The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-07
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and candid citizens, whose vernacuiar
years ago was as distinct and peculiar
as the Yorkshire dialect. which Lord
Alfred Tennyson portrays 90 finely?
/ Guinea has developed into a garden
spot OK prosperity. SchooIhouses and
fine horses proclaim its advance in
living and the fascinating and unique
dialect IS growing less audible. Years
ago the citizen OF Gloucester outside
OF Guinea knew little of Guinea-now
there arc Few unknown portions of
/ this green earth. and Guinea has
shared the fate of the other portions
/ of the globe.
From whom did the real Guineaman
/ evolve? What part of England sent
hin 70 Virginia, with his queer
/ homely dialect He loved water and
/ boats fish and oysters formed mis- diet
/ He was family man OF extensive pa
ternal responsibility, and a man who
paid his debts. RE peddled fish along
the leafy roads of Gloucester. an
nounciug his approach BY strident
/ peals from Il mighty conch shell. and
to the yard gates Immediately has
tened the cooks to lay in the days
supply. The methods of one of these
/ fish peddlers from his seagirt cottage
was not always sincere. Ii his NOR
chandise was little old he dipped ii
/ into cool highland stream and pro-
claimed it's absolute freshness perhaps
+ IN more strident terms The unwarv
cook could only reproach him harshiy
the next time. and however unmitl-
gated was this reproach. II is certain
that this tricky fisherman never con-
fessed
In years gone by Guinea was
1 sealed book 10 the citizen Of other
: parts Of the county and when 4
gloucester girl on one occasion was
presented with some gray foxskins
and went down to Ned Rowe's store
in the effort to purchase some blue
cloth TO SO With this lovely silver fur
she felt as II she wee entering the mys-i
} FERROUS paths OF another world
| Does not some reader of this paper
really know something OF Guinea and
the Guinea people? And will not he
or she tell something about them
through this column? Their charac-
teristios. their beginning and their
( humor? There is but one Guinea in
! Virginia. and that unique and in
teresting locality.
But to return to oliver Green. Here.
upon the swamp running into Mob
lack Bay his story begins and ends.
But there arc other Greens--a plenty
OF them-and whether any OF the 9th
to say.
The most prominent family of Greens
are those who come from Robert, who
came TO Virginia in the early eigh-
tenth century and was son OF VIII
| liam Green and Eleanor Duff. rejo,c-
/ Ing most 1t seems over his maternal
descent from tho famous McDuffs.
What caused his Immediate family 10
lose the compelling "M0' does not APP
pear but certainly the curtailed name
has not the powerful suggestion OF the
! former Lay on Duff" is poor, be-
sides the historic cry, Lay on Nc
| Dnff' However,. Eleanor Duff. OF
England, mother of the emigrant. Rob
crit Green. was evidently a mother to
be proud OF, and her earliest American
descendants kept up intimate relations
with her people. Robert Green was
cadet OF tho family OF GREEN'S Nor
ton. In Northampton. and descended
! from tho same ancestor as Sir Thomas
Green. the father Of Matilda. or Maud.
who married Sir Thomas Parr. ana
became tho mother OF Katherine Parr.
the sixth wife OF Henry VIII
Robert. the emigrant, chose Il wife
whose name. Eleanor Dunn, was as
near like his mothers as possible. He
lived in old Orange that lovely region
OF verduro and hills-the part now
Known rs Culpepcr His descendants
were known as the Red Greens OF
Culpeper' from the color OF their hair.
and In the record or Robert Green
appears this quaint announcement:
Here he reared seven stalwart sons.
all over six feet high. and all having
red heads and boards. as became their
mixed Welsh and Scotch blood" Much
OF this red hair has disappeared from
the family.
Robert Green and Eleanor Dunn had
William (2), Robert (2l. Duff (2). John
T4-t.r L.
william ca married Miss Coleman.
and had eight children.
Robert (a) married Pattic Bail. OF
northumberland, and had five chill
dren.
puff married, first Miss Barbour.
and mad Jonn (s), who was a lieutenant
IN Revolutionary War. and Elizabeth
tSi; secondly. he married Ann. daugh-
ter or Colonel Henry Willis. OF Frod-
ericksburs, and Mildred WASHINGTON.
his wife. and had Willis 49, who
married Sarah. daughter of John Reed
Henry go, unmarried: william Cs).
married Miss Marshall. and moved 10
Nentucky Eleanor 80. married John
Smith Mildred Washington. the third
Wife of Colonel Henry Willis. had
rather an exciting life. She was no
spinster. accepting the old colonel for
an original experience She was twice
widowed. First she married a Lewis.
"''" Seconu Roger freSorN, and thus
became the ancestor of the Fredericks-
burg Thorntons. She also had tho
distinction Of being George Washing
tons godmother
willis Green went to Kentucky ar
ter tho Revolution with his brothers.
and had Duff 90. John 40, Lettio Cil.
Betsy 90. Pattic ca ana Lewis CO
Warner.
William go Green was soldier In
the Revolution lie went TO Kentucky.
and he had Duff 60, who married.
Lucrela Maria Edwards. and had Ben
90 Edwards Green, who married Lizzie
Waters, and had DUFF (6). Caroline
John (2) Green. the fourth son OF
tho emigrant. Robert, served in Indian
War and in the Revolution lie had
John (5). Robert go. and Duff (3). all
revolutionary soldiers. and Moses (s)
rigadier-generai in the war 1912