Capt. Aaron Gregg
1776 - 1841 (64 years)
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Name Aaron Gregg [1, 2, 3, 4] Prefix Capt. Birth 3 Jul 1776 [5] Gender Male Tax Record 22 Aug 1799 Bracken Co., Kentucky 
[6] - 80 acres. He does not appear on 1797, so he presumably arrived in Bracken Co. sometime within the previous two years.
Census 1810 Bracken Co., Kentucky [7] Tax Record 17 Apr 1813 Bracken Co., Kentucky [8] - 400 acres.
Census 1820 Germantown, Bracken Co., Kentucky [9] Land Patent 6 Feb 1824 Brookville, Rush Co., Indiana [10] - four patents to "Aaron Gregg of Bracken County, Kentucky": certificate nos. 4534, 4535, 4640, 4641
Census 1830 Bracken Co., Kentucky [11] Census 1840 Bracken Co., Kentucky [12] Military Service Listed in JL Jr.'s SAR application as a Revolutionary War soldier, but the date of his birth precludes that. His father and father-in-law were in the Revolution, however.
He was in the War of 1812, a Captain in the 16th Regiment (Porter's) of the Kentucky Volunteer Militia. According to Kendall, "He was a Captain 16th Regiment Kentucky Militia War 1812-14 in Canada. [According to his GG Grandaughter Mary Gregg McCollum,] ‘When he returned home from war his Mother Sarah treated him to a dish of baked apples. That may mean his mother was saving but it might also have meant that Aaron loved baked apples and he did not get any in the army.' Immediately after his marriage he placed his bride beside him on a horse, a feather bed in front of him, and rode to his mother's home at ‘the old pear tree' in Bracken County to live."
See in: Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812, index, p. 395. [2, 13]Will written 7 Jan 1841 Bracken Co., Kentucky [14] Death 30 May 1841 Bracken Co., Kentucky Will probated 29 Dec 1856 Bracken Co., Kentucky [15] - settlement date
Burial Gregg Cemetery #2, Bracken Co., Kentucky [16, 17] Patriarch & Matriarch 
John Gregg
b. Abt 1575, Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, Scotland
d. 1639, Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, Scotland (Age 64 years) (4 x Great Grandfather) 
Elizabeth Hanby
b. Abt 1724 (Grandmother)Notes - His father's family descends from immigrant ancestor Samuel Gregg. His mother's family descends from immigrant ancestor William Gregg (of the so-called "Quaker Greggs").
He was in Bracken County by 1799.
From John Gregg Fee's autobiography: ". . . Sarah Gregg was a Quakeress from Pennsylvania. Her eldest son, Aaron Gregg, my wife's [Matilda Hamilton's] grandfather, was an industrious free laborer, an ardent lover of liberty, and very outspoken in his denunciations of slavery. This opposition to slavery and his love of liberty passed to his children and children's children, almost without exception."
On 6 February 1824 "Aaron Gregg of Bracken County, Kentucky" purchased four land patents in Rush Co., Indiana, where his brother John had purchased severl three years before.
His will names his wife as Sarah Gregg, and chilidren as John, Hiram, and Samuel. [4, 10, 18]
Person ID I6051 Last Modified 3 May 2025
Father John Gregg
b. 15 Oct 1747, Loudoun Co., Virginia
d. 7 Oct 1799, Bracken Co., Kentucky (Age 51 years) Mother Sarah Gregg
b. 6 Aug 1753, Loudoun Co., Virginia
d. 31 Jul 1833, Bracken Co., Kentucky (Age 79 years) Marriage 25 Sep 1773 Loudoun Co., Virginia Family Charts Group Sheet | Family Chart
Spouse / Partner Mary "Polly" Demoss
b. 18 Sep 1780, Berkeley Co., Virginia
d. 15 Jan 1853 (Age 72 years)Marriage 26 Nov 1801 [19] Children 3 sons and 3 daughters + 1 . John Demoss Gregg
b. 20 Aug 1802
d. 11 Mar 1876, Genoa, Ottawa Co., Ohio (Age 73 years)└─ Isabella Doak (Age 84 years) m. 27 Dec 1832+ 2 
. Elizabeth S. Gregg
b. 11 Apr 1804, Kentucky
d. 27 Mar 1872, Bracken Co., Kentucky (Age 67 years)└─ Vincent Power Hamilton (Age 79 years) m. 24 Mar 1821> 3 . Hiram Demoss Gregg
b. 16 Sep 1805
d. 17 Feb 1891 (Age 85 years)└─ Elizabeth Humlong m. 10 Apr 18284 . Samuel Gregg
b. 27 Apr 1807
d. 18 Dec 1854 (Age 47 years)+ 5 . Rebecca Gregg
b. 15 Aug 1809
d. 21 Aug 1881 (Age 72 years)└─ Greenberry Hanson m. 11 Apr 1833> 6 . Eliza Gregg
b. 17 Feb 1811, Bracken Co., Kentucky
d. 3 Jul 1883, Peru, Miami Co., Indiana (Age 72 years)└─ John Gregg Harlan (Age 52 years) m. 4 Jul 1833Family Charts Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 May 2025
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Event Map 
Tax Record - 22 Aug 1799 - Bracken Co., Kentucky 
Census - 1810 - Bracken Co., Kentucky Tax Record - 17 Apr 1813 - Bracken Co., Kentucky 
Census - 1820 - Germantown, Bracken Co., Kentucky 
Land Patent - 6 Feb 1824 - Brookville, Rush Co., Indiana Census - 1830 - Bracken Co., Kentucky Census - 1840 - Bracken Co., Kentucky Will written - 7 Jan 1841 - Bracken Co., Kentucky Death - 30 May 1841 - Bracken Co., Kentucky Will probated - 29 Dec 1856 - Bracken Co., Kentucky 
Burial - - Gregg Cemetery #2, Bracken Co., Kentucky = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Headstones3 Headstones
Histories 
Quaker Ancestors from Pennsylvania and Delaware The areas that are now northern Delaware and south-eastern Pennsylvania were not distinguished from each other in the 1682 land grant to William Penn. Maps at the time show one geographical area divided by the Susquehanna, Schuykill, and Delaware rivers (with the Potomac farther west, and the Hudson farther east). Separate sets of representatives for the states began to meet in 1704, in Philadelphia and New Castle, though one Governor remained for both, and pre-Revolutionary Delaware remained under the political sway of its more powerful and populous northern neighbor.
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Reference Pitard, D. "Capt. Aaron Gregg". Genealogy at Pitard.net. https://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I6051&tree=1sttree (accessed May 15, 2025).
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