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land about 1695. He was a son of William Green, a captain in the bodyguard of Wil- liam III., and who married Eleanor Duff. Robert Green and his wife, Eleanor (Duiif) Green, were accompanied to America by his uncle, Sir William Duff, who returned to England. Robert and Eleanor (Duff) Green had children: William, Robert, Duff, Colo- nel John, of whom further; Nicholas, James, Moses.

(III) Colonel John Green, son of Robert and Eleanor (Duff) Green, gained his mili- tary rank through service in the colonial army in the war for independence, perform- ing distinguished service at the battles of Brandywine and Guilford. Some years ago his body, and that of his wife, after resting one hundred and twenty-five years in his native soil of Culpeper, were disinterred and buried in the Arlington Cemetery at Wash- ington. He married Susanna Blackwell, and had children : William, of whom further, and General Moses.

(IV) William Green, son of Colonel John and Susanna (Blackwell) Green, married Lucy, daughter of William and Lucy (Clay- ton) Williams, and had one son, John Wil- liams, of whom further.

(V) John Williams Green, son of William and Lucy (Williams) Green, was born No- vember 9, 1781, died February 4, 1834. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was also an attorney of note, becoming judge and president of the Virginia court of ap- peals, also member of the Virginia constitu- tional convention held in 1829, of which body William Naylor, of Hampshire county (now West Virginia), the maternal great- grandfather of Raleigh T. Green, was also a member. He married (first) December 24, 1805, Mary Brown, (second) Million Cooke, a granddaughter of George Mason, author of the Virginia bill of rights. Chil- dren of his first marriage: William, D. D. ; Raleigh B., Daniel S., Philip. Children of his second marriage: John C, Thomas C, George Mason, James Williams, of whom further.

(VI) James Williams Green, son of John Williams and Million (Cooke) Green, was born in 1824, died in 1881. He was educated for the legal profession, continuing in that calling throughout his active life. At the beginning of the war between the states he organized a military company, equipping it

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at his own expense, of which he became lieutenant, the organization being attached to the Thirteenth Regiment of Virginia Vol- unteer Infantry as Company E. He later became a major in Kemper's brigade, Pick- ett's division, and served in the Confederate States army until the close of the war. He married Anne Sanford, born in 1832, died in 1912, daughter of Colonel A. W. and Leacy (Naylor) McDonald, her mother a descendant of a Pennsylvania family. Among the sons of Colonel A. W. and Leacy (Nay- lor) McDonald who fought in the army of the Confederacy during the civil war were: Woodrow, killed in the battle of Cold Har- bor; Captain William, a member of the staff of General T. L. Rosser ; Alajor Edward H., a member of the Sixth Regiment Virginia Cavalry; and Marshall, an engineer in the Confederate States army, and afterward United States fish commissioner under Presi- dent Cleveland.

(VII) Raleigh Travers Green, son of James Williams and Anne Sanford (Mc- Donald) Green, was born in Culpeper, Cul- peper county, Virginia, June 30, 1872. After obtaining a preliminary education in the public and private schools he entered Georgetown University. He was a student in this institution from 1884 to 1889, in 1893 and 1894 attending the law school of Rich- mond College. Immediately after his admis- sion to the bar he began the practice of law in Richmond and Manchester, Virginia, being for a time connected with the law office of Williams & Boulware, continuing actively in his profession until 1897, the third of his family in direct line to engage in legal pur- suits. While a student in Georgetown Uni- versity Mr. Green had been editor of his class paper, and in 1889 and 1890 had been associated with his brother in the publica- tion of the "Culpeper Exponent," a journal founded by Mr. Green's brother, Angus Mc- Donald Green, in 1881, so that when, in 1897, Mr. Green undertook the management and publication of the "Culpeper Exponent," he returned not only to an occupation in which he had had previous training but to a periodical with which the family name was closely intricated and in whose success- ful continuance he had more than an em- ployee's interest. The "Culpeper Exponent" holds deserved high position as a paper truthful and reliable in all instances, and