Notes
Note for: John Gregg, 1668 - 1738
"John Gregg was born at Ardmore, Waterford County, Ireland and came to the
colony of Delaware 1682 when fourteen, with his parents, sister Anna, and
brothers George and Richard. Under the influence of constant Quaker
environment and training he a became 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 20, 1685 a warrant granted to his father, William Gregg,
for
200 acres was confirmed by patent to John Gregg on Feb 18, 1693 (?) and
later
sold to Samuel Underwood Senior, whose executor re-sold part of it back
to John
Gregg, who sold it to Jonathan Strange on Feb 18, 1733. John Gregg paid
the
taxes for the whole estate of his father 1693-1696." --from "Quaker
Greggs"
Notes
Note for: George Gregg, 1674 - 1744
"To the next oldest son George descended the silver-studded, ivory-headed
cane. George Gregg, second son of the immigrant father, William Gregg,
gives a
host of interesting descendants and a most amazing revealing tangle of
Gregg
family history which would fascinate the most cynical critic of
genealogy.
With this unit begins the most intricate intermarriages of Gregg cousins
whose
common family relationships are steeped in the traditional tied of the
great
clan. --from "Quaker Greggs"
Notes
Note for: William Gregg, 1642 - ABT 1687
" The Greggs, deeply imbued with spiritual piety, were most receptable
(sic) to
the teachings of William Penn when he visited Waterford, Ireland in 1678
and
converted many Scotch settlers to the Society of Friends. So the Greggs
became
Penn Quakers.
As a devout adherent, William Gregg was a member of a Colonial Friend
group
which left southern Ireland after Oct 1682, possibly in the ship
"Caledonia"
with William Hoge. He had with him the silver-studded, ivory-headed cane
inherited as the next to oldest son from his father, William Gregg, 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 of his ancestors to retain a bard whose duty was to sing the
exploits of the Gregg ancestral line. Charles A. Gregg, Fredrickstown,
Ohio,
is now the proud hereditary owner of the cane (note: in 1971).
The ship of Friends landed at Upland, now Chester, Pennsylvania in 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
Pennsylvania line and lying between Brandywine and Red Clay Creeks on the
west
side of Brandywine Creek near the present site of Centerville. --from
"Quaker
Greggs"
Notes
Note for: William Gregg, 1616 - 1672
"William Gregg, oldest son of John Gregg and a Presbyterian landholder was
forced to leave his inheritance of Glenarm Barony on the coast of County
Antrim
after May 1653. His father, John Gregg, 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 down to the second eldest son in each generation because
the
oldest customarily inherited the land.
This oldest son, William (born 1616 Scotland) left by ship after May 1653
his
Glenarm barony in County Antrim with three children, Richard, William
born
about 1648 and 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. His son, John, died same place 1724
and
his son Richard died there 1741." from "Quaker Greggs"
Notes
Note for: John Gregg, ABT 1576 - ABT 1644
"King James visited Scotland for the second time in 1617 after which whole
communities of various clans were transplanted to Ulster. Among them
were many
Greggs from the clan Gregor who were accustomed to admiring the eldest
and
worthiest of their ken (kin?). Their leader, a John Gregg, evidently
descended
from the next to the oldest son of Black John or 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 Greggs from
Scotland to
County Antrim, Ulster in about 1618." Extracted from "Quaker Greggs" by
Hazel
May Middelton Kendall. of Anderson, Indiana (extracted by Barr Wilson,
ca 1971)
Also see notes under his son William Gregg, b. 1616.