Among the first settlers of Hunterdon County, in “the Western Province of New Jersey” were Samuel Green and his family. Samuel Green was my ancestor, so of course I am interested in his history. The bonus for me is that his history gives me a way to learn about the earliest days of settlement here.
So, this is the first of what is likely to be many posts on Samuel Green and his descendants. And I must ask the indulgence of my readers for the side trips I plan to take into West Jersey history, especially the history of settlement, but also of politics, which is so often intertwined with land development.
Green was a surveyor who managed to acquire vast tracts of land in Amwell Township soon after Indian land purchases were made and surveys were first permitted to the West Jersey proprietors. It is not at all clear how Samuel Green got all his land, for he neglected to record his deeds. This is odd, considering that, being a surveyor, he had to know how land conveyances were documented. It certainly makes it more difficult to learn about him while he was residing in Amwell Township, and before he got there. In fact, Samuel Green is particularly elusive in early New Jersey records.
I am going to try to piece some of the story together, but there will always be questions unanswered, starting with his parents.
Samuel Green’s Origins
Just giving Samuel Green a birth year is a challenge. It could be about 1675 or about 1685. Some researchers have dated his first marriage to 1694, which is how the earlier birth date comes about. But Henry Race, in his article “Greenland in New Jersey” [NNJHS Proceedings, Vol. XI], states that Samuel’s first child was born in 1705, which suggests a birthdate for Samuel Sr. closer to 1680-85. One of the mysteries of Samuel Green is the paucity of records for him prior to 1700, which also argues for a later birth date. For now, until something definitive turns up, I will use the date of c.1680.
Samuel Green’s parents have never been identified. Charles Opdycke speculated (in his Opdycke Genealogy, pg 215) that Green might be the son of Richard Green, an English Quaker, who arrived in Burlington in 1678 on the ship ‚ÄòShield‚Äô from Hull. The ‘Shield’ was only the fourth ship known to have delivered settlers to the Delaware River side of West New Jersey (if you disregard the earlier settlements by the Swedes and the Dutch). The first was the ‚ÄòKent,‚Äô carrying 230 passengers, which arrived at Raccoon Creek, and then at an island next to Burlington City about September 1677.
Two more ships arrived in October, and the ‚ÄòShield‚Äô arrived in December. Reuben Ely has written (in his genealogy of the Ely, Revell and Stacye families, pg 141) that the ‘Shield’ was “the first trans-Atlantic ship to travel so far” up the Delaware River, to the furthest point of tidewater. Apparently the earlier ships did not come up so far. Ely quoted Samuel Smith’s History of New Jersey describing how the ship had to tack back and forth because of headwinds, and found itself entangled in over-hanging trees at the place that eventually became the city of Philadelphia. But they did not have permission to settle there, so back across the river they went, arriving at Burlington.
Hard to imagine what life must have been like for these hardy people, arriving at a place that had no shelter for them, and, given the time of year, no source of food other than what could be hunted or gathered, or given to them by sympathetic Indians. It was so cold that they walked to shore on the ice. Fortunately, things improved greatly after the first settlements were established.
Some of the best known residents of West New Jersey were on board the ‘Shield’ with Richard Green: William Emley, Peter Fretwell, John and Thomas Lambert, Thomas Potts, Thomas Revel, Mahlon Stacy, and many others. Some of these passengers brought their families and servants. Richard Green came alone. Perhaps he found someone to marry among the children or servants of the other families. There is no way to know. There are hardly any records for this Richard Green after he arrived in Burlington, and the only estate recorded for a Richard Green in New Jersey prior to 1750 was for a second-generation Richard Green (more about him later).
Richard Green, Proprietor?
The only land transaction I could find for a Richard Green in the NJA Calendar of Records involved a sale on June 18, 1682 by Francis Gilberthorp of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England to Richard Greene of the City of Gloucester, woolcomber, of a 1/32 share in the Province of West New Jersey. It appears that Green immediately transferred this to Anna Salter, who sold it to John Cripps [WJP B2-520; A-23; B1-20]. Anna Salter was the widow of Henry Salter who had bought 10,000 acres in Salem County from John Fenwick in 1675, and died there in 1679. The widow Anna did a lot of buying and selling of property from 1681 to 1688 in Burlington Co. and Gloucester, as well as Salem. She died in Tacony, Pennsylvania in 1690. I could find no hint of a relationship between her and Richard Green.
A book on the deeds of West New Jersey compiled by John David Davis states that the Richard Green who bought the 1/32 share from Francis Gilberthorp was “Late of Gloucester, Gloucester Co.” –England or West New Jersey? He doesn’t say, but since the town of Gloucester, NJ was not formed until 1685, I assume he meant England. But some family trees claim he was from Lincolnshire. Passengers who boarded the ‘Shield’ at Hull were generally from Yorkshire and traveled as a group. Lincolnshire is only a short distance south of Yorkshire.
Was Richard Green who bought a 1/32 share in West New Jersey in 1682 the same as the Richard Green who sailed on the ‘Shield’ in 1678? It appears that his sale to Anna Salter had to take place near “Tawcony,” Pennsylvania because that was where she was living in 1682 [WJP B1-95]. Today, Tacony is in northern Philadelphia, across from Cinnaminson, between Camden and Burlington. Perhaps Green bought those shares from an agent of Gilberthorpe’s in New Jersey. And, by the way, why did Anna Salter buy any shares at all from Richard Green? She already had more than enough from her deceased husband Henry Salter. The more you know, the more you don’t know.
If Richard Green could purchase a 1/32 share of a propriety, one would expect him to own other shares. But he does not appear on the list of proprietors compiled by Thomas Budd and published in John Pomfret’s The Province of West New Jersey, 1609-1702. But then, neither does Anna or Henry Salter. This calls for a trip to the N. J. Archives to see if there is any list of West Jersey proprietors later than Thomas Budd’s.
Of the group that arrived on the ‘Shield’ and the other early ships, some were from London and other locations in southern England, and a separate group came from Yorkshire in northern England. True to form, the London group settled south of Burlington City, and the Yorkshire group went north, following Mahlon Stacy who built the first grist mill at Trenton. If Richard Green came with the Yorkshire people, he probably settled north of Burlington also.
Note: For those of you who plan to research this early period in New Jersey history, it is important to read Joseph R. Klett’s “Using the Records of the East and West Jersey Proprietors.” Joe is Deputy Director for Archives at the state archives (otherwise known as NJDARM). You can download a copy by going here, then clicking on the “See also:” link. You can also find it with a Google search.
Richard Green in Amwell?
Henry Race wrote:
“Synchronism and proximity of residence favor the assuumption that he [Samuel Green] may have been the son of Richard Green, who came over from England in the ‘Shield’ in 1678. Richard Green was a voter in Amwell township, Hunterdon county, in 1738, and a chosen freeholder in 1739” [Greenland in New Jersey].
The problem with identifying this Richard Green as Samuel’s father is that the father would have to have been born by 1660 or earlier if he came to New Jersey as an adult, which he must have to get listed as a passenger in 1678. In 1739 he would have been about 79-80 years old. It seems doubtful in those hard times that a man that old would still be on a freeholders list. D. Stanton Hammond found no evidence of Richard Green among the early landowners of Hunterdon County. But early deeds do show that a Richard Green owned land east of Rosemont, on land also owned by Samuel Green. I am pretty certain that the Amwell freeholder was Samuel Green‚Äôs second son, born about 1712. The fact that Samuel named his son Richard makes the elder Richard who arrived in 1678 more of a candidate for Samuel Green’s father.
Possible Brothers of Samuel Green
According to Snell’s History of Somerset and Hunterdon, Samuel Green had a brother George who also made considerable investments in West New Jersey real estate, but appears not to have had children. George Green was present in Amwell Township in 1723 when he made the inventory of Samuel Coates. In 1725, Samuel Green surveyed 610 acres for George Green in what became Hope Township in Warren County. In 1727, Samuel and George Green administered the estate of John Knowles dec’d of Amwell. And in 1735, the will of John Porterfield of Trenton mentioned land bought from George Green in Nottingham, Burlington Co. That may have been land that George Green sold after moving north to Amwell Township.
Another brother might be William Green of Trenton, who was assessor for Hopewell in 1721, wrote his will in January 1722, mentioning his 11 children (some of them minors), but saying nothing about parents or brothers. A Green researcher claims that William‚Äôs parents were Richard Green (1655-1722) and Elizabeth Arnold, born Nov. 2, 1659. I do not know what the source is for that information. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register [Vols. 37-52, pg 438] lists among the children of Stephen Arnold (1622-1699) of Rhode Island: “Elizabeth b. Nov. 2, 1659; d. June 5, 1728. Her husband was Peter Greene, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island.”
In fact, one family tree shows Samuel Green (b.1671) as the son of Elizabeth Arnold and Peter Green. Again, no sources. Perhaps Samuel Green came from Rhode Island. But most family trees do not list a Samuel among the children of Peter and Elizabeth Green. I have not been able to find a will for Peter Green online, but it should answer this question. Most online trees for Peter and Elizabeth Green do list a son William Green, the same William who died in Hunterdon County in 1722, but again–no proof.
According to R. P. Ely (cited above), Green family tradition claims that William Green came to America at an early date, and, due to a falling out with some unidentified family members, decided to return to England. But while waiting to sail from New York, he met his future wife, Joanna Reeder, on Long Island, and changed his mind. That says next to nothing about a connection with Richard Green, but it is interesting anyway.
In 1741, a Richard Green, yeoman of Trenton Township, wrote his will, naming wife Mary and brother William executors. Two of his sons were named Richard and William. He also named a son George, to whom he left “land in Amwell Twp. in the care of John Hawkings.” This Richard Green was probably the son of William who died in 1722, and thus, possibly, a nephew of Samuel Green.
That mention of John Hawkings makes a sidebar downright irresistible, because he is another mystery man with connections to early Hunterdon County. Hubert Schmidt wrote in his book “Some Hunterdon Place Names” that the Alexauken Creek, which runs near the southern border of old Amwell Township, may have been named for a pioneer hunter and trapper named Alex Hawkins or some variation of the name (Ellis, Elias, Saucken, Hocking). If there was such a person, he never got pinned down in the surviving records. However, we do have John Hawkings present in Amwell in the 1740s. He was on the list of Amwell freeholders in 1741, and was among those listed in the 1749 account of the estate of Thomas Furman of Amwell. The land of Richard Green was in the care of John Hawkings, which suggests he was only a tenant.
Continuing with possible brothers of Samuel Green, there was a John Green, yeoman of Wellingboro, Burlington County, who wrote his will on Nov. 27, 1732, in which he bequeathed to his minor children real estate that included 300 acres in Hunterdon County “called the Lotting.” That meant in Amwell Township or further north. (Discussion of the Lotting Purchase will come in a future post.) John Green made no reference to Richard, Samuel, William or George Green in his will, and none of his children had those names. It seems unlikely that he was related.
Samuel Green’s Name
If you search for a Samuel Green who died in 1760 on Rootsweb, you’ll get a lot of results for a John or Johann Samuel Green. Where did that come from? Every record I have seen for the Samuel Green who settled in Amwell before moving on to Sussex (later Warren) county always uses the name Samuel Green, never John Samuel Green or Johann Samuel Green.
Samuel Green’s eldest son Samuel was very close to the Moravian settlers in the area of Hope in Warren county around the time of the French and Indian War. In 1749 (well before the war began), he was baptized by the Moravians in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, under the name of Johann Samuel Green. The name was probably given to him by the Moravians. His father Samuel Sr. did not call him John or Johann in his will, just Samuel. Certainly the name never applied to Samuel Green Sr. And as far as I can tell, he never spelled his name “Greene.”
This has gone on long enough. In the next post (which may take a week or more to write), I want to explore some New Jersey history during the 1680s and 1690s, to understand what the settlers and landowners of the new province of West New Jersey had to deal with.
Maxine Meloche
October 12, 2010 @ 7:57 am
I thought I had my genealogy of my Green and Howland and Soule families in a mess and now I know it. I think I’ll take a break and try to get it in order at a later date. My brain is doing cart wheels. I want this to be right not just a list of names and dates. This is the greatest research I’ve seen yet. Thank you so much for all the research.
Bonnie MacDonald
February 14, 2011 @ 6:59 pm
Good to stumble across this site. I am a descendant of Samuel Green, also. I did research years ago. My 3rd Gt. Grandfather Rev. Joseph Chattle married Elizabeth Wooley Green, daughter of John Green and ?, (all resided at Green’s Pond, Warren Co. which was renamed Mountain Lake) This property was given to him by his father Samuel Green Sr., Samuel inherited the property after his brother George’s death. Samuel and George were both surveyors for the governor and as payment they were able to claim as much acreage as they could see from the top of the tallest tree, as history is written in hand-written documents I found in the Belvedere Library Historic Section. Samuel took all the property North and George South of the tree. Since George had no heirs the property was given to his brother, Samuel who had several sons, to hand property down to. Samuel settled in Johnsonburg and is buried there in a field which was then his farm. I could never pinpoint the field.
How are you connected to Samuel?
Marfy Goodspeed
February 17, 2011 @ 12:33 pm
Dear Bonnie, As you have shown, it is exciting to discover an ancestor and fun to share information. But I must question the story you picked up about how Samuel and George got their property. That was simply not how things were done in 18th-century New Jersey. Samuel and George Green managed to accumulate enough wealth to buy proprietary shares and from them get warrants for surveys of land. How they picked out their properties is another story. I am curious to know who wrote down the scene with the tallest tree. Being given as much property as one could see from the tallest tree sounds like pure fantasy to me, charming as it is. George Green Sr. died without writing a will. He did have a wife Hannah, but it seems he didn’t have children. So perhaps his property came to his brother Samuel through probate, but I have not seen the estate records. I connect with Samuel by way of his third wife Hannah Wright and their daughter Mary who married Levi Howell. Her brothers, including your ancestor John, removed to Canada during the Revolution due to their Loyalist sympathies.
Sandra Miranda
December 11, 2020 @ 4:44 am
There seems to be some confusion in the history of Samuel Green “History of Sussex & Warren County New Jersey” fails to mention John Reading the younger who’s father John Reading 1686-1767 was the first born governor of the British Providence of New Jersey. In 1715 John Reader the younger was commissioned to survey Paulsins Kill known as Tohokenetchuck if Samuel Green was a deputy surveyor it would be in his Journal.. New Jersey at that time was under the governance of New York… William Penn acquired the land in 1715 from John Reading which came into ownership of his sons in 1760. There is a connection in Amwell with John Reading Sr & Samuel Green.. as for their origins the Hunt, Petit, Green, Moore, Burroughs, Reeding & Reed families history goes back to Newtown, Queens, NY they were from Lawyer Merchant families many had Plantations.. The third generation of these families removed to New Jersey to buy cheaper land.. I find descendants of Thomas Pettit II had settled on the Passaic and in the Minisink. The Newtown Settlement in Sussex County N.J was named after Newtown Queens New York. Henry Moore 1713-1769 a planter of Jamaica was the governor of NY 1765-1769.. Thomas Pettit II assessor of the court of Newtown NY his grandson Joshua Pettit a lawyer m. Margaret Green the daughter of Richard Green & Elizabeth Edward.. Richard Green planter & Justice .. Jamaica Ny was were the district court of Newtown was held.
April 2, 1725 Elizabeth Greene of the town of Jamaica, Queens County, Island of Nassau New York, widow of Richard Greene of Barton Regis, rope maker, and sole heiress of Jonathan Edwards of Bristol, haulier; Richard her son; Joshua Pettit of Jamaica town, yeoman. and Martha his wife, (née Greene) Source Bristol Archives
Debra Natyzak
July 17, 2016 @ 4:20 pm
I just found this site and amazed at the information on Samuel Green. I own his farm and he is buried in the northwest corner of my property. The graveyard has several people buried there, one being John Hardwick and Nathan and Euphema Armstrong.
Richard Wilson
July 18, 2016 @ 5:20 pm
Debra, I visited you in Johnsonburg in the Spring of 2004 while researching my Schmidt/Smith ancestors. Did anything turn up concerning them afterwards? I somewhat stumbled onto this site to learn about the Pine Hill Burying ground which I understand was the Jacob Smith farm which later became the old Williamson farm. I think the family first settled in Amwell, Copper Hill, and Readington areas before moving to Johnsonburgh. I have a research trip planned for late August to Flemington and maybe our paths will cross again.
Marfy Goodspeed
July 19, 2016 @ 5:30 pm
Dear Richard,
Just a note to say that the Pine Hill Cemetery was on land first owned by the Williamson family, and much later by Jacob Smith. Smith is a name I do not like to research, for obvious reasons, so I cannot say exactly when Jacob Smith’s family arrived. But the Williamsons were present as early as 1737. Check out https://goodspeedhistories.com/pine-hill-cemetery/.
Dale baker
December 27, 2016 @ 8:06 pm
Hi Debra
Is there any original buildings left that Samuel would have owned and is there a headstone for Samuel Green. If so could you send me a picture of any buildings or his headstone. It would be very much appreciated. Dale
Marfy Goodspeed
January 17, 2017 @ 11:29 am
Dale, As far as I can tell there is no surviving structure for Samuel Green in Hunterdon County. But I suspect that he lived on the property that eventually belonged to his son Richard Green.
Bonnie MacDonald
February 14, 2011 @ 7:21 pm
After my post above, I realized I made a mistake, Elizabeth Wooley Green was the daughter of Morris Green, the son of John Green. (And Morris’ brother, Rueben’s house is still at the south end of Mountain Lake “Green’s Pond”, a fine example of Moravian architecture.) John Green’s mill was at the north end of the lake. The lake is located just south of Hope.
Georgiana Van Syckle
April 14, 2017 @ 6:03 pm
Hi,
What type of documentation do you have for the Morris Green son of John Green connection?
I decend from Morris via his daughter Catherine who married Samuel Van Syckle.
Thanks
Howard G. Timms
October 7, 2018 @ 10:32 pm
I’m descended from Morris’ brother Charles. In the New Jersey abstract of wills, John’s will is listed – and names Charles, Reuben, a daughter Phoebe, John’s wife Hannah, and Morris. E-mail me at hgranttimms@gmail.com and I’ll send you a copy.
Eleanor
November 8, 2019 @ 6:56 pm
I am connected by DNA to a number of the descendants of Morris. I’ve just stumbled into this site and am amazed!!
Eleanor Green
Marfy Goodspeed
November 8, 2019 @ 7:56 pm
Thank you, Eleanor.
Eleanor
October 12, 2020 @ 2:39 pm
You’re welcome!!
Daniel Green
February 4, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
This is very helpful, just found out that I am a decendent of Samual Green, a few weeks ago. It certainly has family traits to it , greens rarely show up on any radar..thanks for this info
E. Ruth Green, Ph.D.
April 18, 2013 @ 12:32 pm
Hello:
I have found and have in hand from NJ Archives, copies of these deeds ;
1. Deed shows George Hutcheson sold the land to Francis Gilberthorp signed January 29,1677 not 1681.
2. Francis Gilberthorp sold the land to Richard Greene signed July 18, 1678 not 1681
3. Richard Green signed the land to Anna Salter signed July 18, 1678 not 1681.
You have done a lot of work also. THANKS!
E. Ruth Green, Ph.D.
I, too, am and have been, searching for a connection of Judge William Green to a family in England. There is so much misinformation I am amazed.
Chuck Randolph
December 26, 2017 @ 10:27 pm
Hello:
I trace my line to Judge William Green by way of his son Jeremiah who was with the Jersey Settlement into NC. Have you had any further success with connecting William to Richard of the Shield or to a different English family?
Thank-you.
Chas. Randolph
Eleanor Green
October 12, 2020 @ 2:46 pm
My great grandfather was Samuel Green, born 1808 according to census records. Through DNA I am distantly related to a number of people who claim decency from the Green’s of New Jersey. My grandfather was supposedly born in Waterloo, NY but no proof exists. I’m also related to many Osmun, Osman, Ozmun descendants from Orange Country, NY. Both families from the late 1700’s reside in Tompkins, Yates and Cayuga Counties NY. I’ve been unable to link the two families but I’m still hunting! If anyone finds a connection please let me know!
Elegreen49@yahoo.com
E. Ruth Green, Ph.D.
April 20, 2013 @ 2:51 pm
Richard Green, woolcomber of City of Gloucester, Co. of Gloucester could NOT be the Richard Green on the Shield who signed his properties to Anna Salter.
The deeds he assigned to Anna Salter were signed July 1678. The Shield did not come to West Jersey, America until October 1678 and a diary written by a passenger stated they “walked on ice to disembark”
Tammy Walker
August 7, 2014 @ 9:52 pm
I, too, am a descendant of Samuel Green via his son John from his third wife Hannah. John’s son Simcoe had a son Andrew who had my grandmother Margaret. I recently toured the village of greensville Ont. In Flamborough twop that was named for John. He is believed to be buried at Bullocks Corners but many headstones are unreadable. Would love to connect with kin, lol. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Suzanne VanSickle
May 5, 2019 @ 4:41 pm
Hello Tammy,
I am also a descendant of John Green. I live near Greenville. My father assisted Ida Crozier when she compiled the Green Genealogy and provided many pictures for the book. I have lots of information about John’s activities after settling in Upper Canada and would love to communicate (suevan123@hotmail.com). Several years ago I visited Johnsonburg and found the house John built still standing and in wonderful condition.
Shauna Hill
July 9, 2019 @ 1:25 am
I am also a descendant of John Green and Mary Davis. My line is from their son
Daniel (Mary Chisholm)
son Archibald (Isabella Ironside)
daughter Harriet Martha (John Hill)
son Franklin Green Hill (Lydia May Wixson)
son Franklin Wixson Hill (Mary Ingwersen) who were my grandparents.
Years ago I did extensive research on the Green family of Ontario, created a PAF file which at the moment can’t access. Would love to communicate with closer “cousins”.
Eleanor
October 12, 2020 @ 2:53 pm
I share DNA with descendants of Charles Green, a brother of Morris in NJ. And also the Samuel Green, son of Morris who went to Canada but returned to the US to fight on the US side during the war of 1812. He married an Elizabeth Osmun in Cayuga Co NY after the War of 1812, had 11 children but no son named Samuel, odd. This Samuel is old enough to be my Samuel’s father but his wife Elizabeth is too your to be my Samuel’s mother! Ugh!!
Joyce Kintzel
January 26, 2015 @ 12:25 pm
Samuel Green was the 6th great grandfather of my husband Joseph Kintzel. His daughter married an Opdyke, their daughter married John Buchanan and so on down to Martha Buchanan who was Joe’s grandmother. Your website has been invaluable in my search for facts and interesting histories of my husband’s family.
George Walker
November 10, 2015 @ 12:27 am
Lived next to the Swayze Cemetery in Hope, N.J. for years. I remember, distinctly, and, also, have photos of John Samuel Greens gravestone clearly marked and dated 1695-1775.
Faith Jack
August 8, 2016 @ 6:41 am
Hi! I just stumbled onto my 4x great grandmother Margaret Green Fitzgerald, daughter of William Green b. 1740 d, 1830 and Mary Huey b. 1745 buried Green Family Cemetery in North Buffalo Twp., Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. I think Samuel was William`s father. William and his brother Daniel left Sussex County New Jersey for Fayette County, Pennsylvania after William lost his land through confiscation of Loyalists` properties. Other brothers went north to Upper Canada.
I am just beginning this research, and am so glad I found your website. I am fascinated by these Loyalist ancestors, as I have several American Patriots in my lineage. Certainly gives me a whole new perspective! I am hoping to find more on this line as I cotinue exploring your site. Thank you for sharing your research.
Bob Kyle
May 3, 2019 @ 7:34 am
Was interested in faith jack comments, and wondered if still watching this site? Would like to exchange some information. thanks..
Marni Andrews
February 16, 2018 @ 11:58 pm
Hi everyone, I am descended from Samuel Green and Hannah Wright’s son Adam Green (1739-1815) who was a UEL (United Empire Loyalist) and fought for the British as did his brother. They moved to the Niagara area in what is now Ontario in the 1780’s. Adam’s son Levi (1783-1846), my 4 times great-grandfather, fought in the War of 1812 for the British.
Dale Green
November 4, 2018 @ 9:17 pm
My name is Dale Samuel Green. My grandfather Garfield Green was from Old Bridge NJ. I believe his father was Walter. I has done very little family heritage research. Anything you can offer would be kind of you. Someone in the family said Robert E Lee somehow was a distant relative. Thanks
Marfy Goodspeed
November 5, 2018 @ 7:46 am
Dear Dale, You’re going to have to do some more research before I can help you. And to be honest, if you have a connection with Robert E. Lee, chances are you descend from a different Green family. I suggest you start with the online newspapers you can find on Genealogy Bank. Do a search for Garfield and Walter, and see if there are any obituaries for them.That might get you further back.
Collection Gem: February 2019
February 1, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
[…] Three early settlers of the land were John Samuel Green, Francis Blum and Frederic Rauschberg, whose buildings are shown in red and labeled on the map (Figure 3), and whose names are included on the Memorandum (Figure 4). For more on Green, CLICK Goodspeed Histories / Samual Green. […]
Suzanne VanSickle
May 5, 2019 @ 4:45 pm
I was thrilled to run across your site and can’t wait to explore further. I am descended from Samuel Green through His son John and Wife Mary Davis.
Al Greene
March 19, 2020 @ 11:03 am
Like Chuck Randolph above, I trace my ancestry to Jeremiah Green, son of Judge William Green of Hunterdon. Jeremiah did move to the Jersey Settlement in what was then Rowan County, NC. He purchased 541 acres on Potts’ Creek, at the confluence of Potts’ Creek and the Yadkin River in 1761. Potts’ Creek was probably named for a Thomas Potts that served as a Justice of the Peace in Rowan County in 1753 and 1754. This Thomas Potts could have been a descendant of the Thomas Potts who sailed with Richard Green on the Shield. This is all conjecture but adds to a presumption that Judge William Green may have been the son of Richard.
Randall May
April 21, 2020 @ 5:29 pm
I am also lost as to the parents of Judge William Green. I descended from the Jeremiahs and live close to The Jersey Settlement. My Grandparents were from Watauga County. Back to the Samuel Green who was on the bench with William in 1714, Hunterdon Co. Interesting but again proves nada.
Judge William names his first son mentioned in his Will as his executor; again, proves nothing.