Ann (Hadley) Gregg (1718 - bef. 1760)

Born 7 Feb 1718 in Chester County, Colonial Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Gregg — married 12 Apr 1735 in New Garden Meeting House of Toughkenamon, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died before 5 Apr 1760 before age 42 in Wilmington, New Castle, Colonial Delaware [uncertain]

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Biography

Ann was a Friend (Quaker)

Ann(e) Hadley was born the 7th day of the twelfth month (in Quaker matters this was the same as February) 1717/18, the daughter of Ruth Miller and Simon Hadley.^[1]

She was probably born in the new house Simon had built, near Hockessin, New Castle County, Delaware. It is near the Pennsylvania border, to the northwest of present-day Hockessin. (This was before the Mason-Dixon line was drawn, and may have fallen into Chester County, Pennsylvania at the time.) The family attended New Garden MM in Chester County. This is where she grew to adulthood.^[2]

Ann Hadly and Richard Gregg signified their first intentions of marriage at the Women's Meeting held at Londongrove on 26th day of the 2nd month (April), 1735. At the meeting for Newgarden held at Newgarden, 31st of 3rd month (May) 1735, Richard Gregg and Ann Hadly signified their second intentions to marry; nothing appeared to obstruct; leave (them) to their liberty to accomplish their marriage. . . Sarah Worfley and Mary Sharp to attend and report. At a monthly meeting of Newgarden held at Londongrove, on 28th day of 4th month (June), 1735, those appointed to attend the marriage of Richard Gregg and Ann Hadly, report that (it was) orderly accomplished. Ann Gregg then requested a certificate; Sarah Milhouse and Mary Sharp appointed to enquire . . . if nothing found, prepare a certificate and bring to next meeting.^[3]

The couple were the parents of eight children, the last born in 1750. Their daughter, Ruth Gregg, born about 1739, was married out of meeting to William Bracken. At the Newark MM held 4th 12th mo (February) 1756, held at Center, "women friends to draw a chastisement against Ruth Bracken formerly Gregg and present to next meeting for her disorderly proceeding in marriage" . . .^[4] Probably her Quaker mother and grandfather also disowned Ruth, which would be the reason for her not being mentioned in the will.^[2] Richard and Ann Gregg's children were:^[5]

1. Simon (about 1736-?)
2. Sarah (about 1738-after 1790) married on 5 Aug 1755 to Andrew Smith
3. Ruth (about 1739-?) married on 5 Nov 1755 to William Bracken
4. Jacob (1741-Apr 1801) married out of Friends on 26 Apr 1762 to Susanna Underwood
5. William (about 1744-about 1818) married (perhaps second) after 12 Dec 1776 to Charity Jordan
6. Miriam (about 1746-?) married about 1765 to John Barker
7. Deborah (about 1747-?)
8. Phoebe (about 1749-?) married out of Friends about Jan 1766

On 17 Sep 1754 Ann was named as executrix in the last will of her husband Richard Gregg.^[6] She was mentioned when her father Simon Hadley wrote his Will Nov. 3, 1755, spelling her name both as Ann and Anne, and 7 of her children. The will was probated Feb 17, 1756.^[7]

Ann appointed her attorney Robert Pierce, to sue the executors of her father, Simon Hadly, for her inheritance on 9 Mar 1756 at Christian Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. ^[5]

Also on the 9th day of the third month 1756, Ann Gregg of Christiana Hundred, widow of Richard Gregg, dec'd, to Thomas Gregg of same place (ownership traced from William Penn Esqr. and Commander in Chief of Counties of Newcastle, King and Sussex on Delaware, by his patent bearing date at Newcastle the fifth of the sixth month 1684, did assign to Mathias Defoss . . . tract known as Richland . . . containing by metes and bounds four hundred acres . . . quit rent of four bushels of wheat . . . said patent recorded in the rolls office at Newcastle in Lib. A page 74 . . . Defoss . . . by his last will and testament in writing . . . bequeathed to his son Hance Defoss a certain part . . . one hundred acres and likewise . . . to his youngest son Johannes Defoss his dwelling plantation . . . land . . . will bearing date the seventh day of May . . . 1705 . . . General Registrar's Office in Newcastle in Lib. B folo. 142 . . . Hance Defoss will . . . aforesaid one hundred acres to . . . daughter Sarah (who afterward intermarried with a Joseph Horsey of sd. county, taylor) . . . will . . .5 January 1707 . . . afsd. office in Lib. B page 145 . . . Joseph Horsey and Sarah his wife (sold) one hundred acres of land and premises. . . to George Gregg . . . 24 March 1728/9 . . . Rolls Office in Newcastle in Lib. I page 66 . . . and whereas the said Johannes Defoss and Hannah his wife (sold) . . . Nathan Maddock about 45 acres of his part of his father's tract . . . 18 May 1730 . . . Rolls Office in Newcastle in Lib. I page 273 . . . whereas Nathan Maddock and Ester his wife (sold) . . . the same tract of land and premises . . . George Gregg . . . 16 May 1732 . . . office afsd. Lib. K page 46 . . . George Gregg became siezed in fee . . . about one hundred and forty-five acres . . . above recited patent tract of five hundred acres of land . . . George Gregg and Sarah his wife . . . (sold) . . . their son Richard Gregg . . . except a small piece of the northwest corner thereof . . . 20 May 1741 . . . in the Rolls office afsd. in Lib. N page 134 . . . and whereas John Leggins and Mary his wife by their indenture of exchange &c. granted to Richard Gregg a certain tract . . . joining his own on Squirrel Runn . . . 7 May 1746 . . . Lib. P page 151? or 451?(written over) . . . Richard Gregg. . . made his last will and testament in writing . . . (ordered his land to be sold) . . . Executrix, cousin Samuel Gregg and Herman Gregg or any two of them . . . appointed his wife the said Ann Executrix . . . seventeenth day of the ninth month 1754 . . . Now this indenture . . . Ann Gregg . . . four hundred pounds thirteen shillings current money . . . (sold to) Thomas Gregg . . . land and plantation whereon the said Richard Gregg lately dwelt . . . bounded on the north and northeast by Peter Osborne and John Gregg land, east by John Smith land, on the south by William Anderson land, and on the southwest by Robert Peirce's land . . . (metes and bounds description) . . . /s/ Anne Gregg (Ann Gregg in body of deed); witnesses Joseph Simpson and John Buckhouse; proved by Joseph Simpson February Term 1764 at the Court of Common Pleas for Newcastle County and recorded 31 May 1764^[8]

She died, probably shortly before her estate was inventoried on 5 April 1760 where she was referred to as "widow".^[9]

Research Notes

She was alive in 1754 when her husband's last Will named her as executrix. See North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 for Bracken; William Bracken of New Castle County, Delaware : and his descendants, page 22.

Her date of death is unknown. Find-A-Grave gives her death as being at Brandywine, New Castle County, Delaware, USA, and her burial as Gregg Plantation Burial Grounds, New Castle County, Delaware, USA. No source for this information is given.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 Pennsylvania, Chester, New Garden Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1746-1768 page 11
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Margaret Ann (Kepner) Kerns, 729 NW 1101 Road, Urich, MO 64788; research, gleanings and conclusions
3. ↑ Women's Minutes of the New Garden MM, Chester County, Pennsylvania; pages 85-86
4. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania Chester Kennett Monthly Meeting Men´s Minutes, 1739-1791 page 222
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} "Quaker Greggs" page 24, 213 by Hazel May Middleton Kendall of Anderson, Indiana & privately published in 1944.
6. ↑ North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 for Anne Hadley, Bracken, William Bracken of New Castle County, Delaware: and his descendants; page 22
7. ↑ Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800, pages 53 and 54
8. ↑ "New Castle, Delaware, United States Records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3J-CSZZ-B : May 29, 2022), image 161-163 of 719; New Castle County (Delaware). Recorder of Deeds. pages 300-304
9. ↑ "Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States records, Apr 13, 2023," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C95D-2S3M-9?view=explore : Jul 30, 2023), image 3 of 4; New Castle County (Delaware). Register of Wills.

Acknowledgments

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