General Notes

He left Ireland in 1682 on the ship Caledonia
Source Name: MYERS, ALBERT COOK. "List of Certificates of Removal from Ireland  Received at the Monthly Meetings of Friends in Pennsylvania, 1682-1750;  with Genealogical Notes from Friends' Records of Ireland and  Pennsylvania, Genealogies, County Histories, and Other Books and  Manuscripts." In Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania,  1682-1750, with Their Early History in Ireland. Swarthmore, [PA]: Myers,  1902, pp. 277-390. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore,  1969.
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BIOGRAPHY: The Greggs, deeply imbued with spiritual piety, were most  receptable to the teachings of William Penn when he visited Waterford,  Ireland in 1678 and converted many Scottish settlers to the Society of  Friends. So the Gregs became Penn Quakers. As a devout adherent William Gregg was a member of a colonial  Friend group which left southern Ireland after October 1623, possibly in  the ship "Caledonia" with William Hoge. He had with him the  silver-studded ivory-headed cane inherited as next to the oldest son from  his father, William Greg, who left Glenarm Barony, County Antrim, after  May 1653. By this time the cane had become an heirloom whose story he  recited many times to his children just as it was the custom for his  ancestors to retain a bard whose duty was to sing the exploits of the  Greg ancestral line. Charles A. Gregg, Fredericktown, Ohio, now is the  proud hereditary owner of the cane. The ship of Friends landed at Upland, now Chester,  Pennsylvania, 1682. No doubt married relatives came with William Gregg  besides his wife and four small children. Sedate and reserved in  appearance they later made their way down the Delaware River to settle  that part of Christiana Hundred bordering the Pennsylvania line and lying  between Brandywine and Red Clay Creeks on the west side of Brandywine  Creek near the present site of Centerville. The surface is elevated and  broken with generally fertile soil. In this northern part was one of  William Penn's principal manors, Rockland Manor, in which William Gregg  was granted 200 acres in 1683 and a warrant for 400 acres on January 26,  1684. (Conrad's History of Delaware. Vol. 2, p. 462). Here he built a log  cabin on a location which he called Strand Millas. It adjoined the lands  of Mattias Defosse on Squirrel Creek, who died May 1708, had wife Sarah.  Other neighbors were Henry Hollingsworth, Thomas Hollingsworth, Thomas  Woolasten, George Hog, William Hoge, John Hussy, William Dixon.  William Gregg's family of a wife, a young daughter, and three  young sons was well cared for and also entertained by his stories of the  clan Gregg's fortunes and misfortunes. These stories were never forgotten  by his children who passed them on to the next generation. He was most  congenial in his home.  The earliest monthly meetings of the Quakers on west side of  the Delaware River was organized at New Castle about 1681 and held in a  private house until 1687 when the meetings were changed to a log meeting  house on the grounds given by Valentine Hollingsworth. BIOGRAPHY: In 1686 William Gregg gave 5 shillings "toward a public stock  for ye relief of ye friends in necessity" with Cornelius Empson, Edward  Blake, Valentine Hollingsworth, John Richardson, Robert Turner, and  Thomas Snelling. He was one of the Friends who in the winter of 1687 was  granted permission to hold their meetings in the winter months on  Christiana side instead of going to the Brandywine Hundred Meeting at  Neward "by reason of the dangerousness of ye ford" they must cross. When  about forty-five he died and was buried on his own plantation at his home  of Strand Millas on July 1, 1687. His four children were successfully  reared by the mother, relatives, and friends, as the oldest child John  was only nineteen when the father died. The children lived in their own  home Strand Millas and kept possession of their father's land. B Taken from the Web pages of; Lynn F. Lusby at;  http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/u/s/Lynn-F-Lusby/GENE5-0001.html.  According to 'The Quaker Greggs' William came to America with  his wife and children aboard the 'Caledonia' sometime after 1678, landing  at Delaware. The book states that William was part of a group of Quakers  who left.