Nancy Green was the daughter of Robert Stephenson, a Scotsman, commonly known as Stinson.  Nancy was born in County of Antrim, Ireland, in 1750, and raised in the parish of Ballymoney.

The Reverend William Martin emigrated to America about 1773 to the Rocky Creek of the Catawba River in the District of Chester, South Carolina, with James, William, and Elizabeth Stinson and William and Nancy Stinson Anderson. By the beginning of the Revolutionary War, through diligent efforts, the Andersons and their three children had become people of substance.  Mary was able to recite the catechism; Robert could read the Bible; and little William was just learning to walk.

In 1780, when the War turned toward the South, Reverend Martin arose and spoke thus: "We must fight!", and then cited the many troubles between Scotland and England and the treatment of the English toward the Colonies. The next day William Anderson rode off to a militia meeting.

In a few hours Nancy heard shots coming from the direction of the muster-ground and soon William came racing past.  The British dragoons were in close pursuit and, failing to overtake him, they gave vent to their rage by plundering the Anderson's house of all its valuables. They later came back to destroy the crops and livestock. The British troops also brought smallpox to the children of the household.  All survived the pox, but the youngest was scarred for life.

During this time, William Anderson joined the forces at Fort Sumpter, on the east side of the Catawba River under Captain John Steel. William was in the battles of Williamsons, at Rocky Mount; and Carey's Ford on the Wateree. He was shot by the Tories in the attack on Steel's party at Neely's. He became the well known Colonel William Anderson of Chester District, S.C., who died in the mid-1800s.

In April 1781 a poorly dressed man came through the area.  He was running from the British.  A native of New Jersey, Daniel Green had enlisted in the Marines with Captain Biddle. He was taken prisoner on May 12, 1780. After a year of captivity, he escaped from a prison boat in Charleston Harbor.  Within just a few weeks of their meeting, Nancy and Daniel were married, but not in a church which required a waiting period. They did not have any children.

Nancy Anderson Green died in June 1827. Daniel survived her by only a few weeks. Her last resting place is a spot of historical interest. On either side of her lay the remains of her two husbands and at her feet her son, Col. William Anderson, and her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Around the family burial plot is a granite wall which is a monument to the public spirit of her family.

The daughter of Nancy Green, Mary Anderson, born in 1774, married Joshua Smith in 1791. It is from this child that our Charter Members were descended.