Ann (Green) Horton (1750 - abt. 1850)

Born 1750 in Guilford, North Carolina

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Died about 1850 at about age 100 in Belgrade, Washington, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Ann Green (nickname Nancy) was born abt. 1758 in Pendleton, South Carolina (note however Find a Grave and Quaker Meeting records reflect born 1750 in Guilford, North Carolina). Ann was the daughter of Meshack Green and Lucretia Franklin called Creasy. (note this may be the incorrect mother as she is also showing born the same year as daughter Ann Green in this profile, even if was 1758 could not be the mother.)

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 Name: Ann Horton Residence Date: 26 Sep 1778 Residence Date on Image: 26 Ninth 1778 Residence Place: Guilford, North Carolina Event Type: Admittance Monthly Meeting: New Garden Monthly Meeting Historical Meeting Data: Search for this monthly meeting in the 'Quaker Monthly Meetings Index' Yearly Meeting: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Meeting State: North Carolina Meeting County: Guilford^[1] (note this is the correct Ann Horton, please see Quaker record also of marriage of daughter Leah listing Leah's correct spouse William Grigg and these same parents. It is in the same Guilford residence.)

Both Meshack and Lucretia are reported as either full-blooded, or part, Cherokee; their daughter would have been the same. ^[2]

Ann Green married John Brissell Horton; They were the parents of John Brissell Horton Jr. Ann Horton passed away in 1850 in Belgrade, Missouri. ^[3]

John Horton's Cherokee lands would have come to him by rights of his wife. (Hortons also had other land grants, including purchases in Virginia and North Carolina.) This was the basis of his identification with other Cherokee citizens who signed the 1817 treaty to move to Arkansas, which was part of the New Madrid District of the Louisiana Territory, newly purchased from the French Empire. The New Madrid District included part of Missouri, where the town New Madrid retains the old Spanish name of the province.^[4]

Research Notes

• Meshack could not have been a full-blooded Cherokee, since Cherokees had been intermarrying with whites since before the American Revolution.

• Sheri Horton in an Ancestry.com message 10 May 2014 to Orville Boyd Jenkins, reported that on the basis of the connections she had proven, she received membership in the Missouri Cherokee Tribe, ("I just got my card from the Northern Cherokee Nation for proving John Horton, and wife Nancy Anne Green daughter of Meshack Green(e). I found them on the Emigration rolls of 1817-1835; the rolls do not state that Meshack, Creasy, and Nancy Anne were full Cherokee; I have not seen documentation to this effect.) They are recognized by the state of Missouri and are working on Federal recognition."

per: http://objgenealogy.com/indiI5340.html.

Sources

1. ↑ Source Citation Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina; Men's Minutes, 1775-1782; Collection: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes: Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Original data: Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes. Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina. Indiana Yearly Meeting Minutes. Earlham College Friends Collection & College Archives, Richmond, Indiana. Haverford, Quaker Meeting Records. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
2. ↑ "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:9MG6-8QC : accessed 2014-12-22), entry for Anne Green.
3. ↑ findagrave.com/memorial/172409839/anna-nancy-horton *https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172409839/anna-nancy-horton
4. ↑ http://objgenealogy.com/indiI4532.html

• https://books.google.com/books?id=RnFbCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT136&lpg=PT136&dq=John+Running+Fox+Green&source=bl&ots=tpN4WNSGFF&sig=wz_6y2Lhu0LzqVl3iyUutdta_II&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirv_Lr7NXPAhXK34MKHdN0BCEQ6AEITDAJ

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172409839/anna-nancy-horton

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Spurlock 20110318.ged on 19 March 2011.