Nathan Gregg (abt. 1753 - abt. 1800)

Born about 17 Nov 1753 in Winchester, Frederick Co., VA [uncertain]

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Died about 12 Sep 1800 at about age 46 in Sullivan Co., TN [uncertain]

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Biography

Nathan was born about 1753. Nathan Gregg ... ^[1] From "Ancestry and Some Descendants of William Gregg I", by Howard Dimick is the following: "In the decade 1753-1763 four Gregg brothers were born near Winchester, Virginia. Their birth is established by entries in a family bible, but since the word "near" is elastic when applied to the pioneer country there is the problem of whether they were born on Virginia soil or over the line in Maryland. The four brothers, Nathan, James, William, and Samuel Gregg, were descendants of William Gregg I of Delaware. They were of the fourth generation in America, but their father has not yet been identified in the line. Whether or not their mother was a Virginian is still undetermined, but it is certain that Greggs of their line were in Virginia after 1750 as shown by the birth of their cousin, John Gregg, brother of Harman Gregg, near Petersburg, Virginia, on December 3, 1780. Of the children of William Gregg II, one son, Joshua Gregg, was twice married, but the name of his first wife and a record of their children are not available. For that reason it has been assumed that the may have been the father of the four Gregg brothers born near Winchester."

Sources

www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Nathan_Gregg_(2) "Ancestry and Some Descendants of William Gregg I", by Howard T. Dimick, published in the New Mexico Historical Review, Volume XXIII, 1948.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Nancy Snow, Sunday, August 11, 2013.

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ANCESTRY AND SOME DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM GREGG I

By HOWARD T. DIMICK

I. Introductory WILLIAM GREGG I is the genarch in America of a line of Greggs numbering many individuals of talent and some of marked distinction. Among the distinguished are William Gregg who introduced cotton mills in the Granite ville district of South Carolina, Brigadier-General John Gregg of Alabama and Texas, and Josiah Gregg, Santa Fe trader and early American explorer, quondam resident of Santa Fe, whose Western travels and death in the wilderness of northern California are items of Americana still green in the minds of New Mexicans.1

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