David Gregg (bef. 1727 - 1809)

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Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Birth and Early Life 1.2 Marriage and Family 1.3 Death and Burial 2 Sources

Biography

Birth and Early Life

David Gregg was born in about 1729-1730. His headstone indicates that he was in his 79th year when he died in 1809.^[1] According to the History of Windham in New Hampshire (Rockingham country) 1717-1883 by Leonard Morrison, Capt. David Gregg was born in Windham in 1727, but that does not tally with the information on his headstone.

David Gregg was

"a younger son of David and Mary (Evans) Gregg. He left his parents at the age of fifteen, went to sea, visiting London several times, and did not return home until he was twenty-six yrs. of age, serving seven yrs. before the mast and four as captain.

It is related of him, that after having been promoted to the command of a vessel, he came into the country to pass the winter and engaged his board of his father and mother. He was not recognized by them or any of the neighbors, until he happened to meet Molly McCoy, a blind woman, who no sooner heard his voice, than she exclaimed, 'David Gregg has come!'

Captain Gregg was an officer in the French war, and commanded a bateau on the North River, and his men were obliged to carry the boat around what is now Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River. Was afterward with General Bradstreet....

In his youth he lived on the hill near C.-H Campbell's, and would walk and Sabbath to Londonderry, and back to attend church."^[2]

Marriage and Family

"He settled in Windham; was an elder in the church, and m. (married) April 6, 1756, Annie, daughter of Daniel Clyde, of Clydesdale, Scotland, then living in Windham."^[3] They had seven children, all born in Windham.^[4]

• Esther - b. Sept. 12, 1757, d. Merrimac, Oct. 11, 1788
• Jennet/Jane - b. Oct. 10, 1759 ; m. Feb. 12, 1784, her cousin, David Gregg, son of WiIliam Gregg
• Mary - b. July 12, 1761 ; m. Rev. Sinion-Findley Williams ; m. 2d, May 12, 1808, John Anderson.
• Anne - b. July 15, 1763 ; m. William Davidson; d. Windham, ca. 1842
• Isabel - b. Feb. 16, 1765; m. Henry Campbell.
• David - b. April 18, 1767
• Daniel - b. March 11, 1769

Death and Burial

He died on 10 May 1809, and his headstone indicates that he was in his 79th year when he died. His wife Anne is also listed on the headstone. Deacon Gregg was buried in PLOT: 140, Old Cemetery On the Plains, Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA.^[1] .

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/17971475/david-gregg : accessed 25 April 2021), memorial page for Deacon David Gregg (1730–10 Feb 1809), Find A Grave: Memorial #17971475, citing Old Cemetery On the Plains, Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by James Bianco (contributor 47745493) .
2. ↑ Morrison, p.547
3. ↑ Morrison, p.547
4. ↑ Morrison, pp.547-

see Also:

• Bartlett, J. Gardner (c. 1925). Ancestral Line of Clark Chamberlain Gregg (1822-1891) Bartlett, J. Gardner Publication: The New England Historical & Genealogical Soc. [1]
• Wife Ann Clyde Gregg Find A Grave: Memorial #17971483.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #17971475
• Morrison, L. Allison. (1883). The history of Windham in New Hampshire (Rockingham country). 1719-1883: A Scotch settlement (commonly called Scotch-Irish), embracing nearly one third of the ancient settlement and historic township of Londonderry, N.H. Boston, Mass.: Cupples, Upham & Co. Accessed 29 May 2014: [2]

• Rockingham Windham Town records 1741-1803, Vol 1. State of New Hampshire Records, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1636-1947. p. 621. Film # 005511054. David Gregg in entry for David Gregg, 08 Sep 1767.[3]