Re: Long-Vanhook NC>AL>MS
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Re: Long-Vanhook NC>AL>MS
Susan Shipman 2/09/09
Hey Cousin,
Elizabeth Gregory was a daughter of William James Gregory and his wife, Margaret Morris. William was my GGGG uncle.
William's birth record is found in the Register of St. James Northam Parish according to the William and Mary Quarterly. James Gregory & Sarah Thompson, William b. Aug. 11, 1758.
William and his family lived in York County, South Carolina where all of his chidren were born.
He served in the American Revolution and his pension application documents all of his children in his own handwriting given in 1789.
William James Grgory, was a
Revolutionary soldier and his application for a pension furnishes most
of the detailed information given here.He moved from Hyco River,
Halifax County, Virginia, to Orange County, N.C. before the
Revolutionary War, and lived there until the close of the war, when he
moved for a short time to _____? County and then to Lincoln County,
where he died.He and his wife are buried at Olney in graves marked
by rough field stones only.He was born Aug. 11, 1750[1] and died
July 11 1836. On Jan. 1, 1779, he married Margaret Morris, who was
born June 13, 1758, and died in April, 1850.They had fifteen
children.Filed with his application is a page from his Bible, giving
his family record.It seems to be in his handwriting and appears in
part, at least, to have been copied from memory, as certain dates are
evidently wrong.As there is no way to check these dates, they are
given as they are found.According to this record, their children
were:
1. Sally, born Nov. 4, 1779;
2. Thomson, born May 17, 1780;
3. Johnson, born Jan. 6, 1783; [1782]
4. Mary, born April 15, 1783;
5. Margaret, born Jan. 13, 1785;
6. Fanny, born July 5, 1786;
7. Hosea, born Jan. 7, 1788;
8. Joseph, born April 2, 1790;
9. Elizabeth, born Jan. 15, 1792;
10. Elizabeth, born July 4, 1793;
11. Margaret, born Aug. 14, 1794;
12. Nancy, born May 2, 1795;
13. Susan, born Dec. 22, 1795; [1800]
14. Anne, born May 24, 1791;
15. Martha, born Feb. 10, 1803
William died in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
The first daughter,Elizabeth,died before the next, naming later children for earlier ones that had died was not unusual, child was born, or there is an error in names.Anna married John Kincaid, a Revolutionary soldier.According to her tombstone at Olney, she died Sept. 17, 1868, "aged 71 years."She must, then, have been born in 1797 rather than in 1791.Her husband was about 52 years older than she was.
William Gregory saw service against the Indians on the frontier in Burke County in 1774.In 1780 he served against the British on Broad River; against Tories at Shallow Ford, Yadkin River; to guard prisoners taken at
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William was brother to my ancestor, Charles Gregory, who settled into Person County, NC which is my birth county.
Oney Gregory, daughter of Abraham Gregory, brother to William and Charles, was married to Drury Long. Drury Long was a bondsman/witness to the marriage of John S. Long and Elizabeth Gregory.
I hope this is some help to you.I will appreciate any information about your descent from John S. Long, as any clues you might provide to how all of these Longs relate to each other can be essential in making a genealogy for the group a reality.
Thanks,
John Fox
Winston Salem, NC