THE Green family of Welland County, sometimes referred to as "the Greens of Lundy's Lane," was founded by Charles Gree, U.E. in 1786. Prior to the American revolution, Charles Green lived in "the Jersies" a now obsolete way of describing the State of New Jersey, formerly "East" and "West" Jersey.) The racial origin of the family, and the period of its migration to this continent are probably beyond discovery, but it might be a safe surmise that the stock was originally English. When the revolution broke out, Charles maintained his loyalty to the crown. The community in which he lived was predominantly revolutionary and he was subjected to persecution and financial losses. After the battle of Princeton he found it impossible to remain longer in his home, but where he and his family spent the next several years is not related. Charles is said to have done military service with a corps of "Kings Rangers" and for several periods he was imprisoned by the rebels. His brother, Lawrence, espoused the revolutionary cause. In the summer of 1786 Charles took his wife and children and started for the far-off wilderness of Canada, there to begin life over again. His wife rode upon a horse, the young children being carried on panniers or baskets attached to the saddle, while the husband and father walked ahead, gun on shoulder. Their route was through the trail leading through many dangerous places. Reuben, aged two and a half years, was so terrified by the depths of the gorges that yawned below them that the impression was still vivid in his memory when he was a very old man. The Family crossed the Niagara river from Lewiston on September 18, 1786, giving thanks to again be on land where the British flag flew. They found temporary shelter at the farm of Philip George Render, the first settler opposite the Falls, and there, on September 26, a daughter was born. This child was named Rebecca. As a United Empire man, Charles Green was entitled to two hundred acres of free-grant land, and he chose lots Nos. 132 and 133 in Township No. 2, also known as "the mountain townshin" or Mount Dorchester", but finally named "Stamford". These lots were advantageously located and of excellent soil. That they were still ungranted when the Greens arrived indicated how few settlers were then on the west side of the Niagara river. The lots chosen by Charles Green lie "end to end" forming a strip of land measuring a mile and a quarter from east to west. The eastern front is on the recently-named Dorchester Road, the western front is on the Kalar Road, and the Montrose Road separates them. An east and west road allowance was surveyed along their north front, but this lay chiefly in law land and the settlers "forced" a road along the southerly line that separated Green's land from that of William Lundy. This forced road became known and has become famous-as "Lundy's Lane". In 1803 it was made a lawful highway, a strip of land being taken off the edge of Green's land for that purpose. Eventually, the originally-surveyed road-allowance was closed and given to Green to make up for his lost acreage. Thus "Lundy's Lane" was really "Green's Lane". The Beaverdanis Road, leading from the west end of Lundy's Lane to the Beaverdanis settlement and DeCew Falls, passes through Lot No. 133.