In 2020 he launched the Black Joy Project, a three-tiered project: a Black Theatre methodology, a play embodying the method and a documentary film capturing its inception. Every year he produces five new plays, nurturing the work of five budding playwrights at JAGfest, one of the nation's leading incubators of new works by Black playwrights. He is the recipient of the New England Theatre Conference Regional Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre for his work with JAG in its inaugural year. I do have DNA cousins from Sarah Griggs children.Jarvis Antonio Green is the Founding Artistic Director of JAG Productions, a Vermont and NYC based black theater company founded in 2016. He married Sarah Griggs about a year or so after moving to Tyron. Otherwise, Jarvis would have been put in jail. If Elizabeth and Simeon took Thomas, no one would know the difference. I believe that Jarvis moved to Tyron to get away from the shame of having had a child out of wedlock. He likely was connected to the Robert Green from Isle of Wight Co. Those names were added by a lady named Sue Green about 25 years ago because she was trying to link Jarvis to any Tyron County Greens. There was no George William or William George Green. This home just happened to be very near that of John Justice, and of Jesse Keesee, whose daughter, Amy, married Thomas Green. Thomas also raised Elizabeth and Simeon’s two youngest boys. As my Grandmother told me many times, Thomas’s father was killed in the war and he was raised by a minister named Thomas Turley, Elizabeth’s brother. Though I have no proof, I believe he left baby Thomas with Simeon Justice and Elizabeth Turley. Likely he got a girlfriend pregnant and likely she died in childbirth. I believe he lived there until Thomas was born. When George and Mary arrived at Meiry Creek in 1756, he would have been around six or seven. Jarvis seems to have been born around 1750 but no proof of that. I believe he was born not long after the turn of the century and Mary was a bit younger. I believe most, of not all of their children were on born in Brunswick/Lunenburg Co. George soon sold his land in what had by then become Lunenburg County. They purchased land adjacent to Thomas Justice, Mary’s brother and her father John. George and Mary lived there on Flat Rock Creek until George purchased land on Miery Creek in Halifax County. Jarvis was probably born in Brunswick County. Jarvis Green was the son of George Green and Mary Justice. My ggg-grandfather Thomas Green was the first son of Jarvis. Armstrong(1760-1834)įamily links: Spouse: Sarah Griggs Greene (1755 - 1846) Children: William Griggs Greene (1779 - 1848)*īurial: Blue Licks State Park Cemetery Robertson County Kentucky, USA One sister Mary Greene(1755-1827) was married to Revolutionary War Veteran John Rattan.Īnd his other sister Nancy Greene Armstrong(1768-1856) was married to Revolutionary War Veteran Robert A. Jervis Green had two brothers who also fought in the Revolutionary War: George Green(1755-1834) James Green(1758-1821) Colonel John Todd, the great uncle of Mary Todd Lincoln also died in the battle. Colonel Daniel Boone escaped but his son Israel died. Jervis Green was killed at the battle of Blue Licks, Kentucky on Augwhen 50 Loyalists and 300 Indians from various tribes ambushed 182 Kentucky Militiamen. William Griggs Greene 1779-1848 Friend of Abraham Lincoln, founder of Tallula, Illinois Rev.John Greene 1777-1853 Married Rachel Mackey Parents: George William Green (1725-1770) Nancy Ann Justice (1730-abt 1774)Ĭhildren: Nancy Elizabeth Greene 1775-1846 Married William Shastid Their son John Greene Shastid (1798-1874) was a good friend of Abraham Lincoln. In 1782 when 50 Loyalists and 300 Indians from various tribes ambushed 182 Kentucky Militiamen. Nancy Green had three brothers who also fought in the Revolutionary War: Jarvis Green(1752-1782) was killed at the battle of Blue Licks, Kentucky on Augwhen 50 Loyalists and 300 Indians from various tribes ambushed 182 Kentucky Militiamen. There is good reason (he owned and sold off properties at Mirey Creek, VA) to think that he and his siblings were actually the children of George Green George William Green and Mary Justice of Mirey Creek Mary Green (the Justice family that originated in Plymouth County, MA).Ī Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of Private. Attempts (probably spurious) have been made to force a connection with the Greene family of Rhode Island (as in Gen.