Ann (Unknown) Gregg (abt. 1650 - 1692)

Born about 1650 in Ireland

Wife of William Gregg — married about 1672 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 5 Jan 1692 at about age 42 in Strand Milas, New Castle, Delaware

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Biography

Ann was a Friend (Quaker)

Ann (Unknown) Gregg migrated from Ireland to Delaware.

Ann was born about 1650, based solely on the birth dates of her children.

She is presumed to have married William Gregg in the early 1670s, presumably in Waterford; again, this is based on the birth dates and locations of her children.

According to Hazel Kendal in Quaker Greggs^[1], he and his family were converted to the Society of Friends (Quakers) after the visit to Waterford by William Penn in 1678.

William & Anne Gregg had the following children, all born in Ireland^[1]:

1. John Gregg b: 1674 in Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland
2. George Gregg b: 10 Jul 1674 in Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland (died young)
3. Ann Gregg b: 1675 in Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland
4. Richard Gregg b: 1676 in Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland

According to the "Immigration of Irish Quakers"^[2], William Gregg, (1642-1687) and his wife Ann came to America with the Dixon, Hollingsworth and Sharpley families from the north of Ireland. They all immigrated to America in 1682, most-likely aboard the ship "Caledonia"^[1][3], which left County Antrim, Southern Ireland, in October 1682. It landed at Upland (now Chester PA) on the Delaware river. The Gregg family moved south from Upland to new lands in what were called "the three lower counties" of Pennsylvania. They later became the state of Delaware^[1].

In 1682, William Gregg II received a grant of 200 acres in the upper part of the Christiana Hundred from "Rockland Manor," (a large estate belonging to William Penn)^[1]. In January 1684, he received a warrant for an additional 400 acres^[2], on which he built a log cabin at a site he called "Strand Millas," after a landmark near his former home in Ulster, Ireland. His land was on the West side of Brandywine Creek near the New Castle County border (later, the state of Delaware border) between the modern towns of Centerville and Montchanin. In the book "Ancestors of Gregg Livingston Neel", the author states that "Strand Millas lay on what is now the Montchanin Road, Delaware. This is in the vicinity of the upper reaches of Winterthur estate and Center Meeting Road. William Gregg lived on "Strand Millas" between 1683 and 1687. His son, John built the current house in 1701.

The Gregg family, all devout Quakers, were part of the Newark Quaker Meeting^[1], held once a month on the property of Valentine Hollingsworth, East of Brandywine Creek. However, in early 1687, Gregg and his neighbors (Matthias Defosse, Henry & Thomas Hollingsworth, Thomas Woolasten, George Hogg, William Hoge, John Hussy and William Dixon) were given permission to start their own meeting, named the Centre Monthly Meeting, on the West side "by reason of the dangerousness of ye ford"^[1].

William did not enjoy having the meeting moved to his locality for long. Although still not old (~45) he died on September 1, 1687^[1]. He was probably buried on his plantation of Strand Millas^[4]. Ann died in January 1692 and was buried nearby.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} The descendants of William Gregg, the Friend immigrant to Delaware, 1682 : from which nucleus disseminated nests of Greggs to Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. (aka: Quaker Greggs) by Hazel May Middleton Kendall Publ: Anderson, Indiana 1944; page 21, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/184154/?offset=0#page=22&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Myers, A. Cook. (1902). Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750: with their early history in Ireland. Swarthmore, Pa.: The author. 1902; page 319 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008548714&view=1up
3. ↑ The Caledonia and the Darien Disaster https://rollwindmill.org/html/caledonia.html
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 11 February 2021), memorial page for William Gregg Jr. (1642–1 Sep 1687), Find A Grave: Memorial #63388074, citing Gregg Plantation Burial Grounds, New Castle County, Delaware, USA ; Maintained by LaDon Brennan (contributor 46902635) . - includes references to many sources.