John Gregg
1747 - 1799 (51 years)
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Name John Gregg [1, 2, 3] Birth 15 Oct 1747 Loudoun Co., Virginia 
- Inez Gregg has him born in Washington Co., Pa.
Gender Male Military Service According to Kendall (S253), John Gregg enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Application was made to the DAR using his name by his GGGrandaughter Inez Gregg; according to her application he was a private in Capt. Thomas Giddis' Co., Virginia Militia from 9 Sept. 1776 to 2 Oct. 1776, and then later served in Washington Co., Pennsylvania. Here is his DAR data:
GREGG, John
Birth: VA 15 Oct 1747
Service: VA PA
Rank: Ens PS
Death: OH 7 Oct 1799
Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No
Spouse: (1) Sarah Gregg
The SAR database says that he died in 1840, which seems confused. The DAR database says 1799, and this seems to be more accurate. He appears in Eckenrode's 1912 list of Revolutionary War Soldiers of Virginia; the source Eckenrode gives is the War Department, "payrolls of the Virginia LIne, referred to by folders (353 folders)"; his information is in folder 349.2. [4, 5]Death 7 Oct 1799 Bracken Co., Kentucky Burial Carntown, Pendleton Co., Kentucky [6] - The map marker is only approximate; the grave is on private property in this area. This spot right near Grandview Cemetery in Mentor, where members of the DeMoss family are buried.
Patriarch & Matriarch 
John Gregg
b. Abt 1575, Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, Scotland
d. 1639, Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, Scotland (Age 64 years) (3 x Great Grandfather) 
Elizabeth Alford
d. Yes, date unknown (Mother)Notes - This marriage is interesting because it joins two branches of the Gregg family that seem to have diverged back in Ireland or Scotland (though how they once diverged is unknown). The name seems to derive from "MacGregor." On both sides the family is Scots-Irish. Sarah Gregg's family is descended from William Gregg, the immigrant ancestor of the "Quaker Greggs" who came from (northern) Ireland to Delaware. John Gregg's ancestors derive from immigrant ancestor Samuel Gregg, who also immigranted from Ireland, and whose ancestor Capt. David Gregg fought in Cromwell's army.
The line which the tree on this site traces descends through their son Aaron, whose daughter Elizabeth married into the Hamilton family, and thence to the Mannens and Lansdales. Note that this couple's daughter Elizabeth married Aaron Harlan, whose ancestors had also married into Greggs; their daughter Hannah also married John O. Hamilton, brother of another direct ancestor.
According to Kendall, "After their marriage they lived in Greene Co., PA, moved down the Ohio River to 'Buchanan's Station,' now Germantown, Kentucky, in 1792. . . . In Loudoun Co., Virginia on May 25, 1775 John Gregg was admitted to the Society of Friends. On Nov. 25, 1775 John Gregg joined the Military and was disowned. John Gregg served in the Revolution and was disowned. In the spring of 1793 he with William Buchanan and his wife Jane went across the Ohio River [from Germantown, KY] into Clermont Co. [Ohio] to build a log cabin on the site of the Neville. A wrong survey caused them to give up 1,000 acres to avoid trouble and [they] went back to Kentucky. John Gregg had not taken his family because the children were too small. . . . John built in Warren Co. [and] died of fever. Issue [were] born in Pa, returned to Kentucky with widowed mother; requested by dying father" (243).
Seems like the one exception here is that Hannah born in 1795 must have been born in Kentucky if they migrated in 1792.
He is buried near Carntown in Pendleton Co., Ky, right across the Ohio River from Moscow, Ohio.
Person ID I6053 Last Modified 13 Feb 2025
Father Samuel Gregg
b. 1699, Coleraine, County Laois, Ireland
d. Abt 1804, Loudoun Co., Virginia (Age 105 years)
Other Partners:
└─Esther Tobin
d. Sep 1806Mother Elizabeth Alford
d. Yes, date unknownMarriage 1720 Loudoun Co., Virginia Family Charts Group Sheet | Family Chart
Spouse / Partner 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 [3] Children 4 sons and 7 daughters + 1 
. Elizabeth Gregg
b. 18 Jun 1774
d. 10 Sep 1850, Warren Co., Ohio (Age 76 years)└─ Aaron Harlan (Age 86 years) m. 18 Jun 1793+ 2 . Capt. Aaron Gregg
b. 3 Jul 1776
d. 30 May 1841, Bracken Co., Kentucky (Age 64 years)└─ Mary "Polly" Demoss (Age 72 years) m. 26 Nov 1801> 3 . Rebecca Gregg
b. 22 Nov 1778└─ Christopher Colglazer m. 15 Feb 1800+ 4 . Mary "Polly" Gregg
b. 3 Apr 1781└─ Robert Buchanan m. 24 Apr 1800+ 5 . Ruth Gregg
b. 5 Jul 1783
d. Feb 1859, Germantown, Bracken Co., Kentucky (Age 75 years)└─ Valentine "Felty" Harmon (Age 51 years) m. 25 Nov 1801> 6 . Drusilla Gregg
b. 2 Feb 1785, Loudoun Co., Virginia
d. 9 Dec 1806, Warren Co., Ohio (Age 21 years)└─ Samuel Harlan (Age 91 years) m. 24 Feb 1806+ 7 . Judge John Gregg
b. 25 Jan 1786, Greene Co., Pennsylvania
d. 1856, Moscow, Clermont Co., Ohio (Age 69 years)└─ Ann “Nancy” Currens (Age 38 years) m. 25 Dec 1808;
└─ Ann ? Morehead (Age 39 years);
└─ Jane Withrow m. 28 Apr 1838;
└─ Margaret "Peggy" Crume m. 3 May 18488 . Samuel Gregg
b. 24 Feb 1788
d. 11 Aug 1802 (Age 14 years)> 9 . George Gregg
b. 25 Mar 1790, Brownsville, Greene Co., Pennsylvania
d. 12 Jan 1862, Moscow, Clermont Co., Ohio (Age 71 years)└─ Sarah Fee (Age 82 years) m. 28 Dec 1815+ 10 . Sarah Gregg
b. 19 Oct 1792, Loudoun Co., Virginia
d. 16 Sep 1850, Bracken Co., Kentucky (Age 57 years)└─ John Fee, Jr. (Age 67 years) m. 19 Oct 1814+ 11 . Hannah Gregg
b. 8 May 1795
d. 20 Jan 1837, Gallatin Co., Kentucky (Age 41 years)└─ John O. Hamilton (Age 89 years) m. 26 Oct 1817Family Charts Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Jun 2025
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Event Map 
Birth - 15 Oct 1747 - Loudoun Co., Virginia 
Marriage - 25 Sep 1773 - Loudoun Co., Virginia 
Death - 7 Oct 1799 - Bracken Co., Kentucky 
Burial - - Carntown, Pendleton Co., Kentucky = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Reference Pitard, D. "John Gregg". Genealogy at Pitard.net. https://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I6053&tree=1sttree (accessed June 20, 2025).
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