Jeremiah Green, III

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47155514/jeremiah-greene

Jeremiah Greene III and Anne Hartley are buried at the Old Duck Creek Cemetery in Sneedville TN.

Jeremiah's children with Anne Hartley include:

Minerva Greene 1791 –

William Greene 1791 – 1870

Lewis Green 1792 – 1871

John Greene 1796 – 1869

Richard Greene 1796 – 1875

Naomi Greene 1801 – 1877

Eli Greene 1801 –

Joel Greene 1803 – 1891

Ransom Greene 1804 – 1870

Benjamin Greene 1805 –

Alfred Greene 1808 –

Lewis Greene 1811 –

Minerva Greene 1873 – 1903

GEDCOM Note

Jeremiah GREEN was born abt. 15 February 1755 [also found 13 & 17 FEB 1755] in Jersey Settlement, Yadkin River, Rowan County, North Carolina of father Jeremiah Greene and mother Joanna Hunt. He married Mary Wiseman (1760-1840). He served in the Revolutionary War , joining the North Carolina Militia in 1780; serving under Captain John Lopp and Thomas Cowan in Colonel Francis Locke's regiment and being discharged 16 November 1781. He fought in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and Mask's Ferry on the Yadkin river. He was allowed a war pension when residing in Ashe County, North Carolina 13 November 1832 [1] He died 27 December1839 in Ashe Co., North Carolina [also found Aug 30 & 31]. Jeremiah and Mary moved out to what is now Watuaga County between 1790-1800. They are buried in a long neglected family cemetery on a hill near Silverstone called the Silverstone Community Cemetery, Silverstone, Watauga Co., North Carolina. [2]

Pension application of Jeremiah Green S6916 fn17NC Transcribed by Will Graves 8/27/08

State of North Carolina, Ashe County: Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions November Term 1832 On this 13th day of November 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of said court of Ashe County now sitting Jeremiah Green a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged 76 years the 15th day of last February – Who being duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832.

That he entered the The service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

He was born in Rowan County North Carolina in the Jersey Settlement February 15, 1755. Entered the Services of the United States sometime, he thinks in May 1780 as a volunteer for a term of three months in the Militia & continued on in said service, until the battle of Guilford [Courthouse] He fought according to the best of his memory under General Rutherford, Colonel Francis Locke & Captain John Lop [sic, Lopp or Loss?] But the particular date when he entered & left the said service forgotten. -- But perfectly recollects being in one engagement at Masks Ferry [Mask's Ferry] on the Yadkin River fought commanded by the before mentioned Captain John Lop & Captain Hederick [sic, Hedrick?] & Lieutenant Joseph Cunningham where there was a number killed & wounded, & that he knows of only one man to wit Landrine Eggers1 that was in the same battle now alive, & a resident in Ashe County & that he has now also in his possession a discharge for 34 days guarding British prisoners taken at Cowpens and the Eutaw Springs, signed by Captain Thomas Cowan, dated November 16th 1781 which can be forwarded with this declaration, &c.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid. S/ Jeremiah Green [Barzilla McBride, a clergyman, and Bedent Baird gave the standard supporting affidavit.] State of North Carolina, Ashe County

I Landrine Eggers do hereby certify that I was in the Service of the United States with Jeremiah Green the applicant who has signed this declaration for about two years the greater part of which time we were in North & South Carolina and I know him to have been a Soldier of the Revolution. Sworn to and Subscribed this 15th of November 1832. S/ Landrine Eggers “November the 16th 1781 these are to Certify that Jeremiah Green has Served thirty four Days on guard of the Prisoners and is now Discharged. S/ Thomas Cowan, Capt.” 1 FPA S6815 [4]

Note on Spelling of Name Green/Green is an old name going back to both Irish and Anglo-Saxon times. This name "is usually of Olde English and Anglo-Saxon pre 7th century origins, and derives from the word "grene" meaning green."[5][6] What I have found doing research is that the further back that you go, the "e" and the end is common placed, and in more modern times, the final "e" is left off. Spelling variations were common as the English language was developing [7], and there are many people that have the name with the final "e". [8]

In WikiTree, rightly or wrongly, his lineage has the final "e" included. On his tombstone erected by the DAR in modern times, the final "e" has been left off. [9] It is also left off in the pdf version of the Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.[10] However, in the History of Watauga County, it lists his name with the final "e". [11] This work is from the early 20th Century referencing work back even into the 19th Century. My best guess is that his name most likely had the final "e", but that it had been dropped in modern times. This is a guess and not a statement of fact.