Black Minqua: The Life and Times of Henry Green, is now
available for purchase. The book sheds light on the Green Family
who were settlers in the Welsh Mountain Region of Southeastern
Pennsylvania. Minqua was a name given to Natives living in the
region by Europeans, on first contact. The Welsh Mountains sit
in what was formerly the Pequea Valley in the Great Valley of
Pennsylvania and Delaware. The first recorded Green is Thomas
Green, who is living in Chester County (Pequea Valley). When
Lancaster County was formed his land was part of that ceded to
the new county. Pequea Valley is what is now called the Welsh
Mountains, in Lancaster County. In 1737, Thomas Green left a
Will naming his wife Ann as Administrator. He named his heirs in
the Will and one of them was Thomas Green, who is a direct
ancestor. Thomas son, Tom Green, was the first person written
about on the Mountain, in the Philadelphia Gazette (1792). The
reporter went on the Mountain and saw a Big Burly Negro, Tom
Green, the Leader of Green's Band