Nielsen Hayden genealogy
William Gregg
- 1687-
Name William Gregg [1] Birth Ireland 
[2, 3] Gender Male Death 1 Jul 1687 Strand Millas, New Castle, Delaware [3] Person ID I38618 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 2 Oct 2022
Father William Gregg Family ID F22672 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Children + 1. Ann Gregg, b. 1670, Ireland d. 1729 (Age 59 years)Family ID F22671 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Oct 2022
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Notes - He appears to have arrived at Upland, now Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1682. According to Hazel May Middleton Kendall (citation details below), he and his family were converted to the Society of Friends after a visit to Waterford by William Penn in 1678.
Albert Cook Myers (citation details below) says that "it is believed" that William Gregg, like the Dixon family, came "from the north of Ireland."
- He appears to have arrived at Upland, now Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1682. According to Hazel May Middleton Kendall (citation details below), he and his family were converted to the Society of Friends after a visit to Waterford by William Penn in 1678.
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Sources - [S6734] Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750, with Their Early History in Ireland by Albert Cook Myers. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1902.
- [S6726] Our German, Pilgrim, and Quaker Ancestors by Mary Belle Lontz. 1968.
- [S6733] Quaker Greggs by Hazel May Middleton Kendall. Anderson, Indiana, 1944.
- [S6734] Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750, with Their Early History in Ireland by Albert Cook Myers. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1902.