Jeremiah Greene Jr (abt. 1755 - 1839)

Born about 15 Feb 1755 in Yadkin, Rowan, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Catherine (Wiseman) Greene — married 31 Oct 1775 in Rowan Co., North Carolina

Descendants

Died 27 Dec 1839 at about age 84 in Ashe, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Jeremiah Greene Jr is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A047058.

Private Jeremiah Greene Jr served with North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

This profile is part of the Green Name Study.

Private Jeremiah Greene Jr served with North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Jeremiah Greene Jr is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A047058.

Jeremiah Green was born about February 15, 1755 in the "Jersey Setlement" on the Yadkin River in Rowan County, North Carolina (see Research Notes). He was the son of Jeremiah Greene (1710–1763) and Joanna Hannah Hunt (~1719–~1789).^[1].

Siblings

From an old stone marker with just dates behind a new marker for Jeremiah "Green" added by the Daniel Boone Chapter of Daughters of The American Revolution, Silverstone Community, North Carolina ^[1]:

• Richard Henry Greene Sr. (1740-1818)
• William Isaac Green (1744 - ____)
• Stephen Green (1744 - ____)
• Mary (Green) Sloan (1745 - 1836)
• Hannah (Green) Baird (1746 - 1811)
• Johannah (Green) Eggers (1751 - 1840)
• Sarah Green (1752 - 1813)
  
• John Greene (1757 - 1826)

Military Service

Private Jeremiah Greene Jr served with North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Jeremiah Greene Jr is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A047058.

Jerremiah served in the Revolutionary War, joining the North Carolina Militia in 1780. He served under Captain John Lopp and Thomas Cowan in Colonel Francis Locke's regiment and being discharged 16 November 1781. He fought in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and Mask's Ferry on the Yadkin river. He was allowed a war pension (S6916) while residing in Ashe County, North Carolina 13 November 1832 ^[2]

Pension application

Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements

Pension application of Jeremiah Green S6916 fn17NC

Transcribed by Will Graves 8/27/08

State of North Carolina, Ashe County: Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions November Term 1832

On this 13th day of November 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of said court of Ashe County now sitting Jeremiah Green a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged 76 years the 15th day of last February – Who being duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832.

That he entered the The service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

He was born in Rowan County North Carolina in the Jersey Settlement February 15, 1755. Entered the Services of the United States sometime, he thinks in May 1780 as a volunteer for a term of three months in the Militia & continued on in said service, until the battle of Guilford [Courthouse] He fought according to the best of his memory under General Rutherford, Colonel Francis Locke & Captain John Lop [sic, Lopp or Loss?] But the particular date when he entered & left the said service forgotten. -- But perfectly recollects being in one engagement at Masks Ferry [Mask's Ferry] on the Yadkin River fought commanded by the before mentioned Captain John Lop & Captain Hederick [sic, Hedrick?] & Lieutenant Joseph Cunningham where there was a number killed & wounded, & that he knows of only one man to wit Landrine Eggers1 that was in the same battle now alive, & a resident in Ashe County & that he has now also in his possession a discharge for 34 days guarding British prisoners taken at Cowpens and the Eutaw Springs, signed by Captain Thomas Cowan, dated November 16th 1781 which can be forwarded with this declaration, &c.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid. S/ Jeremiah Green [Barzilla McBride, a clergyman, and Bedent Baird gave the standard supporting affidavit.]

State of North Carolina, Ashe County

I Landrine Eggers do hereby certify that I was in the Service of the United States with Jeremiah Green the applicant who has signed this declaration for about two years the greater part of which time we were in North & South Carolina and I know him to have been a Soldier of the Revolution. Sworn to and Subscribed this 15th of November 1832. S/ Landrine Eggers November the 16th 1781 these are to Certify that Jeremiah Green has Served thirty four Days on guard of the Prisoners and is now Discharged. S/ Thomas Cowan, Capt. 1 FPA S6815 ^[3]

Marriage and Children

Jeremiah married Mary Wiseman (born on February 16, 1760 in Rowan County, Colony of North Carolina; daughter of Jacob Wiseman and Elizabeth (Henderson) Wiseman).

Jeremiah and Mary's children were, in addition to an unnamed daughter:

1. Jeremiah Green (1774-1820)
2. Isaac Greene (1776-1855) married Mary Booth in 1793, They lived between Sands and Moretz Mills, and are buried in the Meat Camp Baptist Church Cemetery.
3. Enoch Greene (1778-1837), married Elizabeth Booth, a sister of Mary above, and second, in 1811, Lucy Harwood, a widow. I believe this is the same Enoch who died ca 1848 in Bibb County, Georgia.
4. Joanna (Greene) Hartley (1781-1857), married Reuben Hartley in 1798 and lived in Watuaga County.
5. Jeremiah b 1782, married Katherine Hagaman in 1804. They moved to Buncombe County where he died in 1844.
6. John, b ca 1784, married Hagaman. They moved to Tennessee. He married second Martha between 1850 and 1860.
7. Richard, b ca 1794, married Francis and moved to Tennessee first, and later to Missouri where he died in Dade County in 1869. He married second Joanne Brown in 1866.
8. Jacob Greene (1796-1854), married Elizabeth Davis in 1815. They remained in Watuaga County where Jacob was a preacher, as was his son Jacob.
9. Nathan, who married about 1820 and moved or died before 1830.
10. Joseph, b ca 1800-1804, married Nancy about 1828. Joseph died soon after, leaving one son, Joseph, b ca 1820 married Elizabeth Wilson in 1848.
11. Silas Greene (1808 - 1889)

Jeremiah and Mary moved to what is now Watuaga County between 1790-1800.

Passing

Jeremiah died on December 27, 1839 in Ashe, North Carolina, United States, aged about 84. He was buried in Silverstone Community Cemetery, Silverstone, Watauga County, North Carolina ^[1]. They are buried in a long neglected family cemetery on a hill near Silverstone called the Silverstone Community Cemetery, Silverstone, Watauga Co., North Carolina. ^[4]

Research Notes

• Jeremiah Greene was born about 15 February 1755 but other documents recorded 13 and 17 February as well. His death is recorded as 27 August 1839, but 30 and 31 August were also found.
• Note on the spelling of Name Green. Greene/Green is an old name going back to both Irish and Anglo-Saxon times. This name "is usually of Olde English and Anglo-Saxon pre 7th century origins, and derives from the word "grene" meaning the color green as in a meadow or field ^[5] What I have found doing research is that the further back that you go, the "e" and the end is common placed, and in more modern times, the final "e" is left off. Spelling variations were common as the English language was developing (see House of Names), and there are many people that have the name with the final "e" (see Wikipedia article)
• In WikiTree, rightly or wrongly, Jeremiah's lineage has the final "e" included. On his tombstone erected by the DAR in modern times, the final "e" has been left off. ("Green" on stone erected by DAR) but the find a grave memorial has been deleted. It is also left off in the pdf version of the Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.^[6] However, in the History of Watauga County, it lists his name with the final "e". ^[7] This work is from the early 20th Century references work back even into the 19th Century. My best guess is that his name most likely had the final "e", but that it had been dropped in modern times. This is a guess and not a statement of fact. (author unknown).

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Find-A-Grave memorial page for Pvt Jeremiah Green Jr. (15 Feb 1755–31 Dec 1839), Find A Grave: Memorial #10367750, citing Silverstone Community Cemetery, Silverstone, Watauga County, North Carolina,.
2. ↑ Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters at Rev War Apps [1]
3. ↑ Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters at Rev War Apps [2]
4. ↑ The Harmon and Perry Genealogy, (No longer available
5. ↑ (see Surname Database and Ancestry.com).
6. ↑ Rev War Apps [3]
7. ↑ A history of Watauga County, North Carolina : with sketches of prominent families [4]

See also:

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed January 21, 2018), "Record of GREEN, JEREMIAH", Ancestor # A047058.
• NINTH GENERATION Family Origins [5]
• Five Families The Ancestors of Bertrand Fox, Mary Ziegler, Patricia Noyes, LaMar Gulbransen and Mary Ann Green Person p476 [6]
• Descendants of Jeremiah Green I, online [7] , compiled by Lenny Green,.
• http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A047058

Acknowledgement

This profile was created through the import of knox17032011.ged on 18 March 2011.

Further reading on the Revolutionary War

• Agniel, Lucien. The late affair has almost broke my heart;: The American Revolution in the South, 1780-1781 Chatham Press, 1972, ISBN 0-85699-036-1.
• Babits, Lawrence E. and Howard, Joshua B. Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse University of North Carolina Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8078-3266-0
• Baker, Thomas E. Another Such Victory: The Story of the American Defeat at Guilford Courthouse that Helped Win the War for Independence Eastern National, 1999, ISBN 0-915992-06-X.
• Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas Wiley, 1999, ISBN 0-471-32716-6 [esp p382]
• Chidsey, Donald Barr. The war in the South: The Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution Crown Publishers, 1971.
• Conrad, Dennis M. (ed.), The Papers of General Nathanael Greene, Volume VII: 26 December 1780 – 29 March 1781, 1994, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, ISBN 978-0-8078-2094-0.
• Davis, Burke. The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8122-1832-9.
• Hairr, John. Guilford Courthouse Da Capo Press, 2002, ISBN 0-306-81171-5.
• Konstam, Angus. Guilford Courthouse 1781: Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-411-6.
• Lumpkin, Henry. From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South Paragon House, 1987, ISBN 0-595-00097-5.
• Sawicki, James A. Infantry Regiments of the US Army. Dumfries, VA: Wyvern Publications, 1981. ISBN 978-0-9602404-3-2.
• Trevelyan, Sir George O. "George the Third and Charles Fox: The Concluding Part of The American Revolution". New York and elsewhere: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914
• Ward, Christopher. War of the Revolution (two volumes), MacMillan, New York, 1952
• Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guilford_Court_House
• Savas, Theodore P. and J. David Dameron. A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution. New York: Savas, Beattie LLC, 2010. ISBN 978-1-932714-94-4. p. 286.
• Guilford Courthouse: A Pivotal Battle in the War for Independence, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) [8]
• 1[9] Essay by Janie B. Cheaney.
• Department of the Army, Lineage and Honors, 116th Infantry. Reproduced in Sawicki 1981, pp. 227–229.
• Department of the Army, Lineage and Honors, 175th Infantry. Reproduced in Sawicki 1982, pp. 343–345.
• Department of the Army, Lineage and Honors, 198th Signal Battalion.
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/13576641/person/-45224282/facts