William and Ann Gregg came to America with the Dixon, Hollingsworth, Sharpley, etc. families who came from the North of Ireland, probably Armagh Co. in Ulster. William Gregg settled on a tract of 400 acres of land in Christiana Hundred, New Castle Co., DE; suryeyed to him 11 3m 1685. He died ye 1st of ye 7th Month and was buried on his own plantation, 1687.
Excerp from A. C. Myers, "Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania," as quoted in HINSHAW, Vol VI, extract of Gregg data at Fairfax MM, Loudon Co., VA.
He came to America with his father and settled in New Castle Co., west side of the Brandywine River, in 1682.
DEATH: When on a visit to his son Abraham, who lived near Winchester, VA, in 1733, it is said he was killed by a buffalo near North Mountain, eight or nine miles north of Winchester, VA, having gone on a hunting expedition with some of the settlers.
DEATH: Will dated October 30, 1723. Filed Court House, Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE.
RESIDENCE: His home was always Rockland Manor, New Castle Co., Del., at that time a part of the Providence of Pennsylvania.