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Mother: Elizabeth CRAIG |
______________________________ | _Benjamin CAVE I "the Immigrant"_| | (1703 - 1762) m 1727 | | |______________________________ | _Richard CAVE _______| | (1750 - 1816) | | | _William BLEDSOE _____________+ | | | (1676 - 1769) m 1710 | |_Hannah BLEDSOE _________________| | (1711 - 1770) m 1727 | | |_Anne_________________________ | (1692 - 1725) m 1710 | |--Jeremiah CAVE | (1780 - 1823) | _John CRAIG __________________ | | (1680 - 1704) m 1703 | _Taliaferro "Toliver" CRAIG I____| | | (1705 - 1795) m 1730 | | | |_Jane TALIAFERRO _____________ | | (1684 - ....) m 1703 |_Elizabeth CRAIG ____| (1753 - 1828) | | _John HAWKINS "the immigrant"_+ | | (1680 - 1740) m 1698 |_Mary "Polly" HAWKINS ___________| (1716 - 1804) m 1730 | |_Mary LONG ___________________+ (1680 - ....) m 1698
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Mother: Ann WILKERSON |
John b 1668, s of William d 1738; Elizabeth Cooke of Concord,
See marriage records of Kennett MM, p. 17.
Children:
William b m 7-29-1725 Margery Kinkey
Amy (Emmy) b m 8- 5-1721 Joseph Hadley
Thomas b m 2-10-1729 Dinah Harlan
Joseph b 8- 5-1710 m 10- 4-1735 Hannah Beeson
Samuel b 1710 d 1767 m 2-27-1737Ann Robinson
Hannah b m ca 1742 George Robinson
Rebecca b m ca 1740 (???) Spragg
Abstract of John's will: John Gregg. Yeoman. Chris. Hd. Apr. 27,
1738. March 6, 1738.
Misc. I.99. Wife, Elizabeth; 'Wm., my eldest son'; son, Thomas;
son. Joseph; son, Samuel; dau., Hannah; dau., Rebeccah; dau.,
'Emey'; Exc.:son, William; son, Samuel.
BIOGRAPHY: John Gregg came to America fr Scotland with his
father Wm & brother Richard. He built a stone house on a 400
acre tract of Rock Spring in 1694. He married Elizabeth Cooke of
Concord, PA. He became a large land owner of some five thousand
seven hundred and sixty acres along the Brandywine -- nine
square miles -- reaching to Wilmington. It extended over three
miles to the West. He was on the Building committee of the
Center Friends Meeting close by, erected in 1724. He had asked
to be excused as he had not the time to serve. All of his
children and descendants were Quakers, down to my father, he
being a Presbyterian.-- William C Gregg--My Business Corner(?)
BIOGRAPHY: "Rock Spring"--small house on estate of Mrs. J. Avery
Draper, Mashtchanian(?) 1945
John Gregg purchased two hundred acres of "Letitia Manor" in
Mill Creek Hundred on August 17, 1702. Schraff p 91? In 1724
John Gregg owned property in Christiana Hundred on Wilson's Run,
also called Rockland Run, a small tributary of Brandywine Creek.
In partnership with Adam Kirk, he established a grist mill. On
2-18-1733, Jonathan Gregg purchased from John Green four acres
of land and one-half the rights to the water power of the stream
and built a falling(?) mill on the north side of Wilson's Run.
Book D, 34, Brinton Notebooks.
The Quaker Collection gives John's birthplace as Ardmore, County
Waterford, IRELAND
"John Gregg, of Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, yeoman,
aged about 67 years, made a deposition about 1735, 'that he has
dwelt in the sd County about' 51 years." (No 175, Miscellaneous
Papers, 1655-1805, Three Lower Counties, Hist. Soc. of Penna.)
From Quaker Greggs, p. 22. JOHN GREGG was born 1668 in Ardmore,
Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland, and died April 27, 1738 in
Wilmington, Newcastle, Delaware. He married ELIZABETH COOKE
November 11, 1694 in Concord, Chester, Pennsylvania, daughter of
WILLIAM COOKE and ELIZABETH.
To this oldest son John, fell the duty of administering the
estate.
"Take care of a good name; for this shall continue with thee
more than a thousand treasures precious and great."
Ecclesiastics XLI. 15.
BIOGRAPHY: Came to the colony of Delaware 1682 when fourteen
with his parents, sister Anne, brothers George and Richard.
Under the influence of constant Quaker environment and training
he became a serious, proud, and capable youth assuming early the
responsibility 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 29, 1685 a warrant granted
to his father, William Gregg, for 200 acres was confirmed by
patent to John Gregg on February 18, 1693, and later sold to
Samuel Underwook, 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 Concord Meeting on November 11, 1694,
Elizabeth Cooke, daughter of William and Elizabeth Cooke of
Darby (Concord), Pennsylvania.
On February 17, 1699 William Penn directed Henry Hollingsworth
to lay out 30,000 acres for his children William and Letitia
Penn. On October 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 Mary and Hannah died in infancy. His
wife Guliema died 1694.
On August 17, 1702 John Gregg bought the first land out of
"Letitia's Manor" 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 years. 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 where he now dwells
containing 100 acres each parcel. It was formerly laid out to
Richard Gregg, who afterward threw it up, having never seated or
improved it." It was 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 4760 acres
of fine land along the Brandywine 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 KBk. X-I p. 427) December 2, 1719 John
Gregg of Brandywine 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 formerly the
possession of their brother Richard Gregg in Brandywine bounded
by land of John Gregg, Olive Matthews, 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.\\
On April 9, 1720, the brother George Grigg, "having purchased a
sort of Right to 50 acres part of that 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 boundaries, 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 between Brandywine and Squirrel Creek.
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 was 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
guardians of his only sister's husband (first) William Dixson, a
weaver, whose will was probated September 20, 1708. He was
co-executor with 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
was in poor health; his will was made as a yoeman of Christiana
Hundred, Delav March 6, 1738, and probated to Wilmington on
April 27, 1738. Burial must have been in Friends Burying Grounds
at Center, Delaware. He was always referred to in written
records as "John Gregg of Brandywine". No data is available
concerning his wife'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 powder. Since
the homes of descendants shook and cracked from explosions, the
Greggs gradually sold their inheritance to the DuPonts.
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 Valentine 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 Meeting in Chester County."
_JOHN MACGREGOR _____+ | (1576 - 1643) _WILLIAM GREGG ______| | (1616 - ....) | | |_____________________ | _William GREGG "the Immigrant"_| | (1642 - 1687) m 1663 | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--John GREGG | (1668 - 1738) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Ann WILKERSON ________________| (1644 - 1691) m 1663 | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
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Mother: MARGARET FITZ SIMON |
__ | ___________________________________| | | | |__ | _WILLIAM de SKIPWITH Knt._| | (1300 - 1336) | | | __ | | | | |___________________________________| | | | |__ | | |--RALPH SKIPWITH | (1330 - ....) | __ | | | _ROBERT FITZ SIMON of Lincolnshire_| | | (1280 - ....) | | | |__ | | |_MARGARET FITZ SIMON _____| (1300 - ....) | | __ | | |___________________________________| | |__
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descendant of Henry SMITH B: 1599/1600 Norwich, Norfolk,
England
D: 9 Aug 1648 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, Will
Probated
M: 1632/1633 Wethersfield, Glastonbury, Hartford, Conn.
Family Mrs. Dorothy COTTEN B: 1603/1611 Of, Norwich, Norfolk,
England
D: 8 May 1680 Wethersfield, Hartford, Conn, Conn
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Mother: Jane VALENTINE |
_Robert WARE Sr._____ | (1560 - ....) _Peter WARE Sr. "the Immigrant"_| | (1611 - ....) | | |_Eliza_______________ | (1560 - ....) _Peter WARE Jr.______| | (1637 - 1693) | | | _____________________ | | | | |________________________________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--Jane WARE | (1688 - ....) | _____________________ | | | _(RESEARCH QUERY) VALENTINE ____| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Jane VALENTINE _____| (1640 - ....) | | _____________________ | | |________________________________| | |_____________________
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Mother: ELIZABETH HONEYPOT |
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Mother: Mary |
__ | _James WORTHAM (WORTHEM) _| | (1598 - ....) | | |__ | _John WORTHAM (WORTHEM) "the Immigrant"_| | (1625 - 1692) m 1662 | | | __ | | | | |__________________________| | | | |__ | | |--John WORTHAM | (1669 - 1744) | __ | | | __________________________| | | | | | |__ | | |_Mary___________________________________| (1642 - 1684) m 1662 | | __ | | |__________________________| | |__
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