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The Greene Family in England and America
The Greene Family in England and America
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THE
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CONTENTS.
Introductory Note
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
Greene Family
to
compilers
give
complete
enable
the
members
of
that
through the
first
of the
to
New
England,
and
to
emigrant directly to
Nathaniel Greene,
who
two
sons,
Benjamin and
refer-
those
who may
Much
most
of
this
doubtless be found in
now
in preparation, as
we
are
happy
work.
to learn,
for that
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
when
official
records in
with extracts from Parish Registers, all England, together from original sources for this of which have been obtained
are brought together on work, with other historical notes,
it
is
believed,
is
given
list
of
be found on a sub-
sequent page.
AUTHORITIES.
Baker's History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire.
Halstead's Genealogies, cited by Baker.
Turners Greenes
of
Warwick
in Colonial
History.
Gorton's Simplicity's Defence against Seven-headed Policy. Johnson's Wonder Providence of Sion's Saviour.
Working
Drake's Founders of
New
England.
etc.,
of
family of
originally written
as
the
time of
Edward
the
to
First.
In
1320,
Thomas de Greene
succeeded
the
estates,
Manors of Boughton and Norton, afterwards called Greene's Norton, where the family continued to
llourish
for
several
generations,
;
sending
offshoots
collateral
into
various Counties
to
some of these
Northampton
of Strafford.
reign of
it
In the twenty-seventh
III
Edward
(1354),
Sir
Henry Greene,
10
and
days,
beginning
on the
vigil
of
St.
John
and since
down
to
the
said
by a
the "
most celebrated
resorted to
that
part
of
by
stood, near a
famous spring,
John Baptist
it
from the
time of
village,
on the Green.
it
As
early as the
into decay
in
;
Henry VIII,
had begun to
fall
spire alone
were standing
1761,
and these
its
fell
now remains
but
ruins
the
sixteenth century,
as
tower, in which
hung
the
of 1653.
The
outlines of
foundations
but
there
of the
mother
church can
he
traced,
seems to be no
11
interior extant.
It contained the
family,
his
"
History
and
Antiquities
of
Greene monuments.
One
of
The
other had
t
man
in a short
gowne y should
shew bym
a lawyer,
lies
portraicture
by hym."
On
Greene
between Zouch impaling* Greene, and Reynes impaling Greene, showing marriages with the daughters
of Greene,
here interred.
At
fess
a shield bearing a
between
monument
who
but,
as
Lord Chief
who
attained
and
his
it
may with
confidence be
applied to him."
12
Manor
in
owned
estates
a
in
Norton
at
very early
period.
This was
County
its
name
is
said
its
by some authorities to
King's
relative position to
North town and South town), another The Greene portion of the Saxon royal demesne. " Domesprefix was given from its successive lords.
e.,
day" mentions an extensive wood in this parish, which was doubtless the origin of Whittle-wood, or
Whittlebury
forest, a portion of
which lingered
till
Kingthorne Wood."
In the reign
of
three
shillings
and fonrpence
at
Manor
in
King by
right
what place soever the King is." The royal claim on Norton was the same for centuries as it
Day,
had been
Sir
in the
Sewelle
Greene's Norton.
His
in
13
for
England
in
the reign of
his
Edward
III,
bought the
name
to the village.
He was
suc-
in
without interrup-
one dying
in
Justice
at
was
interred
the
church of his
ancestors,
last
;
Sir
Thomas
elder,
left
two daughters,
the
as
coheiresses
the
Anne, married
Sir Nicholas
Vaux, Baron of
Harrowden, and
married
Sir
Thomas
father
of
Queen
queen of Henry
The
estate
was restored
VI,
in 1550,
to the blood
Katharine's
also,
Henry VIII,
whom
Thomas
fell
into disfavor
14
honors
he was Marquis of
was born
at
On
the death
estate
in
reverted
the
The
parish church
is
was anciently
It stands
on rising ground
containing five
which
is
and south
and south
are lighted
The
aisles
by uniform windows of fourteenth century gothic, having three lights and two quatrefoils below three
elongated trefoils in the arch.
earlier period,
The chancel
is
of an
ing
dripstones;
shaft runs
and
in
the
interior
slender, circular
up the centre between the two lights. The east window is more modern, and has been despoiled of
its
tracery.
The tower
a
trifle
is
thirteen feet
aisles
are
upwards of
15
feet.
is
The chancel
little
is
and
The
1826,
in
when
it
viously rich in
fragments
now
exist.
This wanton and reckless disregard of the most apand interesting memorials cannot be too
propriate
strongly deprecated.
It
is
Mr. Gilbert
Flesher,
of
Towcester,
remonstrated
The defend the action of the parochial authorities. " Gentleman's in the correspondence may be found
Magazine," 182G.
From
comparison of descriptions by
different
authorities
interior
may be
16
It
gained.
each
aisle
by two very
lofty
pointed
arches,
on
capitals of plain
mouldings,
The nave
now
altitude,
end of the
once inclosed by
handsome
when
the present
pews were
erected.
A piscina
and two
aisle,
at the east
is
end of
mere con-
At
modern
base,
is
circular,
bordered with
lozenge
in
beaded
compartments, each
filled
with a Mower.
window
;
Greene arms
and
fragments
of
painted
in
glass
of*
most
the
windows
until
tified."
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17
Of
the
here, the
it
to Sir
rested
two
We
printed
Sir
as
cited
above.
Thomas, wearing
under
his
armor,
reposed
his
on the
lady's right;
its crest,
head was
helmet with
lion.
was a
The
broken
off
the north
aisle, at
"
;
was removed
at the
same time
(182(5),
and for
a longis
is
sustained by an angel.
18
now
in
rest
(as
shown
the
Rd. Arthur Kennaway, rector of the parish since 1889, who has shown great interest in the preservation of the
monuments.
On
azure
The
of the Greenes:
A bend
between
;
six
mullets
in chief a lion
passant gnardant
as the
tinctures of
is
with
great
may be
second
3.
or,
last,
and
for
in chief a lion
gnardant
of
the
Mablethorpe.*
were fixed
at the
in the
the blazonry
entirely obliterated.
lie
Some of the Mablethorpes bore the same device, with an azure chevron and crosses argent, and the lion in gold in chief.
field,
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m o
33
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CD 33
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19
Thomas Greene, who died in and Mary Talbot, his wife. On the covering
were once two small
the
figures,
inches
long;
her
lady
remained, but
described
the
it.
kniffht
had
left
when
Ilalstead
shields,
Over
their heads
were two
Cbomas
ct
Cbome
6reene,
jvuiit.' fill'
quond'm uni' ux. ejus, ct tci Gdwardi D'ni Maria tii, Regis ^usticiariorum Dcus. Hmcn. animabus D'ni filia propicictur Calbot, quoru'
bcred'
lies
Here
son
and heir
of
Thomas
one of the Greene, Knight, son and heir of Henry Greene, Knight, Justices of King Edward Third, and Mary, his wife, the daughter
of
Lord Talbot,
to
whose
souls
may God
lie
gracious.
Amen.
On
was
a shield
a
bearing Greene
impaling
Talbot,
argent,
On
lion
rampant gules,
otherwise
it
aisle, tinder a
wry
in
each spandril,
was a
that Sir
Thomas who
died
in
20
Philippa Ferrars.
left
not
wreck behind."
it,
place
was occupied
first
of these
monuments was
fourth
Sir
an
Thomas who
Lady Matilda
which once
Throckmorton,
formed
it,
his
widow.
"
The
slab,
its
top,
and the
brass,"
which surmounted
in
says
chancel. f
Boutell, in his
sumptuous work
"Monumental Brasses of England," published London in 1849, has an excellent engraving of the
and on page 43 he gives an elaborate descrippeculiar features of the
brass,
tion
of the
armor of the
in
who
is
interested
the
The
mantle;
Baker,
II
65, as cited.
Boutell, as cited, confirms Baker, and says "the line brass, origifixed
nil
nalls
the altar-tomb,
now
(1849) lies
chancel."
21
figures of
Below the
labelled "
Thomas,
last.
The
which hands
brass
has,
inscription
fortunately, been preserved from the of the " beautifiers." It was engraved in the
As
it
throws light on
Norton, we print
it
below.
There arc
trilling differ-
who
give
it:
&
ux'
FKc jacet
ej.
fuit
filj'
ct
bcrcs
ejus'
Cbonie Grene
filie
pbilippe ux'is
Robcrti
filie
ejus,
qui quid'm Cbomas Grene pater prefilius et beres Cbomc Grene JVIilitis*
D'ni de JNorton pred'ea' et JVlarie ux'is ejus filie Rici' O'ni Calbot ct Hnkarete uxoris ejus filie ct bered' 3ob'is D'ni
Strange dc Blacmere
p'd'eor'
qui
quid'm
obijt
.
p'fatus
ix die
Cbomas
filius
Cbome
et
pbilippe
cccc Ixij
Hnno
D'ni
MiU'mo
7ob'is Cbrockmarton Hrmigcri quond'm Subtbcsaurarij Hngl' Hnno D'ni ^lilVo cccc obijt ... die JHes' quor'
as follows:
wife.
Thomas Greene, Knight, Lord of Norton, and Matilda, The said Thomas was son and heir of Thomas Greene,
22
daughter of
his wife,
Robert, Lord Ferrars of Charteley, and of Elizabeth daughter of Lord Thomas de Spencer. Thomas Greene,
the father of
Thomas
aforesaid,
heir of
Thomas Greene,
daughter
the
Mary
his wife,
his wife,
who was
daughter and heir of Lord Strange of Blackmere. of Thomas and Philippa aforesaid, died on the ninth of Septem-
Thomas, son
ber,
A.
1).
lM'rl
John Throckmorton,
month
of .... A.
14 ...
May God
Originally, says
four shields
placed at the
remain
other,
the
the
Greene and Mablethorpe quarterly. It appears from Baker that the other shields upon the tomb indicated alliances with the Throckmortons,
Talbots,
the
the
Wykes
and Spines.
These were
shown by
his engraving.
and of
to the
Greenes,
it
seems needless
The
same authority mentions a "chantry'' formerly attached to this church, endowed by Richard Myddleton, to provide
"a
priest
to
23
his ancestors
This
existed
the
dissolution
year of
Edward VI,
One
arms recorded
in
was seated
the
early
neighboring
parishes
of
Dorset
in
Henry
the Eighth.
That the
allied to the
family
at
Greene's Norton
is
shown not
still
extant
Greene of Gillingham, and bearing a seal with the tripping bucks, but without what is styled by heralds
" a ditference,"
which would
indicate, did
it
appear,
whom
he claimed descent.
1
The laws
arms
at that period, to
its
permit
seal with
as of undisputed right.
The well-known
in
the
different
24
parts of England,
which
it
is
thought by heralds
may show
period,
common
Norman
tradition of a
of Royal Descent"
says,
on what evidence
we do not know,
was
Gillingham
setshire,
is
in
Dor-
circumfer-
ence,
tants.
in
the
the
erset.
The country
dairies,
foris
name
in
is
still
used
in
Westmoreland,
and
the
hills
in
and,
in
after
uniting
the southwestern
25
English Channel.
The Saxon
root
in the
name
there
may
be an allu-
in the
Saxon period
was quite extensive, covering a large part of the parish, and extending also into the adjoining connties this was a favorite resort of the Saxon princes.
;
In the time of
it
Edward
I,
earlier,
was
a " royal
demesne wood."
About
still
half a mile
to
be seen
was
called
by
local
historians, but
not a stone
I
later,
in
the time of
to
keep
it
reign,
when
the
wood was
de-afforested,"
26
the
borders,
much
to the dis-
who
had
rights
therein.
down
Even
the messengers of
assaulted, but
the
royal
privileges
were
finally
letter
part
of this
forest, eighty
acres
of which were
the parish.
As
so
little
personal knowledge of
down
to ns,
we
believe
will
it is
as follows:
Sr
concerning o pish wherein yo u are concerned the stale whereof I thought Htl to ch is thus. Vpon the disafforestacon of the represent unto yo" w an allowance of too acres layd was Forrest of Gillingham there ch * out for the Freehold and (onion of the Mannor of Mere, w
"There
is
nowe
in
agiticon
;i
business
was enioyed
* Derived
in
w th
27
was about 27 yeres past, In the tyme of the troubles some of the enclosures of the Forrest were throwne open and vpon the
late reenelosure, the
w ch
some
the
me
in
in the busines
whoe
travelled
to
&
the Articles
annexed
Mere (who formerly had a greate pt of their maineten'nee out of the Forrest) in regard that vpon the improvemt & enclosure they were wholely cast vpon the pish, and vpon treatye
w th
tine, I
and soe
and
for
releife
be imployed for the comfort of the Poore) and the 100 acres (formerly layd out
(to
Comon)
in lieu
&
rs
claymes
in the
Forrest
as well for
well approued
setled
w ch
I putt in
order; but
when
the
tyme
some few
of the pish
(w
dl
made
greate vse of the Comons) would not agree to the Enclosure vnlesse the 80 acres (gotten vpon the interest of the Poore) might
be vsed
in
comon
as well as the
Comon rs
although it was expressely allowed to the pish for the better support of the poore, and agreed to be helt (?) inclosed & made vse of for
that purpose.
And by meanes
is
of this
owne
some p re iudice
wholely
lost.
is
worth 50 H p an. to be setled vpon the pish for ever, by the good imploymt whereof the growth of pou'ty (so much threatned) wilbe prevented, and the poore so well pvided for,
that the burthen will
lie
much
and the poore people in farre resolue to ioyn w th many more of the
eased,
r
more
substantial! pt,
and endeauo
business) vpon the pish for the releife of the poore, though
cosl
28
some charge
if
w ch
r
suppose
shall
not he
th y interrest would ioyne w vs, for whome the obiecons that are made are carefull as for my selfe
selfe for
shalbe
1.
Thev
sav
it
oimht to lye
in
in
Comon
to
w dl
there
is
an
my
it
observacon.
They
:
say,
if
Comons,
poore
will
is
this
haue a beneh'tt by lessening of the charge of the answered thus, that this being allowed for the better
is greate reason that all those support of the poore of the pish, it who did beare pt of the charge should pticipate of the releife. th my own inclynaSr, my cosen Chafins desires riming along w Informacon. this of the trouble cons hath given you My pticular
interest
w th
those
opposers
;
otherwise, must make me leave them assistance, the busmes much deserves it "
Sr,
Then
r
Addressed,
Ks<|
'
"To
his
very
much honoured
Crest
.
ffriend
Richard Maijor
1(551
about 80 acres of
The
"
first
mention of Gillingham
101(5,
is
found
in
is
the
Saxon Chronicle," A. D.
where there
an
Edmund
Ironside
;
in
relics
of their
final
work
1
In
"Domesday Book
29
to the
Abbot of
Shaftes-
a description of this
us
it
was
and the
official
has
archidiaconal jurisdiction'
in
"The church
is
is
dedicated
Mary, and
a large, ancient
and
which are
great
and chimes.
The
was
The
nave
is
and twenty-two
feet wide,
supported by four
pillars."
The
The
fifteen
upwards of
and
to eighteen feet
in breadth, the
and the
feel
tower,
*
sixty
feet
in
height,
is
about
fifteen
See his " History of Dorset," London, 1774, from which our ac-
30
"demolished
in
lowers.''
The church
one thousand.
a
number
of
the
their
edifice,
and of
some of
were broken
and
loft,
illegible.
is
On
this
memorandum
built, the
lead thereof
new
cast,
The
and
tower raised 21
the
dial,
ringing
loft,
"perpetual chantry
at
the
church,
and
[1331], to
St.
Mary de
last
But
the
"chantry priest'
in
was Galfrid
list
Gyll,
who
was pensioned
vicars
for
1553.
five
about
centuries
be
found
in
Ilutchins.
in 1560.
It
contains
many
entries of baptisms,
marriages and
whom
31
Some of
be found on
subse-
For many years the parish enjoyed which was held, says our authority, in
building near the church, with a
a free-school,
mean house
The founder
school was
it
formerly in good
was
full
of the
Like many of the English parishes, Gillingham had its annual fairs, one of which was held on September
(O. S.), and another on Trinity Monday, and these continued certainly till near the close of
1
There was
also a curious
is
custom
interesting
we
find the
name of one
of our ancestral
connected with
it.
the tithing of Motappears that the people of of the " Liberty of Gillingham," were comb, a
part
of supplying Shafton, to privileged, for the purpose to Enmore Green, where there were three or four
go
their
mynstralls
and myrth of
till
and
too of
the-
clocke,
theire they
32
shall
bayliffe
men
shall
Enmore from
Mot comb,
in the parish of
hill,
Moteomb."
sufficient of
ton,
mayor of Shafton was obliged ta provide a "prize besom or byzant, .... somewhat like a May garland
in
carry
to
Enmore Green
as an
acknowledgment
over, the byzant
to
for
is
his water.
restored to the
town
generally so
Butchins' Dorset,
II,
i>.
24,
under Shaftesbury.
33
"to
pieces
of
gold,
rings
(called a prize
the bayliffe
at
"
The date
presently,
it
which
" its
it
was
held,
"
as will be
shown
with
besome
had
some connection with the May-day sports. An agreement was made 1 May, 1(362, in the
four-
Edward
Secretaries of State, a
member of
in
which
have,
"
it
was
borough
By
prescription beyond
the
memory
of
man, claymed,
all
times
and on
in
all occations,
the waste
the
tything of Mot-
Sunday
or Lord's day
34
Holy Rood
day
Enmore
a pool of water
calfe's
bailiff's
private use].
The document
"the observa-
was changed the Munday next before the Feast of the Ascenservice," the time
burgesses,
privileges.
their
ancient
lished
and inrolled
among
as
court of the
manor of Gillingham
among
the rolles
This was
Edward
<k
witnesses, of
to sign.
whom
This regard
"
for the
Lord's day,
in the
time of the
officers, is at least
noteworthy.
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Robert Greene,
of GKllingham, from
is
whom
traced,
was assessed
Exchequer bearing date 1545. three sons and two daughters, viz:
2
i.
Peter,
his
heir,
who succeeded
to the
estate of
Bowridge
Hill,
in
He made
his will
May
20, 1583,
This to his wife Joan. quests to his relatives and June 1, 1583, and, with others to be will was
proved
referred to as
in this
we
proceed,
is
volume.
Bowridge
ham,
is
its
name from
the shape
It
of the
lies
now occupied by
Richard. 2
John. 2
2 Alice, married
iii.
iv.
to
3 daughter Elizabeth.
36
v.
to
Roger Tapps, of
a son
Gil-
ai them among
Richard. 3
(2.)
Richard
on the death of
By
3,
his will,
dated
May
10, 1606, to
his
and proved
May
1608, he
made bequests
his
executor.
As
no record of
his burial
found
in
Gillingham,
it
is
Richard. 3
3 Katiieiune, married to
ii.
Turner, and
had
issue.
(3.)
Richard Greene,
3
by
his wife
Mary
had
as appears
by
his father's
will, five
ters are
found
in
37
has
not
The
been learned.
i.
inherited
Bowridge
Hill.
His grandfather
By
his wife
1.
2.
Joan
5
him "a gonlde ring," money," and other remembrances. he had issue:
Mary,
1607.
3. 4. 5. 6.
7.
25, 1609.
Margery,
1612
died young-.
30, 1615.
23, 1617/18.
ii.
Richard, who,
in his will
1614, with a
memorandum
Among
other lega-
He
He
His will was proved young man when he died. but June 23, 1017. He left a widow, Agnes
,
no children.
hi.
4 Robert, of Cucklington, Somerset, mar-
ried
son Robert*.
His
will
38
dated
was
proved January
7,
made
sole executor.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
4 Rebecca, married
to
Downton.
Mary.
Rachel. 4
Anne,
31, 1595.
ix.
Thomas, baptized
at
Gillingham,
May
13,
Daughter.
(1.)
John4 Greene,
for
fourth
son
of
in
in
Richard 3
1597.
Greene, of Bowridge
resided
Hill,
was born
Salisbury,
He
St.
some time
at
4,
Wiltshire,
at
where, on
November
1(319,
he married,
Thomas's
1643, at
Church, Joan
Tattershall,
who
died
in
at
Newport
or at Conanicut.
it),
" If she
was
of
Indians,
since
Conanicut
was sold
William
Coddington
and
the
Parish
Register
recording
the
baptism
his
children,
he
is
and
According
to
docu-
39
preserved in the Rolls Office, at London, Mr. Greene, described as Surgeon, late of Salisbury,
for together with his wife and children, took passage
New
from
England
in the
sailed
This vessel Southampton in April, 1635. arrived at Boston on the third of June, and Mr.
Greene proceeded
Providence
to
Rhode
until 1(543,
made arrangements
set
Narragan-
at
Boston and
is
his
settlement at Providence;
hence "it
to be pre-
sumed
where
that he
in
made no
Massachusetts;
in
we know, however,
that he
was
at
one time
associated with
led
to
hostile
who
all
the settlers
at
Conanicut
(or
after.
year,
plantation,
went
to
ob-
40
taming
with
of their right.
His troubles
before the
the
authorities
of the
Bay began
arrival
of Samuel
Gorton, with
occasions in
whom
he was on
many subsequent
full
sympathy.
An
many
may
be regarded
view or the
story.
sympathies
of
those
who read
the
In Massachusetts, Greene, Gorton, and his companions were regarded, so Captain tells us in his
"full
Edward Johnson
as
"Wonder-working Providence,"
gorged with dreadful and damnable errors;" they were charged with speaking contemptuously of
magistrates, for which Greene was heavily fined and
"forbidden
this jurisdiction
on pain of [further]
fine
and imprisonment."
Even
in
Rhode
Island some of
Among them
whose
families
names cancelled
of the record."
41
studied the
On
and
the
who have
companions
which burned
cestors;
in the breasts of so
many of our
an-
to the Legislature
ing
the
men's consciences,"
defiance
authority."
So
were theological,
little
or
no
restraint.
their
own
they regarded
was un-
known: on the
power in the suppression of heresy, but they demanded and enjoined it." Against this doctrine
his
Greene and
Not only theological but political questions were involved. The claim to the JSarragansct country was
a disputed one.
Greene and
to
Miantonomoh, of Janu-
42
to be in
Plymouth, but
it,
in
case Ply-
mouth refused
it,
which she
did.
Thereupon the
authorities of the
Bay attempted
Greene and
to drive
away
their
by force of arms.
his friends
regarded
re-
sisted
it.
The
dispute
Rhode
Island claimed
by right
of
was hers by Charter, and Connecticut, of conquest. In the end it became a part
Rhode
of
name
as
the
undeviating
who
in
England Greene
married
Daniels,
whom
he
monograph on the Warwick Greenes, says that she was a widow, and was taxed 2s. Gd. in Providence for land held there
in
I: 15],
4-'>
wife.*
Philippa
who
On
return, Mr.
Greene fixed
RTar-
residence at
raganset, of which
prominent
trate
citizens,
and
He made
He was
first
wife at
Conanicnt.
His children,
New
i.
15, 1G20.
He was
;
a proprietor of Westerly, in
Rhode
Island, in 1661
in
Edmund Andros
1G87;
Major of the Main," equivalent to our Major GenIn 1651 he eral, from 168.3 to the time of Andros.
* " Greenes of
Warwick
Rhode
Island Historical
whom we
Society, February have freely quoted, says that John was the son of Peter, of
1877,"
p. 4.
The will of by what authority does not appear. Auckley Hall, Robert 4 of Cucklington, believed to be the third sou of Richard, mentions his "brother John Greene of New England," which furnishes the
ground
for the attribution given in the text.
44
was
two exceptions, until 1686, when the Charter was suspended by James IT. He was again elected Assistant
in
'
Deputy Governor,
which
and
that
a
office
Government continu-
ously,
who
The
in
were
those years
in
England on business of the Colony. In 1651-2 he was Recorder, and in 1657-9 and 1661 he was Attorney General.*
positions
years.
in
He
also held
many
other important
fifty
public
service
extending over
He
died
November
27, 1708.
He May
married Anne,
I.,
in
6,
1709.
Their
children f were:
* Dr. Turner, loc.
cit., p. 29, et
seq.
Several of the dates given in the text differ slightly from those in
Dr. Turner's
monograph.
all,
may he
explained by
New
Styles.
4o
married Wil-
10,
1049
2.
died between
1081
3.
0,
1652/3
;*
died about
17,
married
December
1074,
daughter of Stephen Arnold, and left issue. He was several times Deputy from Warwick.
5.
Job,
of
24,
1656
died
1744;
a sister
January
22,
1684/5,
Phebe,
Job
of the wife of
By
the marriage
0.
Roger Williams." 6 Phillippa, born October 7, 1658; married (1) Caleb Carr, of Jamestown, and (2) John Dickof
enson, f
* Dr.
t
6,
1052.
lie
Turner gives the name as Diekei son, and thinks husband. Carr was a (Governor of Rhode Island.
Dr.
was the
first
46
7.
8,
1G60
May
married
February
died
1G,
11,
1692/3, Eleanor
Sayles,
who
March
sister of
Phebe, the
wife
Mary, who married his brother William), and had issue. He was Deputy 1699-1704, and Assistant 1704 until his death [1711], when his brother Job
of
his
brother
Job, and
of
19,
1662/3
1
May
27, 1686, to
son of
Greene.
9.
18,
1665
I.
married to
married to
11.
Samuel,
of
30,
1669/70
died September
1694/5,
1720
Mary, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Gorton, and left issue, one of whom, William, became Governor of the Colony.* He was
several times Deputy, but less active in colonial
affairs
ii.
Peter,
second son
of John,
baptized
lie
March
ried
10,
mar-
issue.
He was drowned
in 1(359.
"Greenes
<>i'
Warwick,"
17
came
to
Boston
in
time, at
Rhode
Island.
lie
whom
was
of
associated
during the
troublous
times
that settlement, he
authorities
of the
Bay Colony
calls
for
his
attitude.
who
visited
Warwick,
Referring to a paper
in
which
their
apply
equally abusive
who seems
to
heretic, piously
Getting into favor again with those who had formerly whipped him out of their company, lie turns devil himself.
resolved
to
who was
then
on her death-bed.
given
in his
affair is
famous
Simplicity's
48
The troops
Warwick, September
"
(as
to
Bos-
was only
the penalty of death. by two votes that they escaped John Greene's name does not appear among "the
captives of Capt. Cooke's
three
bow and
hi.
iv.
KiciiAKi), baptized
March
25, 1623/4.
21, 1626; of
War-
wick.
He
ance, daughter of
whom
(2)
August
1665, Elizabeth,
thony, by
whom
One
of his sons by
Jabez,
seq.
cr
:*:
on
<
o
LU
o
hco CO
<;
49
Greene, of the
Revolution.
5.
v.
vi.
Joan,
baptized
October
3,
1630
died
young.
19,
1633
married to
(5.)
Thomas5 Greene,
fifth
child
and youngest
1628.
He came
at
and resided
New
He
Rufus and Margaret Barton, of Warwick, R. died August 20, 1693), and by her had issue.
(who
has
it,
I.,
known
refuge for the people in the town against the Indians, during "Philip's
War,"
in 1676;
it
was occuabout a
pied by
Thomas and
his descendants
for
Children
i.
12, 1660.
50
ii.
14,
6
16(52
married
May
27,
1(586,
his
cousin
Anne,
had
died
son,
John,
and
several
whom he He daughters.
out'
in
1708.
iii.
6 Benjamin, of Warwick, born January
10,
1665/6.
He
died in 1757.
He
December
min,
first
7
8,
1670, by
whom
and
daughter, Catharine,
who married
born March
the
Richard,
died
of
Warwick;
5,
1667.
He
September
25, 1721.
He
married
Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Holden) Carder, and had two sons and three daughters.
v.
vi.
23, 1670.
6,
1673.
10, 1679.
6.
vii.
(6.)
Nathaniel
Greene,
youngest
child
of
10,
He removed
to Boston,
where he married
at
King's Chapel, February 27, 1703/1, the Rev. Samuel Miles officiating,
ter of
51
who
He made
his will
on the
4,
1705.
Rueus, born May 30, 1707; married at King's Chapel, December 10, 1728, the Rev. Henry
ii.
Stanbridge, by
whom He died
was
December
1768.
31,
1777.
His
will,
dated at Boston,
13,
May
13, 1772,
proved January
8
1778.
His
second daughter,
in
Catherine,
1777,
was married
Thomas and Rebecca (Holmes) Amory. Rufus was for several years a Vestryman or Warden of King's
Chapel.
7 Nathaniel, born May 11, died in 1792; he married June
iii.
ton;
officiating,
Elizabeth Taylor,
who
died October
3,
whom
s.
he
3,
1711
died
p.
8.
v.
vi.
11, 1712/13.
b.
52
Thomas,
and Anne
4,
Boston June
1705;
by
whom
son,
he had seven
8 Thomas, born
children
of these his
18,
I.,
eldest
February
dence, R.
1729, married
John,
the
daughter of the
first
and
sister
of the second
May
13,
1734,
died July
9,
and Martha (Coit) Hubbard, her step-brother, whose daughter Eliza1757, to Daniel, son of Daniel
Thomas married
1,
(2),
Mrs. Martha
(Coit),
born April
1706,
by whom
"
The
Greene
Foundation
ton,
of Trinity Church in the City of Bosto that parish for the support of its
was given
Assistant
Ministers
"
by the
children
of
Thomas
Greene
in 1763.
THOMAS GREENE.
From
a
Portrait by Copley.
MRS.
From
a
Portrait by Copley.
53
now
increased twenty-fold,
its
it
furnishes a substantial
addition to
funds."*
member of
occupied part of
mother.
pew
56, previously
He removed
7
to
(8.)
Benjamin Greene,
son of Nathaniel 6
10, 1776.
(" Portrait
me by my
Mary,
b.
mother." J. S.
By
his wife,
Ct.,
September
9,
New
London,
Johnf and Hannah (Gardiner) Chandler, of Worcester, whom he married February 7th, 1736/7, and who
died February 28, 1756, he had issue
9.
i. 8 Benjamin, born June 8 Hannah, born March
:
6,
1738.
ii.
3,
died September
1791.
John,
died
young.
* See
"Annals
where there
is
an en-
Chandler and his wife are owned by Mrs. Franklin Dexter, of Boston,
Mass.
54
iv.
3,
7
1745; married
to
(7)
and Martha
(Coit)
Greene,
and
16, 1748;
died in
Boston,
May
13, 1824;
and died
11, 1806, in
Demerara,
leaving issue,
Sarah,
born December
17,
1750
died
February
10.
vii.
viii.
28, 1826.
8 Gardiner, born September
23, 1753.
(9.)
of
Benjamin and Mary (Chandler) Greene, was born June 16, 1738. He died February 6, 1807. He married March 5, 1761, Elizabeth, daughter of
Daniel and Martha (Coit) Hubbard, born in 1738,
died
May
16,
1808.
His
will
3,
His children,
:
of
whom
i.
all
9,
1762;
died April
5,
1852, unmarried.
ii.
9,
1,
1790.
55
17(54
Benjamin,
3,
born July
20,
died
November
he had
1822;
whom
issue.
He was
9
father's will.
iv.
Elizabeth,
2,
died
October
v.
May
4,
1850; unmarried.
vi.
Ltjoretia,
June
18,
1795, by the
Henry Wainwright, who died August 25, 1827. 9 vii. Sarah, born November 4, 1773; married Henry Chapman.
viii.
to
Anne,
2,
died
January
Grew.
(10.)
Gardiner 8 Greene,
Benjamin and Mary (Chandler) Greene, was born he died there September 23, 1753, in Boston
;
December
19, 1832.
He
2,
1785,
Ann
issue
Ann
(Livingston) Reading.
56
He
married
(2)
November
daughter of Daniel and Mary (Greene) Hubbard, and grand-daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Garshe was born March 23, 1700, in Greene
diner)
;
7,
1797, in Demerara,
A.
The
issue
of this marriage
and
a daughter.
He
married
(3)
July
3,
1800, in
St.
George's
Church, London, England, Elizabeth Clarke, daughter of John Singleton Copley, and sister of John,
afterward Baron Lyndhurst, and thrice Lord Chancellor of
England; her mother was Susannah Farnum, the merchant to whom daughter of Richard Clarke,
November
in
December
February
to
1,
1866, in Boston.
Her
removed
London with
after elected a
Royal Academician.
in
Demerara,
South America, where three of his children were born. It was while in London, whither he had gone
to
sell
his
Demerara
he plantation, that
met Miss
Copley.
On
GARDINER GREENE
From
a
Portrait by Copley.
57
property and
its
en-
based
in part
on investigations made in
now Judge
of
paper by Mr. Estes Howes, printed in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society:*
More than
a quarter of the
town of Boston,
as
it
This was so
much
up the peninsula.
It
was divided
three
Mount Vernon
to the
west
east.
What was then the central crest, or Beacon Hill proper, is now crossed by Temple Street. It was a
steep, conical
hill,
rounded
at
rather
From
Second
will be found.
58
Acre.
Hill.
Cotton
Upon
it
there
small crests,
one
a
appear
to
Ebenezer Francis
estate, with
another
on
the
Greene
small
valley
to
descent
somewhat gentler descent toward Bowdoin Square. Approaching from the east, we should find Tremont
Row
(then
it
called
Tremont
Street)
considerably
higher than
now
is,
now
the
Pemberton Square.
Dr. Shurtleif's
in turn,
it
was
at
the
hill,
which rose
The
crest
of the
feet
hill
o
hce UJ CD
59
been cut
down about
house
is
fifty-five
feet.
stood.
From
the
Green
ward Somerset
feet deep,
Street,
was
laid
out
in
1801.
At
trees, al-
though several large English elms upon the very top of the hill served as landmarks to vessels entering
the harbor.
At
the bottom
of
the
hill,
near the
many
trees.
The gar-
by Mr. Greene.
In the
the
Book
settlement
estate
Greene
is
set
down
John Cotton, second pastor of the First Church. The so-called "Waldo estate then belonged to Daniel
Maud, while the land behind Mr. Greene's garden,
the
estate,
belonged to
lot
Richard Bellingham.
* This enclosure
Mr. Cotton's
into the Square
extended
new Court
was thrown
when
the
House was
built.
GO
across
now Somerset
of the
Ashburton Place.*
of the Vassallin
site
was doubled
size
by
lived with
him
for
two years.
in 1653,
and
several
hands,
was
John
Hull, mint-
of the "Pine
Tree Shillings."
later,
daughter Hannah,
linoham
it
lot,
had
in
extended
what
is
now Somerset
lot,
bought
in 1821,
his
homestead.
In 1681 Judge Sewall asked the General Court for leave to build a small wooden porch about seven
feet square, in order to break " fore-door " of his " house on
University.
61
the
was
granted.
In
1688
Judge
was approached by the Rev. Mr. Ratcliff (afterwards Rector of King's Chapel) and Captain Davis, and was asked to sell them a piece of land for a church
lot.
He
would not
set
New
England
came over
tinues, "I
to avoid."
mentioned
baptism and
holy days."
The Judge walked often on the top of Cotton Hill, and when, in 1699, Lord Bellomont came out to the
Province as Governor, Judge Sewall invited his lady
to look at the
town
at sunset
from
this spot,
which
was then no doubt the best point of view. As they came down again through the gate, the old Puritan
gallantly
begged her to let him call it Bellomont gate The lady graciously assented. for the future. Sewall improved the estate in several ways. There
it,
which he
let to
who then
Waldo
house, should
his
window upon
(Sewall's)
62
On
to his
Sewall's
death,
in
1729,
this
estate
passed
Cooper,
1733,
William daughter Judith, wife of the Rev. In Church. pastor of the Brattle Street
the digging in Mr. Cooper's garden,
a
while
workmen threw up
bones
;
considerable
the
hill
number of human
that
and
this
recalls
fact
one of the
called
was sometimes
similar
from
circumstance
which happened
the
hill
earlier.
in 1835,
cellar of
a
of that Yassall
who
in
built the
Cambridge.
At
one
last.
of the
stable,
behind the
mansion
garden.
house, behind
the
Waldo
house,
was a
Soon
tore
it
down
wood
shown
in the picture.
Here
He was
a royal-
63
the time
He was
a refugee, and,
and brother-in-law
of
in
John Wilkes.
handsome
style.
thus
separated
the
eastern part.
last to
lars.
On November
2,
Jonathan Mason
for thirty-six
thousand dolit
On
April
1803, Mr.
Mason conveyed
to
one thousand
dollars.
Of
this estate in
Mr. Greene's
site,
made
in
it
dence
the city."
"The most
days was that of Gardiner Greene, who had one of The grounds the early green-houses of Boston.
64
mental
to me,
when
I visited
them
sixty-five years
ago, a
Here were growing in the open air black Hamburg and white Chasselas grapes, apricots, nectarines,
a peaches, pears and plums in perfection, presenting
scene which
made
a deep impression on
trees
my
mind.
brought from
the
supposed that
famous
gardens,
gingko
either in
tree
was.
among them.
in great part,
These
whole or
by
Mr. Greene.
Waldo
house standing on
it,
but
he never treated
was appraised
at $142,000.
In 1835
it
was sold
self
to
At
to the west.
soil to
the
o m 2 o
XI
m XI H O
CD
65
morning of May 5, 1835, the work was begun, and it was finished in exactly five months.
Mr. Sheldon employed sixty-three yoke of oxen, with
Yankees
for
drivers,
The
various
houses on the
hill
were
$2,000.
sold,
the
bringing
In the
Lloyd house the Yankees were lodged, while three temporary barns were built for the oxen, and a temporary smithy for shoeing them.
Mr. Sheldon
re-
Hill
The day
after his
was
sold
the
top
of the
hill
were
timber to the
Charlestown
Navy Yard,
Mr.
and warrant
fully,
a year.
He
examined
it
careesti-
contained
it
May
1835,
60
to the
where
it
now
stands.*
an object of great interest to furnished a theme for more than one poetic
effusion,
in
the public
press concerning
history. "
vigorous youth, in Mr. Greene's garcentre plot, den, in the sheltered position of the
During
its
laid out in
Dutch
fashion,
it
bore twice,
and
twice
only,
beautiful
yellow blossoms.
It
was remarkable,
at
symmetry and smoothness of the trunk and branches; it had moreover a wonderful
that time, for the
exemption from
its
insects,
surface-t
at
was
in the
garden
Greene
* It
in
1803."
would seem that after the contractor had declined to transplant was made by Mr. Jonathan Winship, of Brighton, it, an arrangement under which it was finally removed to Beacon Street Mall and given to Theodore Lyman, the city of Boston. A portion of a letter from Hon. the " Xotes and in was the printed gift, then acknowledging
Mayor, Jr., and the amusing verses by Queries" of the Transcript, October 29, 18S7, its transportation, were reprinted in the Dr. Jacob Bigelow, describing
Transcript.
GARDINER GREENE.
[From
a later Portrait in the possession of
67
name
is
native of Japan.
The
name, "Adiantifolia."
A smaller
Garden
in the Public
ing tribute
to
name
of
Mr. Greene, who was both our friend and our father's
without a few observations on points of
character
The
early life
was characterized
and
of application,
him
it
was no
less
and
of
integrity that
was
rare.
We
were led
to a
knowledge
him
by our own commercial intercourse with Demerara (where he laid the foundation of his large fortune), by which we
frequently had the funds of the
to place in his hands, in his
widow and
fatherless, etc.,
Demerara character
of an honest
68
man,
to
familiar
expression.
And
know not
the
instance of an}
the trusts.
In
all
him
and
they were
and
in his
commercial inter-
One
instance of the
many
the
He made
a large
shipment to the
loss.
On
was instrumental
in
in placing
him
Europe.
His manners were of the old school, and the open hospitality
of his
house
will
be
many
friends
and acquaintances
in this country
and
" Cotton Hill grounds around his mansion on Pemberton Square], commanding one of our
vicinity. "
finest
The
[afterwards
views,
have
With regard
they will
of his
compeers
and
is
And now
that he
gathered to his
we not
his life,
of a better?
would
69
well
it
all
he has
left
life,
but dross.
The
marriage* were:
i.
Mary Anne,
died July
born
April
19,
1790,
in
Demerara;
10,
1827;
June
8,
1785;
in
December
2-1,
1847.
He
graduated
at
Yale
Alma Mater
in
1827,
1842;
and was
Xew
at
class
to
graduate
1.
Elizabeth Geeene, 10 born February 11, 1817 who was married June 8, 1841, to Edward, son
;
of
6,
As
first
marriage.
70
2.
Colchester, Conn.,
to Philo
August
4,
1862;
Mary Ann,
July
25,
10
1864
26, 1837, to
of
Judge
York,
New
Gardiner Greene, 10
born August 25, 1822 died December 10, 1897 married October 21
;
1846, Gertrude Mercer, daughter of Robert H and Gertrude M. McCurdy, born March 12
1827.
5.
Caroline,
10
born
;
May
F.
11,
1826
died
Novem14,
1852, to Theodore
New
York,
born February
above).
7,
as his second
wife,
in
of Elisha and
Rebecca
a descendant of Gover-
whom
born
he had issue.
Gardiner,
January
5,
1792,
in
in
71
7,
1795, in Boston.
The
children
of
Gardiner Greene by
his
third
marriage were:
v.
9 Gardiner, born April
21, 1802, in
Bos-
1804, in
Elizabeth Hubbard, 9 born March 20, Boston; died December 12, 1844; who was
and Mary Timmins, of Broad Meadow, Birmingham, England, born January 19, 1800; died at Newport,
R.
I.,
September
6,
1863.
1.
Mary Ann,
10
born
September
E.
;
2,
1827;
who
in
was married
Martin and
May
Harriette
9,
Brimmer, born
Boston, December
14, 1896.
2.
1829
he died January
George Henry, 10
2,
born January 11, 1829; died 1875 married July 1857, Virginia Minunzio, daughter of Jean
;
Baptiste
and
Savina
at
Frova, and
widow
of
2,
Milan, Italy,
May
16,
1833
1835.
72
4.
born
September
October
;
13,
1834;
1841
Hammond, 10
February
27,
born
2,
1894
married March
son of
4,
1861,
Thomas
kins,
September
28,
1827;
died April
21, 1891.
vii.
Susannah,
born
October
29,
1805,
in
Boston; died March 22, 1844, in Boston; who was married September 5, 1828, to Samuel, son of Samuel
7,
Their
6,
1829;
died
2.
Samuel Hubbard,
10
born
19,
1832;
29, 1856, (1) Crowninshield, daughter of Charles and Mary (Crowninshield) Mifflin, born in Philadelphia,
October
Elizabeth
at Waterford, Conn.,
1877; he married (2) July 11, 1881, in Trinity Church, Boston, Mrs. Elizabeth
(Bovvditch) Fay, born June 11, 1836, daughter of Nathaniel I. and Elizabeth (Francis)
Bowditch.
73
Samuel,
born January 4,1835; died May 27, 1896; married October 28, 1858, Mary Crown-
10
inshield,
daughter
of
Jonathan
Mason
and
died
May
viii.
4,
1890.
15, 1808, at
Boston;
born
Novem-
Boston.
9
Martha Babcock,
born November
15,
1880;
son of
Kowe
(Linzee)
in 1898.
Boston; died
Charles Copley,
10
died
May
21, 1871
married December
1,
1839.
9,
1840
married
Copley,
16,
born
;
May
9,
1841;
died December
1879
who
Edward
Linzee,
born September
1,
1844.
74
xi.
Mary Copley,
born
5,
in
November
28, 1837, to
James
Sullivan, son
Amory who
and died
1884.
in
was born
in
Boston,
May
11,
1809,
8,
Their
in Boston,
October 29,
4,
Brookline, October
1861.
;
2.
Arthur,
February 6, 1841 married in Philadelphia, June 6, 1866, Elizabeth Wilcox, daughter of Charles and Susan C.
10
born in Boston,
3.
30, 1840.
3,
1842
married
May
who
died
May
15,
1882;
he married (2) at
Trinity Church, Boston, September 4, 1884, Katharine Leigh ton, daughter of George Clar-
4.
May
23,
25, 1844.
;
Frederic,
10
unmarried.
6.
Gertrude,
10
6,
1846
7,">
Harold,
10
4,
1847
Mary
Copley,
10
10
born in Brookline,
May
3,
1849
Montfort,
1850;
born
in
Boston,
September
13,
10.
Augustine Heard, 10
20,
born in
Brookline, July
1852; married in
ton,
May
of
Samuel
George
and
Eleanora
11.
Gardiner Greene, 10
ber 27,
1854.
March
14,
12.
Harcourt, 10 born
1855; married
in
in
Brookline,
February
10,
Emmanuel Church,
Boston,
George Bigelow and Anne (Lowndes) Chase, born October 23, 1868.
(11.)
Benjamin Daniel
8
of Gardiner
born in Demerara,
December
9,
He
married,
May
31, 1826,
of Josiah Quincy.
He
Harvard
in
a
1812
after
leaving
in
student at law
Litchfield,
his
Conn.,
and entered
which,
hoAv-
on
the
practice
of
profession,
76
ever,
that
of
medicine.
Europe, and completed his studies in the schools of Paris, and of Edinburgh where he received the
degree of M.D., in 1821.
Attracted
by
scientific
pursuits,
he was highly
and correspondent of
Sir
William Hooker
He and other men of distinguished attainments. was a liberal contributor to the Boston Society of
Natural
History,
of
its
which
first
he
was
one
of the
his valu-
President;
rich
in
and
uncommonly
scientific
works,
was ever open to the researches of his associates. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of
which he was a member, in a notice of his death,
refer to his labors in the botanical section
of that
botanical
in
Society, and
library
particularly
to
his
" choice
authenticated
and
in
standard
their
North
con-
American
collections.
... To
to
secure
by bequest, consigned
the
Boston Society of
a
.
77
he gave no
if
scientific reputation,
and considerate
to
chosen
where recognized by
his
fellow scientists;
note
ago, discovered a species of grass, a description of which he " under the name of ' Greenia Arkansana,' published in 1834,
in
honor of B. D. Greene."
Wight
iind
Greenia, from
Dr. Wight's
for
But
as
is
little
earlier, it
From an
taken
memory, which
of
feeling
which marked
his
78
derness of manner.
in conversation, his
Shrewdness of
the chari;
and
and
relatives,
who
memory with
(12.)
William Parkinson
8
Greene,
third son
of Gardiner
born
in
18,
1864.
He
married in
(Lloyd)
Borland,
Boston,
November
12, 1795,
and
a
June
21, 1861.
He was
graduate of Harvard
Prescott was for
a
in
dent James
Walker and
later
W.
P.
Greenwood,
were
the
minister of
King's
Chapel,
his classmates.
He began
lie
brother-in-law, Samuel
after
was admitted
to the
was
for a
79
removed
Norwich
in the
summer of
For
a
Mayor of
that city,
He was
and was the second President of the corporation of the Norwich Free Academy, of which he was one of
the founders, contributing largely to
its
endowment,
and throughout his life was its liberal benefactor. In an admirable address * delivered before the
Alumni of
days are
business
life,
his
liberal
aid
to
associates
the
his
and
unfailing
generosity
are
well
portrayed
by
Mr.
Elbridge Smith.
" I
have no fellowship,"
" for
re-
marked,
* "
the
that
The
Printed at
80
business
is
If a
man
is
my
my
to
necessity
and
should
think
little
of
my
come
to
me
a
This
was
marked
in
his
character,
and
numerous instances of
principle
his
exemplification
of this
of
to.
his
life
are
given
of
in
the
address
referred
Suitable
notice
his
death
was
member.
At
Free Academy
"
was
we
record our most emphatic testimony worth and distinguished ability of our
spirit,
Resolved, That
his
large benevolence,
warm and
moral courage, his ready appreciation and earnest grasp of every good enterprise, whether material, moral, or religious, his unfaltering devotion to whatever concerned the welfare of
his
decease,
adopted
similar
Resolutions,
and
81
as
a
death
was mourned
public
bereavement.
The
Augusta
10
E. Greene were:
i.
born
in
Boston,
1825.
ii.
1820
died
in
Gardiner,
died
2(5,
10
19,
1822;
in
Norwich,
October
30,
1895;
married June
Francis and
at
1850,
Mary
Ricketts, daughter of
Mary
Ricketts (Newton)
Adams, born
Children:
Alexandria, Ya.,
1.
November
11
19, 1822.
Gardiner,
of
born in Norwich, August 31, 1851 married April 4, 1894, Louise Eustis, daughter
;
(Hill) Rey-
2.
Leonard Vassall,
ber 22, 1857
;
died at
iii.
Elizabeth
1821
;
Copley,
10
born
in
at
Boston,
June
26,
died,
unmarried,
Bordeaux,
James Lloyd,
10
17, 1827;
82
Mass.,
November
Children
14,
1849,
Matilda,
daughter
of
Edmund and
7,
May
1828.
1.
2.
14, 1850.
Mary
Lloyd,
11
3.
4.
11
1860; died
5.
6.
Matilda Elizabeth,
born January
9, 2,
1862.
Margaret Quincy,
11
born February
1868.
v.
5,
Anna Lloyd,
John,
Jeffries,
10
1829;
to
May
8,
1851,
son
of
John
in
and
Ann Geyer
(Amory)
born
William Parkinson,
18, 1854,
10
born
7,
in
Norwich,
1898; married
Norwich, October
Theodocia Davenport,
and
Eliza
2,
Ann
1833.
Tompkins, born
Children
1.
:
in
Augusta Borland,
ber
4,
11
1855.
in
2.
Norwich, April
6,
died
May
29, 1898.
83
in
Augusta Elizabeth,
6,
10
born
Norwich,
Conn., April
January
19, 1865, to
Conn.,
Benjamin Daniel, 10 born in Norwich, July 26, 1836; died there December 13, 1866.
The
Rev.
(13.)
John
Singleton
Coplky
Greene, youngest son of Gardiner and Elizabeth C. (Copley) Greene, born in Boston, November 27,
1810; died in Brookline, July
6,
June
24,
1841
married
(2)
November
and Mary
died in
5,
1841,
Mary Anne,
daughter of William
Ann
Boston, December
2,
1852
married
(3)
November
1858,
Isabel
May
1,
New
10
York, March
:
15, 1870.
His
first
wife were
Elizabeth,
10
born
in
Waltham, April
10,
Copley,
4,
84
iii.
Johx
S.
Copley,
born
in
Waltham, Oc-
November
3,
1872
1868,
tian
Henry ChrisChildren
1869; died
Washington, D. C, September
1.
Coplev,
11
born in Boston,
May
22,
in
2.
20, 1870.
3.
Henry Upham,
vember
11
born
in
21, 1871.*
iv.
in
Waltham,
father,
June
by her
November
George Caspar
and Harriet
ton,
The
Mary Amory,
10
10
born
in
Newton, May
3,
1860.
vi.
Margaret, born
in
Newton, February
11,
1S62.
* Mr.
i.ky
to
Henry Cop-
Gbeene,
Statutes.
85
of
Harvard
in the class
among
his classmates
New Hamp-
I.
Bowditch.
He
member
Some
by Bishop
and Newton, and was afterwards Secretary of the Massachusetts Church Missionary Society.
His failing health
active
duties, but
finally obliged
him
to relinquish
his interest
in the
work of
the
to the last.
was conducted by the Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of
July
9,
Massachusetts,
who was
assisted
by the Rev.
a
W. W.
former
Newton, the
rector,
rector of the
that
in
parish.
interesting to observe
his
official
report to
last
entry
before
his
own
86
whom
intimate relations.
In this
said of
may
and
in
which he
always
manifested
an
affectionate
its
interest,
and
Chris-
beautiful
and con-
are
monuments of
his
Bofton,
ff.
A PURPOSE
Mr. John Grew
of
MARRIAGE
Mils
Between
and
Ann Green
Space of fourteen
for the
Purpofe
has
been
made by
afking
their
Banns
faid
at
Town,
Law
directs.
Certified
under
my Hand
1805.
the
ist
Day
of
Oct'r
Anno Domini,
William Cooper,
Town-Clerk.
the
Parish
Registers
of
St.
Mary's
in
1560
many
and burials of persons of the name of Greene; the to have been part of these, however, appear
greater
The following
not
all
if
of those
cated by a f
ciation of
It
shows
pronun-
Bowridge
Hill:
BAPTIZED.
1565
-6.
Jany.
Jeremy Greene.
of
1568-!'. Jany.
Edmund, son
Anne, dau.
of
Jeremy Greene.
Jeremy Greene.
1570.
L571.
1573.
Sept.
Sept.
1, 1,
Elizabeth, dau. of
Oct.
89
Nov.
Deer.
of
Lang-
1579.
Sept.
Thomas Greene
of
Wyke
of
1579.
Oct.
9,
Elizabeth,
dau.
of
Thomas Greene
Langham.
1579.
1584.
Deer. 26, Jeremy, son of Jeremy Greene.
May
6,
Christopher, son
of
Thomas Greene
of
Langham.
1586-7. March 22, Joan, dau. of Thomas Greene of Langham.
1587. 1587.
May
July
William Greene.
Thomas, son
Street.
of
Thomas Greene
of
Wyke
1587.
1592.
Sept.
William Greene.
July
28,
1592.
Octr.
6,
Thomas Greene
of of
of
Lang-
ham.
1592. 1592.
Langham.
Newbury.
1595.
1595.
Aug. Aug.
Oct.
of
Langham.
Gentle-
1596.
1598.
man, f
,
Jeremy, son of
Edmund
Greene.
of
Deer.
Thomas Greene
Lang-
ham.
1599.
1599.
May May
3,
Edmund, son
Thomas, son
man, f
of
Edmund
Greene.
23,
J)0
1601.
John, son of
Thomas Greene,
of
Junr.
1601.
L604.
25,
Morgan, son
Edmund
Greene.
May
Aug.
Thomas Greene.
Greene.
L604.
1604.
160.").
Edmund
1606.
Oct.
23,
7,
Anne, dau.
of
John Greene.
1607.
April
HilLf
1607.
1608-9.
1609.
Aug. March
9, 9,
HilLf
1609.
Nov.
Dec.
1, 6,
1609.
1(1
John, son of
Thomas Greene
of
Langham.
10.
1610.
1611.
Edmund
Greene.
man, f
1611.
1
John Greene
of
Waggor.
Langham.
1612. 1612.
June Aug.
8, 6,
HilLf
1614-15. Feb. 28, John, son of Jeremy Greene.
tl
114-15. Mar.
5,
Langham.
1615.
April 30, Richard, son of Peter Greene, Gentleman. f
91
of
Oct.
Greene
Lang-
ham.
1617.
Sept. 21, Francis, son of
of Porridge Hill.f
1618.
Oct.
1619-20. Feb. 10, Nathaniel, son of Jeremy Greene. 1621. July 4, Cndborn, dan. of Robert Greene,
penter.
1621.
1621-2.
dau.
of
Christopher
Greene of
Langham. MARRIED.
1560-1.
1574.
1575.
Feb. 25, Jeremy Greene and Christian Coward.
Nov.
9,
Nov. 26, Thomas King of Meer, and Joan, dau. of Robert Greene of Langham.
Nov. 20, Richard Jorred of Winborne-Minster, and
1583.
1591.
Oct.
14,
of
Rob-
Pyke.
1602-3.
Davys.
BURIED.
1560.
1570.
Aug.
Sept.
2,
John Greene.
Elizabeth, dau. of
4,
Jeremy Greene.
1578.
Aug.
22,
92
1583.
1585. 1585.
1585.
May
12,
Jeremy Greene.
1587.
July
Feb.
6,
9,
Jane, dan. of
Thomas Greene
of
Langham.
1592-3.
1596.
May
July
27,
1597.
8,
of
Langham.
1598.
1599.
of
Langham.
Aug.
15,
Thomas, son
man. |
1609-10. Mar.
1,
John, son of
Thomas Greene.
St.
Thomas's Church,
in
among them
MARRIED.
1619.
Nov.
4,
to
Joane Tatarsole.
1620.
Aug.
5,
1621-2.
93
1626.
June
21, James,
of
Mr.
John
and
Mris.
Joane
Greene.
1628.
June
4,
Thomas, sonne
gent.
of
1630. 1633.
Oct.
3,
May
19,
SUBSIDY ROLLS.
IJjriESE records contain the supplies to the King from his tenants in cwpite, generally
his
in
They
<>-oods.
of the persons
The
shire,
introduction
to
the
Returns
of
from
Dorsetis
made
in
the reign
as
follows:
In
tli
ys
Cedule indentyd
is
&
p'sons
havyng landis
e
to
yerly valeu
&
also y e
naiiiys
'
sumes pytclerly
uppon ev'y
off
ther seyd
dew
to
p'lymet
after
taxacyon
&
cessing thereof.
97
follow the
names of
John Greene,
|.
Surgeon,
of
New
Sara
Salisbury
The
p'sons.
totall
number
of these
;ire liii
N. DlNGLEY, Coillpt
1 '.
John Knapp,
Searcher.
THO WURFRIS,
:
Coll
'.
ihm.
his
To
the
(
right
ma ts
honorable privie
London.
rble Right ho
.
may
it
list
of the
names
for
of suche
passeng
rs
.
as tooke
New-England, and that onely in Aprill last in the good ship Called the James of London whereon William Coop went
1
"
r
.
And
thus in
of
yo
r
.
honrs
Ire
Dated the
last of
Decemb
'.
past
leave.
Southampton the
serv ts
xijth
Day
Tho: Wurfris,
N. Dingley,
Coll r
r
.
Compt
Drake,
in
his
"Founders of
and
New
England," pp.
Most
98
of
the
were
from
Wiltshire.
Drake,
is
Hew
England," as
Documents
"
bility,
':
it
appears, with
much
greater proba-
Hew
jtN"E
of
of the
sixteenth century, as
by the Heraldic Visitation of 1619, and were seated at Petersheld and Bramdeane. In 1543
appears
to the
his tax
was the
largest in the
He
left a
Richard Greene, of Woodcote House, in He Bramdeane, who was buried June lo, 1587.
was
father of three sons and two daughters, viz.
i.
:
issue
3 William, of Woodcote House, who had 4 4 Thomas, 4 Peter, 4 A. M., Stephen, William and
4
Ralph.
ii. 3 Peter, of Bramdeane, who died unmar-
ried,
1(5,
1583.
100
Nicholas,
of Bramjleane.
He
held the
living of the
Bramdeane.
He was
3
buried
December
12,
1585,
Margery,
,
v.
wife of
Williams.
BRAMDEANE.
Bramdeane
is
to St.
Simon and
St.
Jude,
unknown
date, consisting of
an
aisle,
chancel and
small tower.
The
living
is
Lord
Chancellor of England.
Woodcote House,
family of Greene,
preservation.
is
the
ancient
residence
of
the
an Elizabethan structure
in
in fine
Their estates
Bramdeane appear
to
Woodcote House
is
now
The following
Register
101
It
is
difficult,
1598.
May
Dec.
Greene.
1(300.
1602.
Feb.
Stephen Greene.
1004.
1000.
Nov.
Greene
June
July
Oct.
1610. 1021.
Thomas, son
of
Stephen Greene.
8,
William, son of
Nov.
1083.
Aug.
1635-6. Feb.
1080.
June
of
June
1087.
Nov.
23, Stephen,
son
of
Nov. 14.
1009.
Sept.
6,
Greene.
10)73.
June
2,
Mary,
dan.
of
Stephen
and
Catherine
Greene.
MARRIED.
1023.
June
9,
102
L583.
>ec.
16,
1
Peter Greene.
Nicholas
(
L585.
Dec.
2,
;> >.
ireeiie. S-reene.
1587.
L604.
June
Nov. Nov.
1.
Richard
16,
14. L6,
1632.
1ii4<)
Stephen Greene.
Richard,
Jany.
son
of
Edward
Greene,
died
.lam. 14.
1641
Nov.
Oct.
-li.
1646 1655
27,
.
Peter Greene.
Nicholas Greene.
Died,
March
11,
Edward
(ircene.
On
Memorandum
That
in
1<*>41.
Mr.
Peter Greene
of
gave
Church
received
of
was
com-
by the
munion
In
167- Margaret, the widow of Edward Greene, gave the church a green carpet, marked E. (i. M.
Their son Stephen Greene, with Margaret his wife, gave with his name inscribed on them, silver chalice and
paten,
his
gift.
a us
was made
in
the
first
given
in a
work now
rarely found
Henry
it
Halstead's
Gene-
alogies.
thought that
would be interesting
in
to print in full
what he wrote
1685,
"
Of
the
Original, Antiquity,
ness
he
quaintly
account,
:
and we therefore
apparent they assumed their name and arms from an allusion to their principal and beloved lordinformation, but
ship,
of
Bucks,
in
the
County
a
Northampton, being
in
the
Hundred
its
of Spelho,
place
memorable
soil
and situa-
Kl
tion, as a
desire of the
and exercised
Fair.
extraordinary privileges.
Hence they
from Buckton,
in
And
town
of
In
in
very
flourishing
condition,
manor
of
Buckton,
style,
as
Hyborne, Heydmoneourt. Dodington, and Greene's Norton, the latter whereof was Ashby Mares,
by particular obligation of holding up the lord's right
held
hand
toward
the
king
upon
Christmas-day
wherever
he
And
of these
of
was Lord
Buckton,
Thomas
of
Buckton, or Sir
Thomas Greene
been
who
King Edward
the First.
Of these
cipal
power and the esteem they held, for the employments in the counties where they lived.
the
Among
it
other
it
advantages
of
this
blood of which
very much,
Houses
of Stafford,
lex
last
De
la
and
and old
nobility.
But
it
at
coming
in
to
the
fortune
of
all
transitory things,
con-
cluded
the
Sir
issue male,
anus,
blood
to the
came by a
daughter
were
lords
of
Addington and
Karl
of
I'eter-
from them
ln
i
by
another heir to
the
present
rough.
WILLS.
(g_fc
GKEENE WILLS.
^^"^^ HE
which careorthography
and
all
literally
its
follow the
original
also
with
eccentricities,
but
embrace Wills
of
are
other branches of
who
supposed, by realess
related
to
Robert
Greene- of
Gillingham,
although no
any connection.
BOWRIDGE
of
HILL, IN
GILLINGHAM.
@oo &men, Anno Domini millimo guingenThe Twentithe daie of Maye in the tesimo octogemo tertio. fyve and twentith yeare of the raigne of oure soveraigne Lady
En
ttje
name
God
of
108
GREENE WILLS.
I
Peter Greene
Porridgehill
within
the
parrishe
of
Gillingham in the
memorye (God be thancked) Doe constitute ordeyne and make this my testamente and laste will in manner and
forme followinge.
First
I
bequeathe
my
saved
And
to reste
and Jacob, with the blessed company of heaven. And my bodye to be buried in the churche of Gillingham abovesaid.
Item.
pence.
Item.
shillings
of Gillingham three
Item.
give
to
the
poore
people
of
Gillingham
fyve
poundes
to
my
deceasse.
to
gyve
my
my donne
geld-
Item.
thirteene shillings
my
syster,
Item.
give unto
my
one
heiffer of
vauntage.
my
wieff
of
my
also
of
puke
Twelve
vcarde to
make
her
SfOWlie.
GREENE WILLS.
[tern.
(
109
of
Roger Tapps
my
sister)
Fyve poundes
to
my
her
deceasse,
And
to
\\'
she happenn to
dye
before, then
to
children
be
equallye devided
amongst theme.
Item.
T
gyve
to
the
children of
my
saide sister
Anne
Tapps,
Item.
pence.
Item.
said
to
of
my
of the
sliil-
childrenn of
my
saide syster
linges.
Item.
.->.
gyve
unto
Richarde Greene
my
A donne Mare
cropeard.
give and bequeathe unto John Spencer and Avis Twentie yeares of and in all my Moytye of the
there-
shillinges,
duetves which shalbe due and payable of and for the same
my mynde,
meaninge
is,
happen to buye, compounde or agree withe the worshipnomas Morton Esquier or his heires for the fee symple
of
his
Moytye
Jynns
at
called
bowse with thappurtenannces anye tyme hereafter, That then myne heyres
of
the
saide
shall lykewise
my Moytye
Jynns
of the
to
called
and
withe the sayde Thomas Dyrdo for the Fee symple of suche
as
110
that,
GREENE WILLS.
withe consideration by the sayde
heires ami
in
myne
for
the
An<l that the sai<le John and uppon the same. to occupye tin' same Spencer and Avis his wieff to have and Lande so exchanged tor and duringe so manye yeares as theie
bestowed
or cither of
theme
shall
have
to
comme
at the
tyme
in
of the
exchange of the sayde terme of Twentye yeares house withe thappurtenncs as above said.
Item.
I
the sayde
my
servaunte in
sixe
sliil-
Twentye
him
at
Michaelmas nexte
Greene, of
All
gyve unto Alice Greene the wief of Christopher Weston, one ewe and a Lambe.
the reste of
my
moveable,
my
Legacies
Richarde Greene
my
brother,
whome
ordeine and
make my
Dcsyr-
whole executor
of this
my
laste will
and testamente.
same. Stephen Popley to he Supervisors of the have hereunto ireene the said Peter In witnes whereof
I (
subscribed
my name and
firste
putte
my
seale.
and yeare
above written.
Belman, Stephen Popley, George
By me
PETEE GREENE.
twoe Lynes whiche are stroken and in theise blotted forthc beinge the xxxviiiti and xxxixti lynes hlotted fourthe by the contayned weare striken and
Memorand
that theise
presents
GREENE WILLS.
will
and twentithe daye of the monneth of Maye above written in the presence of those whose names bene hereunder written.
Richard Marshe, Stephen Popley, Jo: Kemys, Robert Thome.
Proved June
1,
in
the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury
at
London,
1583.
name
of (0oto &inen,
sixe
of of of
hundred and
Tenthe daye of Maye, in the yeanthe Raigne of oure sovereign Lorde James by the grace God of Englande Fraunce and Irelande Kinge defendor
sixe, the
the
in
nyne and
Parrishe
the
of Gillingham in the
in
Countye
former
revokinge
this
other
my
wills,
in
my
last will
and testament
fol-
lowenge.
First
I
bequeathe
it
my
my body
to be buried as
beconieth a Christian.
Item.
give to the
poundes to be payde unto those poore people that have most neede of yt by the discrecon of myne Overseers wtb the aide of myne Executor wth in one monethe after my deceasse.
Item.
I
geve
&
bequeathe unto
my
graundchilde Peter
Greene of Porridgehill,
me by my
goulde Ringe that was left unto Brother Peter Greene, my best Crocke. one of my
my
112
best
GREENE WILLS.
brasse
pannes,
my
standinge
Bedde
thai
is
in
the
in
money.
geve
and
my
that re-
mayneth
[tern.
in his Father's
I
handes.
Robt. Greene my Graundgeve and bequeathe unto is childe the sonne of Richard my sonne, Five poundes that Buckdue unto me at Michaelms next by John Davidge of
borne Weston,
Item.
I
my
Tennt.
my Graund-
my
due unto me by John Baker of Buckhorn Weston my ..... at Michmas next, which saycle severall somes shalbe
Richard Greene by the sayde payde unto my sayde sonne John Davidge and John Baker when it shalbe due, to be to the benefitte of his sayde twoe children.
Item
1
ymployed
Greene
geve
my
sonne
Richard
one bedde Daughters, to eache one of them, wth suche Furniture of beddinge unto them as their Father
Ins five
and Mother
Item.
of
I
pottingers.
Item.
geve
and
bequeathe
unto
my
my Daughter
tymes and
Item.
in
hir
children at such
my
sayde sonne
Richard shall
think e fytte.
I
servante
all
geve and
Adams my
is
or shalbe
GREEXE WILLS.
due from Christofer Not and George Ashley, by vertue of one wrightinge obligatorie made by them unto me bearinge date
the seaventh daie of
of oure sovereigne
Maye
in the
wrightinge.
Item
Marye Greene, the wief of my my best Bedde & my best Coverlett wth the best Furniture
thereunto
Item,
titt
my
all
the rest of
my
moveabel and immoveable, not before given nor bequeathed. my debts payde and Legacies performed, I give and bequeathe unto
heire
my
said sonne
Richard Greene
apparant,
whome
this
ordaine and
last will
whole executor of
my
inge and re([uestinge these my good friends John Baker and John Davidge, aforesaid, to be Overseers of the same. And
for ther. paynes
I
give to eache of
I
In wittnes whereof
have sette
firste
my
hande and
sealle
to
above written.
Witnesses
Sudall,
hereunto,
John
Baker,
John
Davidg, Walter
Edmunde Brewer
May
:> >.
OF SALISBURY.
3Tn
tfjc
name
of (Bali
91
men
of
Sarum
in
the
frailtie
Ill
of
GREENE WILLS.
lief
man's
it
tian
a
man
to
remember
of
to
joyful!
it
expectacon of
please
of
his
dissolucon departcall
shall
a
God
that
to
him, Profess-
inge
my
self
to
be
member
body and
churche
is
in one
person
the
supreme and
worthie)
I
all-only
am vouchesafed
a
(
and tytle of
as
nistian
wherein
reioyce
Beleevinge alsoe
eternall Spiritte
by
the mimsterie of the Patriarches, Prophets, Apostles and in the Canonicall Books Evangelists hathe written, conteyned
of Scripture the oulde
& newe
testamente,
And
all
tirmelie ex-
those blessed
unto his electe children, promises wch the Lorde hathe made or any other CreaRenouncinge my self and all whatsoev
I
have or can doe and sollye and whollye relienge on the alone merritts and mediacon of Christe Jesus my Savior and
ture
Redem and on
made on
that
all
sufficient
all
satisfacon
wch he hathe
my
thanckfulness resigne and yeilde up unto Almighty God my Soule and body wch from his divine maiesCreator bothe
my
tie
by his mightye
power
have received
in certain
and
as-
sured hope by the mercies of god to me wards in Christe Jesus to be made a ptaker on the Resurrection of the iuste
of that
unspeakable
all
blisse
and endless
ones
in
happynes wch
the
Lief to
God
In
his electe
come
hope of wch
gracious god
infinite
I
me by my
GREENE WILLS.
<ni
115
the stabilitie of his worde and promises vvch are yea and
to
I
Amen
I
all
his
adopted
Sonnes
in
Christe
Jesus.
the
And
Lords,
whether
live or
me
am
he giveth
and true
totall
feare
and
in deathe to be
all
made happye by
his
free
and
remission of
my
&
Amen
body
1
Evon
soe
come Lorde
Jesus.
The
my
it
Lorde
it
to call
me
to
whence
hope to receive the same a glorious body at the resurrection in the Last daye. And concerninge that pte of and estate wch the Lorde bathe lent me worldly goodes
I
further
make and
ordaine this
all
my
last will
and testament as
lie
followeth Renouncinge
me
heretofore made.
I
First
give and
bequeathe unto
my deare and lovinge token of my iiliall love and duty goulde, my Seale ringe of goulde
and
my
best
I
Gowne.
my good and most lovinge mother in like acknowledgment of my bounded dutye to her, one double sovereigne of goulde, my gymell goulde Ringe and my
Item.
give unto
guylte Byble.
geve and bequeathe unto my moste lovinge and beloved wief Agnes Greene my Lease and all my Terme
Item
I
116
risrht
GllEENE WILLS.
and estate of and
in
the
thappurtenncs lyenge in the Close of Newe Sarura abovesayd nowe dwell and well houlde by lease from John wherein
I
Ponchesdon.
Item
I
will devise
all
my
Gillingham
in
the
County
Gyns wch
lately
the terme of purchased of my father for and duringe Anne Tt'im yeares next cominge after my deathe; yf Tappes
of
Lodburne
in
widow
Item
give
bequeathed and appoynted to my sayd wief as of suche aforesayd and ymmediatelie after the determinacon estate unto the heires of my body lawfullie begotten on the
Gyns
his
And for defaulte of such body of the sayd Agnes my wief. vssne then I give and bequeathe the sayd Tenement called wth thapptenncs charged wth the sayd terme and estate
unto Robert Greene
my
And for defaulte of such issue body lawfullye begotten. called Gyns Then give and bequeathe the said Tenement
I
wth thapptenes (charged with such estate as aforesayd) unto John Greene my brother and to the heirs males of his body
lawfully to
he
begotten.
And
for defaulte of
such
yssue
then
will
that the
to
same Tenement
and reniayne
my
it
And whereas
several]
hathe pleased
my
Father heretofore by
and conveighancs (in some of wch my elder brother to eoiiveve and assure unto me likewise iovned wth liini
)
GKEEXE WILLS.
iiihI
117
and assigns forev a certaine Tenemt. called Coles or Brownes and a new Stall thereuppon erected and certaine Groundees called the Lynches and Gores Meade and
my
heires
all
lyeing in
Parrishe of Gillingham
me
of
that
would
in
tyme
sisters
to
come be
helpfull to
the
rest
my
brothers and
according to
my
Therefore and
in token of
my
of
1
my
my
shall
yssne of
my bodye
lawfullye
begotten,
then
my
heire
to
whom
my
the sayd
Tenement
called Coles or
deathe shall
my
death by
deeds sufficient
to each of
p 'misses and to be payde yearelie onto them for & dnringe the terme of theire nrall lives severally and respectively from
my
sayd
sev'all
And shall likewise wth in enjoyenge thereof accordinglye. three monethes after my decease give sufficient secnritie unto Anne Greene one of my sisters to paye unto her or her
assignes the
somme
of
englishe
monye
my
sayd Father.
IS
GREENE WILLS.
the
And
some
of
Tenn
poundes more
Like
lawful]
monye
Father.
my
sayd
incase
mv
heire unto
whome
shall
mentioned
Landes
to
my
my
lawfnllye and
sev'all
annuyties to
my
said
Brother Robert Greene and John Greene and shall not wthin
securitie to the sayd tyme before liniitted give sufficient Anne Greene my sister for the true payment unto her and of the sayd severall somes of monye in manner her
the
assignes
aforesayd
called
Then
give
and
Landes after
fully
wth oute yssue of my bodye lawbrother and begotten) unto the sayd Robert Greene my
my
death
And
for
Then
same
my
of his
body lawfnllye
I
to be
And
for defaulte of
give and
my
and riehte heires forev Requiringe nevertheles and willinge what benefitte is formerlie meant and inappoyntinge that tended by this mv last will unto my sayd Brothers & Sisters made good and performed unto them by such shalbe
trulye
of this person as by vertue
my
last
last
will
and testament
as
shall
meneioned premisses
they
daye.
God
at the last
Provided
lawfullye
that
if
shall
begotten
borne or begotten
the
tyme
of
my
GREENE WILLS.
deathe Then
Hi)
that
my
will
and
meaninore
is
suche heire of
to
shall not he
freelie
Annuy-
doe likewise will moneye, Nevertheles and of suche heire owne requier charge myne bodye to tinbest abilitie of suche my heire of my owne bodye to he helpof
I
& somes
full
and
beneficiall to the
my
my
intent as suche
my
heire of
will
answere the
therefore
contrarye
in
to allmightie
God
daye,
And
that ease
of suche
heire of
myne
owne bodye
that behalfe
my
said
this ease
Landes
last
mencioned and
and
next
proffitts
the
after
deathe
of
my
sayd
I
Father
Uppon
this truste
sayd Robert and John and the survivor of them shall paye
my
proffitts
of the
yearelie
of
Term
of six yeares
the
of
some
such heire of
surplusage
the sayd
of
my
the
And
shall
lykewise of the
proffitts
whole
vearlie
duringe
Terme
of six years
make
a true
and a
iuste
accompte
And
the
of six
same surplusage shall yearlie duringe the sayd Terme years divide betwene them the sayd Robert. John, and
the Survivors of
120
Provided that
if
I
GREENE WILLS.
shall
lawfullye begotten
then
this last
quest unto
my
in
them devised
And
in
this case
my
sayd
sister shalbe
provided for by
this
my
last
as
is
before expressed.
is
earnest
bothe
the
Lorde Chancellor, of
England
of lawe
for the
Judges bothe
any
whome
my
last will or
come in question to thinge therein eonteyned shall lawfully or decred that (not wthstandinge any defect be
adiudged
therein to be founde in stricte construccon of lawe) the same
receive construccon according to
maye
my
And
(yf
give to
all sorts.
my
my
my
best
apparrell of
Item
give to
my
all
flat-
betwene them.
sister
Item.
(if
give to
my
goulde,
And
to
to eaehe
of
Anne, and
my
a
Sister in lawe
them an
eiiglishe
Crowne
in
goulde.
And
to each of
I
them
one handerehief
Item
chattells
I
wch
have.
the rest of
my goodes and
whatsoev unto
And
requier
my
sayde lovinge wief Agnes Greene, sayd wief that shee shall never surrender
my
GREENE WILLS.
have taken up the Coppie web ment wherein my Aunt Tappes
I
121
Tene-
lief
thereby
to
chaunge
the
lief
William
Greene
it
my
nephewe
will
therein sett
downe
for
be
for a
And in that case my by me. and meaninge is that shee shall and maye surrender the same Coppye and take a newe. And doe requier it at the
child of her bodye begotten
I
whome
to
Tenemt
tliis
Brownes
to descende
my
last
will
or otherwise
&
respect unto
my
shall
other-
tennce shee maye have some competent supplye and helpe duringe her lief from such ptie that slice maye not live in wante.
Lastlve
1
constitute
and
appoynte
my
Lovinge
Father
Richard Greene,
my
my sayd my last
& testament
to see the
same
in all
formed.
And
desire
my
my
wth
sett
In wittnes of
all
I
wch
to
this
my
last
will
written
my name and
my
seale
of
yeare
Lorde god one thousand six hundred and fowertene annoqz R R S Jacobi Anglic etc duodecimo. Item give to my Father Richard Greene the some of
oure
I
in
his
hands
for pte
whereof
have
his bond.
12'2
GREENE WILLS.
me
Ri
:
dye wth oute yssue of my body lawfullye begotten then) and these words (viz:) (my death) interlyned were interlyned and theis wordes stricken oute betwene the worde (my
death) and the worde (by) were stricken oute before the R: Greene. signinge seallinge and publishinge hereof.
RlCHAKDE GBEENE.
Signed sealled and published by the sayd Richard Greene the Testator the sayd eighte and twentith dayeof Aprill one
Phillippe Punkney
.John
Poulden.
Proved
father,
at London June "2->, 1(117 by Richard Greene the and John Greene, the brother of the testator.
OF CUCKLINGTON.
3Jn the
name
of (Soto, xlmen,
the one
and
twentith
hundred and
the
forty-nine,
County
of Somst.
in
my
last will
and testament
First
I
bequeath
my
to
soul
into
at
the
hands of Almighty
discretion
of
God and
executor.
my body
I
be
buried
the
my
Item
five
bequeath
to the
r
|
of the
pish of Cucklington,
pounds.
GREENE WILLS.
Item
I
123
in
bequeath
to the
poor of Gillingham
Dorsetshire
tenne pounds.
Item
land,
all
in
New Eng-
Item
bequeath unto
in
my
son Robert
called
all
that messuage
and tenement
heires forever.
Gillingham
Ginns
to
him and
his
The
kind
residue of
all
I
and nature,
my
Robert
whom
hereby appoint
my
my
last will
and testament.
Robert Greene.
In presence of
John Cary.
Willm Burgess.
Proved January
7,
1650!
Jeremy Greene
his
in
of Gillingham, in
Dorsetshire, Miller,
made
will April 16, 1585 which was proved on the 17th of June lie bequeaths to the church of Gillingthe same year.
ham
(St.
Mary
to the
when
to
if
not married
or
daughter Anne
of
pounds
if
at
her
;
marriage,
to sons
at
twenty-one years
age,
not married
Edmund,
L24
GKREENE WILLS.
fifteen pounds when hound thirteen years of age, that they may be apprentice or not so apprentices to some art, science, or occupation:
it*
to be
twenty-one years.
Should any
it is
be divided
among
the survivors.
To
two cows, three pans to he selected by the discretion of his overseers, two of the middle sort of crocks, four platters, two
two candlesticks, one feather bed, one Hock bed, two red coverlets, two pair of blankets, two and two holsters. Should she pair of sheets, two pillows, -many again he gives her forty pounds twenty on the day To his son Jeremy of marriage, and twenty in two years.
porringers,
two
saucers,
articles of bedding.
To
his
of the
during
his life,
remainder
unexpired lease of
a close called
Chantry
close,
during his
all
remainder
to
daughter Rachel.
leases,
during
remainder to
age.
Desires
that
his
wife
and son
to
a
may
that
to see
Appoints
legatee.
GREENE WILLS.
L25
Peter Greene, of Bramdeane, made his will Deer. 13, 1583, which was proved June 2, 1584; being sick and weak in He bequeaths to body but of good and perfect memory.
the children of his brother William, eighteen pounds, to be
equally divided.
brother
To Eleanor and
sixteen
Jane,
daughters of
sister
his
Nicholas
pounds.
To
his
Margery,
shillings, to
to the other
To Jane Greene, To
his
his
work,
lianis,
his
his
silk
knit
garters
and
his girdle.
.John
Wil-
sister's
son,
twenty
shillings.
To
mother-in-
To
his
twenty
shillings.
To
brother
Stephen
ten
of
shillings.
Small legacies
to
Richard
and
Robert
Baker
London,
his wife, of
Andover, and
to
every servant
in
his
father's house.
Ap-
WILL
()K
NICHOLAS GREENE,
bstbact.]
OF BRAMDEANE.
[a
The
will of Nicholas
1584-5.
Desires to
Speaks of
his
lease of the
Parson-
\'2i)
GREENE WILLS.
Mentions
his
father, Richard
Greene,
and
Gives to his god-children and kinsPeter Beal the folk Peter Greene, M. II., Richard Sharpe, Hooker, and William Baker, of London, each younger, John
his mother-in-law.
five
to each of his other god-children pounds, and ten pounds To his god-daughter .loan King: to his sister's urn named. his wife son John Williams: to his brother Innocent Sharpe, to his brother Wiland their three daughters now married: r.eale: to his brothliam (.reen.-: to his brother-in-law Peter
er's sons,
his
daughters
Eleanor and
names.
to several servants
whom
he
younger,
and William Greene the Appoints Stephen Greene inexecutors and makes them residuary legatees,
at
Bramdeane.
made Stephen Greene, of Bramdeane, December 13, 1631, which was proved
lor
his
1,
will
September
Provides
1632.
his
wife Catharine.
Names
his
Margaret.
To
his sou
Peter
all
that
he owes him.
To
sons Nicholas,
Legacy to each one hundred pounds. Stephen and Thomas was horn May 13, 1598, his daughter Dorothy Pescod [who
and married
to Nicholas
Pescod .June
9,
1623]
to the chilin
Appoints
his
his land
West
and
Greene,
Gentleman,
BettS,
cousin
John
Bacon,
(bmtlen.au.
Edward
Gentleman, overseers.
GREEXK WILLS.
'27
He
bequeaths to his
May
17, 1650.
of age.
Mentions
Appoints
and
Thomas Dowes,
of Elden,
Edward Greene
of
Bramand
of Miehaelmarsh, assistants
-cgjHE
armorial
Greene's Norton,
j:
Northamptonshire
three
bucks trippant
are
well
estab-
lished
The charges
of the
family.
The
tincture
or,
the heraldic
term
These arms
as thus blazoned
were
the
direct
line
From
bore the
the
fact
that
other
families
of the with
name
is
same device,
occasionally
what
129
has been suga
it
com-
mon
ancestor,
it
who used
the
arms
at
an earlier
the
period; but
would be impossible,
at
present
as
the Harleian
MS. No. 1167 shows, bore "azure, three stags tripThe same device withpant, within a bordure or."
out the bordure, but with a mullet for difference, was
in
Camden, Clarenceux king-of-arms. Burke gives the arms of Greene of Greene's Norton, as
described
cited,
above
showing
their
of the
kingdom.
in
Eng-
are
identical
with
those
of the
Greenes of
Greene's Norton;
Gillingham branch
having
this device,
on the
in
quoted on pages 27
<>f
Greene
who came
New
England.
130
The
is
a buck's head,
couped,
stag's head,
in
sometimes
"
couped," that
terminating
a straight line,
off,
and
torn
silver,
book
plates.
INDEX.
INDEX.
Adams, Eleanor,
Francis, 81
112
81
74
Mehitable (Sullivan), 74
(Jeffries), 82
Rebecca (Holmes),
Robert, 74
51
Augustine Heard, 75
Catharine (Chace), 73 Catharine (Greene), 51
Charles, 73
53, 73
Thomas,
51
Coffin, 73
Thomas
Charles Copley, 73 Copley, 73 Edward Linzee, 73 Elizabeth Tilden (Snelling), 75 Elizabeth Wilcox (Ingersoll), 74
Mary Anne
(Greene), 83
Fanny Meredith,
Frederic, 74
74
Gardiner Greene, 75
Gertrude, 74
20, 22
James James
(Linzee) 73 Appleton, 74
Rowe
Sullivan, 74
(Greene),
46,
Mary
(Greene), 48
134
Barton, Rufus. 49
Beale, Peter, 125, 120
INDEX.
Carr, Caleb, 45
Philippa
45
(Greene,
Dickenson),
Bellinghatn, Richard, 59
Edward,
12(5
Catharine (Amory), 73
Elizabeth. 73
Hannah
John,
(Gardiner), 53
53, 55
Mary
Augusta
Elizabeth
Chapman, Henry,
55
(Greene), 7S, 81
Anne (Lowndes),
75
Henry
I.,
85
I.,
Nathaniel
72
Mary Ann
Thomas,
29
Rebecca (Manwaring), 70 Cooke, 48 Cooper, Judith (Sewall), (12 William, 62, 87, 96, 97 Copley, Elizabeth Clarke (Greene),
5(1,
83 Singleton, 53, 56
John, 56
John
ranston, Samuel, 44
Crehore, George clarendon, 74 Catharine Leighton (Amory), '74 Lucy Catherine (Daniell), 74
INDEX.
Crowninskield, (Warren), 73
35
Anne
Caspar
Edward VI,
95, 107
13, 23,
95
13,
Augusta
E. (Greene), 83
8:'.
Mary
Daniell, 74
(Mifflin), 72
William Grosvenor, 83
Exton, R.
B., 15
Ham-
mond), 72
Ferrars [Ferrers], 22, 104 Elizabeth (de Spencer),
21, 22
Davis, 61
20, 21, 22
Francis, Ebenezer, 58
De De
Spencer,
21, 22
Elizabeth (Ferrars),
Thomas,
21, 22
Gardiner, Elizabeth,
52,
56
Hannah
John, 52
Lion, 52
(Chandler), 53
Franklin Gordon, 73
George M., 73
M. Louisa (Amory), 73 Susan Greene (Amory),
53, 73
Sarah (Chandler), 52
Gilchrist (Chief Justice), 85
Gillette,
Joanna
Perkins
(Hub-
Dickenson, John, 45
Philippa (Greene, Carr), 45 Dingley, N., 97
bard), 70
Philo Augustus, 70
127
Rebecca (Greene),
38, 120
Samuel, 40, 40, 47, 48 Gould, Anne, 50, 52, 54 Frances (Robinson), 50
Thomas, 50
Gray, Asa, 77 Greene, Agnes,
120, 121
37, 91, 92, 115,
llii,
Dyrdoe, Thomas,
109, 110
Eastburn, Manton, 85
L36
Greene, Alice
(.Small), 35, 108
INDEX.
Greene, Elizabeth (Hubbard),
54, 56, 75, 78
52,.
Ann, 87
82
(Ahny),
11
116, 121
46
Gardiner,
(
52,
54,
(Borland),
l-eorge, 91
Gregory,
Hannah,
Henry,
Harriet Augusta, 82
9, 13, 19, 91,
104
S3
Catharine (Holden), 46
Christian (Coward),
91, 92, 124
James,
48, 49, 93
James Lloyd,
Jeremy,
124
88,
89,
Dorothy (Pescod),
Edith
(Davys), 91
88, 89,
101, 126
[Tattershall],
Edmund,
Edward,
'.'0,
Hi, 123
93,
97.
98,
15
16,
L30
Elizabeth (Chandler), 55
Elizabeth (Gardiner),
52, 56
53,
73,
INDEX.
Greene, Jone, 93 Joseph, 54 Judith, 89 Katherine (Stanbridge), 51 Katherine (Turner), 3(3, 112
Greene, Nathaniel,
52, 53, 54, 91
i:r
45,
4'.,
50,
51.
125, L26,
Phebe
(Sayles),
-15,
16
Philippa, 43
Margaret Morton (Quincy), 75 Margaret Quincy, 82 Margaret Vassall Borland, 81 Margery, 37, 90 Margery (Sharpe), 100, 125 Martha, 54, 127 Martha Babcock (Amory), 73 Martha (Coit, Hubbard), 52, 54 Mary, 36, 37. 38, 54, 89, 90, 93,
101, 113, 120, 127
124
Rebecca (Downton),
Richard,
38, 43,
95, 99,
4(1.
38, 120
23, 26, 28, 34, 35,36, 37, 48, 50, 89, 90, 92, 93,
101, 102,
109,
110, 111,
Robert,
Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary
(Barton), 4S (Carder), 50
(Hubbard),
(Olney). 52
52, 56
Sarah, 54
(Sayles), 45, 46
125,
126,
(Sweet), 49
(Talbot), 19, 21, 22 Abby (Mayer), S4
Amory, 84
72
(Tomp-
Thomas,
101,
"-'7
20, 21,
William Parkinson,
82
Maud
(Parr), 13
Morgan, 90
P., 7^
138
Grew, Anne (Greene), 55 John, 55, 87
Grosvenor, Harriet (Ely), S3 Gyll, Calf rid, 30
INDEX.
Hubbard, Joanna (Perkins) 69 Joanna Perkins (Gillette), 70
John, S3
Martha
(Coit), 52, 54
52, 56
Mary (Greene), Mary Ann (Blatchford), 70 Mary Ann (Coit), 70 Mary Anne (Greene), 69
Samuel,
Hull,
(19,
Elizabeth Crowninshield
lin),
(Miff-
70, 78
72
William, 09
Hannah
(id
(Sewall), 60
John,
Samuel Hubbard. 72
.Sarah, 72
Susan
C.
(Brown), 74
64, 65
Henry
V,
VI,
Hill.
12
I,
25
James James
13, 23, 94,
I,
II,
44
12
VIII, 40,
Hirst, 61
95
81
82
lharles,
-hi
91
Richard, 91
18
Joan (Greene), 91
Peter, 34
56
52, 54,
Elizabeth (Greene),
56,
.lane P., S3
INDEX.
Leverett, John, 69
139
Linzee, Harriet
Rowe (Amory),
(Reading), 55
73
Livingston, Lloyd, 58
Ann
Notyngham, John,
Nuttall, 77
12,
13
Lowndes, Anne, 75
Lyman, Theodore,
66
Parker, Samuel. 55
Parr, Katharine (Queen), 13, 14
Lyndhnrst, Baron, 56
Mablethorpe, 11, 17, 18, 22 Maijor, Richard, 28 McCulIoch, Abby Sears, 83
Isabel
L3
Thomas,
75
13
W.
James
(Greene), 83 William, 83
72
Thomas Handasyde,
72
Theodore
F.,
70
(Coit), 70
Mamvaring, Rebecca
Pescod, Dorothy (Greene), 101, 126 Nicholas, 101, 126 Peterborough, Earl of, 104
121, 122
Maud, Daniel, 59
Mauduit, 104 Mayer, Henry Christian, 84
Popley, Stephen, 110, 111 Porro, Count, 71 Potter, Deliverance (Greene), 48 Robert, 40, 48
Prescott, Elizabeth (Dexter), 73 Punkney, Phillippe, 122
S4
91
mond), 72
Mary (Crowninshield),
Miles, Samuel, 50
Reading,
Ann
Newton, Mary Ricketts (Adams), 81 William W., 85
William. 55 Reynes, 11
UO
Reynolds, Henry Lee. si Louise Eustis (Greene), 81
INDEX.
41 Story, (Chief Justice), Strange, 21, 22
Mary Wilson
(Hill), 81
Sweet, James, 49
Mary
Talbot,
(Greene), 40
10, 21, 22, 104
(Greene), 45, 46
Ankarete (Strange),
21, 22
Mary
Richard,
Sewall,
Hannah
(Hull), 60
Joan
Thome, Robert,
111
21, 22
Throckmorton, John,
41
G., 64, 65
Shurtleff, Dr., 58
Hubbard
(Greene),
Smith,
Edmund,
82
Elbridge, 79 Harriet, 82
Mary, 71
71
Hammond
Virginia
Tompkins,
82
Benjamin
Wildman,
00, 110
John,
46, 109,
HO
51,
Troyte-Chafyn-Grove, 26 Turner, 36
Henry
85
Katherine (Greene),
36, 112
IXDEX.
Vane, Sir Harry, 60
Vassal!, William, 62, 63 Vaux, Anne (Greene), 13
Ill
Waterston, Mrs., 77 Wight, Dr., 77 Wilder, Marshall P., 63 Wilkes, John, 63 William the Conqueror, 29
Williams, 100 John, 125, 12(3
Mary
(Sayles), 45
39, 45
Roger,
Wykes, 22
73
Jonathan Mason, 73
Mary Crowninshield,
Zouch,
11, 104
INDEX TO PEDIGREES.
The Pedigrees follow
reference, by letters
this
to
inclusive.
H
Martha Babcock (Greene),
E,
E,
Sullivan, II
Copley,
II
Edward Linzee,
H H
Susan L, H Susan Copley, H Susan Greene (Dexter), H Andros, Edmond, D Anthony, Elizabeth (Greene),
John, D Appleton, Elizabeth mond), G
C.
Fanny Meredith,
Frederic, H rardiner Greene, it'll rude. H
l (
H
H
(Ham-
Mary A.
(Greene),
D
1)
H
II
James Appleton,
John Siugleton,
H H
Baylie,
.lames Sullivan, E,
II
Beler, John,
INDEX OF PEDIGREES.
Borland, Augusta E. (Greene),
143
8.
Coolidge,
Harriet
(Crownin-
Bottesham, Alice,
A
Ham-
shield),
Thomas,
Cornwall,
Brimmer, Martin, F
Mary
C.
A
E
John,
E E
John Hardy, E
Lucretia (Greene), Mary, E Carder, John, E
H H
Mary
(Greene),
Carr, Caleb,
D D
H
D
<;
G
F
Thomas,
Chetwode,
A
Amabilia
(Greene,
Anna
G.,
Reynes),
John, A Clute, Alice (Ely), F Cocks, Ellen, B William, B Coit, Martha, E Colepepper, Joan, A
F
II
H., Jr.,
Robert,
144
IXDEX OF PEDIGREES.
Greene, Constance (Faulett), Constance (Stafford), A
Copley, G David, D
John,
A
B
Deborah (Torrey),
D
A
Eleanor (Sayles),
Gorton, Mary, Samuel, D
D
E
Elisha,
D
D D
Gould, Anne,
Thomas, E
Greene, Alice Alice Alice Alice
Agnes,
D
A
(Bottesham),
(Daniels),
(Dawbury), B
(Small),
Ann
(Reading),
E
F
Anna
LI. (Jeffries),
Anne, B,
C, D, E Anne (Almy), D Anne (Browne), B Anne (Hogg), B Anne (Lois), B Anne (Pinchbeck), A Anne (Tapps), D Anne Gould, E Anthony, B
Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth
E,
(Holland),
A
E
C
(Hubbard),
(Masterson),
(Rowley), B (Sandford), A
(Taylor),
C,
F,
Hubbard (Timmins),
B Hannah, E
George,
Harriet A., F Henry, A, E
G
D.,
Benjamin, E
Benjamin
Henry C, Hugh, B
llcnjamin Daniel,
Isabel,
A
G
Benjamin Tompkins, F
Catherine, D,
E E
(Amory),
(Holden),
(Malory),
(Drayton),
A D
D James, D
Jabez,
INDEX TO PEDIGREES.
Greene, Joan (Bruce),
145
E.,
Greene, Matilda
A
D
D
E
E,
John, A, B, C, D,
Peter,
D
(Sayles), sayles),
Phebe
Philippa,
Leonard
Lucy, A Margaret, A, B, <t Margaret (Haulte), B Margaret (Huddleston), Margaret (Ross), A Margaret Q., F Margaret V. B., F Margery, D Mariana (Beler), B Mariana (Bellers), A
Martha,
E
B. (Amory), E,
Martha
Walter,
A
E
Mary, A, D, E,
G
E E
Welthean, E
William, B, C, D,
Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary
(Carder),
(Chandler),
(Gorton),
(Luttrell),
(Hynde), C
Anne
John,
(Greene),
(Sayles),
E
Charles M.,
Hammond,
G
<;
Edward C, G
A. (Appleton), A. (Mayer), G
Anne (Hubbard), E
Copley (Amory), E,
LI.,
Gardiner G.,
G
G
Harriet P. (Lee),
Mary Mary
C. (Brooks), C. (Warren),
G G
146
INDEX OF PEDIGREES.
Fee, Harriet P.
Lois,
(Hammond), G
Anne, B
William,
B
A
Luttrell, Jeffrey,
Mary B
Lysley,
(Greene),
[
A
A
Viscount],
John. A
Elizabeth C. (Greene),
Hubbard, Daniel, E
Elizabeth (Greene), E Elizabeth 1*. (Creene),
Parr, Katharine [Queen],
Matilda (Greene),
Martha
(Coit),
Thomas, B
Paulett,
,
shield),
George
L.,
G G
F
Esther
F.,
W. (Amory),
F
Henry
D.,
F F
Jeffries,
Anna
LI. (Greene),
A
Anne
C
(Greene),
John
A.,
D
Ann
(Greene),
Reading,
Joan (Greene), B
INDEX OF PEDIGREKs.
Reading, John, B Reynes, Amabilia (Greene), A Ralph, A Reynolds, Louise E. (Greene), F Ross, Margaret, A Robert, A Rowley, Elizabeth (Greene), B William,
Russell,
147
II
Maude
(Greene),
B
(I.,
Timmins, Elizabeth
F
George H., F Henry, E, F
B Mary
F.
(Amory),
Henry
Sandford, Bryan, A Elizabeth (Greene), A Sayles, Eleanor (Greene),
P.,
F F
Herbert, F
Mary
1)
A.,
Minna, F
Sarah, F Susan H. (Perkins),
Victor,
Virginia M. (Frova), F
F
Torrey, Deborah (Greene), William, D
H
Spencer, Audrey (Greene), John, D
Edward, A
Humphrey, A
John,
Margaret,
A
D
A
E
Mary
Talbot,
(Greene),
Wainwright, Henry, E
Lucretia (Greene),
Mary
(Greene),
A
D
E
Warren, Mary G,
Richard, [Baron],
A
Zouch, [Lord] Eudo, A Lucy, A Margaret (Greene), A William, A
[C]
III.
PEDIGREE OF GREENE
OF DORSETSHIRE AND HAMPSHIRE.
FROM THE VISITATION OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Hableian Manuscbipt No.
1188,
IN
1619.
Folio
5.
Gbeene
in
Comitatu Dorset.
Gbeene,
mar: ye dau. of
Baylie.
field.
Thomas Gbeene:
of Orpidell, mar: ye dau. Frith of Petersof
John Gbeene:
of
Anne, dau.
of
p.
s.
p.
Hampshire.
Pigeon of
Kingesclere.
Elizabeth=John Gbeene:
dau. of ....
of
Mary,
dau. of Peter
London,
Ilynde of London.
Masterson
of Cheshire.
Mercer.
Anne Gbeene
Thomas Gbeene
I'M
GREENE OF
<
.U.KI N<
-HA M
AND NKW
ENGLAND.
Ml
PEDIGREE OF
ROBERT GREENE,
Dorsetshire.
of
in
Named
Bowridge
Hill, in the parish of Gillinghain,: the Subsidy Rolls of 15-1:'., 1547, and 1558.
Petes
(Jim
xk,
ientleman,-
:JoAN
succeeded
to
RICHARD GREENE,
Bowridge
of his brother: died in 1008.
Bowridge Hill, died in May, 1583,8. p. Will dated the same year.
made
RICHARD GREENE,
of
Bowridge
/ M LET
KATHEEINE GREENE:
S.
Turner.
Petee Greene
Gent, of
Joan
Richard, Gent,
of Salisbury in
Robert, of Cucklington,
1! is
Mary Daughter.
Suffolk.
Bowridge
Hill
Wiltshire; mar.
Made
1C>14,
Agnes
and died
8.
his will in in
p.
1617,
Mary
bap. Dee.
29, 1605.
William
bap. April
7,
Joan
bap. April
25, 1609.
Margery
bap. April
II,
Richard
bap.
6,
Rich
bd
Robert
bap. Jan'y
23,
Hi
1
Aug.
1612.
bap. April
30, 1615.
1607.
Hill.
18.
John Greene:
bap. Aug. 15, 1620. A proprietor of West1
Anne
dau. of
Peter Greene:
bap. Mar.
10,
Mary
dau. of
Richard Greene
bap. Mar. 25,
1623^1.
William
v.
U. I., in 1661
one
in
A liny.
Samuel
(
rorton.
Edmond Andros
1687:
Deputy
James
Mart
.1
Emsha
Sarah
died in 1708.
aim./.,
iel
Deborah, John
mar. to
Wli.UA M,
mar. Mary
Sayles.
liei
Peter,
mar. ElizaArnold.
li
mar. to
(air,
Richard,
mar. Eleanor
Sayles.
William Torrey.
John
Dickinson.
GREENE.
I.
Alice Greene
married to
Small.
A.W
I.
<
BEEN
of
brother Richard. The latter gave him In April, 1085, half his Latin books. he too k passage in the frJam es_^Jat Southamp ton tor JM e w~^nglah7TT~an d arrived al Boston with jiis t amily on
:
Rachel
Awi.
bap.
31,
Am
1.7.15
Thom
13,
\-
bap. Ma;
1599
married at
St.
to
Thomas' Church in
Salisbury,
Do wnton
buried
A.ug. 15
L599.
__ tlre
M_
rrf-"3TTTre-r
-pToxettetlTto
Rhode
Rhode
Island, in 1643.
Warwick.
'
Deliver
\.\ci:
iJames Green et bap. June 21, 1626, of Warwick, died April 27, 1098.
THOMAS::
^Elizabeth
dau. of
<
.
GREENE,
bap. June 4,1628: of
Joan BEENE
L630.
Mary
Greek e bap. May
lit,
Rufus
liar-
bap. Oct.
3,
1665.
2d wife.
L633:
married
to
James
Aug.
20,
M\ eet, of Rhode
Island.
David
Thomas
John
Susannah
Anne,
mar.
t<
Thomas
Greene.
Gorton.
(A)
[E.]
[II.]
PEDIGREE OF
ELIZAB]
I'll
Thomas
of
(ii:i
Anne
chin, of
Benjamin Gbeene,:
of
Sl
s.vnnah
Hidden.
Gbeene,
born July
12, 1660.
Warwick, born
10, 1666.
dan. of Randall
John
Greene.
Jan'y
John Gbeene,
Portsmouth, R.
of
I.
Daughtebs
Benjamin Gbeene
Cathebine
Thomas Gbeene,
born June
4, 1705.
iKatherine Stanbbidge,
mar. at King's Chapel, Dec. 10, 1728.
Anne
d. y.
ATM
I.IIIXK,
Rufus
SARAn,
mar. to Thos. Hinckley.
Martha
mar. to John
Amory.
Benjamin Gbeene,:
iif
^Elizabeth,
dau. of Daniel and
Hannah
Gbeene,
29; bap. at Trinity
(
John
Gbeene,
7. 174:i,
Mary
Greene,
3,
Boston, born
16,
lucretia: Greene,
born July
16, 1748.
=John Callahan.
June
1738.
d.
young.
llllirll,
1761.
April
J741.
3,
Eleanor
Clifford
I
Hannah
Willard
Mary
John
and
others.
Hardy
Maby Martha
mar
Ha XX AH
Lucbetia,
mar. to Henry Wainwright.
mar.t.o
Gabdineb Gbeene,
bapt. at Trinity
EMZABETH-H
i
:
i;i;ard
1804;
Si
BEENE, born
mar. to
I
lenry
SamT Hammond.
(D)
Timmins.
(C)
GKEENE.
II.
(A)
:MARY
dau. of
Welthean
Greene,
born Jan'y
23, 1670.
Rufus Greene,
born Jan'y
6, 1673.
NATHANIEL GREENE,
of Boston, born April 10. Died Aug. 8, 1714. 1679.
John
Carder.
(i,
proved Sept.
18, 171
1.
I:
Richard
Thomas
Welthean
Mary
Elizabeth
husband's
will.
William
Greene,
born
May
BENJAMIN GREENE,
Ma i:v
(
1 1
>
: .
dau. of
3, 1711.
Sons.
Daughters.
Sarah
Greene,
born Dec.
17, 1750.
Elizabeth,:
dau. of Daniel and
^GARDINER GREENE,=
of Boston, born Sept.
23, 1753. Will dated Cod21, 1828. icil, Nov. 28, is-;--'. Died Dec. 19, 1832.
lELIZABETH-
AN
<
.
i:i
i.m..
born and
Feb. 28,
1756.
Mary
(Greene)
May
lopley,
R. A.,
Hubbard.
2d wife. Mar. Nov.
25, 1788, d.
Mar.
d.
Ann
s.
Reading,
wile.
Sept.
7,
1797.
lniR'li,
Bos-
Mary-Anne
Greene, born
April 19, 1790, mar. to Sam'l
WILLIAM-PARKINSON GREENE,
born Sept.
(B)
7,
aged
1
'.'5
mo.,
yrs., 12 d.
Greene,
born Dec.
29, 1793.
1795.
1792,
Hubbard.
d.y.
Sarah Greene,
born 1S08.
Martha-B. Greene,
born 1812; mar. to
Charles Amory.
(F)
M \i:y COPLE"! GbKENE, born July 21, 1817; mar. to James S. Amory, Nov. Died April 5, 28, 1837.
1892.
(G)
[P.]
[HI.]
PEDIGREE OP
(B)
iAugusta
b.
E.
Borland,
June
18, 1864.
Margaret
V.
B.,
b. 1820: d.
Gardiner: Greene,
b. Sept. 19, 1822: d. Oct.
:MARY
RlC'KETTS
iMATILDA
Smith,
b.
Adams,
Nov. l!t, 1822: mar.
b.
Jan. 17,
May
1849.
7,
May,
1825.
30, 1895.
1S28: mar.
Nov.
14,
June
26, 1850.
Gardiner Greene
b.
iLouise E.
Leonard
b.
V.
William
P.
Walter
b.
L.
Aug.
31, 1851.
Reynolds,
b.
Greene,
Dec.
22,
Mary
James Harriet A.,
5,
Jeffries,
b.
Mch.
6,
Jan. 24,
1868: mar.
April
4,
1853: d.
1877,
unm.
E.
Feb. 23,
1S54.
1894.
Matilda
Aug.
1898,
30,
unm.
Margaret
Q.
Jonn A. Jeffries.
(C)
Henry
b.
Timmins,
Mch.
Mary
A. Timmins
Martin Brimmer,
b.
George H. Timmins:
b. Jan. 11, 1829: d. April 30, 1875.
May
d.
Dec. Jan.
s.
9,
1829:
:VlRGINIA M. Frova,
b.
14, 1896,
May
1828.
2,
p.
Henry Timmins.
Victor Timmins.
Minna Timmins.
Twins.
GREECE.
III.
Anna
b. Jan.
Ll.:
5,
z.JOHN
William
Greene,
b.
P.:
=Theoi>ocia
D.
b.
Augusta
b.
E.,:
0.
-Wl
<;.
I.I.I
AM
Benjamin
1).
1..
<
.
Jeffries,
b.
Tompkins,
April
Ely.
i:
1829: mar.
Dec. 30,
d.
Mch.
May
1851:
8,
1823:
1831:
25, d.
July
2,
July
d.
Dec.
12,
June
7, 1898.
Jan. 19,
1900.
1897.
July
1900.
25,
L866.
William
A.-
:CliMENCE
Eustis,
b.
John
1859:
A.
Augusta
b.
B.
Jeffkies,
b. Feb. 13, 1856.
Jeffries,
b. Sept. 2,
(1.
Greene,
Sept. 4,
1855.
Benjamin T. Greene,
b.
A
1).
n \ a
Willi \m
<;.
1).
Ely,
Dec. 11,
L866.
Em,
29,
Mch.
S,
April
6,
.hint' 12,
1859: mar.
April
3,
Mch.
2(5,
1869: mar.
June
IS! 17,
1893.
Alice Cluto.
Emily A.
Eustis, b.
July
21,
1858.
John Jeffries.
Eiizybeth
Timmins, b Dec. 16,
1833: d. y.
Henry
P.
Timmins,
Susan H. Tlmmins=Augustus
b. Oct. 2, 1841:
b.
:
Henry
D. Perkins,
d. inf.
Elizabeth G. Perkins.
Esther
F.
Perkins.
Winifred
E. S.
Perkins.
[G-]
[IV.]
PEDIGREE OF
Si
SANNAH
I..
GBEJE N
isi).'):
",
:Sami
1).
ki.
Ha.mmhn
7,
ii,
Oct.
Sept.
1800:
1834.
(1.
1828:
1844.
in.
Mch.
22,
Samuel II AMMO
b.
II.
E] 1/
\
!
BETH
'
I.
GARDINER
b.
G.
H A.MMOND
IS32.
.Mrs.
M
13,
v.
Elizabeth Fay,
oi
I-
Nov.
19,
dau.
Nath'l
I.
Oct.
6.
Oct.
1829:
d. inf.
1830: d.
1st
Bowditch,
I'd
1).
.June
mar. July
1877.
Elizabeth
I
C.
Gardiner
L859:
(i.
Charles M.
Si
b.
SAN G.
Mch.
to
24,
M.MOM),
19,
Hammon d,
b. Sept. 28,
Ham mono,
b.
Hammond,
1863: mar.
Mary C. Hammon
b.
SIdward C
i i
t>.
MM ON
.Nov.
D,
I,
b.
April
Aug.
4,
Oct.
:
5,
1).
mar.
8,
June
1893, Esther L.
25, 1868.
1808:
num.
Appleton.
Fiske, b. Apr.
Brooks.
Son.
A
A
(E)
Eliz a
o.
beth
1st
P.
Hubbard
1">:
wife,
:Mary
b.
A. Appleton, 2d wife,
5,
April 23, 18
15,
mar.
Juno
d.
Mch.
Nov.
Isabel W. McCulloch,
wife, 1825: mar. Nov. 2, 1858: d. Mch. 15, 1870.
b.
:!d
May
1,
Elizabeth Greene.
1).
<
lOPLEY
1).
iREEN
R,
John
h.
s.
0.
13,
9,
Gbeene:
1845:
1872.
d.
:Mabt
b.
Dec
d.
4, inf.
1840:
Oct.
April
1839: d.
10, inf.
Nov.
mar. June
1868.
3,
Copley Greene,
b.
May
d.
22, 1869:
inf.
b.
Henry
b.
0.
Greene,
1871.
Nov.
21,
GKEENE.
IY.
S\MI EL
b.
HAMMOND
4,
Makv
mar.
<l.
C.
W \i:i;i:\.
1858:
I.
Jan.
1835:
<1.
)ii. 28,
May
27. 1896.
May
1890.
HAMMOND,
28,
1859.
b.
Mch.
C.
Greene:
Caspar. Crowninshiei.d,
b.
Mart
18(i().
A.
M
b.
\i;i.
i
\ki.t
1848: mar.
11, 1868.
Greene, b. May 3,
Gbi
Feb. n.
1862.
Harriet
David
S.
II.
Crowninsiiielp,
mar. to
Jr.
Elizabeth
b.
C.
June
16, 1871:
Coolidge,
1891, to
George
Peabody.
[H.J
PEDIGREE OF
(F)
Maktha
b.
B.
Greek e,
m.
Nov.
Oct.
15, 1812:
i:,
CHARLES AMOBT,:
1).
Aug.
15, 1836:
(1.
May
21, L871.
Susan
1).
<;.
'.i.
Amort
is
lit:
Fkanki.in G. Dextee,
b. 1824.
.Ian.
mar. Oct.
10.
L863.
Annie L. Amort.
Charles Amort,
d.
lsoi).
Gordon Dexter.
Samuel Dextee
d. 1891.
(G)
1892.
James
a.
GREENE.
V.
Edward
b.
L.
I,
Amoky.
L844.
Dec.
Sept.
10, 1871).
1865: d. April
21, 1871.
Copley Amoky:
:Maby
F.
Russell.
Gertrude
Amoky,
b.
Mary
b.
C.
:!,
Rev.
Aug us-:
II.
Amory,
TINE
b.
iElizabeth T. Snelling,
b.
Gardiner
<;.
Habcoubt
A BIORY,
b.
Gertrodk
L.
b.
Amoky.
Nov.
27,
Jan.
6,
May
1852.
Amory,
July
1852.
20,
Feb.
2,
L855:
31,
b.
Feb.
1
10,
1841):' d.
mar.
May
1883.
1853: d.
855.
1868: mar.
Sept. 12,
Men.
14,
April
1854.
L891.
Harold
Amory,
b.
montfort Amory,
b. Sept.
13,
Dec.
4,
1850: d.
Sept. 10,
1852.
Katharine L. Amoky.
Margery
Sullivan Amory.
James S. Amory.
Harold
Amoky.
Gebtbtjde
L.
Habcoi
John
Sing li ros A MOBY.
Amoky.
A MOBY.
1.
1
PEDIGREE OF
NATHANIEL GREENEE.] [See Pedigree II. Tli nl Generation from John (Jreene, Chirurgeon of Salisbury,
i
:Anxe Gould,
mar.
at
170:'.-4: d. .Ian. HI, L728, aged 42. Executrix of her husband's will.
England.
[See Pedigree
I.
D.]
:Mary Chandler,
Sept.
0,
7, 173(5.
dau. of
b.
1,
Lucretia Greene:
[Third daughter.] b. Julv 16, 174,s.
r.IoiIN
CALLAHAN,
Hannah Willard
Callahan.
Mary
Callahan.
Sa
i:
aii
Henry
(
K.
James
Perkins.
Paine
Perkins.
Ileveland.
Edwaro Newton
Perkins,
mar. Mary
Spring.
Charles Callahan=Frances
Perkins.
Bruen.
Eliza
Mary
Eleanor
Perkins
Louis liKAUMONT.
Edward Clifford:
Perkins.
Elizabeth Evarts.
Callahan
(
ileveland.
Edward W. Maxwell
N'kwion Perkins.
Perkins.
E.
Charles
Perkins.
Louis Perkins.
Francis
Perkins.
GREENE.
VI.
James Perkins(lst
:Ei.izaCAL.I,-
husband.)
AHAX.
April
1859.
Henky
Perkins.
George Horary
Doane,
b. Sept.
'),
William
1).
Crosavei.i/
2,
S V.RAH
Doane,
Mch.
1832:
2,
24,
is;,:;.
Consecrated Bishop
of
1830.
Albany Feb.
1869.
Charles Bnri:\
Perkins.
Eli/a
i'.ktii
Warp.
Ki.i/.a
b.
Greene Do a xl.
Oct. 22,
Ma RG
II
\ l>.
i;i
RRISON
I .
l)<>\ \
1S*)4:
mar.
Sept.
::.
7.
Apr.
28, 1881.
1858:
d.
L88I
July
Mary
Bruen
Perkins.
Soi'lll A
Mary
Spring Gardiner,
b.
Margaiset
Doane
Gardiner,
b.
IT.
ANN
Kl.l/A Bl in
Eleanor
Perkins.
Doane
Gardiner,
b.
Tei:i:\
Greene
(
Dec.
1885.
Gardiner,
b. A.ug.
li'.
VRDINER,
Feb.
1882.
1,
Nov.
1883.
5,
b.
June
is;
ii i.
l.
L887.
The
erations
pedigrees in
give the
At
chart
the
suggestion
Bishop Doane
the
foregoing
has
been
printed,
which should
he
placed
after
An
The
error of assignment of
after
discovered
the
volumes
had
been
distributed.
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