In 1653, over fifty years before Farnifold Green’s land grant, it appears that his grandfather, Reverend Roger Green, had been granted his one-thousand-acre choice of ten-thousand acres on the south side of the Chowan River. The 1676 “Description of Carolina” map notes land between the Pamlico and the Neuse Rivers as “Green’s Land.”
During the reign of Queen Anne, Farnifold Green, who came from Virginia in 1697, had a 1700-acre plantation on the north side of the Neuse River. In 1707/1708 Green obtained a land patent from the eight Lords Proprietors—780 acres. This choice land was described as "beginning at the mouth of Core River, running up the river and creek 245 poles to a pine, then east 345 poles to a gum, then north eighty degrees east 45 poles to a pine at North River, then down the river to the mouth 420 poles, then along the sound to the first station."
Part of Green's land grant, in the vicinity of Cape Lookout and present-day Beaufort, was home to the Coree (Coranine or Cwarewiock) Indians.
It is believed Green established an outpost on his land grant about 1709. As an outpost, the few pioneers probably built small make-shift houses and began to fish and farm...but there was no town.
It is also believed by many that Farnifold Green was the person who built the “White House” seen on early maps—the house now known as the Hammock House. After all, he owned the land, and had the resources to build such a structure—most likely as a place to stay while in the area and provide an inn for travelers.
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