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Chapter 2: Ancestors.—parentage.—birth.
Origin of the family
old Captain Ezekiel Greeley
Zaccheus Greeley
Zaccheus the second
roughness and tenacity of the Greeley race
maternal ancestors of Horace Greeley
John Woodburn
character of Horace Greeley's great-grand-mother
his Grandmother
Romantic incident
Horace Greeley is born as black as a chimney
comes to his color
succeeds to the name of Horace.
The name of Greeley is an old and not uncommon one in New England.
It is spelt Greeley, Greely, Greale, and Greele, but all who bear the name in this country trace their origin to the same source.
The tradition is, that very early in the history of New England— probably as early as 1650—three brothers, named Greeley, emigrated from the neighborhood of Nottingham, England. One of them is supposed to have settled finally in Maine, another in Rhode Island, the third in Massachusetts.
All the Greeleys in New England have descended from these three brothers, and the