucky, never broke a pledge
Gregor of the Standard, a younger son, killed in battle with the Danes 961; emerged from Dochart Doungheal so-called from his light brown complexion John of the Standard m. Alpina da. of Angus d. in battle 1004 Gregor Garbh of the Stout of Glenurchey Malcolm
Laird John MacGregor of Glenurchy d. 1113 Sir Malcolm d. 11641 of incredible strength Wiliiam d. 1238 Lord McGregor Gregor d. 1286 Glenurchy John De Glenurchy in Ragman Roll 1296 as tenant of the Campbells Malcolm d. 1374
Blind Laird John Cham of Glenurchy d.
1390 contemporary with Sir Colin Campbell John Dhu or Doef black (Dow)
Dubh of Glenstrae d. 1415. Swarthly, princely, great hunter, lived at Strom- elochane near entrance of Glenstrae Malcolm d.June 22, 1440 handsome, of unbending truth wife Mary Patrick d. May 1461
Black (Dubh) John of the Coat-of-Mail buried at Dysart in Glenorchy May 26, 1519.
Previous to the reign of Mary Stuart’s son James I. 1603-1625 (known also as James VI of England) a curious rumor floated that a Scottish King would sympa¬ thize with Ireland because the Irish were the original “Scots,” James I established circuits and a complete system of shires in northern Ireland. The English system was violently substituted. He had a mania for colonization. Thousands left Scot¬ land for Nova Scotia and Ulster. King James visited Scotland for the second time in 1617 after which whole communities of various clans were transplanted to Ulster.2 Among them were many Gregs from the clan Gregor who were accus¬ tomed to admiring the eldest and worthiest of their kin. Their leader, a John Gregg, evidently descended from next to the oldest son of Black John of the Coat-of- Mail, received from King James I a silver-studded ivory-headed cane in esteem and appreciation of his influence and responsibility in the removal of the Gregs from Scotland to Country Antrim, Ulster about 1618.
John Greg was given and settled his people in the barony of Glenarm, County Antrim, Ireland on the northeast coast. In Ireland the counties wTere divided into “baronies” which are equivalent to the hundreds in England and seem to have been formed out of the land of Irish chiefs. There also a baron denoted the rank or dignity of a baron and the feudal tenure “by barony” (domain of a baron). A Rev. John Greg (perhaps a cousin) a minister at Carrichfergus, County Antrim, Ireland was obliged in 1649 to abandon his charge and settle in Newton Ards, County Down where he was buried July 22, 1670 at Dromore — “old, worthy breth-
1 Sir Malcolm's second son Gregor was progenitor of the Grant’s. Sir Malcom’s third son Achaius (Hugh), progenitor of the Mackays.
2 Rogers “Traits and Stories of the Scottish People.”
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era, able and useful."
During the reign of Charles I (1625-1649) these Ulster Presbyterians were rigorously treated and insulted. In 1642 a Seottish army under General Robert Monro landed in Ulster to help the colonists rally. Coleraine, Enniskillen, and Carrickfergus defied as they were strong for king and covenant. There was an insurrection at Carrifergus in May 1653.
William Greg1, oldest son of John Greg and a Presbyterian landholder, was forced to leave his inheritance of Glenarm Barony on the coast of County Antrim after May 1653. His father, the John Greg from Clan Gregor in Scotland, had died probably about 1644 (born about 1576) and this eldest son William inherited the barony and the silver-studded ivory-headed cane which his father decreed should be handed dowm to the second oldest son in each generation because the oldest customarily inherited the land.
This oldest son William2 (born 1616, Scotland) left by ship after May 1653 his Glenarm Barony in County Antrim with three children, Richard, William born about 1643 and the oldest son John. Probably there were daughters. With this family he settled on the southwest shore of Waterford County, Southern Ireland at Ardmore where he died about 1672. Kis son John2 died same place 1724 and his son Richard2 died there 1741.
At Ardmore, William Greg found Scottish friends in a county which was not Irish, but free, since a trade route was wrell established between Waterford, Ireland and the Isle of Mull, Scotland.
The members of Clan Gregor took their first names from their ancestors and their rulers in appreciation and devotion. Their benefactor William the Lion ruled (1165-1214) at Stirling, Scotland for a long and important era in which he made efforts for the independence of Scotland and was rewarded by internal peace. During his reign the new diocese of Argyll was founded by separation from Dunkel and it was then that John the Scot, a bishop, sent his chaplain as know¬ ing Gaelic to the Argyll diocese. William the Lion wTas followed by Richard Coeur de Lion who renounced the English claim to Scotland in 1189. From such staunch persons the Gregs named their children for their unity and happiness depended much on attachments to their leaders.
Names are enduring — generations come and go — nomeclature is a well, in which, as the fresh water is flowdng perennially through, there is left a sediment that clings to the' bottom.
-K, — C. W. Bardsley.
1 Reid, J. S. Presbyterian Church in Ireland Vol 2. - Wills of Ireland.
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WILLIAM GREGG, 1642-1687, IMMIGRANT FRIEND
There is no way you can benefit society more than by coining the metal you have in yourself.
— Ibsen.
The Gregs, deeply imbued with spiritual piety, v/ere most receptable to the teachings of William Penn when he visited Waterford, Ireland in 1678 and con¬ verted many Scottish settlers to the Society of Friends. So the Gregs became Penn Quakers1.
Oliver Cromwell said, “There is a people risen that I cannot win writh gifts or honors.” They practised a friendship of Christians with no set creed, no cere¬ monial of worship, no baptism, no outer sacrament, and no priests. They “kept their hearts from hardness” and said “Out of violence only violence comes; they refused to take oaths because they told the truth at all times; they uttered no evil and spoke for careful accuracy; they had no time for trivialities, yet his life was not dull or dreary.”
The following is an illustration of the Puritan’s esteem of the Quakers in colonial times:
In the Year of Cur Lord 1682 To Ye Aged and Beloved, Mr. John Higginson:
There be now at sea a ship called Welcome, which has on board 100 or more of the heretics and maligna nts called Quakers, with W. Penn, who is the chief scamp, at the head of them. The General Court has ac¬ cordingly given sacred orders to Master Malachi Huscott, of the brig Porpoise, to waylay the said Welcome slyly as near the Cape of Cod as may be, and make captive the said Penn and his ungodly crew, so that the Lord may be glorified and not mocked on the soil of this new country with the heathen worship of these people. Much spoil can be made of selling the whole lot of Barbadoes, where slaves fetch good prices in rum and sugar, and we shall only do the Lord great good by punishing the wicked, but we shall make great good for His Minister and people.
Yours in the bowels of Christ,
Cotton Mather
As a devout adherent William Gregg was a member of a colonial Friend group which left southern Ireland after October 16&S, possibly in the ship “Caledonia” with William Hoge. He had with him the silver-studded ivory-headed cane in¬ herited as next to the oldest son from his father, William Greg, who left Glenarm Barony, County Antrim after May 1653. By this time the cane had become an heirloom whose story he recited many times to his children just as it was the custom for his ancestors to retain a bard wdiose duty was to sing the exploits of the Greg ancestral line. Charles A. Gregg, Fredericktown, Ohio, now is the proud hereditary owner of the cane.
The ship of Friends landed at Upland, now Chester, Pennsylvania, 1682. No doubt married relatives came with William Gregg besides his wife and four small children. Sedate and reserved in appearance they later made their way down the Delaware River to settle that part of Christiana Hundred bordering the Penn¬ sylvania line and lying between Brandywine hnd Red Clay Creeks on the west side of Brandywine Creek near the present site of Centerville. The surface is elevated and broken with generally fertile soil. In this northern part was one of William Penn’s principal manors, Rockland Manor, in which William Gregg was granted 200 acres in 1633 and a warrant for 400 acres on January 25, 1684. (Con¬ rad's History of Delaware. Vol. 2, p. 462). Here he built a log cabin on a location
1 The epithet “Quaker” was first bestowed 1651 upon George Fox founder of the “Society of Friends,, by Justice Bennett of Derby because “they bade the people tremble at the word of the Lord.”
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which he called Strand Millas. It adjoined the lands of Matthias Defosse on Squirrel Creek, who died May 1703, had wife Sarah. Other neighbors were Henry Hollingsworth, Thomas Hollingsworth, Thomas- Wool&sten, George Hog, William Hoge, John Hussy, William Dixon.
William Gregg’s family of a wife, a young daughter, and three young sons was wTell cared for and also entertained by his stories of the Clan Greg’s fortunes and misfortunes. These stories were never forgotten fey his children who passed them on to the next generation. He was most congenial in his home.
The earliest monthly meetings of the Quakers on west side of the Delaware River was organized at New Castle about 1681 and held in a private house until 1687 when the meetings were changed to a log meeting house on the grounds given by Valentine Hollingsworth.
In 1686 William Gregg gave 5 shillings “toward a public stock for ye relief of ye friends in necessity” with Cornelius Empson, Edward Blake, Valentine Hol¬ lingsworth, John Richardson, Robert Turner, and Thomas Snelling. He was one of the Friends who in the winter of 1687 was granted, permission to hold their meetings in the winter months on Christiana side instead of going to the Brandy¬ wine Hundred Meeting at Newark “by reason of the clangerousness of ye ford” they must cross. When about forty-five he died and was buried on his owm plan¬ tation at his home of Strand Millas on July 1, 1687. His four children were suc¬ cessfully reared by the mother, relatives, and friends, as the oldest child John was only nineteen when the father died. The children lived in their own home Strand Millas and kept possession of their father's land.
To the eldest son John fell the duty of administering the estate. To next oldest son George descended the silver-studded ivory-headed cane. The youngest son Richard was the last one to occupy the home after the mother’s death about January of 1692. The land had been surveyed on May II, 1685 by Henry Hollings¬ worth and after the father’s death was divided by him on April 23, 1692 between sons John and Richard Gregg leaving 150 acres for son Richard Gregg including Strand Millas.
Richard seems to have been the weaker heir as the other two brothers were most conscientious in carrying out duties as useful denizens and devout Quakers. In land records of Pennsylvania Archives^ is found that John and his brother George used interchangeably their last name as Gregg or Grigg in business trans¬ actions. These brothers seated 400 acres of land on the Brandywdne as old rent on December 13, 1691-2. It was an entailed ground of James Logan to William Gregg which would never run out, but a small lien inherited perpetually in a property returning an income to the proprietary family. This passed from seller to purchaser indefinitely and could be collected today if the Revolution had not intervened and this government made it distinctly understood that is assumed no responsibility to collect for creditors in England. Early deeds were not recorded; indeed perhaps not always formally written, so sometime in the history of a prop¬ erty a deed will recite the various transfers that have preceded the present trans¬ action.
Richard Gregg youngest son of William Gregg was fcorn about 1676 Addmore, Ireland. He inherited the home of Strand Millas of 150 acres on the Brandywine where he died 1719; evidently he had poor health for years. He had signed a petition to the King 1715 relating to the early boundary difficulties between Penn¬ sylvania and Delaware. The evidence that he died without heirs surviving is scant and negative, but conclusive. In the deed of gift from his brother John to brother George 1719 John could not have had any right, title, or demand on his property by inheritance if any direct heirs of Richard were living. He made no statement indicating any debt or obligation of his brother Richard to himself conferring such a claim, such statement being necessary to make the deed valid
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if such were the basis of his claim. An oldest son inherited at least twice as much as another son at that date by English law and might, with unconfirmed land as “heir-at-law,” have a right in all.
Ann Gregg, only daughter and second child of immigrant William Gregg, born 1670, died 1729; married 1690 as the second wife of William Dixon (Dickson) 1662- 1708) a weaver, son of innkeeper Henry Dixon died County Armagh, Ireland and his widow Rose Dixon who came to American colonies 1688 settling at New Castle, Delaware. After William Dixon’s death Sept. 1708 (Advisors and guardians were "brothers Mirthwell Jearlin and John Grigg”) Ann Gregg-Dixon later married second to John Houghton. The Dixon or Dickson family originated in Scotland:
"The famous Dicksons,” a conspicuous quality compliment, originated from the hard riding, foraying clan of Dick (Richard) de Keth in the lowlands of Scot¬ land. He was the son of Marshall Hervey de Keth died 1240, married Margaret Douglas daughter of William Douglas third son of Lord Douglas of Scotland. Richard de Keth’s son Thomas Dickson of Hazleside was born 1247, succeeded his father as head of the clan and was killed on Palm Sunday, March IS, 1307, aged 60. He was succeeded by his son Thomas Dickson. Their mottoes were "Fortune favors the bold” and "I sleep, but watch.” “In a charter from King Robert Bruce about A. D. 1306 to Thomas Dickson the name occurs as Filius Ricardi (son of Richard) and the charter is endorsed Carta Thomas fil Dick.”
"When King James I 1603-1625 desired to populate the wastes of Northern Ireland and whole Scottish communities •were transplanted from their native bourn to Ireland, many members of the Clan Dickson left Scotland and” — many became Quakers.
Children by first marriage:
Henry Dixon 1692-1742 m 1715 Ruth Jones d 1758.
Issue *
I. John 1717-1767 m 1742 Rebecca Cox d 1787. n. Joseph b. 1719 m 1742 Mary Pusey of Newark Mtg. Delawere.
III. Dinah Dixon.
IV. Mary Dixon b. Mill Creek Hundred m. Aug. 18, 1750 at Hockessin Mtg. Del. Herman Gregg 1730-1773 son of William Gregg 1695-1747.
William Dixon 1695-1760 m Hannah Hollingsv/orth b. Jan. 17, 1697, d. 1777,
Issue:
I. Ann Dixon 1724-1799 m Thomas Wilson.
John Dixon b 1742 m. 1724 Sarah Hollingsworth b. Aug. 7, 1706 dau. Thomas Hol¬ lingsworth 1661-1733 and Grace Cooke dau. William and Elizabeth Cooke of Darby or Concord Pennsylvania. Grace Cooke was sister to Elizabeth Cooke who married John Gregg 1668-1738 oldest son of immigrant Will¬ iam Gregg.
Issue:
I. Ann Dixon m (1) Richard Woodnut; m (2) William Gregg 1595-1747 son of John Gregg 1668-1738 and Elizabeth Cooke. See p.^-7
II. John Dixon d 1763 m Apr. 20, 1768 Susanna Prior 1724-1805. See p./<?7 Issue:
A. Sarah Dixon b. Dec. 3, 1760 m (1) John Dixon; m (2) Stephen Gregg. See p. /53
George Dixon b. Nov. 16, 1706 d. Mar. 14, 1761 m. Nov. 19, 1725 Ann Chandler. Issue:
I. Enoch Dixon b. Sept. 5. 1727.
II. Dinah Dixon b. Dec. 1729 d. Aug. 20, 1742.
III. Caleb Dixon b. Sept. 6, 1732.
IV. George Dixon b. April 8, 1740.
V. Phebe Dixon b. Dec. 15, 1743.
VI. Joshua Dixon b. Dec. 26. 1746.
Dinah Dixon.
Ann Dixon.
Thomas Dixon.
Ann Grege-Dixon-Houghton’s issue by (2) m:
Marv Houghton m Isaac Cooke: to North Carolina 1734.
Martha Houghton m 1730 Joseph Hollingsworth.
Rebecca Houghton m Robert Comber.
1 Rogers “Traits and Stories of the Scottish People.”
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CHAPTER IV
JOHN GREGG 16G8-1738 OLDEST SON OF WILLIAM GREGG
Take care of a good name; for this shall continue with thee more than a thousand treasures precious and great. — Ecclesiastics XLI. 15.
John Gregg was born at Ardmore, Waterford Co. Ireland and came to the colony of Delaware 1G82 when fourteen with his parents, sister /Snne, brothers George and Richard. Under the influence of constant Quaker environment and training he became a serious, proud, and a capable youth assuming early the re¬ sponsibility of the home at nineteen when his father passed away. Always he was a faithful Friend and a busy person. Greggs were inherently land owners. On May 20, 1685 a warrant granted to his father William Gregg for 200 acres was confirmed by patent to John Gregg on February 18, 1093 and later sold to Samuel Underwood, Sr. whose executor re-sold part of it back to John Gregg who sold it to Jonathan Strange on February 18, 1733. John Gregg paid the taxes for the whole estate of his father 1693-1696.
In the summer of 1694 when twenty-six he built a two-story stone house which sloped against the rocks on his land in Rocky Manor and married at Con¬ cord Meeting on November 11, 1694 Elizabeth Cooke daughter of William and Eliz¬ abeth Cooke of Darby (Concord), Pennsylvania. This Cooke family originated as the Gales family and flourished in Beeston, Yorkshire, England prior to 1100 A. D. before their name was changed to the office they bore as Cooke in the manor houses of the great lords.
On August 17, 1702 John Gregg bought the first land sold out of “Letitia’s Manor”1 — three miles on the south side of the Brandywine; on 200 acres of it he erected a great mill, then conveyed it to his son William on April 10, 1730.
On September 8, 1703 John Gregg consulted the commissioners for a meeting place. Using the spelling Grigg he soon took up 300 acres in Chester County at Kennett, Pennsylvania and lived on it for some years2. On December 18, 1717 he patented 150 acres on the Brandywine for twenty-two pounds and ten shillings. That same year he “desired to purchase two parcels of land very uneven and rocky joyning on the tract wrhere he now dwells containing 100 acres each parcel. It was formerly laid out to Richard Gregg, who afterwards threw' it up, having never seated or improved it.” It wras agreed that John Grigg could have said land for thirty pounds and one bushel of wheat quit rent on each 100 acres. During his life time John Gregg acquired some 5760 acres of fine land along the Brandy¬ wine reaching to Wilmington and extending over three miles west. Deeds show all Gregg land belonged in the Manor of Steining northwest of Wilmington spreading over the state into Kennett and New' Carden Townships.
A deed of gift (Deed Bk. X-I, p. 427) December 2, 1719 John Gregg of Brandy¬ wine to his brother George Gregg “all title interest or demand whatsoever as he the said John Gregg had or ought to have or can have in all tract of land for¬ merly the possesion of their brother Richard Gregg in Brandywine bounded by land of John Gregg, Olive Matthew's, John Defoss son of Mathias Defoss and land formerly of George Hogg, 150 acres. Witnessed by William. Gregg, Thomas Gregg, Thomas Doothit.” This 150 acres was their boyhood home of Strand Millas which by law then was inherited by the oldest son John who gave it his brother George after their younger Richard had died in the early part of 1719.
1 On Feb. 17, 1699 William Penn directed Henry Hollingsworth to lay out 30,000 acres for his children William and Letitia Penn. On Oct. 23. 1701 he conveyed 14.500 acres on the south side of Brandywine to Letitia called “Letitia's Manor.” William Penn’s other two children Many and Hannah died in infancy. His wife Guliema died 1694.
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On April 9, 1720 the brother George Grigg, “having purchased a sort of Right to 50 acres part of thact first laid out to George Hogg on New rent, desires new grant of same and agrees to pay twelve pounds one-half down and a half bushel wheat quit rent for the future.” That same date John Grigg requests that the rent granted to him for 200 acres “which could not be had” may be executed on a vacant piece called the “School house land and ye remainder of D. Fosses.” On February 26, 1727 John was still desiring continuation of his request about boun¬ daries, and George requested that he may have the grant of 500 acres in tract called Sir John Fogg’s Manor. In June 1732 John requested the piece of land be¬ tween Brandywine and Squirrel Creek.
The monthly meeting of Quakers which had been moved from a private house near New Castle to Newark 1687 to a log meeting house on grounds given by Val¬ entine Hollingsworth. In this the Newark Monthly Meeting was held until 1707 then it was usually held near Centerville, Delaware and finally moved over the line to Kennett, Pennsylvania and resumed in 1721 as the Kennett Monthly Meet¬ ing in Chester County.
John Gregg devotedly followed the progress of the Society of Friends. As a member of the building committee of the Center Friends Meeting house which wras erected near him in 1724 he asked to be excused because he had not the time to serve. He was then fifty-six and was eagerly helping his children and relatives to get a start in life. He was one of the advisors and guardian’s oi his only sister's husband (first) William Dickerson a weaver whose will was probated September 20, 1708. He w'as co-executor wdth his only sister Anne of her second husband John Houghton’s will, probated on May 27, 1720. Through such items we gain some side-lights and knowledge of his life. Evidently he wTas in poor health; his will was made as a yoeman of Christians Hundred, Delaware on March 6, 1738 and probated t Wilmington on April 27, 1738. Burial must have been in Friends Bury¬ ing Grounds at Center, Delaware. He was always referred to in written records as “John Gregg of Bandywine.” No data is available concerning his wdfe’s death. All his children and many of his descendants are yet faithful Friends. John Gregg and wife Elizabeth Cooke-Gregg had seven children whose descendants number into the thousands. Later during the Revolution the DuPonts bought some of the land and began to make pow’der. Since the homes of descendants shook and cracked from explosions, the Greggs gradually sold their inheritance to the DuPonts.
Knowledge of kindred and the genealogies of the ancient families deserv- eth the highest praise. Herein consisteth a part of the kno%vledge of a man’s own self. It is a great spur to virtue to look back on the worth of our time. — Lord Bacon.
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MASTER-KEY CHART OF GREGG LINEAGES
WILLIAM GREGG, Immigrant Father, Buried July 1, 1687 New Castle County, Delaware
JOHN GREGG Immigrant Son 1668-1738
m. Elizabeth Cooke
ANN GREGG Immigrant Daughter 1670-1723
tn. (1) William Dixon 9. (2) John Houghton
WILLIAM GREGG 1 695-17 tY
m. (1) Margery Hinkey ro. (2) Ann Dixon
AMY GREGG m. Joseph Hadley
THOMAS GREGG 1701-1748 m. Dinah Harlan
JOSEPH GREGG 1710-1770
m. Hannah Beeson
SAMUEL GREGG 1710-1767
m. Ann Robinson
Hannah Gregg m. George Rebeccaa Gregg m. — Spr
HENRY DIXON 1692-1742
WILLIAM DIXON 1695-1760
JOHN DIXON -1742
I.
II.
III.
IV. V.
VI.
VII. VIII.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
I.
II.
III.
IV. V.
VI.
VII. VIII.
LX.
I.
II.
III.
IV. V.
I.
Elizabeth Gregg 1726- m Samuel Levis.
Harmon Gregg, 1730-1773 ni. Mary Dixon. Willia'm Gregg 1732- m. Anne Nichols.
Joshua Gregg 1733-
Hannah Gregg 1736-
Jacob Gregg 1737- ni. Polly Hatcher.
Margery Gregg 1739-
Abraham Gregg 1745-1802 m. Mary Hcald.
Elizabeth Hadley m. James Thompson.
Deborah Hadley m. John Curie.
Hannah Hadley m. Samuel Curie.
John Hadley m. Margaret Norton.
Mary Gregg 1729- m. Isaac Richards.
Michael Gregg 1731 1804 rti. Sarah Carpenter. John Gregg 1*33-1804 m. Ruth Smith.
Thomas Gregg 1734-1792 in. Martha.
Lydia Gregg 1736-1790 m. Thomas Carleton. Dinah Gregg 1738- m. Christopher Wilson.
Amy Gregg 1/40-1771 m. James Wilson.
Stephen Gregg 1742-1795 ni. Susanna Pryor. Abigail Gregg 1746- in. George Sharp.
Benjamin Gregg 1736-1774 m. Sarah Chamber*. Mary Gregg 1738- m. John Beeson.
Enocli Gregg 1744-1790 m. Hannah —
Solomon Gregg 1740- m. Isobel McCraken.
Isaac Gregg 1748-1807 m. Sarah Calloher.
Elizabeth Gregg m. (1) Jacob Wilson (2) Jonathan Woodnut (3) .... Jones.
Sarah Gregg 1743-1801 in. Gideon Gilpin. Samuel Gregg 1752-1830 in. Dinah Chandler. Mary Gregg in. John Gibson.
John Gregg 1755-1808 in. Orpha Stubbs.
Joseph Gregg in. Mary Col litis.
Thomas Gregg -1820 m. Rebecca Janney. (Hannah nr Ann Gregg ni. Thomas Hooper. Robinson, ague or Spragg.
I. John 1717-1767 ni. Rebecca Cox.
Joseph Dixon 1719- m. Mary' Pusey.
Dinah Dixon.
Mary Dixon m. Herman Gregg.
II.
III.
IV. V.
VI.
VII. VIII.
II.
III.
IV.
I.
I.
Ann Dixon 1724-1779 m. Thomas Wilson.
Ann Dixon m. (1) Richard Woodnut ni. t2> William Gregg.
II. John Dixon -1763 in. Susan Pryor.
GEORGE DIXON 1706-1761
Mary Houghton ni Martha Houghton Rebecca Houghton
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
. Isaac Cooke, m. Joseph Hollingsworth ni. Robert Comber.
Mary Gregg
Enoch Dixon 1727- Dinah Dixon 1729-1742. Caleb Dixon 1732- George Dixon 1740- Phebe Dixon 1743- Josliua Dixon 1746-
GEORGE GREGG Immigrant Son 1674-1744 m. Sara Hogg
JOHN GREGG 1716-1788
ni. Susannah Curie
RICHARD GREGG 1718-1754 m. Anne Hadley
GEORGE GREGG 1720-1791
ni. Elizabeth Hanby
RICHARD GREGG Imndgrunt Sou 1670-1716
1.
II.
111.
IV.
V.
VI.
VH.
v 1 1 r .
IX.
I.
ii.
111.
IV.
V.
VI. VII.
VIII,
I.
II.
nr.
IV.
V.
VI.
VH.
VIII.
. „ — 1738- m. George
Hannah Gregg 1740-1777 ni. Amos Gregg 1742-1814 Amy Gregsz ‘
. . 1744- ....
George Gregg 1747- m. John Gregg 1749-1819. Richard Gregg 1752-1812 Lydia Gregg 1756- m. — Hcbckuh Gregg 1758-1823
Nixon.
... William Dixo . ni. Priscilla Gregg, ni. Thomas Gregg 1743-18 ni. Ruth Gregg.
m. Ann Gregg. -Howell.
m. Francis Seaton
Simon Gregg m.
Sarah Gregg in.
Jacob Gregg 1741- William Gregg m Miriam Gregg m. Deborah Gregg.
Phoebu Gregg.
Ruth Gregg in. William
Andrew Smith. 1798 ni. Susanna Charity Jordan. J. Barker.
Bracken.
Underwood .
(Hannah Gregg 1711- m. Aaron Hackney. William Gregg 1746-1826 nt. Rebecca Gregj. Mary Gregg 1750- nt. Israel Gregg.
Sarah Gregg 1753-1833 ni. John Gregg. Elisha Gregg 1754-1817 m. Martha Gregg. George Gregg 1756-1825 m. Mary Gregg. Elizabeth Gregg 1758- m. James Roach. Ruth Gregg 176 1- 1847 rn. Joseph Trlbbey.
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WILLIAM GREGG 1695-1747
m. (1) Margery Hickey (2) Ann Dixon-Woodnut
CHAPTER V
WILLIAM GREGG 1695-1747
I. ELIZABETH GREGG 1726- m. Samuel Levis or Lewis.
II. HARMON GREGG 1730-1773 ni. Mary Dixon
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IH. WILLIAM GREGG 1732-
m. Anne Nichols
IV. JOSHUA GREGG 1732-
A. Henry Gregg 1751-1773.
B. Margery Gregg 1754-
C. William Gregg 1756-1823.
D. Silas Gregg 1759-1828.
E. Herman Gregg 1761-1762.
F. Joshua Gregg 1763-1767.
G. Ruth Gregg 1766-1767.
H. Jaaeob Gregg 1768-1832.
I. Harmon Gregg 1771-1814.
J. John Gregg 1773-1813.
A. John Gregg 1757-1759.
B. Hannah Gregg 1759-
C. Daniel Gregg 1762-
D. Isaac Gregg 1764-
E. Harmon Gregg 1775-1857.
V. HANNAH GREGG 1736-
A_ Phillip Gregg 1766-1816.
1. John Gregg 1798-1852.
2. Thomas Gregg 1798-1875.
B. Titus Gregg 1768-1838.
1. Jane Gregg m. Joseph Ferguson.
2. Miner Gregg m. Mary Johnson.
3. Mary Gregg m. Elias Barnes.
4. Eliza Gregg in. Charles Colyer.
5. Charles Gregg.
6. Jaane Gregg.
7. Lucinda Gregg.
8. Pheby Gregg.
9. Hariett Gregg.
VI. JACOB GREGG 1737-182? m. Polly Hatcher
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VII. MARGERY GREGG 1739-
VIII. \ BRA HAM GREGG 1713-1802 m. Mary HeaJd
C. Harmon Gregg 1774-1844
D. Margaret Gregg
m. David Sutherland.
E. William Gregg -1814.
1. David Gregg 1797-1864 m. Nancy Adams.
2. John Gregg 1800-1876 m. Martha E. McClellan.
3. Jacob Gregg 1802-1893 m. Nancy Lewis.
4. Margaret Gregg 1801-1892 m. P. Hurd'vicke
5. Dr. Josiah Gregg 1806-1850.
6. Son .... Gregg 181 -
7. Son .... Gregg 181 -
8. Polly Gregg 1813- m. James Lewis.
9. Harmon Gregg 1815-1868.
10. Susan Gregg 1818- m. John McClellan.
1. Patsy Gregg.
F. John Gregg 1780-1819.
G. Ayer Gregg 1783-1850
1. William Gregg 1806-1848 in. R. Clark.
2. Mary Gregg 1808-1862 m. \V. Stephenson.
3. Samuel Gregg 1810-1856 m. C. Clifton.
4. Jacob Gregg 1812-1SG2 m. M. Barr.
5. Melinda Gregg 1814-1814.
6. Rebecca Gregg 1815- m. J. Hopkins.
7. Milton Gregg 1818-
8. Matilda Gregg 1820-1821.
9. Sabiah Gregg 1823-1876 in. W. S. Johnston. 10. Josiah Gregg 1823-1903.
I 1. Riley 2. Thomas 3. Elvira 4. Jacob 5. Eliza
A. Sarah Gregg 1769-
B. Samuel Gregg 1771-1833.
C. Ann Gregg 1774-
D. Mary Gregg 1777-1777.
E. Mary Gregg 1778-
F. Jacob Gregg 1781-1853.
1. Uriah Gregg 1810-1861.
2. Hiram Gregg 1812-1812.
3. Mary Gregg 1817- 1. Sarah Gregg 1819.
5. Samuel Gregg 1821-1881.
6. John Gregg 1822-
7. Ann Elizabeth Gregg 1825- 8'. Jacob Gregg 1326-
9. Abraham Gregg 1828- 10. William Gregg 1830-1905.
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26 , QUAKER GREGGS
WILLIAM GREGG 1695-1747
William Gregg, oldest child of John Gregg and Elizabeth Cooke b. 1695 and died 1747 New Castle County, Delaware. As his father and grandfather he did not live to be old. He inherited from his father the 200 acres with the grist-mill erected thereon which he devised by will an interest each to his sons Harmon. William, Joshua, and Jacob. He was an active friend. His first marriage on July 27, 1725 was to Margery Hinkey daughter of Herman and Margery Hinkey of Cecil County, Maryland, a German astronomer. William Gregg became a miller on Red Clay Creek ten miles from Wilmington having the only grist mill within a radius of ten miles. In 1737 William and Margery built at Ashland Station, Delaware a brick house with walls two feet thick. The following account of it is given by Delos O. Tompkins August 1939:
Although living in Delaware for ten years, I had no idea that the home of any ancestors was in existence here, or even that my ancestors came from here, until I received a communication from H. A. Gregg some weeks ago. I was born and raised in Ohio and never realized when I came to Delaware that this was once the home of a great grandfather.
This was very interesting to me and I looked up this old homestead at the earliest opportunity. I found that all that had been said was true and was much impressed by the house and what I could learn about it.
This old house at Ashland, Delaware, is just about eight miles from Wilming¬ ton on a good through highway — Route 82. Ashland is not a town, but merely a fork in the roads. Two houses and a mill are all that is there.
It was quite a thrill when I first looked upon this old house as it is much more imposing and in better condition than I had expected to find. This is due largely to the care that the present owner is giving it. It is located on a sort of terrace several feet above the road level, a stone wall supporting the embank¬ ment along the road. The grounds are clean and in good order.
The house is of colonial style of the “center-hallway” type. There are four windows and the door on the first floor front, and five windows on the second floor on the front side. There is a fair sized porch at the front entrance. The house and rooms are quite large as was needed for the families in those days. The walls are entirely of brick, alternating red and black wThich give it a clean and neat appearance. The joists dividing the first and second floors were extend¬ ed through the wall and a coping built all the way around the house, which adds much to the appearance. While the roof and some trimmings have had to be re¬ placed, the walls are as perfect as when first built. It is really remarkable that the bricks and mortar show no signs of w7ear or crumbling after 200 years of ex¬ posure to the elements. This showrs the quality of materials and workmanship and care taken in building at that time. It is thought the bricks were made at the “brick pond” which was at one time about 200 yards west of the house.
In the gable of the attic is am inset of bricks in which have been cast the
letters and date like this G
WM
1737
arranged as indicated. These are the initials of William and Margery Gregg w'ho built the house in 1737. Each letter is about 8 inches across and extends an inch or more from the wall. They are actually cast in the brick and time has not marred them at all. Someone did try to remove the 1737 and broke off the ex¬ tended figures, but they still show7 plainly where they were attached in the brick. Certainly a lot of v;ork and care was taken in placing these initials and date — it must have been intended that they remain forever. They are very conspicuous and easily noticable from the road.
A large stone kitchen wTith twro large fireplaces with hooks and irons and dutch-ovens for cooking are built on the back. The kitchen is still in use though
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WILLIAM GREGG, 1695-1747 27
the fireplaces are not used now and a small window has been built in where a dutch-oven once was.
A visit to the basement shows clearly how -well planned and soundly con¬ structed was this house. The foundation is af stone and as solid as w’hen built 200 years ago. A large arch approximately 12 feet across was built to support two fireplaces and chimneys near the middle of the back wall. Not a break can be seen in this masterpiece of masonry — it "would support many tons of weight. Right under the arch was a large pit, probably seven or eight feet deep, which was used for cool storage of foods, etc. The pit was filled in recently, but the out¬ lines are still there. Some of the original joists supporting part of the main floor are still there. These joists are really “logs” hand hewed, about 10 inches square - — quite different from what are used today.
The interior of the house was almost completely burned out Feb. 20th, 1934, but wras rebuilt very nearly like the original. Two of the window frames in the front wall escaped the fire and so are still in place. These wooden frames have been exposed to the weather for 200 years and are still solid and sound. The frames are joined at the corners with wooden pegs. In rebuilding the house after the fire, the carpenters found the uralls in perfect alignment which again show's the quality of workmanship and materials which were put into the walls and foundation. Also the original limestone doorstep at the front entrance is still intact and hardly shows wear. It is truly a remarkably well built house.
Near the house in back is a stone “meat house” which wras used for smoking and keeping meat. Some of the old iron hooks on which the meat was hung are still in place. There is also a large “ice pit” for storing ice cut in winter time for summer use. This is now covered by a frame building and of course not used for years.
On the ground around the house are several large trees. Directly in front is a large thick-trunked maple, thought to have been placed there by Mrs. T. Wood¬ ward Jackson who owned the house for one year in 1867. There is a very large elm on the side next to the road and four large pine or evergreen trees. Two or three others have been sut down.
Across and below the road, southwest of the house, is the location of “grist and saw mill” mentioned in the wills and various transfers of the property. This mill is now in use as a flour mill and owned by George W. Pusey. It is thought that a part of the houseoccupied by the Pusey’s was originally the old homestead of John Gregg, the father of William who built the brick house.
Mr. Thomas Mullin W'ho ovrns and lives in the “Gregg” house now is very soc¬ iable and agreeable in showing and explaining everything about the house and its history. He is a man probably past sixty and seems pleased to have anyone call to see the place. His father bought it in 1879 and he inherited it in 1917. He has a record of transfers of the property from the time of William Penn. I en¬ joyed every minute of my visit and am sure that any Gregg wrho gets the oppor¬ tunity wrill wTant to see this grand old historical house.
Margery Hinkey-Gregg died about 1740 and William had a certificate Aug. 2, 1742 to Salem Mo. Mtg. to marry and w'as married about Nov. 1, 1742 second to Arfn Woodnut widow of Richard Woodnut of Salem, New Jersey and daughter of John and Sarah Hollingsw'orth Dixon. (See Dixon family).
William made his will Jan. 10, 1746-7 New Castle County, Delaware and Christiana Hundred, miller. To wife Ann 2/3 of profits of estate real and personal left to executor for bringing up of children and to defray cost till son Harmon will be of age. Land to be divided; son Harmon to have land on north side of Red Clay creek and William the land on the south side; grist mill to the younger sons Harmon, William, Joshua, and Jacob equally. Three younger sons Joshua, Jacob, and Abraham to have 200 pounds when 21 years of age and to be put to trades between fourteen and sixteen years of age. Legacies to daughters Elizabeth, Han-
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nah, and Margery (not eighteen) when twenty years old.
Executors: wife Ann and son Harmon.
Trustees: “My two brethern Samuel Gregg and George Robinson.” Witnesses: George Alford, Henry Green, Jacob Hollingsw'orth.
Sworn and affirmed Aug. 14, 1747. Letters of administration granted to Sam¬ uel Gregg brother of deceased during minority of Harmon the surviving executor.
After William’s death his wife Ann moved back into Salem county, New Jersey where she made her will April 20, 1747 and it wras affirmed in that county May 7, 1774. Inventory Aug. 14, 17?y amount 266 pounds 0 shillings 91/2 pence. Widow of William Gregg of Christiana Hundred, County of New Castle upon the Delaware. Wills son Jonathan Woodnut 50 pounds at age of twrenty-one also my largest Bible; son Henry Woodnut a lot (20 acres) in Greenwood at Cohansey, Salem County given to me by my former husband Richard Woodnut, also 50 pounds and my small Bible. Mentions Ann, wife of Samuel Gregg and three daughters of William Gregg: Elizabeth, Hannah, Margery; youngest son Abraham to have re¬ mainder of estate in county of New' Castle, Delaware.
Executors: Samuel Gregg of Christian Hundred to whom I entrust my young¬ est child to bring up educate and apprentice (Abraham).
Issue by m. (1):
I. Elizabeth Gregg b. Apr. 9, 1726 m. July 6, 1749 Samuel Levis b. Sept. 18, 1723 son of William Levis b. July 8, 1688 d. Feb. 11, 1747 m. Oct. 14, 1720 Elizabeth Reed, settled in Kennett, Chester Co. Pa., son of Samuel Levis b. July 30, 1649, d. 1734 m. Mar. 4, 1680 Elizabeth Clator of Nottongham to Springfield Twp. Chester Co. Pa. 1684 son of Christopher Levis of Harby in Leincestershire, England and wife Mary.
II. Harmon Gregg b. on May 10, 1730 d. 1773 New Castle County, Delaware, married on August 17, 1750 to Mary Dixon daughter of Henry and Ruth Jones-Dixon. He built a fine home near the grist mill on the land which he heired. Harmon died 1773 and Mary married Feb. 25, 1778 to George Woolaston and moved to Rennet, Penn, taking her two youngest children Harmon and Johnwith her.
Issue:
A. Henry Gregg b. Sept. 13, 1751 d. Sept. 27, 1773 made his will Aug.
17, 1773 and it was probated Oct. 1, 1773; his guardian was cousin Joseph Gregg.
B. Margery Gregg b. March 13, 1754 married a .... Heald.
C. William Gregg born in Red Clay Creek home on Sept. 13, 1755 died Oct. 10, 1823 m. in Cecil County, Maryland Dec. 10, 1790 by Mr. C oundoun, minister, to Elizabeth Webb died 1804, a Quaker lady of Philadelphia. They lived for a time in Monongahela County, West Virginia.
Issue:
1. William Gregg b. Feb. 2, 1800 d. Sept. 12, 1867 Graniteville, South Carolina m. Apr. 16, 1829 Marina Jones at Charleston, Edgefield District in North Carolina, founder of first cotton mills in the South at Graniteville, S. C. Marina Jones born 1812 was dau. of Colonel Matthias Jones. William. Gregg is the subject of a book by Broadus Mitchell “William Gregg, Factory Master of the Old South.”
Issue:
a. Mary Virginia Gregg b. Aug. 12, 1830 d. Feb. 1, 1834.
b. William Gregg b. Oct. 11, 1834 d. Feb. 28, 1895, Colonel in C. S. A. m. Dec. 10, 1856 Mary C. Flemming.
Issue:
(1). William Gregg b. Oct. 10, 1857 d. July 29, 1896 m.
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Charlotte Ward.
Issue:
(a) . Mary Flemming Gregg b. 1886 d. Mar. 12,
1894.
(b) . Fitzhugh Ward Gregg b. 1888
(c) . A. Pierce Gregg b. Mar. 23, 1895 (2). Gertrude Gregg m. Charles W. Kollack.
Issue:
(a) . William Gregg Kollack.
(b) . Henrietta Shaw Kollack.
£? James Jones Gregg b. Nov. 25, 1836 d. Apr. 21, 1876, murdered at the cotton mill, m. Oct. 8, 1860 Katherine Hammond. d John Bauskett Gregg b. Nov. 20, 1838 d. Dec. 1, 1861 of typhoid fever at Charlottsville, Virginia, a lieutenant in C. S. A.
£ Rosa Clara Gr^gg b. Apr. 20, 1841 d. Oct. 1930 m. Nathaniel G. B. Chafee, Aiken, S. C.
Issue:
a. - William Gregg Chafee b. Jan. 29, 1867.
b. Otis Jacob Chafee b. Jan. 24, 1859.
c. John Gregg Chafee b. Mar. 11, 1871 m (1) Nancy Wathers, m. (2) Leona Glass.
d. Marina M. Chafee b. Jan. 25, 1873.
e. Charlotte Kimlock Chafee b. Mar. 4, 1874 m. June 12, 1900 Alfred Cumming Hammond.
Issue:
(1) . Clara Chafee Hammond b. May 21, 1901.
(2) . Emily Cumming Hammond b. Mar. 11, 1903.
f. Marie Chisolm Chafee b. Nov. 13, 1879 d. Nov. 24, 1930 m. George Croft.
Issue:
(1). Nathaniel Chafee Croft b. Nov. 22, 1907.
g. James Jones Chafee b. Jan. 8, 1882.
£ Mary Ballinger Gregg b. Sept 1, 1845 d. Sept. 9, 1905 m. Sept. 26, 1866 Casper A. Chisolm.
Issue:
a. William Gregg Chisolm.
Joseph Gregg b. May 15, 1849 m. (1) Cassie W. Berryhill on Mar.
22, 1870, m. (2) Eloise Eastman.
Issue by m. (1) :
a. Charrles Berryhill Gregg.
Issue by m. (2) :
b. Louise Gregg b. 1875.
c. Elizabeth Gregg b. 1877.
d. Marie Gregg b. Apr. 18, 1879.
e. Joseph Gregg b. Apr. 11, 1882.
D. Silas Gregg b. on April 29, 1759 d. Aug. 7, 1828;/d.-2^8
E. Herman Gregg b. Nov. 9, 1761 d. June 1762.
F. Joshua Gregg b. July 16, 1763 d. July 12, 1767.
G. Ruth Gregg b. June 22, 1766 d. June 26, 1767.
H. Jacob Gregg b. July 9, 1768 d. Jan. 16, 1832 certified 1783 to Nottingham.
I. Herman Gregg b. May 28, 1771 married out of Friends — disowned:** j
J. John Gregg Sept. 4, 1773-1813 left Kennett, Penn, with his mother on March 16, 1780 and his brother Herman for Salem County, New Jersey. These two brothers were mentioned in wiU of John Godlif probated
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Feb. 17, 1783. Herman married by a hireling minister Nov. 15, 1792 and disowned.
•John Gregg 1773-1844; certified to W-ilmington May 12, 17S6.
II. William Gregg b. April 26, 1732 farmer, Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware made his will Aug. 26, 1763, probated Oct. 13, 1768; wife Ann executioner; trustees brother Harmon and friend Samuel Dixson. On Nov. 19, 1755 he married Ann Nichols who died shortly before 1798, daugh¬ ter of Daniel and Anne Nichols who made his will in New Castle County, Delaware April 7, 1795, probated June 30, 1793.
Issue:
A. John Gregg Jan. 6, 1757-1759.
B. Hannah Gregg Oct. 4, 1759.
C. Daniel Gregg Jan. 20, 1762.
D. Isaac Gregg July 20, 1764.
E. Harmon Gregg Jan. 17, 1775 — June 23, 1857.
IV. Joshua Gregg b. Dec. 23, 1733.
V. Hannah Gregg b. Feb. 22, 1736.
VI. Jacob Gregg b. Dec. 28, 1737 New Castle Co., Delaware; d. near Van Buren, Crawford Co., Arkansas about '3.8. Restless, intelligent, possessing great inititlve, he went to North Ca „rolina on a visit when young. After his return he conveyed his interest in his father’s mill and sold the land to his broth¬ er Hermon, June 20, 1759. With Barkers, Witsons, Chandlers, Hollings¬ worths he removed by certificate to the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting fourteen miles south of Graham in Alamance County, North Carolina on October 11, 1764 and was there received by certificate on March 2, 1765 from the Kennett Mo. Mtg. in Pennsylvania. He settled near his second cousin Jacob Graigg son of Richard Gregg and Ann Hadley who had moved without certificate when newly married in 1762. In April 1765 these cousins as Jacob Grigg Sr. and Jacob Grigg Jr. with other petitioners signed an appeal to lesson their taxes. In Cane Creek Mtg., Alamance Co. N. C. he m. Oct. 11, 1764 Mary (Polly) Hatcher. On Feb. 7, 1767 Jacob Greg was disowned by the Friends Mo. Mtg. They lived near many rela¬ tives for nearly thirty years before moving to eastern Tennessee and lived awhile in Overton and Knox Counties, Tenn. which had been admitted to the Union June 1, 1796. In 1803^ they moved with married children into Madison County of southwestern Illinois.
Renew their breed, Almighty God,
Those pioneers of yesterday.
Who through the wilderness and wastes Undaunted 'pursed their western way —
The spirit of the pioneers.
— Bishop Ralph S. Cushman.
“East of Seybold in the vicinity of Troy the Greggs came in 1803. In April, Jacob settled one-half mile south of Troy. The next year 1804 he planted a pear tree which bore large crops of fruit for more than half a century after. His sons Philip, Titus, John, and Hermon settled the same neigh¬ borhood. John on the prairie not far from Robert Seybold. The Greggs were from Kentucky slow and unprogressive, and in after years grumbled at being taxed to support the free schools, and favored the introduction of slavery. Jacob settled the Baird place and planted the old pear tree 1804 which has done faithful service since, and in 1864 yielded a crop which sold in Dubuque, Iowa for $125. Philip Gregg settled the place owned by Julius A. Barnsnack; Titus Gregg and John the James Taylor’s place on the west of the prairie, and Hermon Gregg settled the site of Troy. The Jarvis Township was not surveyed until 1806. Troy was originally
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The reason the Greggs did not like to pay taxes for public schools is easily explained. They were Quakers and Quakers always maintained and op¬ erated their own schools. Sometimes these private schools were on their own farms and were the only schools in the vicinity as the Quakers were zealous educators. All were educated early in life on many subjects. The Greggs were not accustomed to paying for both public and private schools. They supervised the education of their own young and thought that was sufficient.
Jacob Gregg was a benevolent man as the 1820 census of Madison County, Illinois indicates six in his household, probably the family of his son Phillip Gregg who died 1816.
A. Philip Gregg was bom about 1766 in Alamance County, North Caro¬ lina died summer of 1816 and is buried in Jarvjs Twp. north of Troy, Illinois with his wife Rebecca who died about 1822. He moved his fam¬ ily into Illinois from Kentucky in 1803 with his parents and brothers. After death of both parents the children lived with relatives who moved to Sangamon County, Illinois near Springfield. Philip Gregg married in Alamance County, North Carolina about 1796 to a Quaker girl Rebecca Comber who was disowned by Cane Creek Mo. Mtg. on June 6, 1799 for marrying out of unity as the Greggs at that time were not active Quakers although they followed the Quaker habit and in¬ clinations. Records were slow to be recorded in those days.' Rebecca Comber was born July 25, 1761 of Cane Creek Monthly Mtg. southern Alamance County, North Carolina where her parents had moved May 3, 1760 from Warrington Mo. Mtg. York Co., Pa. She was the daughter of Joseph Comber b. Feb. 3, 1736 in Penn, and died on Sept. 11, 1779 in Alamance County, Narolina, son of Robert Comber of Chester, Penn, and wife Rebecca Cooke-Comber (grand dau. of Peter Cook of Tarvin, Cheshire, England died on voyage or shortly after embarking Feb. 1712 (m. at Newton Oct. 7, 1695 Elinor Norman of Kingsley who m. 1714 John Fincher in Londongrove, Pa.) dau. of Peter Cook b. Oct. 4, 1700 Cheshire, England; York Co., Pa. living in 1737. Joseph Comber 1736-1779 mar- mied Elizabeth Hussey born Sept. 6, 1737 daughter of Christopher and Ann Husey of Chester County, Penn, son of John Hussy d. Aug. 28, 1729 and wife Ann son of John Hussy of Chester, Penn, who made his will Feb. 18, 1707; probated May 18, 1707. Husseys lived near the Graigs in northeastern Randolph County, North Carolina 1790 (census).
In September 1823 Rebecca Comber-Gregg, widow, was appointed ad¬ ministrator of her husband, Philip Gregg deceased. She gave bond in the sum of $1,000 wrhich is in probate box number seven courthouse at Edw’ardsville, Illinois. This bond wras for personal property only. Evi¬ dently Philip was a tenant who had amassed valuable personal property. No deed in his name. After their marriage Philip and Rebecca Comber- Gregg moved with his parents near Knoxville, Tennessee for a time of four or five years before moving into Southern Illinois. Known issue of Philip Gregg and Rebecca Comber-Gregg:
1. Twin son Thomas Gregg born near Knoxville, Tennessee on Dec. 10, 1798 and died Oct. 7, 1875 near Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa. He came to Illinois with his parents and twin brother John when four or five years old. After his father’s death in 1816 and his mother’s death shortly thereafter he and twin John wrere taken by relatives to live in Sangamon County, Illinois near Springfield. The?i?in May, 1822 he married Keziah Roberts b. Nov. 23, 1806; died Oct. 21, 1873 near Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa; daughter of William Roberts,
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a minister b. Apr. 17, 1770 died Feb. 8, 1850 and wife Susanah Rob- erst b. Oct. 15, 1776 died Feb. 1, 1850. The Roberts’ other children were Andrew b. Dec. 25, 1796, Milly Frances b. Jan. 20, 1800, Eliza beth b. Sept. 29, 1803, who married the twin brother John Gregg, Keziah as mentioned, Lovina b. Sept. 8, 1809, William Jr. b. Sept. 2-4, 1811, Lovy Brown b. May 28, 1814; all born in Kentucky.
In 1827 Thomas Gregg and wife Keziah and children moved to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois near the Mississippi River. John and his Uncle Herman Gregg both worked at the old Fort Madison and finally found some rich farmland — still owned by Thomas’s descendants — and wrote to Thomas at Quincy that he had found the garden spot of the country and for him to come, which move he made for the sake of brotherly love. On Apr. 4, 1837 John and Thom¬ as moved their families into the Black Hav/k Purchase entered as Iowa 1847. They had different personalities. After some years the brother john was overcome by the wonderlust, moved to Wisconsin, later started for Willmett Valley, Oregon in a covered wagon. Thomas refused to go with him saying that they v/ere too old, but John start¬ ed with his family. In Lee County, Iowa, Thomas respectively made three original entries of land on March 31, and June 3, 1840; pur¬ chase prices of $100, $100, and $50; dates of patent were Dec. 1st from the United States for E one-half of SW one-fourth of Section 13, west half of WE quarter of Section 14, and SW quarter of NE quarter of Section 14. Thomas and wife reared a fine family of three sons and seven daughters well respected and well knowm throughout the county.
Issue of Thomas and Keziah Roberts-Gregg:
a. Silas Gregg 1823-1889 m. to Abbie A. Hornsby at Ft. Madison, Iowa; an early elder of Lost Creek Church; in Civil War three years. Issue:
(1) . Sarah Ellen b. 1851 m. to Dave Bean.
(2) . Rosie died in infancy.
(3) . Walter S. b. 1854 v/ife Louisa L. b. 1865 lived Plymouth, Ama¬
dor County, California.
(4) . Oscar.
(5) . George W. b. 1861.
b. Martha Gregg married James Oaks Green Bay Wisconsin.
Issue:
(1) . Emma m. Samuel Bowrer; lives Denver, Col.
(2) . William m. Carrie Drake, lives Browming, Mo.
(3) . Alice m. Axel Fagerston.
(4) . Laura died in fancy.
(5) . James died in infancy.
c. Jane married James Woods, Wisconsin. Has two sons.
d. Emma married David Thompson, Masconing, Wisconsin. Has a son and a daughter.
e. William Carroll b. Oct. 17, 1839 d. Mar. 18, 1920, married Adeline Phares b. Feb. 7, 1839 d. Jan. 6, 1915 Lee County, Iowa; three years in Civil War.
Issue:
(1) . Eddie Gregg died infancy.
(2) . May Hannah Gregg b. May 5, 1868 d. Nov. 23, 1930.
(3) . Waldo Carroll b. Aug. 2, 1867 m. Feb. 20, 1894 to Bertha
Scholtz, Wever, Iowra.
(4) . Gladys b. May 17, 1874, lives Wever, Iowa.
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f. Drusilla Gregg married William Blanchard Lincoln Center, Wis. Issue:
(1) . Fred m. Zella, lives Sheridan Road, Newburg, Oregon.
(2) . Laura m. Ed. Nye, deceased.
(3) . Meda m. Warren Wilson deceased.
(4) . Budd. m. Hannah lives Amory, Wisconsin.
(5) . Nettie m. Milo Potter, lives Newburg, Oregon.
Issue: Waldo, Agatha, Leslie.
(6) . Lloyd.
(7) . Ralph m. Edna Lang, lives Wever, Iowa.
(8) . Paul m. Sadie lives Newburg, Oregon.
2. John Gregg twin brother to Thomas Gregg was born east of Knox¬ ville, Tennessee on Dec. 10, 1793 and died at Dallas, Oregon 1852 as he was emigranting into the state. With his orphaned twin brother he lived with relatives until his marriage about 1820 to Elizabeth Roberts born in Kentucky on Sept. 29, 1803, daughter of the minister Elder William Roberts and wife Susannah Roberts whose younger daughter Keziah later married the twin brother Thomas Gregg. As his father and grandfather, John Gregg was restless and ambitious.
He was always seeking the perfect land on which to settle. His first children were born in Illinois, some in Iowa and the last one was born in Wisconsin. Thus his moves are traced in three states before he started west for the Wilmette Valley in Oregon which was so highly advertised. In 18£9. John Gregg with his family and pre¬ sumably other relatives and friends started westward in a wagon train for Oregon. Fr?(>TS5Jfingwas too much for his wife Elizabeth f Roberts-Gregg and she diediS^&tf the caravan was crossing Utah was buried and the families rested for some time.
Issue:
a. Levi W. Gregg b. 1821 Ill. Living Tulare Co., Calif. 1870.‘£y h**1 Issue b. Oregon:^>in Jane h-Sept . $ a /lay //, Of'Ctjo/)'
(1) . Silas Gregg b. 1862. Tcnne/) : had & c A,
(2) . Jerry Gregg b. 1864.
(3) . Riley Gregg b. 1866 twin.
b. Louisa Gregg b. June, 1821 died near 1900 at Visalia, Tulare Coun¬ ty, California; married Joshua Owens.
c. Urania Gregg b. Sagarnon County, Illinois Feb. 13, 1826 died Nov.
15, 1867 at Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. Oct. 25. 1846 Washington Perry McArthur b. Dec. 24, 1824 Scrubgrass, Pennsylvania, died Sept. 2, 1878; moved west with the other Greggs in caravan 1849
Issue :
(1). Almeda Janett McArthur b. Oct. 29, 1847 Fort Madison, Iowa
d. Dec. 19, 1900 m. to John Carter b. Jan. 26, 1846 at Preston, Lancshire, England d. Apr. 26, 1918.
Issue :
(a). John Perry Carter b. Dec. 28, 1868 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d.
July 8, 1917 m. (1) Mar. 4, 1887 to Mary Rosetta Fisk Howard b. Jan. 7, 1871 at Hooper Utah d. June 21, 1906; m. (2) Olena Lelena Johnson b. Nov. 15, 1868.
Issue by m. (1):
(1) 1 Charles Perry Carter b. Aug. 15, 1889 Chester, Fremont Co., Idaho d. April 24, 1891.
(2) 2 Terza Almeda Carter b. Aug. 23, 1891 d. Mar. 1, 1936; m. first to J. W. Jones.
Issue by m. (1) :
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(a) 1 Clarence W. Jones of Hooper, Utah.
(b) 1 Ervin N. Jones, Paul, Idaho.
(d) 1 Ralph Jones, Faul,- Idaho.
m. second to William Palepsas of Clearfield, Utah.
Issue by m. (2) :
(e) 1 George Palepsas.
(f) 1 Sophia Palepsas.
(3) 1 John Lester Carter b. Dec 1, 1893 at Chester, Idaho; m. Sept. 21, 1917 to Carrie E. Johnson b. Jan. 17, 1896 of Thomp¬ son Springs, Utah.
Issue:
(a) 1 George Lestef Carter b. July 18, 1918 WarmRiver, Idaho.
(b) 1 Kenneth Perry CaCrter b. Nov. 10, 1910.
(c) 1 Hilda Louise Carter b. Sept. 12, 1922.
(d) 1 Alice Rosetta Carter b. Apr. 12, 1925 Margsvale, Idaho.
(e) 1 Howard Bently Carter b. Jan. 11, 1929 St. Anthony, Idaho.
(4) 1 Riley Cheslay Carter b. Mar. 15, 1896, Mt. Pleasant, Utah.
(5) 1 Adrin Byron Carter b. July 17, 1898 Mt. Pleasant, Utah.
Hazel Ivy Edington b. Sept. 27, 1901.
Issue born in Idaho:
(a) 1 Adrin Douglas Carter b. Feb. 16, 1920, Twin Groves.
(b) 1 Bill Perry Carter twin b. April 24, 1923.
(c) 1 Bess Carter twin b. April 24, 1923, Twin Groves.
(d) 1 Naoma Nell Carter twin b. May 22, 1928 St. Anthony.
(e) 1 Neil Stanley Carter twin b. May 22, 1928.
(6) 1 Ralph Fisk Carter b. May 1, 1900 Ogden, Utah.
(7) 1 Myrtle Rosetta Carter b. July 24, 1902 Chester.
(8) 1 Lyma Ellen Carter b. June 19, 1906 Warm River d. 6-21-03 Issue by m. (2) :
(9) 1 Ray Ervin Carter h. Oct. 14, 1908 at Lillian, Idaho.
GO)1 Elda Carter b. Oct. 26, 1911 at Farnum, Idaho. ,
(b). Ella Orania Carter b. Sept. 19, 1870 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. Henry Matthew Todd b. July 23, 1865 at St. John, Utah. Issue:
(l)1 Boyd Henry Todd b. Mar. 5, 1890 Pleasant Grove, Utah m. Fern Idona Johnson of Arizona b. Dec. 11, 1897.
Issue :
(a) 1 Idona Todd b. Nov. 28, 1915 at Gridley, Calif.
(b) 1 Urial Boyd Todd b. June 29, 1917 Nelson, Calif.
(c) 1 Leith Henry Todd b. Sept. 2, 1919 Bigheart, Okla.
(d) 1 Vida Todd b. Jan. 12, 1921.
(e) 1 Leola Todd b. Feb. 9, 1923.
(f) 1 Nadine Todd b. Mar. 30, 1926.
(g) 1 Loreta Todd b. Jan. 13, 1930.
(h) 1 Elva Todd b. July 21, 1931.
<2 ) 1 Elda Reva Todd b. Mar. 7, 1892 at Driggs, Idaho d. May 25, 1902
(3) 1 Airel Todd b. Sept. 28, 1893 at Darby, Idaho m. John Arthur Cartson b. Aug. 20, 1892 at Manson, Calhoun Co., Iowa
Issue:
(a)1 William Arthur Cartson b. Oct. 17, 1913 at Inglewood, Calif, d. Feb. 20, 1917
(4) 1 Lela Todd b. Mar. 7, 1895 at Darby, Idaho m. George Richard Poulton b. April 13, 1893
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(a) 1 Ralph Henry Poulton b. Nov. 22, 1913 at Oakley, Cal.
(b) 1 Ruth Ellamore Poulton b. Oct. 24, 1917
(c) 1 Parley Edwin Poulton b. Feb. 1, 1921
(d) 1 George Boyd Poulton b. July 27, 1925
(e) 1 Billey Rex Poulton b. June 30, 1927
(5) 1 Fern Todd b. Dec. 22, 1896 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. Will¬ iam Henry Jones b. Feb. 24, 1888 of Montpelier, Idaho Issue:
(a) 1 Aline May Jones b. Feb. 10, 1906
(b) 1 Irma Jones b. June 24, 1919
(c) 1 Leland Henry Jones b. Dec. 8, 1921, d. Dec. 9, 1921
(d) 1 Lela Jones b. Dec. 8, 1921 d. Dec. 9, 1921
(e) 1 Oral William Jones b. Nov. 22, 1924 d. Dec. 1, 1924
(f) 1 Eola Jones b. Feb. 5, 1928
(6) 1 Glen Carter Todd b. Oct. 15, 1898 at Darby d. 5-22-99
(7) i Bula Todd b. May 14, 1900 Darby
(8) 1 John Carter Todd b. Sept. 14, 1902 at Chester m
(9) i Etta Geneva Swan b. Sept. 29, 1907 of Preston, Idaho Issue:
(a)i Anita Todd b. Sept. 13, 1930 (Bp)i Von Carter b. May 10, 1904 Parker Idaho, d May 28, * 1928 m. Amy Connie Headly b. Sept. 24, 1907 Lcs Angeles, Calif.
Issue:
(a) n Wiletta Todd b. Dec. 24, 1925
(b) i Maxine Todd b. Mar. 11{ 1927
(10) i Nettie May Todd b. Feb. 25, 1906 Parker, Idaho m. Ezra Lyman Johnson b. Aug. 13, 1895 F.edmond, Utah Issue born in Calif:
(a) 1 Elva May Johnson b. Jan. 11, 1924 at Gridley
(b) i Elvin Ezell Johnson b. Nov. 2, 1925 at Gridley
(c) i Leah Lenore Johnson b. Aug. 29, 1927
(d) i Don Carlos Johnson b. June 26, 1929 at OroviHe
(e) i Lila Lois Johnson b. Aug. 17, 1931 at Oroville
(f) i Ard LaRoyJohnson b. Feb. 9, 1933 at Palermo
(lJ)i Laurin Carter Todd b. Nov. 23, 1908 at Parker, Idaho m. Josephine J. Coolidge b. May 13, 1908 of Modesta, Calif. Issue:
(a)n Chester Laurin Todd b. Jan. 11, 1931 at Sacramento, Calif.
(UD1 Lola Todd b. Aug. 10, 1913 at Inglewood, Calif m.
Evan Robert Pryde b. June 10, 1905 of Colonia Dublin, Mexico
(c). Charles Byron Carter b. Aug. 9, 1872 at Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. April 17, 1901 to Botilda Olivia Madisen b. Oct. 13, 1876 Mt. Pleasant, Utah Issue:
(1) 1 Thurman M. Carter b. Jan. 6, 1902 Mt. Pleasant Utah m. V •
(2) 1 lone Carter b. Oct. 19, 1903 Ccofield, Utah m. Ernest Leslie Shermer b.
Issue born in Utah:
(a) 1 Richard Leslie Shermer b. Nov. 14, 1924 at Helper
(b) 1 Ronald Eugene Shermer b. Oct. 23, 1926 at Helper
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(c)1 Joel Shermer b. June 1S31
(3) 1 Ruth Carter b. Jan. .6, 1906 Mt. Pleasant m. May 22, 1924 John B. Cima b. July 21, 1901 Castle Gate, Utah Issue born Helper, Utah:
(a) 1 Peggy Joyce Cima b. Nov. 10, 1924
(b) 1 Shirley Cima b. Oct. 16, 1926
(c) 1 Ruth Olive Cima b. June 28, 1928
(4) 1 Paul Oliver Carter b. Mar. 23, 1909 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. June 23, 1928 to Marie Agnes Knobbs b. May 5, 1909 Issue :
(a) 1 Paula Marie Carter b. July 4, 1929 Helper, Utah
(b) 1 Carla Margret Carter b. July 12, 1931 Cheyenne, Wy.
(c) 1 Keneth Charles Carter b. Dec. 24, 1932 Helper
(5) 1 Ailecn Carter b. Oct. 19, 1910 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m April 12, 1933 to Bion Wilcox b. Feb. 19, 1906 Preston, Idaho
(6) 1 Allen J. Carter b. Sept. 23, 1912 at Mt. Pleasant
(7) 1 Lloyd Charles Carter b. Sept. 29, 1917 at Mt. Pleasant
(8) 1 Betty Norma b. May 20, 1921 at Helper
(d) . Abbie Claudine Carter b. Oct. 10, 1874 Mt. Pleasant m. An¬ drew Christian Madsen b. May 4, 1867 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. Oct. 31, 1934
Issue born in Utah at Mt. Pleasant:
(1) 1. Carter A. Madsen b. Mar. 19, 1898 d. May 13, 1898
(2) 1 Bruce Artin Madsen b. April 27, 1899
(3 ) 1 Louisa Jennett Madsen b. Sept. 12, 1901 m. Dec. 29, 1936 Joseph Lester Watts b. Dec. 13, 1898 Moab, Utah
(4) 1 Evelyn Madsen b. July 12, 1906 m. Sept. 1, 1934 to Char¬ les Jacob Jacobsen b. Nov. 26
Issue:
(a)1 Charlyn Elain Jacobsen b. Feb. 1, 1937 at Salt Lake City, Utah
(5) 1 Anna Leona Madsen b. Aug. 21, 1910 m. Feb. 2, 1935 to Reid Gunderson b. Feb. 18, 1908
(e) . Louisa Carrie Carter b. Nov. 1, 1876 d. April 27, 1935 m. Marion Everet McCarty b. Nov. 14, 1876
Issue:
(1) 1 Bernard Yale McCarty b. Nov. 4, 1900 Mt. Pleasant m. Dec. 29, 1926 to Louise Pursley
Issue :
(a) 1 Jack Arlen McCarty b.
(b) 1 Marion McCarty
(2 ) 1 Arlen Everet McCarty b. Dec. 29, 1908 Hood River, Ore. m. July 1, 1931 to Kathryn Marie Davison
(f) . Mary Althera Carter b. Aug. 7, 1879 at Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. Oct. 3, 1899 to Fredrick Stansfield b. Dec. 27, 1871 at Spanish Fork, Utah
Issue born Mt. Pleasant, Utah:
( 1 1 1 Alta Iola Stansfield b. Feb. 3, 1898 m. Feb. 11, 1920 to Edgar S. Jensen b, July 23, 1893 Orangeville, Utah Issue born Mt. Pleasant:
(a) 1 Donna Mariam Jensen b. June 15, 1924
(b) 1 Wilma Evelyn b. Dec. 2, 1936
(2) 1 Venetta Floy Stansfield b. June 27, 1900 m. Feb. 3, 1925
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WILLIAM GREGG, 1695-1747 37
to William Marvin Orroek b. Dec. 9 . at Richfield, Utah
Issue:
(a) 11 Lois Marian Orroek b. Nov. 30, 1900 at Mt. Pleasant Utah
(b) 1 Fredrick b. Mar. 7, 1928 Ogden, Utah
(c) 1 William Cummings b. Nov. 5, 1931
(3) 1 Roma Valicia Stansfield b. May 13, 1903 m. April 11, 1934 to Hilden Elias Tucker b, Feb. 9, 1897 Fairview, Utah Issue :
(a)1 Roma JGyce Tucker b. July 13, 1935 at Fairview
(4) 1 Leland Fred Stansfield b. Mar. 26, 1905
(5) 1 Wayne J. Stansfield b. Dec. 26, 1906
(6) i Yale Carter Stansfield b. Jan. 14, 1909 m. Mar. 27, 1934 to Jean Harper
Issue born Redwood City, California:
(a) 11 Donald Yale Stansfield b. July, 1935
(b) i Wayne Owen Stansfield b. August 1936
(7) i Ralph Stanley Stansfield b. July 30, 1911
(8) i Margaret Virginia Stansfield b. Aug. 31, 1913
(9) i Russel Niel Stansfield b. Dec. 6, 1915 GO)1 Mac Stansfield b. Dec. 22, 1917
(ll)i Earl Carlyle Stansfield b. Feb. 29, 1920
(g) . Samuel Authnell Carter b. Sept. 23, 1893 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. July 30, 1913 to Susan Grace Ashtan b. Feb. 10, 1889 Woodruff, Utah
Issue born in Utah:
(1) i Ray Leo Carter b. July 28, 1914 at Fairview
(2) i Beth Carter b. Sept. 1, 1918 at Helper
(3) 1 Fern Carter b. Feb. 21, 1921 at Helper
(4) i Thelma Carter b. Feb. 8, 1923 at Orem
(5) i Earl Ashton Carter b. Feb. 21, 1930 at Orem
(h) . Parlen Carter b. July 29, 1886 at Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. Oceanna Brandon b. Oct. 10, 1887 d. Sept. 24, 1935
Issue born Mt. Pleasant, Utah:
(1) i Lois Carter b. and died
(2) i Donald Carter b. Mt. Pleasant, Utah
(i) . Almera May Carter b. April 14, 1890 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m.
Marcel P. Warren b. Jan. 25, 1882 Issue:
(1) i Betty Eileen Warren b. Aug. 17, 1917 Hood River, Ore.
(2) i Robert Preston Warren b. Jan. 18, 1923 Hood River
(3) i Alice Jennett Warren b. Nov. 21, 1928 Moscow, Idaho
(2) . Emma Lacretia McArthur b. May 1, 1849 Fort Madison, Iowa d. Nov. 14, 1850
(3) . Duncan McArthur b. Mar. 10, 1851 Pleasant Grove, Utah d. April 29, 1901 m. Lucinda Davidson
(4) . Perry Melvin McArthur b. June 2, 1852 Pleasant Grove, Utah d. July 23, 1933 m. Caroline Jensen b. Aug. 21, 1852 in Denmark d. Nov. 1900
Issue bom Mt. Pleasant, Utah:
(a) . Melvin McArthur b. Dec. 9, 1873 d. Dec. 9, 1873
(b) . Henry McArthur b. Oct. 16, 1874 d. Oct. 1874
(c) . Louis Eugene McArthur b. Aug. 22, 1S75 m. Ella Thompson
(d) . Roy McArthur b. Sept. 25, 1877 m. Grace Pritchett
(e) . Edgar McArthur b. Nov. 6, 1879 m. Iris Lowry
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QUAKER GREGGS
(f). Maud McArthur b. Oct. 4, 1882 m. Archie P. Spillsbury
(h) . Burk McArthur b. Mar. 2, 1884 m. first Helen Frank m. second Stella West
(i) . Carrie McArthur b. April 17, 1886 m. Seymour Dorius
(j) . Nellie McArthur b. Sept. 24, 1890
(k) . Urania lone McArthur b. Dec. 13, 1894 m . Coffin
(l) . Walter McArthur b. Nov. 20, 1892
(m) . Agnes McArthur b. May 3, 1889 d. Nov., 1889
(5) . Harbert Eldrich McArthur b. Nov. 30, 1853 d. Dec. 7, 1860
(6) . Urania Loretta McArthur b. June 16, 1855 d. Sept. 20, 1856
(7) . William Henry McArthur b. Aug. 26, 1857 Pleasant Groves, Utah d. Sept. 3, 1930 m. Henryzetta M. Hutchinson b. Mar. 17, 1859 Moberly, Mo.
Issue bom in Utah:
(a) . Perry Hampton McArthur b. April 10, 1876 Mt. Pleasant d. June 25, 1904 m. Hetty Elizabeth G-uymon b. Sept. 29, 1881 Fountain Green, Utah
Issue :
(l)1 Perry Lemis McArthur b. Dec. 1, 1903 Huntington, Utah m. Rhea Wakefield
(b) . Percy Duncan McArthur b. Mar. 6, 1878 m. first Harriet Shaw b. Nov. 21, 1878 Fayette, Utah d. July 26, 1925 m. sec¬ ond Effie Harris b. Sept. 29, 1881 Ft. Green, Utah
(c) . Henry Ray McArthur b.
(d) . Sarah Urania McArthur b. Nov. 28, 1882 d. Oct. 12, 1912 m. George Gutherie b. Salt Lake, Utah
Issue born in Idaho:
( 1 ) 1 Alta Urania Gutherie b. June 30, 1902 St. Anthony, Ida¬ ho m. (1) George Latta m. (2) George Carlson
(2) 1 Myrtle Elinor Gutherie b. Aug. 19, 1903 Chester, Idaho m. Myron Cordingly
(3) 1 William Claud Gutherie b. St. Anthony Feb. 21, 1906 m. Ruth Painter
(4) i Maudie McArthur Gutherie b. Aug. 10, 1907 Marysville
m . Calbreath
(e) . Lloyd Martimor McArthur b. Sept. 15, 1884 Indianola, Utah m. Magdelena Lamb b. April 6, St. George, Utah
Issue:
(1) 1 Margaret McArthur b. Aug. 4, 1919 El Centro, Calif.
(2) 1 William Lloyd McArthur b. April 22, 1921 San Diego, Cal.
(3) i Dauye Lowell McArthur b. Sept. 18, 1926 Preston, Nevada
(f) . Cloa Milinda McArthur b. Aug. 7, 1886 Indianola, Utah m. Sept. 30, 1904 Robert Helm b. June 16, 1879 North Ogden, U. Issue:
(1) i Harold Lloyd Helm b. Feb. 19, 1907 Chester, Idaho m. Ann Widman
(2) i Douglas Robert Helm b. April 27, 1909 Marysville, Idaho m. Ida Tyler
(3) i Anton Claudius Helm b. Mar. 15, 1912 Marysville, Idaho m. Elaine Nielson
(4) 1 Zetta Helm b. Jan. 3, 1915 Chester, Idaho m. Richard J. Hughes
(5) i Edmund Burke Helm b. Dec. 11, 1917 Lamont, Utah
(6) i Anna Helm b. Aug. 1, 1919 Twin Falls, Idaho
(7) i William McArthur Helm b. Nov. 3, 1921 Melba, Idaho
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WILLIAM GREGG, 1695-1747 39
(8)i Ruth Helm b. Nov. 12, 1922
(g) . Farrel Louisa McArthur b. June 3, 1888 Lawrence, Utah m. June 28, 1907 Thomas Edmund Gooch b. Feb. 6, 1838 Wil- ford, Idaho
Issue:
( 1 ) 1 Percy Duncan Gooch b. March 4, 1918 Marysville, Idaho m. Phyllis Strong
(h) . Grace Mildred McArthur b. Sept. 18, 1890 Lawrence, Utah d. 1923 m. Dec. 24, 1914 Joseph Orlando Gooch
Issue born Idaho:
(1) i Perry Edmund Gooch b. Sept. 17, 1914 Marysville
(2) i Arlo Orlando Gooch b. Oct. 1, 1916 Chester
(3) i Ivan Rex Gooch b. Jan. 23, 1918 at Marysville
(i) . Rex McArthur b. Feb. 20, 1893 Lawrence, Utah m. Sept. 3, 1919 Annie E. Howard Fisk b. Jan. 5, 1898 Chester, Idaho
(j) . William Greenville McArthur b. Jan. 4, 1895 Lawrence, Utah d. Feb. 21, 1897
(k) . Melvin McArthur b. Mar. 23, 18S7 Lawrence, Utah d. Mar. 23, 1897
(l) . James McArthur b. Mar. 3, 1899 d. Mar. 3, 1899
(8) . Charles McArthur b. April 5, 1859 Pleasant Grove d. 1895
(9) . Silas Gregg McArthur b. May 20, 1861 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. Mar. 22, 1926 m. Feb. 14, 1884 Martha Christiana Jensen b. Nov. 9, 1862 d. Aug. 6, 1927
Issue born in Utah:
(a) . Silas Guy McArthur twin b. at Mt. Pleasant on Nov. 26, 1884 d. Mar. 20, 1924 m. Myrtle Jensen on April 5, 1916
(1 ) 1 lone McArthur b. Nov. 10, 1917 at Lawrence m. John Zwallen
(2 ) 1 Kenneth McArthur b. Feb. 28, 1918 d. July 8, 1936
(3) 1 Byron McArthur b. Mar. 26, 1919 Lawrence
(4) 1 Guyla McArthur b. July 10, 1923 at Kenilworth
(b) . Cyrus Gregg McArthur twin b. Nov. 26, 1884 d. Nov. 26, 1919 m. Jan. 13, 1910 to Elmira Day
Issue:
(1) 1 Agnes McArthur b. Oct. 7, 1910 Lawrence, Utah m. Dar¬
win Jensen
(2 ) 1 Claud G. McArthur twin b. Dec. 2, 1913 at Lawrence, U.
(3) 1 Cleo McArthur twin b. Dec. 2, 1913 at Lewrence, Utah
(4) 1 Wallace McArthur b. Feb. 2, 1919
(c) . Cyril McArthur b. Jan. 31, 1838 m. June 28, 1917 to Doratha Day b. Lawrence, Utah
Issue born in Utah:
(l)1 Thelma McArthur b. Aug. 6, 1918 at Lawrence
(2) i Shirl C. McArthur b. Aug. 23, 1919 at Lawrence
(3)1 Gladys McArthur b. Feb. 19, 1930 at Huntington
(d) . Christina Urana McArthur b. Sept. 15, 1890 m. Dec. 20, 1912 to Loudilz Hansen
Issue born Lawrence, Utah:
(1) 1 Berniece Hansen b. Sept. 21, 1913 m. (1) Melvin Mathie m. (2) Loren Eider
(2) 1 Richard Hansen b. Aug. 17, 1914 d. Aug. 17, 1914
(3) 1 Oral Hansen b. July 2, 1916
(4 ) 1 Lavora Hansen b. Nov. 4, 1919
(5) i Zeld Hansen b. July 6, 1922
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40
QUAKER GREGGS
(6) 1 Mack Hansen b. July 14, 1924
(7) 1 Myrlin Hansen b. Nov. 9, 1927
(8) 1 Shirley Minnie Hansen b. Nov. 21, 1929
(9) 1 Henrietta Hansen b. Nov. 19, 1931
(e) . Minnie McArthur b. Sept. 27, 1892 m. Dec. 21, 1912 Emrys Lloyd Morgan
Issue born in Utah:
(1) 1 Emrys Max Morgan b. Oct. 26, 1912 at Price
(2) 1 David Ford Morgan b. Aug. 15, 1914 at Huntington (3 11 Silas Clark Morgan b. July 28, 1916 at Huntington
(4) 1 Evelyn Morgan b. Aug. 5, 1918 at Mohrland
(5) 1 Thomas Tad Morgan b. Jan. 3, 1921 at Hiawatha
(f) . Perry McArthur b. Dec. 2, 1894 at Lawrence d. Feb. 2, 1896
(g) . Charles Washington McArthur b. May 18, 1897 at Lawrence
(h) Adra Eltena McArthur b. Oct. 10, 1899 at Lawrence m. Nov. 9, 1921 Raymond Wertz
Issue:
(1 ) 1 Walter Wertz b. Feb. 19, 1924 Aberdeen, Washington
(2) 1 Clarkie Wertz b. Oct. 14, 1925 Salt Lake City, Utah
(3) 1 Wallace Wertz b. Feb. 9, 1928 Aberdeen, Washington
(i) . Amelda McArthur b. July 14, 1902 at Lawrence d. Aug. 13, 1927 m. Jept., 1923 to Frank Phillip Mohler
Issue:
(l)1 Frank Phillip Mohler b. Oct. 13, 1925 at Garfield, Utah d. Oct. 20, 1925
(j) . Peter McArthur b. Oct. 31, 1904 at Lawrence d. Oct. 25, 1913
(k) . Archie Meldon McArthur b. June 9, 1907 m. Aug. 14, 1933 to Devona Gorden Jensen
Issue born Lawrence, Utah:
( 1 ) 1 Cecelia McArthur b. May, 1934
(2) 1 Carol McArthur b. July 5, 1936
(10). Annice McArthur b. April 1, 1836 at Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. Oct. 28, 1880 at Salt Lake City to Erastus Frandsen b. April 13, 1861 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. June 20, 1918 at Kimball, Idaho bur¬ ied at Basalt, Idaho son of Rasmus Frandsen and Annie Mar- grette Larsen-Frandsen. Annice second marriage to James Neilsen and lives at Kimball, Idaho Issue :
(a). Urania Aurelia Frandsen b. Aug. 27, 1881 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. Aug. 28, 1899 at Manti, Utah to John Lewis Stewart b. Mar. 12, 1867 St. Joseph, Missouri son of James Ira Stew¬ art and Catalina Creal. Lives Buhl, Idaho Issue:
( 1 ) 1 Erastus Stewart d. Aug. 24, 1925
(2) 1 Ira Stewart b. Mar. 5, 1900 Sparks, Kansas
(3) 1 Elva Lulu Stewart b. Feb. 13, 1904 Kimball, Idaho m. April 6, 1924 at Twin Falls, Idaho to Elmer Philips b. Oct. 21, 1902 in Indiana. Live Buhl, Idaho
Issue:
(a)1 Margeritte Philips b. Oct. 10, 1933 Twin Falls, Idaho
(4) 1 Cue Stewart b. Mar. 9, 1902 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. 3-26-02
(5) 1 Harry John Stewart b. May 19, 1903 Salt Lake City, Utah m. Aug. 8, 1925 to Dorothy Evelith b. Jan. 18, 1908 Buhl, Idaho daughter of George Evelith and Stella McKay. Live Buhl, Idaho
41
WILLIAM GREGG, 1695-1747 Issue born Buhl:
(a) » Stella Dorothy b. Nov. 23, 1927
(b) 1 Donald Harry b. Oct. 10, 1929
(6) 1 Aurelia Ann Stewart b. July 30, 1908 Elks, Nevada d. June 6, 1926 m. Orvil Ambroes
(7) 1 Frank Ralph Stewart b. Oct. 3, 1911 Boise, Idaho m. June, 1932 at Ontario, Oregon Elizabeth Eastman b. July 10, 1913 daughter of Jess Eastman. Live Buhl, Idaho Issue born Buhl, Idaho:
(a) 1 Colleen Stewart b. Jan. 10, 1933
(b ) 1 Philip Stewart b. Jan. 24, 1935
(8) 1 Grace Charlotte Stewart b. Oct. 25, 1914 Boise, Idaho d. Nov. 1, 1914
(9 ) 1 Joseph Oliver Stewart b. May 25, 1917 Eagle, Idaho m. Oct. 24, 1936 Eagle, Idaho to Elnora Yvonne DeVries b. Feb. 10, 1919 Norman, North Dakoto daughter of August John DeVries and Robena Stevenson
(10) 1 Irene Gertrude Stewart b. at Buhl Aug. 20, 1919 d.
April 30, 1937 m. June 6 . . Cleo Shaddy
(11) 1 Mary Mildred Stewart b. Jan. 19, 1922 Buhl, Idaho
(12) 1 Wayne Stewart b. July 31, 1925 Buhl, Idaho
(13) i Phyllis Stewart b. Aug. 23, 1928 d. Aug. 27, 1928
(b). Victor Erastus Frandsen b. Oct.. 23, 1382 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. Dec. 20, 1906 Salt Lake City, Utah to Sarah Lewella Teep- les b. April 7, 1385 Menan, Idaho daughter of Jacob Amos Teeples and Sarah Elizabeth Bennett-Teeples. Live Basalt, Idaho
Issue born Idaho:
(1) i Lloyd Victor Frandsen b. Oct. 24, 1907 at Kimball rn. April 6, 1932 at Logan, Utah to Sarah Columbia Spears b. Mar. 31, 1912 Carroll County, Va. daughter of Rufus Speas and Lucretia Jones-Speas. Live Basalt, Idaho
Issue :
(a) i La mar Rufus Frandsen b. Mar. 1, 1933 at Rexburg, Idaho
(b) i Rulon Victor Frandsen b. Aug. 22, 1936 at Basalt, Ida.
(2) i Vernon Otto Frandsen b. July 20, 1909 at Basalt m. Wanda Balls
(3) i Erma Elisabeth Frandsen b. July 12, 1911 Basalt m. May 5, 1931 Los Angeles, Calif, to Ernest R. Jones b. Aug. 16,
1908 Los Angeles, Calif, son of Ernest R. Jones and .
McGregor
Issue born Los Angeles:
(a) i Wallace Ernest Jones b. May 2, 1932
(b) i Melvin Frandsen Jones b. Aug. 31, 1939
(4) i Irvan Archie Frandsen b. Mar. 9, 1913 Basalt m. Enon Tucker
(5) i Eldon Lavar Frandsen b. July 27, 1915 Basalt d. 7-29-15
(6) 1 Orlin Sidney Frandsen b. Basalt June 12, 1917 d. July 29, 1915
(7) i Ruby Frandsen b. May 29, 1918 at Basalt d. 5-29-18
(8) i Marvin Erastus Frandsen b. May 22, 1919 Basalt
(9) i Zella Lewella Frandsen b. Nov. 21, 1921 Basalt
(10) i Miel Bennett Frandsen b. Aug. 5, 1926 Basalt
(11) i Leola Mary Frandsen b. Oct. 6, 1927 Basalt
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QUAKER GREGGS
(c) . Earl Gregg Frandsen b. Oct. 25, 1884 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. Feb. 27, 1920 Basalt, Idaho m. Feb. 20, 1907 at Logan, Utah to Mabel Porter b. May 23, 188-9 at Huntington, Utah daughter of Abinadi Porter and Annie Jensen-Porter. Lives 1457 S. Nine East St., Salt Lake City, Utah
Issue:
(1) 1 Vesta Mabel Frandsen b. Dec. 16, 1907 Basalt, Idaho d. Jan. 24, 1910 buried Basalt, Idaho
(2) 1 Viola Annie Frandsen b. Jan. 25, Basalt, Idaho m. Aug.
l, 1929 Preston, Idaho to Andrew Lester Anderson b. Dec. 15, 1908 Rezburg, Idaho d. May 11, 1935 and buried Mesa, Arizona son of Janies Christian Anderson and Shurtliff- Anderson. Viola lives 809 Roosevelt Ave., Salt Lake City Issue born Utah:
(a) 1 Lester Rex Anderson b. April 27, 1930 at Ogden, Utah
(b) 1 Marlene Anderson b. July 26, 1932 at Ogden, Utah
(c) 1 Joyce Anderson b. Dec. 4, 1933
(3) 1 Sophrona Olea Frandsen b. Sept. 15, 1911 Logan, Utah
m. Feb. 1, 1932 Salt Lake City, Utah to Lewis E. Holley b. June 25, 1905 Slaterville, Utah son of Henry C. Holley and Amanda Knoght-Holley. Live Ogden, Utah
(4) 1 Lulu Wanda Frandsen b. June 15, 1914 Basalt, Idaho m. Dec. 22, 1933 at Salt Lake City, Utah to Heber Allen Sel¬ lers b. May 2, 1907 Menan, Idaho son of Joseph Lehl Sellers and Sarah D. Worthen-Sellers. Live Menan, Idaho Issue born Menan, Idaho:
(a)1 Nola Selelrs b. Feb. 20, 1935
(5) 1 Ralph Porter Frandsen b. July 12, 1916 Basalt, Idaho
(6) 1 Zelpha Delila Frandsen b. Oct. 16, 1918 Basalt, Idaho
(d) . Willard Irvin Frandsen b. Sept. 12, 1886 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. Oct. 26, 1909 and buried Basalt, Idaho
(e) . Perry Lacartis Frandsen b. Aug. 17, 1888 Mt. Pleasant, Utah m. LaPreal Cora Heaton
(f) . Charles Ralph Frandsen b. June 30, 1890 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. Oct. 29, 1909 and buried Basalt, Utah
(g) . Rcyl Raymond Frandsen b. Dec. 11, 1891 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. Sept. 4, 1923 and buried Basalt, Idaho m. Dec. 7, to Alice Delorma Gregerson b. Aug. 9, 1895 Hyrum, Utah daughter of Hans Carl Gregerson and Anna Marie Ander¬ son. She married second to Grover Cleveland Scarborough and lives Basalt, Idaho
Issue born Basalt, Idaho:
( 1 ) 1 Althea Clara Frandsen b. Jan. 18, 1916 m. July 27, .
at American Falls to Frank Marion Compton b. Nov. 26
. Lives San Francisco, Calif.
(2> 1 Cora Odella Frandsen b. April 23, 1917 m. Nov. 19, 1932 to Ivan Johnson b. Nov. 10, 1900. Live Firth, Idaho Issue:
(a) 1 Montie Ronald Johnson b. Nov. 5, 1934
(b) 1 Donna Odella Johnson b. April 20, 1936
(3) 1 Norman Raymond Frandsen b. Aug. 24, 1920
(4) 1 Golda Alice Frandsen b. Sept. 13, 1932
(h) . Athol Evan Frandsen b. Sept. 4, 1893 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d. Mar. 24, 1933 and buried Basalt, Idaho m. Agnes Peterson- Pope widow of Wyeth Pope
43
WILLIAM GREGG, 1695-1747 Issue :
(l)1 Geneveve b. Oct. 31, 1928
(1). Annice Thera Floy Frandsen b. Mt. Pleasant, Utah on June 13, 1895 m. Ammon E. Neilsen
(j) . Loomis Lynn Frandsen b. Mt. Pleasant, Utah April 25, 1897 m. Lilliam Stutznegger
(k) . Leland O. Frandsen b. Feb. 2, 1899 Mt. Pleasant, Utah d d. March 2, 1899
(l) . Sarah Olea Frandsen twin b. Jan. 29, 1900 d. May 18, 1903
(m) . Odella Frandsen twin b. Jan. 29, 1900 d. Jan. 29, 1900
(n) . Cecil Burke Frandsen b. Feb. 20, 1902 m. Becae Rachael Stutznegger
(o) . Allen McArthur Frandsen b. Feb. 5, 1904 Kimball, Idaho m.
(p) . Beulah Fern Frandsen b. Oct. 5, 1905 m. William Henry Whitmill
(q) . Blenda Roenna Frandsen b. July 5, 1907 Kimball, Idaho m. Aug. 28, 1930 at Los Angeles, California to Ernest Henry Ekstrom b. April 19, 1903 East Bountiful, Utah son of Oscah Frank Ekstrom and Emma Gustafson-Ekstrom. Live East Bountiful, Utah
Issue born Kimball, Idaho:
(1) i Elda Roenna Ekstrom b. Nov. 29, 1928 d. Jan. 20, 1929
(2) i Lourine Betty Ekstrom b. July 19, 1931
(3) i Alton Frank Ekstrom b. Jan. 11, 1936
(r) . Lyle Maeser Frandsen b. Aug. 6, 1910 Kimball, Idaho m. May 12, 1928 at Rexburg, Idaho to Irene Adams. Live Sugar City, Idaho
Issue born Shelly, Idaho:
(1) i Sharon Frandsen b. May 31, 1929
(2) i Sally Lee Frandsen b. July 16, 1933
d. Almeda Gregg born 1827 in Wisconsin died 1908 in Oregon m. James Badley Issue:
(1) . Uriah Badley 1850-1910 m. Lucinda Ramsey Issue:
(a) . Ella Badley m. Walter Nissen Issue:
0)i Glen Nissen Issue:
(a)i A son
(2) i Bernice Nissen Issue two daughters
(3) i Chester Nissen
(b) . Stella Badley m. Joseph Morrow Issue:
(1) i Richard Morrow
(2) . Sarah Badley died in infancy
(3) . Henry Badley 1853-1933 m. late in life
(4) . Louisa Badley 1856-1878 m. Irvin Carter Issue:
(a). Elma Carter b. 1876 m. Orben Dental Issue:
(l'»i Russel Dental m. Issue: four sons
(2) i Ivan Dental m. Issue: four sons
(3) i Wayne Dental m. Issue: three daughters
(4) i Nellie Dental m. a . Gray Issue: one son
(5) i Richard Dental
(5) . Olive Badley twin 1859-1859
44
QUAKER GREGGS
(6) . Emma Badley 1859- second wife of Charles Vaughn 1849-1900 Issue:
(a) . Jasper Vaughn 1878-1383'
(b) . Ezra Vaughn 1882-1915
(c) . Chester Vaughn 1887- m. Lila Kursh b. 1892 Issue :
(1 ) 11 Genevieve Vaughn b. 1915
(2) i Chester Vaughn b. 1917
(3) i Freda Vaughn b. 1923
(d) . Charles Ray Vaughn b. 1889 m. Ruth Bell Issue :
(1) i Harriet Vaughn b. 1916
(2) i Raymond Vaughn b. 1921
(3) i Douglas Vaughn b. 1923
(4) i Mary Vaughn b. 1925
(5) i Charles Vaughn b. 1936
(7) . General Badley m Issue :
(a) . Walter Badley
(b) . Wayne Badley
(c) . Ona Badley
(d) . Lela Badley
(e) . Ruth Badley
e. Polly Ann Gregg b. Sept. 4, 1829 in Wisconsin d. Dec. 5, 1913 in Oregon m. Phillip Winters Issue:
(1) . Andrew J. Winters b. Iowa May 14, 1847 d. about 1926 m. Olive Wiley
(2) . William Leander Winters b. Feb. 22, 1849 in Iowa m. Elizabeth Heater b. Jan. 22, 1842
Issue:
(a) . Ellis Eden Winters b. Nov. 22, 1882 m. Mabel Lillian Duncan Issue:
(D1 Velda Ella Winters b. Oct. 27, 1909 m. Vernon Braden. No issue, m. second to Glen Erickson Issue:
(a) 1 Richard Ellis Erickson b. Jan. 23, 1935
(b) 1 Louise Marie Erickson b. Jan. 5, 1937 (2) 1 Ira Aden Winters b. May 30, 1912
(3 11 Ola Elizabeth Winters b. Aug. 7, 1914 m. Gerald Ingrham Issue:
(a) 1' Deryel Ingrham b. April 15, 1934
(b) 1 Irene Elizabeth Ingrham b. Dec. 19, 1936
(b) . Elsie Winters b. Jan. 6, 1384
(c) . Helen Winters b. Feb. 21, 1888
(d) . Lester A. Winters b. Aug. 23, 1849 m. Lucile Minnie Baird J • . Eleanor Elizabeth Winters b. May 20, 1919
. Bernice Esther Winters b. April 17, 1921 , ' . Dale Albert Winters b. Jan. 22, 1923
(3) . Thomas Winters b. Mar. 10, 1851 Iowa d. 1859
(4) . Ellen Winters b. May 28, 1853 Oregon d. Jan. 25, 1875 m. Charles
Vaughnn sWy vcfhan g/'S'
Issue: r>cY £fr'/re/a*7ct /go? pi}. jPart/inJ, Or^ct\
(a). Walter Vaughnnb. Sept. 16, 1871 Oregon d. 1883 Bible records of William and Susanah Roberts 3i,Ji
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45
WILLIAM GREGG, 1395-1747
(b). Clara Vaughnub. Jan. 16, 1875 Oregon
(4) . Mary Winters b. April 4, 1855 Oregon d. 1857
(5) . Samantha Winters b. May 16, 1857 Oregon d. 1913 unmarried
(6) . Laura Winters b. June 10, 1859 Oregon d. 1922 m. Henry Ditt-
mer. No issue
3. Andrew^ Gregg b. June 30, 1811
4. Dorothy1 2 Gregg b. May 8, 1813
B. Titus Gregg b. abt. 1768 North Carolina d. Shelby County, Illinois abt.
1838; m. (1) . ; m. (2) Sept. 24, 1824 in Madison County, Illinois
Nancy Matirely b. 1795 in Virginia dau. of . and Elizabeth
Matirely from Virginia. Titus Gregg entered 520 acres as the first entry of Jarvis Twp. on Sept. 10, 1814. He thought every man should school his own children and grumbled at taxes for public schools. In 1820 (census)1 he was the head of a family of eleven which indicates that also his youngest brother Ayre’s family was in the household. His first wife had passed away before April 1821 as her name was not affixed to a warranty deed ($400) from Titus Gregg to John Jarvis made on April 20, 1821- ; it was signed only by Titus Gregg himself; witnesses were George W. Teas and Miner Gragg. He bought quick claim deed ($112) on July 16, 1822 part Sec. 4 Twp 3 Range 7 from Jubilee Posey and wife Catherine. In September 1824 Titos Gregg was married3 the second time to youthful Nancy Matirely born 1795 Virginia by Hail Mason, Justice of Peace and reared a second family. On Oct. 10, 1827 Titus Gregg and wTife Nancy sold to Jubilee Posey by warranty deed part Sec. 4 Twp 3 Range 7 ($100). Wife Nancy makes mark for her name. This is witnessed by Samuel Seybold and William Wood. On Nov. 5, 1823 Titus and wife Nancy Gregg sold E % Sec 4 Twp 3 Range 7 320 acres to John C. Riggin ($850). Witnesses William F. Purviance and Caleb B. Gonterman. Each of these deeds is regularly acknowledged before a Justice of the Peace in and for Madison County, Illinois. He received title to his lands from the government. The last deeds indi¬ cates his residence in Shelby County, Illinois in Becks Creek district evi¬ dently as his widow7 Nancy was still living there 1850 (census) with her mother Elizabeth Matirly b. 1774 Virginia. Titus Gregg wras a wheel¬ wright in Madison County, Illinois and had a blacksmith shop at his farm on which he set out a large orchard north of Troy, Illinois.
Issue by m. (1) :
1. Jane Gregg b. abt. 1795 m. Nov., 1813 Joseph Ferguson a private in Sam Whiteside’s Company of Rangers War of 1312
2. Miner Gregg b. abt. 1801 m. Mary Johnson. He died early in Madison County, Illinois
Issue:
a. Jonse Gregg m. Mary Blakeman
Issue :
(1) . Viola Gregg m. Albert Harris
Issue:
(a) . Albert Harris
(b) . Irwin Harris
(c) . Orville Harris ’ (d). Cleora Harris
(e). Alberta Harris
(2) . Stella Gregg m. Louis Busch St. Jacob, Illinois
(3) . Charles Gregg b. 1862
(4) . Irving Gregg
1 Titus Grage — Madison Co., Illinois
2 Deed Records Bk 7 p. 353, 334, 310
J Marriage Register p. 12
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(5). Alberta Gregg m . Meyers, Highland, Illinois
Issue :
(a) . Bonnie Meyers
(b) . Albert Meyers Cc). William Meyers
b. Annie B. Gregg m. Dec. 23, 1856 Oliver B. Ground. She d. early of T. B. He lived to be old Issue :
(1) . Mary Bennet Ground m. Mark Dickson Issue:
(a) . Mabel Lucille Dickson m. Fred A. Wood
(b) . Annie Blanche Dickson m. Fidelio R. Deem, Alton, Illinois
(c) . Oliver Ground Dickson
(2) . Harry Leslie lived and died St. Louis Feb., 1939
3. Mary Gregg b. abt. 1805 m. Sept. 10, 1831 Elias Barnes by Minister Sam L. Wood
4. Eliza Gregg b. abt. 1S08 m. April 19, 1833 Charles Colyer by Minister
Sam L. Wood had ncry K'QoK ^ , -2s
Titus Gragg’s issue by m. (2) living Shelby Co., Illinois 1850 (census) in Becks Creek District
5. Charles Gragg b. 1829
6. Jane Gregg b. 1830
7. Lucinda Gregg b. 1832 .
8. Pheby Gregg b. 1335
9. Hariett Gregg b. 1837
C. Harmon Gregg b. Orange County, North Carolina Feb. 21, 1774 d. Jack- son County, Missouri Aug. 10, 1844 and is buried there in Lewis Ceme¬ tery in Blue. Township; m. in Knox County, Tennessee eact of Knox¬ ville June 20, 1797 to Susanna Smelzer (Schmelzer b. Sept. 17, 1774 d. June 23, 1857 and is buried by her husband. With his parents, brothers, and families he moved about twenty miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee in 1799 later to Overton Co. from which a restless disposition moved him into Missouri in 1812 to Coopers Fort for four years, Fort Cooper soutlrwest of Boone’s Lick between Howard and Boone Counties, where the family lived in Fort Cooper for protection against the Indians. Harmon Gregg was on the muster roll of Capt. Cooper 1812 as a private. When the Indians became restless and morose, the settlers built strong¬ holds from the mouth of the Osage west to the Kansas line. Later in the fall of 1811 rumors of the second war with England began to filter through the section. General A. W. Doniphan b. 1308 Mason County, Kentucky praised Harmon’s services saying that Harmon was the strongest man in native intellect he had ever known. Harmon moved to Boone Co., Mo. 1816 and in 182^he moved to the “Blue River” coun¬ try four and one-half miles northeast of Independence, Missouri in Jackson County. There he built a log house one and one-half stories high (still standing 1910). In that locale were many lakes for fishing and hunting ducks, geese, jack-snipe, swans and Canadian geese. Harmon owned land just west of the Lewis homestead occupied 1825 by James Lewis owned today by a grandson on which is the Lewus Family cemet&ry in which Lewises and Greggs are buried. The Greggs helped to locate the townsite of Independence, Mo. and with the Lewis’s and others organized the first laws, built the first courthouse, still well preserved. In 1811 Harmon traded a horse for 100 acres which is now in the heart of St. Louis. Winter of 1842 worst the westerners ever ex¬ perienced.
Copied from, Ilcrmon Gregg’s Estate Agreement of Heirs Filed 3rd. day of December 1844
(Probate Court, Jackson County, Mo.)
An article of agreement made and entered into this sixth day of N'evember, Eighteen hundred and forty-four between the undersigned heirs at large of the estate of Harmon Gregg deceased, — Which witnesselh that, where as it is impracticable to divide out equally among the heirs the slaves pertaining to said estate. We have mutually agreed to waive and dispense with all legal proceedings on the subject, and that the said slaves be distributed in the following manner, at the prices generally annexed to each to wit; David Gregg the boy Henry (Aged about years) at one hundred and sixty-five dollars: To John Gregg the boy Noah (aacd ghoul two years) at three hundred and fifty dollars: To Jacob Gregg Gregg the boy Joe (aged about five and one half) aat two lutd- dred and twenty-five dollars: To Phillip A. and Margaret or Peggy Hardwick the boy John (aged about forty-three years) at three hundred and fifty-seven„dollars: To Josiah Gregg the boy Dick (aged about e’ght and one half years) aat three hundred and fifty dollars: To James and Mary or Polly Lewis the girl Malinda (aged about lour years) at one hundred amt seventy-five dollars: To Harmon Gregg the woman Jane (aged about 32 years) and tier infant child Easter at four hundred dollars: We having agreed and understood that each and every receiver of said negroes as already innumerated shall be charged with his or her part of the value of the same, as generally stated above, to said estate, out of his or her proportion thereof, with ten per cent ’ interest on the same from the date hereof until the final settlement of said estate. It is further agreed that Susanah Gregg, widow of said Harmon Gregg, deceased. Shall have the boy - Jerry (aaed about twenty-four years) at six hundred dollars and the girl Judah (aged about seven years) at two hundred and fifty dollars. Which amounts are to he accoun¬ ted for out of her portion of said estate; and that the saiti Susanah Gregg fully con¬ curs in and agrees to the foregoing division of said negroes. And where as David Gregg according to agreement with said deceased and a bill of sale executed by the same, is proprietor of the man Fortune by paying the price of six hundred dollars for tlie same, it is agreed and understood that the said Daval be charged with and account for the said amount of Six hundred dollars to said estate out of his portion thereof, with ten per cent interest upon same from the first daay of August, 1843 until the final settlement of said estate. In testimony whereof we have here untu set our hands and seals in Jackson County Missouri. The day and date written above.
Susannah Gregg 1 (Seal) Jacob Gregg (Seal) Harmon Gregg (Seal)
David Gregg (Seal) Phillip 1 Hardwick (Seal) John S. McClellan (Seal)
John Gregg (Seal) Josiah Gregg (Seal) by James Lewis
by Josiah Gregg James Lewis (Seal)
Sale Hill of Estate of Harmon Gregg Filed 22nd. Day of November 1814
1 Ox ring nd small wheel . . .
(J. M. Rogers) . . . . . 03
1 Large wheel (Thomas Jefferies) _ 1.00
1 Log chain (John M. Rogers) . 75
1 C Mattock i Henry Parker) . . .75
1 Axe (Benj. Branch) . . 50
1 do (David Gregg) . 1.5')
2 bottles (E. Walkins) . . . — . V2
1 half bu measure and bottles . —
(W. J. Robinson) . . . . 12
2 split boxes (Mary Sales) . 10
1 asee (?) (James Lewis) — . — . 37
1 Bner Scythe (G. \V. Anderson) . 44
1 Hoe (David Gregg) . . — . 1.00
1 Cow and calf (.James Lewis) . 7.0')
1 Cow and call' (A. G. Robin on) - 5.13
1 Yoke Oxen (A. G. Robinson) . 17.01
14 head of hogs (James McGuffin) ... 13.00
1 Mule colt (James Lewis) _ .... 20.25
1 Bay mare (Robert Daniels) . . . 12.03
1 Pr. Steelyards (Mary Sales . — . 00
1 Knob Lock (Madison Belcher) - .94
1 Lot Parliment Hinges (Steplnn Adams ) .50
'2 Pair . . ? (Hardwick) . . . . ~ .13
2 Brushes and Syringe (Hardwick) .... 1.63
1 Looking glass (Stephen Adams) - 2.50
2 Looking glass (James Lewis) — . 8.00
1 Book Martyrs (James Finalaj) . . .50
1 British Pulpit (Hardwick) __ . . .50
1 Jesepsus (A. G. Robinson) . . 1.43
1 Dining table (Janies Lewis) . 7.ftd
1 Carpet and Hearth Rug Thos. Inekle) 10.25 1 Bed and 4 Bed covers (W. G. Chiles) 13.00 1 Bed, 1 straw bed and 1 bed covers
(Jacob Gregg) . — . . 14.38
1 Bed 1 straw bed. 2 pillows and
4 covers (Harmon Gregg) ... _ 18.50
1 Bed stead (J. M. Rogers) _ __.... 5.50
1 Bed stead (G. W. Anderson) . . 5.00
1 Cupboard (Jackson Drake) _ 14.25
1 Clock (James l’inalay) . . . . 10.00
1 Pr. Carvers and steel (Hardwick) .... 1.62 1 Set knives and forks (James Lewis) 2.00
1 Vegetable diet) (James Lewis) .03
1 Set cup Plates (Harmon Gregg) . 12
1 Pair Preserve Dishes (Hardwick) _ .38
1 Pair Preserve dishes (Harmon Gregg) .38 1 Pair Preserve dishes (Jackson Drake) .25
1 Pair Preserve dishes ( Harmon Gregg).. .06
1 Pair Preserve dishes (Hardwick) . 50
1 Coffee Mill (Hardwick) _ 1.56
$211.07
Appraise Bill of the personal property of -Harmon praisers appointed and sworn for that purpose.
1 yoke of oxen — . — . . ? 18.00
2 cows and calves at seven dollars each 21,00
1 hay mare $20. and one mule c. It $20.. 10.00
1 lot of hogs Si LOO . . _ . . . 14.00
1 carriage $80.00 one bayhorse $35 - 115.00
1 work mule $45.00 — . — . 4_>.00
1 Bureau $20. one cupboard $15 - 35.00
1 table $4 1-2 do/. Windsor chairs $5.. 9.00
1 toilet table 81.50 one log chain 81.00.. 2.50
1 weeding hoe 75c 1 sythe 50c ...... —
1 small axe i;0c i coffee mill $1.50...
1 dish and lot of knives and forks 1 other set knives and forks 1 lot of glass plates
1 lot Chimes — .
1 large dish and bole and 2 sets
silver spoons 1 lot plates cups etc 1 do/, candles moles $1.00
hoe 75 cts - -
l clock and case $10.0(1 one big and little wheel $1.50
3 hedstids and bedding 1 bedstid and bedding $35.00 A receipt filed as follows — The to making one coffin for said deceased..
Gregg Bonds $16,000. Securities
Gregg deceased made by the undersigned ap- Tliis the 18th day of October 184 1. To wit:
3 large looking glasses . . 18.00
1 dining table and cloth . . 7.00
1 large carpet and hearth rug . 10.00
1 small carpet and hearth rug _ 15.00
1 lot of hinges and lock . . 2.50
1 half bushel and sundries . - 1.00
1 syringe and brushes . . 1.50
1 Encyclopedia $3.00 one lot of
books $3.00 . . _ . . . 6.00
1 pr. Steelyards .50 . .50
Blacks
|
1 |
Black |
mnn |
John .... . . |
_ 325.00 |
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1 |
Black |
woman Jane and child |
. . 400.09 |
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1 |
Black |
man |
Jerry . . |
. 600.00 |
|
1 |
Black |
boy |
Noah . _ . |
_ .... 350.00 |
|
1 |
Black |
boy |
Dick . |
. 300.00 |
|
1 |
Black |
boy |
J oe |
. 250.00 |
|
1 |
Black |
bov |
Henry . |
. 175.00 |
|
1 |
Black |
girl |
Judah . |
. 250.00 |
|
1 |
Black |
girl |
Linda . . . |
? $1.50
1.25
2.00
2.50 1.00
1 .50 1 .50
. . . 10.00
. 1.50
grubbing
1.75
. . 11.50
$25.00 each.... 75.00 -
. . 35.00 $3330.50
Estate of Harmon Gregg deceased to Dr. Peter Boss Aug. 20, 1841 .. $7.00. letters granted Sept. 4, 1814 adm. Gregg and Lewis Josiah (Imre. Harmon Greffff Jr.
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Issue:
1. David Gregg b. Oct. 18, 1798 Overton Co., Tenn. killed by Union offi¬ cer Col. Chas. R. Jennison on Sept. 15, I8G4 Platte Co., Mo. near Weston; m. Aug. 8, 1818 Nancy Adams b. 1801 Virginia (she gave Kentucky 1870 census) d. 1876.
He participated in Indian fights for defense around Cooper’s Fort in Howard Co. Mo. The family moved to Clay Co. Mo. 1824; to Platte Co. Mo. spring of 1837. On the public highway north of Parkerville, Platte Co. Mo. on Sept. 15, 1864 David Gregg was driving a yoke of cattle to a wagon, taking grain to the mill at Parkerville. He was met in the road by Col. Chas. R. Jennison at the head of his men and was questioned upon his sympathies. David Gregg frankly avowed his leaning to the South, but had taken no part in the war because of his advanced age. Upon this admission. Jennison drew his heavy holster-pistol and shot him dead and left him where he fell. He was old and highly esteemed. His grain was fed to the horses and one of his oxen was slaughtered and eaten. This cold-blooded murder was not approved by Jennison’s soldiers. David Gregg was old and harm¬ less. One of Jennison’s men protesting the act said to him: “By God, that is the first time I ever knew a soldier to kill a dog that had no teeth” referring to killing the elderly men who took no part in the war. A son T. A. Gregg administered the estate on bond of $1,800. Issue:
a. Susan Gregg b. Sept. 28, 1823 d. m. Jan. 5, 1842 Andrew Jackson
Higgins b. Sept. 29, 1816 in Coopersport, Hov/ard Co. Mo., d. Apr. 1,
1895 son of Justice of Peace Josiah Higgins from Tenn. to Platte
Co. Mo. 1837; d. August 1841 and Barbara Smelser sister of Jacob
Smelser
Issue:
(1) . William Riley Higgins b. May 8, 1843 d. unm. Sept. 14, 1895
(2) . Mary E. Higgins b. 1844
(3) . Nancy M. Higgins b. Dec. 16, 1846 m. Dec. 25, 1884 Josiah G.
Lewis
Issue :
(a) . Ellen Lewis b. Oct. 9, 1865 m. Mar. 1, 1888 . Staggs
Issue :
(l)1 Dennis Staggs b. 1890
(b) . Minnie Lewis b. Mar. 10, 1872
(c) . Lena Lewis b. June 1, 1884
(4) . David B. Higgins b. Dec. 4, 1850 m. Feb. 7, 1878 Sarah M. No¬ land dau. of Obed C. Noland
Issue:
(a) . Anderson J. Higgins b. Jan. 17, 1379
(b) . Myrtle Higgins b. Nov. 14, 1880
(5) . Pauline Lena Higgins b. Dec. 6, 1853 m. Sept. 30, 1877 William
Dearing. No issue
(6) . Minerva m (1) James Strang d. Feb. 1862 when Jus¬
tice of Peace; m. (2) Aug. 8, 1869 John S. Crane
Issue :
(a) . Kate Strang rri. Thomas Dearing son of Burket Dearing
(b) . David G. Strang m. Mar. 23, 18&0 Leora Hoy
(c) . Lizzie Strang b. Nov. 25, 1857 d. Dec. 23, 1893 m. Dec. 25, 1876 James D. Jacks son of Sidney Jacks. Five children
, (d). Henrietta Strang m . Truman
b. Franklin Gregg m. Margaret Ferguson .
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Lssue :
(1). Charles Gregg m. Belle Harris; no issue
c. Thomas A. Gregg b. Clay Co. Mo. Dec. 16, 1831 m. Feb. 25, 1858 Cordelia D. Lewis of Pettis Twp: Platte Co. Mo. dau. William. Lewis b. Mar. 5, 1819 and Charity B. Gibson b. Sept. 1, 1822 d. Aug 8, 1853 Parkville, Mo.
Issue:
(1) . William Lee Gregg b. Dec. 24, 1861 m. Sept. 19, 1883 Emma Moore
Issue:
(a) . Otto Gregg
(b) . Jeptha T. Gregg
(2) . Ida A. Gregg
(3) . Thomas H. Gregg
(4) . Nancy May Gregg
d. Mary F. Gregg1 b. 1833 m. Feb. 6, 1860 John H. Nash d. May 12, 1384 business man of Parkville, Mo.
Issue :
(1) . Florence Nash m. Charles Galbraith Issue:
(ah Edward Galbraith m. Anna Folger Issue:
(1) 1 Anita Galbraith
(2) 1 Fay Galbraith m. William Allen WTiite
(b) . William Galbraith m. Odessa .
Issue:
( 1 ) 1 Lavina Galbraith
(c) . Frances Galbraith m. Arthur Elliott Lssue :
(l)1 Capt. Lewis Charles Elliott sent overseas 1944; m. Max¬ ine Dykess
(d) . Edward Galbraith m. Virginia Fox; chemical engineer Boston, Mass.
Issue :
(l)1 Richard Galbraith
(2) . Fannie Nash m. Sept. 8, 1874 Dr. S. F. Carpenter St. Joe, Mo. Issue:
(a). Annie Carpenter in. Donald Stuart Issue:
(l)1 Jean Stuart
(3) . Kate Nash m. Thomas Robert Hubbard Issue:
(a) . Maud Hubbard d. yng.
(b) . Charles Nash Hubbard m. Gladys Stone Issue :
(1) i George Hubbard
(2) i W. F. Hubbard
(c) . Robert Gregg Hubbard m. Irene . lives Toledo, Ohio
Issue:
(1) i Ray Hubbard m.; has son Ray Jr.
(2) i Marjorie Hubbard m.; has one child
(4) . William Nash m. Alberta Brightw'ell Issue:
(a). Mabel Nash m. Frank Burdick
1 letter of Stella Nash-Edgar, Boone, Iovra
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Issue :
(l)1 Donald Burdick m.
(b) . Dora Nash
(c) . Lavinia Nash
(d) . Elizabeth Nash m.
(e) . Agnes Nash m. George Fewson; one child
(5) . Lizzie Nash d. Feb. 26, 1895 m. Hall Gilchrist Issue:
(a) . Frank Gilchrist d. yng. man
(b) . Lavoy Gilchrist d. yng. man
(6) . Bell Nash m. Austin Dexter Issue:
(a) . Anita Dexter d. yng.
(b) . Forrest Dexter m. Clara Hubbard; 4228 Adams Ave., Des Moines, Iowa
Issue:
( 1 ) 1 Natalie Dexter
(7) . Stella Nash m. Harry Edgar; no issue. He died 1924; she lives Boone, Iowa and helped much with this data
(8) . Arthur David Nash m. Bessie Gregg Issue:
(a). Jean Nash
e. Absolom H. Gregg b. 1835 m. Mahala Robbins Issue :
(1). John Gregg
f. Rebecca Gregg b. 1837 m. Edwin Edgar Issue:
(1) . Clarence Edgar d. yng.
(2) . Annie Edgar d. yng.
(3). Harry Edgar
g. Margaret Gregg b. 1S39 m. Herman Ford son of Sam Ford Issue:
(1) . Nancy Ford
(2) . Walter Ford
(3) . Samuel Ford
(4) . Laura Ford
h. Ann Elizabeth Gregg b. 183.2 Mo. m. John Bartleson Dean b. 1814 Tenn. d. Oct. 3, 1877 New Market, Mo. son of John Dean b. May 1, 1784 Maine and Susan Bartleson d. August 1822, son of Joshua Dean Issue:
(1). Sidney Huston Dean b. Jan. 7, 1842 m. March 1866 Kate Leavel b. 1846 dau. of Arch Leavel Issue:
(a) . Clarence Dean
(b) . Elizabeth J. Dean m. Oct. 10, 1877 John S. Williams of W. Williams
Issue :
(1) i William Williams
(2) i Huston Williams
(c) . Arch Dean
(d) . Linn Dean
(e) . Mary C. Dean
(f) . Sidney H. Dean
(g) . Albert Dean
(h) . Andrew Dean
(i) . Campbell Dean
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(2) . Minerva A. Dean m. Feb. 26, 1861 John Thomas b. Henry Co.
Ky. Sept. 19, 1835 Issue:
(a) . Harriett Thomas m. Lewis
(b) . Sidney Thomas m. Dona Moore
(c) . Andrew Thomas m. Maggie Maupin
(d) . Elizabeth Thomas m. Bruce
(e) . Lydia Thomas m. Hillix
(f) . Franklin Thomas
(3) . Maple Dean b. Sept. 14, 1840 m. June 28, 1866 Issue:
(a) . Nora m. Jefferson Mason
(b) . Jamee
(c) . Lelia
(d) . Susie
(e) . Alta
(f) . Maple P.
(4) . James T. Dean b. Mar. 15, 1852 a. Sept. 16, 1893 m. Mar. 10, 1880 Maggie E. Anderson Issue:
(a) . Leopold D. Dean .
(b) . Annie C. Dean
(c) . John Dean
(d) . Mary E. Dean
(5) . Nancy Ellen Dean b. 1856 (census 1870) m. Dec. 25, 1872 John T. Leavel son of Arch Leave!
Issue :
(a) . William Leavel
(b) . Ara Leavel
(c) . Dean Leavel
(6) . Susan E. Dean b. 1856 (1870 census) m. Dec. 24, 1878 B. Frank Allison of James Allison near New Market, Mo.
Issue:
(a) . Minnie Allison
(b) . Rachel Allison
(c) . A babe
i. John H. Gregg b. 1844 m. Marie Johnson dau. of David Johnson of Woodford Co., Ky. b. Sept. 6, 1814 d. Platte Co., Mo. Mar. 1, 1887 m. Feb. 9, 1837 Mary Ann Johnson b. Oct. 11, 1819 d. May 4, 1875 dau. of John D. Johnson of Clay Co., Mo. David Johnson was son of William Johnson b. Va. d. Platte Co., Mo. Aug. 15, 1845 m. in Va. Margaret Shadrack a. Sept. 20, 1844 Platte Co., Mo. David was soldier in War of 1812; settled near Barry, Mo. 1825 Issue :
(1) . Annie Gregg
(2) . David Gregg
(3) . Clarence Gregg
2. John Gregg b. Tenn. Apr. 25, 1300 d. 1888 Aberdeen, Mississippi; m. at Short Mountain, Arkansas Oct. 25, 1835 Martha Eliza McClellan1 b. 1818 Tenn. perished with her children in steamboat tragedy before 1876 dau. of Major William McClellan m. Eliza Conway Sevier dau. of John Sevier 1745-1815 noted pionerr Indian fighter from Augusta Co. Va. to N. C. where he wras a pioneer in the Watauga settlement and a member to the First Congress 1789-91, founder and first gov-
1 Her brother John McClellan m. Susan Gregg a sister to John 1800-1888
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ernor of Tennessee six terms 1796-1801 and 1803-09 m. (2) 1780 Cath¬ erine Sherrill; son of Valentine Servier1 (ae Xavier) died 1803 whose llugenot family refugeed to London, to Shanandoah Co. Va. 1740 with Hugenots and his brother William; m. 1740 Joanna Goode (dau. of John Goode of Baltimore m. Ann and lived Bedford Co. Va.) son of Valentine de Xavier m. Mary Smith. In 1790 (census) Major Will¬ iam McClellan lived Salisbury District, Iredell Co. North Carolina with wife, one son and two daughters, five slaves; nearby lived John McClellan with family, and widow Rebecca McClellan with young children. This family originated in Scotland.
In the early days of Van Buren, Arkansas John Gregg was a mer¬ chant partner of his brother-in-law George C. Pickett who also mar¬ ried a daughter of Maj. William McClellan and Eliza Conway Sevier as did a R. S. C. Brown. In 1841 they lived in Van Buren, Arkansas but in summer of 1844 he bought land and was living 1850 as a plant- ter in Greenwood Ward, Shreveport, Caddo Co., Louisiana with his family and two overseers, Jonas W. Johnson b. 1820 Miss, and Albert W. Moore b. 1824 Georgia. He owned a plantation five miles out of Shreveport, La. (whiih he bought from Thomas Simmons in 1844 and sold 1846 to Roberick Nicholson. This was 400 acres, and the following negroes: Jerry aged about 25 years, Georgel8, Parker 15, Jesse 16, Ambrose 14, Noah 12, Dick 11, Spence 11, Cora 11, Isabella 11, Henry 11, Emily 32, Tennessee 17 and her child aged about 14 months — all slaves for life; also eight head of horses, a wagon and the farming utensils now on the said plantation, the kitchen furni¬ ture, and eight hundred bushels of corn now on the said plantation, twenty-five head of cattle Forty head of hogs all attached to said plantation and in consideration for the same the said Nicholson pay to the said Gregg the sum of one thousand dollars in hand and obli¬ gate himself to pay the further sum of eight thousand dollars in the manner following.. ..1847.. ..1848... .1849. (Filed and recorded Oct. 14, 1846) On Jan. 10, 1845- John Gregg and wife Martha Eliza of Caddo Parish, Louisiana sold to George C. Pickett in Crawford Co. and Yell in Arkansas for ‘‘$5,250 “all their undivided half”, 1330 acres also nine lots in the town of Van Buren, signed by John Gregg and Martha Eliza Gregg by her attorney in fact John B. Ogden.
On the unknown fate and last activities expressing anxiety for his brother Josiah Gregg’s death he wrote his brother-in-law Hard- wicke without knowledge of his departure for California.
“Shreveport, La., May 16, 1850
Dear Hardwicke:
I have the melancholy news to convey to you of the death of Brother Josiah. This news comes from a commercial house (Messrs. Robert Smith & C., unknown to me). They simply write that they had delivered to Jesse Sutton a manuscript work entitled ‘Rovings Abroad’ by a request contained in a letter to that gentleman from your (my) brother, now deceased. There is not a word as to when, where or how he came to his death. I am writing to Jesse Sutton and others in California to try and ascertain the particulars of his death. The last letter I had from him was dated Trinity River, some 400 miles north of San .Francisco. This river, I believe, empties into the ocean north of Sacramento River. We are well. Yet I am looking for sickness, as the spring is exceptionally wet and cold. Such weather has never been known here before.
Remember us kindly to sister Peggy and the family.
Yours truly,
John Gregg”
1 John Sevier 1715-1815 bpgan to write the name Sevier
1 Deed in possesion of Clara Eno VanBuren.Ark. to : Marie Lentz, Independence,Mo
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A later letter to his sister Peggy Hardwicke who lived near Ran¬ dolph, Mo.:
“Shreveport, La., January 6, 1851
My dear Sister:
Your letter of the 25th Nov. has just been received. We are much gratified to hear from you, as also from mother. I had just ■written her and directed to Liberty to your care — having learned by letter from sister Susan that she expected to spend the winter at your house. This letter I will direct to Randolph, as I see yours was mailed there. I have just received a letter from Cousin Jacob Gregg, who gave me the first information of good old Uncle Ayer’s death. He says he did not see Mr. Hardwicke as they went on, but heard of him in the mines near Hang Town. They wrere at Riley’s, wrho live at Napa City, near and north of the Bay of San Francisco. His mother, he s'aid, w-as in good health. Just have written mother, I have but little to write you about ourselves, more that we are in the enjoyment of reasonable health.
I have WTitten many letters to California, trying to get informa¬ tion in regard to brother Josiah’s death, as well as his effects, but have been able to learn nothing. I lately wrote to Mr. Hardwicke. Cousin Jacob wrote me that Riley had been able to learn nothing; but supposed his effects, if any, were in the hands of Jesse Sutton. Sutton inclosed my brother Josiah’s last letter to him, directing him to take charge of his effects and turn them over to me, in case he should be lost or never get back to San Francisco. He sent me his memoranda or Journal and inclosed letter I speak of above, but says nothing of anything else, but says he had written me before in regard to his death. That letter I never got. Brother Josiah bor¬ rowed money from him on leaving San Francisco, and in the letter named above had directed him to pay himself out of his effects. It may be that it took everything to pay him. It may be that every¬ thing he had writh him, when he died, was lost, as Sutton says his papers wTere lost.
I have not heard whether John McClellan has got back from El Paso, nor have I heard from Sister Susan since she got home. I wrote her a few days since.
We live on the most thronged highway in the Western Country; and the throng is now much increased bv extraordinary immigration to Texas. Shreveport is the receiving and shinping point for a large tract of country — extending far back into Texas. Its streets and sidewralks show the busy bustle of a large city.
I am in hones you will write me often, and I am very anxious indeed to receive a letter with mother’s name appended. To v/horn please remember me and Eliza kindly, as $lso to your children and the kin and friends generallv.
And receive for yourself the kindest wishes of your Brother.
John.”
John Gregg and family left Louisiana before 1860 census; deed shows 1856. In 18761 John Gregg was at Waukesha, Wis. and wrote a letter to Mr. D. C. Williams at Van Buren, Arkansas, who sent his Masonic certificate:
“Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 10, 1876
D. C. Williams, Esqr:
Van Buren, Ark.
My dear friend
Just, as I was in the act of leaving Aberdeen,. I received your of 22d with the enclosed certificate from the Masonic Lodge of V. Buren. Ark. I showed the certificate to one of the officers of the Lodge at Aberdeen, just as I was leaving there who said it wras all sufficient. I feel under lasting obligations to vou for the nains vou took in ob¬ taining the eertificate. I was sorrv to give vou so much trouble in tvin mnHori hut t have been so long in Texas vrhere I could not af¬ filiate with any lodge, that I felt unable to oass mvself as a. Mason. T t&B beb’evp we were in the Lodge together, when on a visit to V Furen. on the initiation of a candidate into the Lodge. You lived there then and must have been in the Lodge.
1 John Gregg’s letter in possession of Clam F. Eno. Van Buren. Arkansas
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I am pleased to learn your railroad is proceeding to completion. Is the entire road finished between you and Little Rock? When the road is completed you will be independent of your treacherous river. I hope it will give impetus to your town. This is a watering place of considerable celebrity. There are persons here from nearly every part of the U. S. foom Maine to San Antonio.
I have been here a little over a week. Soon after my arrival I had a severe chill and remained quite unwell for several days: hence my delay in answering your welcome letter. On the 4th July they had a grand parade. I try to keep my mouth shut among these Races but will “go” off” sometimes before I think. A band of music passed, where I was standing accompanied by a large U. S. flag. Upon which a leading citizen exclaimed: See there! They have the Uniqyt turned down. Before I thought I answered: My dear sir: I think they have it turned just right.
How do you like the nomination of Tilde n and Hendricks? Miss¬ issippi is delighted. They are her very first choice. My idea is if we can’t elect them, we had as well “give up the ship.” Still I am not very sanguine of success. We have to fight the money and eighty thousand office holders.
I shall remain here about three weeks longer. I have no great hope that the water here will benefit me. I should be pleased to hear from you when it suits your convenience.
With solicitude for your health and prosperity, I remain
Yours most truly,
John Gregg”
John Gregg prior to 1860 moved his family to northeastern Texas. After his wife and children met death in a steamboat tragedy on the Red River he made his home in the home of Colonel John Gregg dec., wife Molly (Garth) at Aberdeen, Miss. V7hen he died, his body with papers and personal effects was taken for burial to Marshall, Texas. Endymion Baker Gregg was his executory Issue met death with their mother2 before 1876
(a) . William M. Gregg b. 1836 Arkansas
(b) . Nola E. Gregg b. 1842 Arkansas
(c) . Alla Gregg b. 1844 Louisiana
3. Hon. Jacob Gregg b. Tenn. April 9, 1802 in Knox Co. d. 1893; buried Koger Cem. Sin-Bar Twp. Jackson Co. Mo.; m. March 4, 1828 Nancy Lewis b. Ky. July 2, 1806 d. Dec. 29, 1885 and buried beside husband. They moved with his father and brother to Troy, Illinois 1811 from Tenn.; to Boone Co. Mo. 1812; in 1818 he saw the first steamboat ascend the Missouri River. In 1825 he was on the Santa Fe trail with one of the first twenty-four W'agons. In 1828 he was the sur¬ veyor of Jackson Co. Mo. In 1850 he was elected to the state legis¬ lature. From 1832 to 1836 he was the county sheriff Fie took the census to determine whether Jackson county had enough population to be organized. He was a Whig. On Jacob’s 91st birthday among his visitors was nephew Major Hardwicke and wife.
(Copied from a clipping from Liberty “Missouri Advance” now
in possession of Mary Hardwicke Piper, Winkelman, Arizona.)
“Honorable Jacob Gregg was born in Overton County Tennessee, April 9, 1302. His father Harmon Gregg, was Scotch-Irish, His moth¬ er was German. They were of that heroic stock who conquered this country from the savages. The family moved from Tennessee to Illinois in 1811, southeast of St. Louis, where they were at the time of the famous New Madrid earthquake, and there across the Miss¬ issippi they could feel the effects of the shocks and sawr swaying of the trees from the same cause. It was diirina that year that his father traded a horse for 100 acres of land, which is now in the heart of St. Louis. He got tired of his land in the French town and traded back. From 1812 to 1815 they were inmates of Cooper’s Fort in what
1 Letter of Louise Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont
1 Letter of Dr. W. A. Evans, Evans Memorial Library, Aberdeen, Mississippi
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is now Boone County. Their nearest town was St. Charles. When the Indians became peaceful enough they moved to Howard County ‘Gregg’s Creek’, wl^ere they lived still bears their name.
In 1818 he saw the first steamboat come up the Missouri river as far as Charlton a town which was' near the site of the present town of that name. That town was washed away in 1826 when the Mis¬ souri river was but four feet low7er than the great flood of 1844. In 1825 his son was one of the 30 wagons which started the first trading trip to Santa Fe. Each wagon was owned by different proprietor, and their teams were all the wTay from the spike team to six mules. They were piloted by Hi Emmons and one Wiggins and traveled on what is now the East Santa Fe route. His brother Josiah Gregg began that trade in 1832 and became famous as a trader and author. Jacob Gregg was in Jackson County in 1826, when the first election was held. Kaw township which included all the present township and more, where Kansas City now is, cast 17 votes.
In 1827 Jackson County was organized and Jacob Gregg was ap¬ pointed the first surveyor and Joseph R. Walker the first sheriff, Gregg filling the latter office as Walker’s deputy. He held the office of surveyor until 1832, when he was elected Sheriff of Jackson County, and again reelected in 1834. He then engaged in farming and merchantile pursuits, settling at ‘Stony Point’, in Jackson Co. Mo.
In 1858 he was elected to the legislature as an old line Whig, and represented Jackson County during the following session. This is the last office he held. He continued in business until he was long past 80 years of age. He is now settled in Grain Valley a village on the Chicago and Alton R. R. where he has a cosy home, attended by a faithful servant of the long ago. Aunt Sallie who takes pride in showing her quilts, pieced after patterns taught her by ‘Old Missus’, Jacob Gregg’s Mother and ‘Young Missus, Jacob Gregg’s wife more than fifty years ago. Aunt Sallie belongs to that lovable race of black mamma’s whose tender affection no southern man need be. told of and no northern man can understand. Some years ago Mr. Gregg had a slight paralytic stroke, which impairs his speech to some extent, except that, he is in normal condition at 91. Jacob Gregg is indeed a happy man. He remembers with pride his honor¬ able ancestry; he looks back upon a life well spent, he enjoys the health and vitality consequent upon a life of temperate habits and honorable industry. His descendants are all prosperous and honor¬ able and the descendants of his brothers and sisters hold him in reverential affection. It is profitable to consider a life like this, it dispels the gloomy foreboding with which we are accustomed to in extreme old age. Long may he live to enjoy what he has earned and to cheer us by his example.”
(Copied from a newspaper editorial written at the time of
Jacob Gregg’s death, and preserved thru the years in the scrap¬ book of the late Susan Lewis of Belton, Mo. — “The Kansas
City Times.”)
“Jacob Gregg is dead at the age of 92. He lived in Jackson county 70 years, and at the time of his death was the oldest man in the county. Mr. Gregg saw the beginnings of civil government in Jack- son county; saw how simple and yet efficient our form of govern¬ ment is in its inception. When he came into what is now Jackson county it was a wild place like Noah’s ark, with a few human beings and a great many beasts. It was part of LaFayette county, and when it was deemed proper to extend the operations of civil government over it there was no sound of trumpet, no issue of charter on parch¬ ment, no outward and visible demonstration to impress on the in¬ habitants that the law7 in its majesty had arrive — anly the county court appointed Jacob Gregg Constable. With Constable Gregg be¬ gan the long procession of civil officers who have ruled, and wrrought evil and good, and issued papers and served them and “due return made,” for 67 years. The first official duty of Constable Gregg was to take the census of Kaw township, and he discovered in his baili¬ wick 17 good and true men and legal voters. Having thus laid the foundations of law, justice and society in the wilderness Constable Gregg did not retire. The year after his appointment as Constable Jackson was admitted as a soverign countv of the state of Missouri, and he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, and it was his duty to sum-
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mon the first grand jury. As the ‘groves were God’s first temples,’ so the ‘gay greenwood’ was in Jackson county the first temple of justice and this grand jury met under an oak tree’s spreading shade. Jacob Gregg was afterv/ards Sheriff for several terms and was chosen a member of the legislature, but it may be said that after he had got the ‘palladium of liberty’ and all that well to going he left to others the duties of office and control. He lived 43 years in Grain Valley, and everything changed about him; he outlived the friends of his youth, but one old friend was with him in the ‘hour and article of death,’ a black man whom he bought fifty years ago and who would not, in spite of changing fortunes, forsake or leave him. So, amid the sound of railroad trains and all the voices of this modern time passed Jacob Gregg, who listened to the whispers of the leafy wilderness in the long ago.”
Is sue b. Jackson Co. Mo.;
a. Dr. John Lewis Gregg b. Dec. 26, 1828 d. Tempe, Arizona Oct. 8, 1896 m. (1) 1849 Martha Frances Daniel of Lone Jack, Mo. m. (2) (Mollie) Mary Shaffer, Pittsville, Mo. b. Jan. 18, 1851 d. Dec. 11, 1920 Issue :
(1). Luther Lentillus Gregg m. Oct. 1858 Anna Eliza Hill of Hicks City, Mo.
Issue;
(a) . John Hill Gregg, Tempe, Arizona m. Dora Wilkinson Issue b. Tempe, Arizona:
( 1 ) 1 Anna Lucetta Gregg
(b) . Daisy Evelyn Gregg, St. Paul, Minn. m. Dr. Charles Lucien Kreeger, Lone Jack, Mo.
Issue :
(1 ) 1 Lillian Florence Kreeger
(2) 1 Anna Araminta Kreeger m. Waldo Harding Marsh, Kan¬ sas City, Mo.
Issue:
(a)1 Shirley Ann Harding b. July 5, 1933 (b 1 John Waldo Marsh b. Nov. 27, 1936
(c)1 William David Marsh b. June 12, 1941
(3) i William Daniel Kreeger, Kansas City, Mo. m. Thelma Blythe, Jefferson City, Mo.
(4) 1 Charles Lucien Kreeger m. Pauline Smith
(5) 1 Horace Mozart Kreeger, twin
(6) 1 Harold Mendelsohn Kreeger, twin m. Violet Taylor, Kansas City, Mo.
Issue:
(a)1 Donna Lee Kreeger OfMjO/ Kreeger
(c) . Mayme Rosaline Gregg m. Hubert King, New7 Franklin, Mo. Issue:
(1) i Homer Victor King m. Dorothy Rowgall, Warrensburg, Mo.
Issue *
(a)1 Lora May
(2) 1 Dorothy Jean King
(e) . Luther Lcntillue Gregg II m. Flora Maness, Centerview, Mo. Issue:
(1) i Louise Gregg
(2) i Luther Lentillus III
(3) i Doris Gregg
(f) . Lyda Gregg m. Albert Pemberton, Excelsior Springs, Mo. Issue:
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(1) 1 Lindell Eugene Pemberton
(2) i Rosaline Pemberton
(3) i Sidney Pemberton (4i Delpha Pemberton
Issue by m. (2) :
(2) . Nancy J. Gregg b. Nov. 8, 1860 d. Jan. 1936 m. Joseph Irvine has issue:
(3) . Josiah Gregg b. Nov. 2, 1862 d. Mar. 6, 1937 m. and has Issue
(4) . Mary Ellen Gregg b. Oct. 15, 1864 d. 1932 m. Thomas Morrow, has issue
(5) . Lucy A. Gregg b. June 10, 1866 m. Buck Cosner
(6) . Lillie M. Gregg b. Feb. 11, 1869 d. Sept. 18, 1887
(7) . Elizabeth Gregg b. Mar. 11, 1874 m. Feb. 9, 1896 Emmett Clark Adams, Tempe, Arizona
Issue:
(a) . Wilma Mea Adams b. Oct. 5, 1897
(b) . James Lewis Adams b. Dec. 20, 1892
(c) . Deborah Lee Adams b. June 25, 1902
(d) . Eugene Emory Adams b. June 20, 1905
(e) . Jessie Violet Adams b. June 24, 1907
(f) . Nancy Elizabeth Adams b. July 27, 1914
b. Samuel Delaney Gregg b. Jan. 23, 1831 m. 1856 Elizabeth Ann Brackney b. May 18, 1841 Brazil, Ind.
Issue:
(1) . John Gregg b. Apr. 3, 1857 Debora Co. Texas d. inf.
(2) . Alice Gregg b. Aug. 29, 1858 d. Oct. 12, 1882 Jackson Co. Mo. m. Buford Stewart; four daus.
(3) . Belle Gregg b. Feb. 11, 1861 Stony Point, Mo. m. Frank Lyle, lived Happon, Wash.
Issue:
(a) . Daniel Lyle
(b) . Samuel Lyle
(4) . Albert S. Gregg b. Stony Point, Mo. 1863 m. Lottie . and
lived Pendleton, Ore.
Issue:
(a) . Albert Gregg
(b) . Lorene Gregg
(c) . Elizabeth Gregg
(d) . Billy Gregg
(e) . Jean Gregg
(5) . Clara Gregg b. Nov. 7, 1865 m. Charles Asbury, Kansas City, Mo. Issue:
(a) . Buelah Asbury
(b) . Betty Asbury
(c) . Charles Asbury
(d) . William Asbury
(6) . Elizabeth Ann Gregg b. Jan. 1, 1868 m. B. F. Webb, Indepen¬ dence, Mo.
Issue:
(a). Clarence Webb m. (1) m. (2) Cora Crawford Issue by m. (1) :
(1 ) 1 Clarence Webb
(2) i Clyde Webb
(3) 1 Glorious Webb Issue by m. (2) :
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(4) * Roy Dean Webb
(5) i Gene Riley Webb
(b) . Joseph Lester Webb m. Lilly Reser Issue:
(l)i Franklin Webb
(c) . Samuel Preston Webb m. Loriane Meyers Issue:
( 1 ) 1 Duane Gilbert Webb
(2) i Clifford Webb
(7) . Maud Gregg b. Mar. 17, 1871 m. William. Kenton, Kansas City,
Mo.