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Notes

• The One World Tree (requires Ancestry.com subscription) representsseveral genealogies with various information on Lucretia and herfamily.
  --  http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=26541410
  
  One Ancestry Trees, compiled by Hess Headley, reports on the parentsof John Green.
  
  John Green b  1784
  Father: Meshack GREEN b: 1720
  Mother: Lucretia FRANKLIN b: ABT 1755
  --  Hess Headley,http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2716375&id=I26870
  
  Different sources associate Lucretia's birth with either GuilfordCounty, North Carolina, or Pendleton/Anderson County, South Carolina.Anderson County was one of the countries formed out of the old, largerPendleton District, but not until 1826.  I have shown PendletonDistrict as the place of birth, as it is the place of death.
  
  I found a reference to a Lucretia Franklin born in 1750 in theAmerican Genealogical-Biographical Index that is close to the otherreports of Lucretia's birth date.  But this appears to come from asource in Boston.  This might indicate that Lucretia, or her family,originally came from Boston.  The birth place is not given in thisinformation.  This source reports other Franklins as born in SouthCarolina.
  
  American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
  Volume 58, Page 46
  Name:  Lucretia Franklin
  Birth Date  1750
  Reference:  Genealogical Column of the " Boston Transcript" 1906-1941.(The greatest single source of material for genealogical Data for theN.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in theIndex): 10 Dec 1924, 2492; 13 Apr 1925, 2900
  
  In the will of Meshack W Green, written 19 March 1798 and probated 24January 1799, the transcription spells his wife's name as Creory.This could be a misreading of the name (nickname) Creasy on thehandwritten marriage certificate.  No marriage date is given there,but birth places of the two are Meshack SC and Creasy (with no lastname) NC.  This marriage certificate also gives a nickname oralternate name for Creory as Cressa.  These are all obvious nicknameshort forms of Lucretia.
  
  Various sources have quite varying dates of birth for LucretiaFranklin, wife of Meshack Green.  Ranges vary from 1706-1775! Thoughthe name is the same, the information obviously represents two orthree generations of persons.  Some sources indicate Creasy wasCherokee or part Cherokee.  Details are hard to get.  Substantialreference is also found to the claim that Meshack Green was Cherokeeor part Cherokee.  Green is a big name among Eastern Cherokees, I amtold.  there is indication of some connection to the Gardner Greenline in Indiana.
  
  A descendant, Sheri Horton, contributed these family comments:
  "Regarding Meshack Greene m Creasy (Franklin ?) Daughter Nancy AnneGreene married Jonathan Horton son of Abraham and Martha BrisselsHorton.  Jonathan of Quaker faith was excommunicated from the churchfor marrying out of the faith leading me to believe that mygggggrandmother Nancy Anne Greene was of Cherokee descent.  Jonathanand Nancy's son John married Susan Grider and the family moved toWashington Co Mo John a soldier in war of 1812 had a land grant Thefamily remains in the Washington and surrounding counties."
  --  Sheri Horton, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 19 October 2010
  
  Thanks to Keith Henderson of Alabama for finding Meshack's will.  Hisinformation come to me from a distant cousin, Glenda Pool, throughanother distant cousin Butch Mixon, both working on this and relatedfamily lines.
  
  MISHACH GREEN's WILL
  Wife: Creasy Green
  Sons: Thomas Green, Daniel Green, Henry Green, Joney Green, John Green
  Daughters: Nancy Green
  Other Heirs: John Caldwell, Elizabeth Smith, Issac Horton
  Land Location:  waters of Coxes' Creek
  Executors: wife Creasy Green, son Thomas Green
  Witnesses: George Anderson, Lemiel Thomason, Moley Anderson
  Date: 19 Mar. 1798. Probate: 24 Jan. 1799
  Source: Bk.C p. 151, Roll 242
  Recorded. 24 Jan. 1799, roll 461
  Anderson County, South Carolina
  
  Dates provided by Glenda Pool and some other genealogies are too lateto account for the reported birth dates of some of the children.There is a great discrepancy in reported dates of birth and marriagefor Meshack and Lucretia Green.  I have rationalized and adjusted thedates showing in my genealogy to some extent, based on analysis of theconflicting sources I have found.
  
  None of these sources have parents for either Meshack or Lucretia.Some of these state that one or both of them are full-blood Cherokees. One source states that one of their sons is a full-blood Cherokee(but lacks full information on all the children), which would meanthey both had to be full-blood.
  
  But few of these genealogies provide full sourcing information, whichmakes them generally unreliable.  The internal consistency and amountof total detail then becomes a major factor in determiningpossibilities.  Why can't people tell you where they get theirinformation?

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • Jess Headley,
• 2. Glenda Pool, William Green Genealogy
  • Name: private, received through Green-Bearden family channels;
• 3. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
  • Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA;Date: 1999;;
  • Genealogical Column of the " Boston Transcript" 1906-1941, Volume 58,
• 4. Various Sources
• 5. Will of Meshack W Green
• 6. Ancestry Trees
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=*v133t0575&id=I1176
• 7. World Family Tree Vol. 4
  • Pedigree #1286
• 8. Ancestry Trees
  • Richard Bates,
• 9. 1850 Federal Census, Hall County, Georgia
  • 21 August, page 707 (scan page 353), Hse/Fam #84
• 10. Ancestry Trees
  • Shaking the Tree,
• 11. 1830 Federal Census, Hall County, Georgia
  • page 125
• 12. 1840 Federal Census, Hall County, Georgia
  • District #507, page 65
• 13. Ancestry Trees
  • Rosenbaum/Driscoll,
• 14. Barbara Bell, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 23 August 2007
• 15. 1850 Federal Census, Gwinnett County, Georgia
  • 25 September, Sugar Hill District, page 388, Hse/Fam #935
• 16. World Family Tree Vol. 13
  • Pedigree #3163
• 17. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900