It is evident that when the war was over that this Gideon Greene and his wife returned to Connecticut and there reared a family. In his later years he moved to New York, but I believe that he died in Connecticut.
Likewise, there was another Gideon Greene. He was a North Carolina Gideon Greene living in the same generation. We do not know from where he came, but the first record that he made that we were able to find was a land grant made to him by the state of North Carolina for a piece of land in Anson County. To identify this land further, it was at he mouth of Richardson's Creek, lying on the east bank of this creek and on the west bank of Rocky River.
To this Gideon Greene is as far back as we have been able to trace our Greene kin. We do not know where he came from. We know that the settlement in which he chose to get his first land grant was a settlement of general German origin that moved there from Mecklenburg County, Viginia. We also know that our Gideon Greene did marry Martha Elizabeth Anderson, who was the daughter of Captain James Anderson.
From the records that we did manage to find, Captain James Anderson was a very well-to-do planter who spent his late ycars in Chatham County but had lived in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and from heresay and belief, we think that he came from the Pennsylvania-Delaware area before coming to Virginia. We do know that he was active in polities in the framing of our state government, as well as the country government of Chatham County. He was a most interesting character to study. You will find his will fully recorded in this book. A very interesting incident we did find was that in July 28, 1746, in Mecklenburg Coonty, Virginia, a James Anderson married a Margaret Trog.
George Jackson Greene
George made a good portion of his living, I am told, teaching school.
Aside from the teaching profession, he had considerable holdings in real estate, slaves, etc.
He also was engaged in the milling business.
Most of the property that he owned lay on or near Rocky River. Of the home place;
part of it is in New Salem Township and part of it in Goose Creek township.
I might describe it further by saying Grassy Creek went through his place,
also I might add that his land was on either side of the creek all the way to the river.
George Jackson was inducted into the service of the Confederacy at Salisbury, N.C. The service that he help render was called the Home Guard. At the time of this induction he had already become pretty poor, as the war was taking a very heavy toll on all. Even at this time his sons Jacob Paul, George Adderson, and William Nathan had been in the service of the Confederacy for quite a while. He died in his early fifties, or what we would call relatively young. There was a cemetery real close to his house, in fact in the front yard. The grave was marked for several years by a crude natural marker, but today there is a government marker standing at his grave. It stands in memory of that portion of this life that he gave for the cause of the Confederacy.