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THE
GREENE FAMILY
IN
ENGLAND AND AMERICA

WITH
PEDIGREES.
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BOSTON PRIVATELY PRINTED

1901
CONTENTS.
Introductory Note
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
the following account of the the
Greene Family
to
compilers
have not attempted
give
complete
Genealogy, but rather to
enable
the
members
of
that
branch with which we are more imme-
diately connected, to trace their line to the English ancestry
through the
first
of the
name who came

the
to
New
England,
and
to
show the descent from
emigrant directly to
Nathaniel Greene,
who
died in Boston in 1714, and more

of
his
especially to the families
two
sons,
Benjamin and
refer-
Gardiner Greene of Boston, with only such occasional

ences to collateral
branches as would aid
those
who may
so desire, to follow out the lines at their leisure.
Much
valuable material has been gathered, which might

it
have been included, had

indicated above
:
been consistent with the plan

will
most
of
this
doubtless be found in
the Genealogy of the family,
now
in preparation, as
we
are
happy
work.
to learn,
by a descendant eminently qualified
for that
Discrepancies between a few of the dates herein and
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
doubt be disthose of some of the family records will no

covered, but
it is
has been given proper to say that nothing
believed to be good authority, and, except on what was

conflicting dates
when
were furnished, the decision was made on
the best information accessible at the time.
Careful copies of early Wills from the
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,
these the pages following the Genealogy, and

will
it
is
believed,
be found of special interest and value.
some lines of In the Pedigrees which close the volume,

descent are carried
in the text.
a
what generation or two beyond
is
given
list
of
authorities consulted will
be found on a sub-
sequent page.
AUTHORITIES.
Baker's History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire.
Halstead's Genealogies, cited by Baker.
The Gentleman's Magazine, 1826. Boutell's Monumental Brasses of England.

Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries.
Hutchins's History of Dorset.
Lower's English Surnames.
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
Foote's Annals of King's Chapel.
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Colonial Documents, Public Record Office, London.
Drake's Founders of
New
England.
etc.,
Perkins's Sketch of the Life,
of
John Singleton Copley
THE FAMILY OF GREENE.

HE
Greene
cle
family of
derive their name,
originally written
Greene, from their
ancient possessions in Northamptonshire,
where they were seated so early
as
the
time of
Edward
the
to
First.
In
1320,
Thomas de Greene
succeeded
the
estates,
and was Lord of the
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
lines reference will
be made on a subsequent page.
Boughton, the ancient name of which was Buketon,

is
three and a half miles north of the town of

;
Northampton
of Strafford.
reign of
it
was the former seat of the Earls

year of the
In the twenty-seventh
III
Edward
(1354),
Sir
Henry Greene,
10

for himself
Lord of Boughton Manor, obtained

three
and
his heirs the grant of a Fair, to be held yearly for
days,
beginning
on the
vigil
of
St.
John
of the Parish; Baptist, the patron Saint

that
time,
and since
down
to
the
beginning of the present

is
Fair century, and perhaps later, this

loeal
in
said
by a
historian to have been
the "
most celebrated
resorted to
that
part
of
the kingdom, and
by
and business of every great numbers for pleasure

description."
Here there formerly
stood, near a
famous spring,
doubtless used in early times to supply the sacra-
mental waters of baptism, the parish church, dedicated to St.
John Baptist
it
was half a mile away
from the
time of
village,
on the Green.
it
As
early as the
into decay
in
;
Henry VIII,
had begun to
fall
the tower and
spire alone
were standing
1761,
and these
its
fell
about 1785; nothing
now remains
but
ruins
a chapel, erected about the beginning of
the
sixteenth century,
was used by the people
as
their place of worship.
This had a low, embattled

three bells, bearing the date
tower, in which
hung
the
of 1653.
The
outlines of
foundations
but
there
of the
mother
church can
he
traced,
seems to be no
THE FAMILY OE GREENE.

description of
its
11
interior extant.
It contained the
tombs of some of the early members of the

and
Baker,
in
family,
his
"
History
and
Antiquities
of
Northamptonshire," has preserved an account of two

of
its
Greene monuments.
One
of these bore the

allied families
arms of Greene and those of the

Zouch, Drayton and Mablethorpe.
" a portraicture of a
of
The
other had
t
man
in a short
gowne y should
shew bym
a lawyer,
lies
having- also a s'geant's coyfe.

in
His wyfe also

this
portraicture
by hym."
On
tomb, at the head, were sculptured the arms of

;
Greene
on the south side they were repeated, and
near them the Zouch device; on the north, Greene
between Zouch impaling* Greene, and Reynes impaling Greene, showing marriages with the daughters
of Greene,
who were probably

tomb was
here interred.
At
fess
the foot of the
a shield bearing a
between
six crosses patee, the
arms of a family not

that this
to
named by Baker, who remarks

had been erroneously assigned
married a Mablethorpe
"
;
monument
the Greene the
who
but,
as
Lord Chief
Justice was the only one of the family

to legal eminence,
ried
who
attained
and
his
it
daughters having mar-
Zouch and Keynes,
may with
confidence be
applied to him."
12

In addition to their
Manor
in
Boughton, the family

a
owned
estates
a
in
Norton
at
very early
period.
This was
Parish in Norton Hundred, in the same
County
its
name
is
said
its
by some authorities to
King's
have been given from

Sutton
(i.
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
recent times, as "
Kingthorne Wood."
In the reign
of
Henry V, 1413-22, Thomas Greene was Warden

payment of
thirty-
of Whittle-wood, for an annual
three
shillings
and fonrpence
at
the Feast of St.

" held
it
Michael, and the Lord of the

capite of the
Manor
in
King by
the service of lifting up the
right
hand toward the King yearly on Christmas

in
what place soever the King is." The royal claim on Norton was the same for centuries as it
Day,
had been
Sir
in the
days of the Saxon princes.

in
Thomas, the Warden, owned lands

as
in
Sewelle
and Ash by, as well
Greene's Norton.
His
widow, who died

married, four
Henry VI, years before her death (1439), John
in
the twelfth year of
THE FAMILY OF GREENE. Notyngham, who was

fined
13
for
two hundred pounds
contracting the marriage without the royal permission.
In 1353 Sir Henry Greene, Lord Chief Justice of
England
in
the reign of
his
Edward
III,
bought the
Manor and gave
name
to the village.
He was
suc-
the ancestor of six Sir
Thomas Greenes, who

the
estate
in 1506.
ceeded each other

tion, the last
in
without interrup-
one dying
in
The Chief The
Justice
at
was
interred
the
church of his
ancestors,
last
;
Boughton, as we have seen above.
Sir
Thomas
elder,
left
two daughters,
the
as
coheiresses
the
Anne, married
Sir Nicholas
Vaux, Baron of
Harrowden, and
married
Sir
younger, Matilda, or Maud,

Parr,
the
last
Thomas
father
of
Queen
Katharine Parr, the sixth and

VIII.
queen of Henry
The
estate
then passed to the crown, but
was restored
VI,
in 1550,
to the blood
Katharine's
also,
who gave it brother, Thomas
by a grant from Edward to " mine honest uncle,"

Parr.
Henry VIII,
had a high regard
for his brother-in-law,
whom
he called " his integrity."

After the death of Edward, and the second marriage of the late Queen,
Thomas
fell
into disfavor
with Mary, but
Elizabeth restored a part of his
14
honors

;
he was Marquis of
Knight of the Garter.

arine
Northampton and a Tradition says that Kath-
was born
at
Greene's Norton, and that she
and her brother were buried there.

of the
again
latter,
On
the death
estate
in
1570, without children, the

to
reverted
the
crown, and has since been
held by various gentlemen.
The
parish church
is
dedicated to St. Bartholostates that

it
mew, although one writer

called St. Lawrence's.
at
was anciently
It stands
on rising ground
the east end of the village,

bells,
and consists of a tower

surmounted by a
aisles
lofty,
containing five
which
is
plain spire, a nave, north
and south
and south
are lighted
porch, and a deep chancel.
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
and has on the south two correspond-
ing
windows, double lancet, conjoined by separate
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
seven inches long, and
over ten feet wide.

sixty feet in
The nave and
aisles
are
upwards of

of nearly forty-eighl length, with a total width
15
feet.
is
The chancel
little
is
half as long- as the church,

feet in width.
and
more than nineteen

interior of the
The
1826,
church was " beautified
in
when
it
viously rich in
was paved and pewed; it was premonuments of the Greene family,
some of which had been displaced and others injured

or by the during the vicissitudes of changing creeds, hand of time; but of most of these little more than
fragments
now
exist.
Happily, however, four of

in a very rare
them were described, with engravings,

volume
entitled
" Halstead's Genealogies," printed in
1685, and these
with the inscription
engravings have been reproduced, on the monuments, by Baker.
This wanton and reckless disregard of the most apand interesting memorials cannot be too
propriate
strongly deprecated.
It
is
that gratifying to find
Mr. Gilbert
Flesher,
of
Towcester,
remonstrated
Rev. R. B. against the vandalism at the time, and the

to Exton, then the resident clergyman, attempted
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
some idea of the ancient
interior
may be
16
It
THE FAMILY OF C4KEENE.

appears that the nave was divided from
gained.
each
aisle
by two very
lofty
pointed
arches,
on
octagonal pillars with
capitals of plain
mouldings,
and from the chancel by a similar arch.
The nave
now
includes on each side, eastward, an arch of less
altitude,
formerly opening' into chapels at the cast

aisles,
end of the
which, as well as the chancel, were
once inclosed by
handsome
screen, stretching across
the edifice from north to south, but removed
when
the present
pews were
erected.
A piscina
and two
aisle,
brackets remain at the east end of the north
and another, with three brackets,

the south
aisle.
at the east
is
end of
The present chancel
mere con-
tinuation of the nave, without any division or distinction.
At
the west end of the nave, on a
modern
base,
is
the bason of a baptismal font of the twelfth century;

it is
circular,
bordered with
lozenge
hatched moulding, and

interstice
in
beaded
compartments, each
filled
with a Mower.
In 171)1 the east

tained the
window
;
of the north aisle conthis,
Greene arms
and
fragments
of
painted
in
glass
of*
and of several "apostles," remained
most
the
windows
until
the church was "beau-
tified."
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0cr.
.
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THE FAMILY OP GREENE.
17
Of
the
Greene monuments which once existed

oldest
in
here, the
chronological order stood near
the centre of the edifice (before the pews displaced

it),
and by the arms
it
bore was confidently assigned

a Mablethorpe.
it
to Sir
Thomas Greene, who married
This was an " altar tomb," and upon
rested
two
recumbent figures of alabaster, showing well executed

specimens of the costumes of the period.
We
printed
Sir
give an engraving which closely follows that
by Baker from Halstead,

his
as
cited
above.
Thomas, wearing
under
his
armor,
reposed
his
on the
lady's right;
its crest,
head was
helmet with
lion.
a buck's head; at his feet

is
was a
The
lower half of this

the upper half
broken
off
and dispersed, but

in
was placed upright within the arch

the time
the north
aisle, at
of the " beautification
"
;
he looked down upon the figure of his lady, which
was removed
at the
same time
(182(5),
and for
a longis
time lay extended under the arch.
She has what
termed the horned or mitred head-dress, but unusually low and

flat,
turned up around the forehead,
the folds falling behind on a cushion on which her
head reposes, and which
is
sustained by an angel.
This was the condition of the figures when Baker

described them; but the unseemly arrangement has
18
THE FAMILY OF (JREENE.
been changed, and the knight and his lady

side
now
in
rest
by side on the pavement

relic),
(as
shown
the
second engraving of the
thanks to the Rev.
Rd. Arthur Kennaway, rector of the parish since 1889, who has shown great interest in the preservation of the
monuments.
On
azure
the sides and ends of this

1.
tomb the following
coats were carved:

field,
;
The
three bucks, in gold on an

2.
of the Greenes:
A bend
between
;
six
mullets
in chief a lion
passant gnardant
as the
tinctures of
none of the charges carved upon the

it
shields are indicated,
is
uncertain to what family

it
these arms belonged, though
has been suggested
with
great
probability that they

:
may be
second
coat of the Mablethorpes
3.
Gules, a chevron be-
tween three crosses crosslet

passant
or,
last,
and
for
in chief a lion
gnardant
of
the
Mablethorpe.*
Portions of the shields from the side of the tomb
were fixed
at the
back and end of the arch

is
in the
north side, but
the blazonry
entirely obliterated.
This tomb seems to have had no inscription.
The second tomb stood under
the eastern arch,

it
on the north side of the nave or ancient chancel;
lie
Some of the Mablethorpes bore the same device, with an azure chevron and crosses argent, and the lion in gold in chief.
field,
o
c
m o
33
33
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CD 33
m O s
GO
THE FAMILY OF GEEENK.

was erected
1417,
for Sir
19
Thomas Greene, who died in and Mary Talbot, his wife. On the covering
were once two small
the
figures,
slab of grey marble

fifteen
inches
long;
her
lady
remained, but
described
the
it.
kniffht
had
left
when
Ilalstead
shields,
Over
their heads
were two
one bearing the
arms of Greene, the other of Talbot, over which was

the inscription in Latin:
F)ic jacet
Cbomas
ct
6reene Jîles, filius et beres

fknrici
6rcene,
jvuiit.'
Cbome
6reene,
jvuiit.' fill'
quond'm uni' ux. ejus, ct tci Gdwardi D'ni Maria tii, Regis ûsticiariorum Dcus. Hmcn. animabus D'ni filia propicictur Calbot, quoru'
bcred'
lies
Here
Thomas Greene, Knight,
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
the side of this
was
a shield
a
bearing Greene
impaling
Talbot,
argent,
On
lion
rampant gules,
within a bordure engrailed of the last; but no tinctures were indicated.
the centre of the end was

three steps;
a cross flory elevated on
otherwise
it
was without carving. At the east end of the north
aisle, tinder a
wry
blank shield depressed arch with a
in
each spandril,
was a
third altar tomb, plain and unornamented, for
that Sir
Thomas who
died
in
1457, and his wife,
20

This, says our authority,* "lias
Its
Philippa Ferrars.
left
not
wreck behind."
it,
place
was occupied
when Baker described

of another tomb.
Collateral to the
by the mutilated fragments
first
of these
monuments was
fourth
Sir
an
elegant altar-tomb, in honor of another

died in 1462, and of
Thomas who
Lady Matilda
which once
Throckmorton,
formed
it,
his
widow.
"
The
slab,
its
top,
and the
brass,"
which surmounted
in
says
Baker, were preserved
the floor of the
chancel. f
The Rev. Charles

entitled
at
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
knight, which the reader

technical
who
is
interested
the
terms of the subject will find of value.
The
lady was clad in a widow's habit (showing that
she survived her husband), consisting of a kirtle and
mantle;
flowing kerchief on the head, and a barbe
beneath the chin.

*
Baker,
II
65, as cited.
Boutell, as cited, confirms Baker, and says "the line brass, origifixed
nil
nalls
the altar-tomb,
now
(1849) lies
on the pavement of the
chancel."
21
figures of
Below the
labelled "
larger effigies were .similar
their four children; but these,
which were separately

all
Thomas,
last.
John, Elizabeth," had
disappeared but the
The
which hands
brass
has,
was once bordered by an
inscription
fortunately, been preserved from the of the " beautifiers." It was engraved in the
black letter of the period.
As
it
throws light on
the family connections of the Greenes of Greene's
Norton, we print
it
below.
There arc
trilling differ-
ences in the spelling and punctuation of the different

authorities
who
give
it:
&
ux'
FKc jacet
ej.
Cbomas Grene, quivcro Cbomas
Miles, D'n's de JVorton' ct Matild'
fuit
filj'
ct
bcrcs
ejus'
Cbonie Grene
filie
MUit' D'ni de ead'm' et

D'ni
-perrarrs
pbilippe ux'is
Robcrti
filie
de Cbarteley et Glizabetb uxoris
ejus,
Cbome D'ni de Spencer fati Cbome Grene fuit
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
Mens' Septembris 6t p'fata M^tild' una filiarum
7ob'is Cbrockmarton Hrmigcri quond'm Subtbcsaurarij Hngl' Hnno D'ni ^lilVo cccc obijt ... die JHes' quor'

Hiabus p'picictur Deus. Hmen.
The medieval Latin may be read

Here
his
lies
as follows:
wife.
Thomas Greene, Knight, Lord of Norton, and Matilda, The said Thomas was son and heir of Thomas Greene,
22

who was
the
Knight, Lord of the same, and of Philippa, his wife,
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,
was son and
heir of
Thomas Greene,
daughter
the
Knight, Lord of Norton aforesaid, and of

of
Mary
his wife,
Richard, Lord Talbot, and of Ankarete,
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
and the said Matilda, one of the daughters of

Esq., formerly
John Throckmorton,
Under- Treasurer of England,

1).
died on the .... of the
month
of .... A.
14 ...
May God
be gracious to their souls.
Originally, says
Boutell, there were
four shields
placed at the
corners of the tomb, two of which

first,
remain
other,
the
Greene impaling Ferrars
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
plaeed on the side, as
shown by
his engraving.
Baker gives accounts of several other monuments

and mortuary tablets
are of later date,
in
the church, but, as these

families not allied
to describe them.
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
sing and pray per-
23
petually in the said church, and for a perpetual obit

for himself, his wife
Maud, Thomas Greene, Knight,

for
until
all
some time her husband," and

and
friends.
his ancestors
This
existed
the
dissolution
of chantries in the second

1548.
year of
Edward VI,
One
of the branches (verified by the similarity of

in the Heralds' College),
arms recorded
in
was seated
the
early
neighboring
parishes
of
Dorset
in
part of the reign of
Henry
the Eighth.
That the
Greenes of Gillingham must have been

ancient
allied to the
family
at
Greene's Norton
is
shown not
still
merely by tradition but by a document
extant
(printed on a subsequent page), signed by Richard
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,
the son from
whom
he claimed descent.
1
The laws
of the "gentle science'

of
regarding the assumption

their
arms
by those who could not establish
hereditary privilege to bear them, were too stringent
and too carefully enforced

any doubt that the
at that period, to
its
permit
seal with
device was used

fact that
as of undisputed right.
The well-known
in
the
same arms were borne by Greenes
different
24
parts of England,
which
it
is
thought by heralds
may show
period,
common
does not necessarily
ancestry in the early
Norman
conflict with the family
tradition of a
connection between the Greenes of
Dorset and Northamptonshire; Browning's "Americans
of Royal Descent"
says,
on what evidence
we do not know,
that Robert of Grillingham
was
grandson of Sir Thomas of Greene's Norton.
Gillingham
setshire,
is
one of the largest parishes

in
in
Dor-
being about forty-one miles
circumfer-
ence,
tants.
and containing about four thousand inhabiIt

lies
in
the
most northern extremity of
the
County, near the borders of Wilts and Som-
erset.
The country
consists chietiy of pasture for
grazing and the
dairies,
and the parish was

Its
foris
merly noted for the linen woven there.
name
derived from the Anglo-Saxon, Qyllan, which conies
from a root denoting a mountain torrent, or a stream

with steep banks,
in
which sense the word
is
still
used
in
Westmoreland,
and
which may perhaps
allude to the head waters of the river Stonr, which

rises
in
the
hills
in
Wilts, near the border, Hows

parish,
outlet
southward through the

with the Avon, finds
its
and,
in
after
uniting
the southwestern

part of
25
Hants, through Christchurch Bay, on the
English Channel.
The Saxon
root
also signifies the rustling leaves
of a forest in windy weather, and some antiquaries
have thought that

sion to
in the
name
there
may
be an allu-
Selwood Forest, which
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,
and probably much
earlier,
was
a " royal
demesne wood."
About
still
half a mile
to
from the parish church there are
be seen
traces of an ancient hunting-lodge, or "palace," as

it
was
called
by
local
historians, but
not a stone
I
remains of the old building.

dated one of the
Here King Henry
Charters which he gave to the
Cathedral of Lincoln in 1132

repaired the buildings, and in
King John 1270 Edward I spent

;
later,
the Christmas-tide here, with feast and revels.
Parts of this forest were leased

Charles
I,
in
the time of
to
and the lessee was obliged
keep
it
stocked with four hundred deer for the recreation

of the king: the herd gradually dwindled, but a few
stragglers were left in the
arch's
fifth
year of that mon"
reign,
when
the
wood was
de-afforested,"
26
THE FAMILY OF (1KEENE.

to
its
and portions allotted moners who lived on
the
gentlemen and com-
borders,
much
to the dis-
satisfaction of the people of the neighborhood,
who
had
for centuries possessed certain
rights
therein.
Disorderly bands threw
down
the fences and filled

to
up the ditches by which the grantees had sought

protect their possessions.
the king were
Even
the messengers of
assaulted, but
the
royal
privileges
were
finally
enforced and the rioters punished.
letter
has recently come to light, written by

his
Richard Greene, of Gillingham, and sealed with
armorial device, dated 23 March, 1651,* concerning

a
part
of this
forest, eighty
acres
of which were
held for the use of the poor of one of the hamlets

in
the parish.
As
so
little
personal knowledge of
our early ancestry has come

that
it
down
to ns,
we
believe
will
be read with interest;
it is
as follows:
"Mere, 23 Martij 1651.
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
the rest of the ('onions ever sithince that tyme,
from the papers of Mr. Troyte-Chafyn-Grove, and printed
" Somerset and Dorsel Notes and Queries, ,1 volume V, p. 331.
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
Inh'itants of the pish laboured to have;
some
the
further allowance and intrusted

therein,
me
in
in the busines
whoe
travelled
to
&
vpon search found
the Articles
annexed
Comision for disafforestacon a

for the poore of
clause, that care should be taken
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
the owners of the Forrest and in
tine, I
concluded with them
for 80 acres in satisfaccon of that clause in the Articles
and soe
agreed to accept of those 80 acres
and
for
releife
be imployed for the comfort of the Poore) and the 100 acres (formerly layd out
(to
Comon)
in lieu
&
rs
full satisfaccon for all

:
claymes
in the
Forrest
as well for
well approued
Comm as for Poore & desired me to gett

of setlm' came,
this the pishioners of all sorts
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
100 acres allowed to 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
v n worthy psons against their
owne
vnworthy opposicon of some ts expresse consents and Agreem

if
some p re iudice
wholely
lost.
likely to befall the pish,
the busines be not
Nowe for that the matter

of estimacon
is
of greate considericon the land being
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
better condicon, therefore I
and the poore people in farre resolue to ioyn w th many more of the
eased,
r
more
substantial! pt,
and endeauo
to settle this (soe beneh'ciall a

it
business) vpon the pish for the releife of the poore, though
cosl
28
some charge
if
w ch
r
suppose
shall
not he
much and should be glad

I
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
answare before; and

not lessen poore, in
J.
truth, increase of ('onions doe increase,
my
it
observacon.
They
:
say,
if
be held inclosed, then Zeales that haue noe
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
lyes all along
w th
those
opposers
;
but the right lying

11
otherwise, must make me leave them assistance, the busmes much deserves it "
Sr,
wish yo would lend y r

e
1 1
y judgem of Greene. serv Rich humble yor most

in
:
Then
r
follow about four lines of cypher.
Addressed,
Ks<|
'
"To
his
very
much honoured
Crest
.
ffriend
Richard Maijor
these present at Ilursley."

;
. .
Seal three stags trippant
Endorsed "Mr. Ric: Greene 23 March
1(551
about 80 acres of
e Gillingham forest for y vse of the poore of Mere."
The
"
first
mention of Gillingham
101(5,
is
found
in
is
the
Saxon Chronicle," A. D.
where there
an
account of the battle fought in Somerset near the
boundary of the town, between

and Canute,
in
Edmund
Ironside
;
which the Danes were routed

passed into this parish, where
in
their Might they
relics
of their
final
stand, believed to have been the
work
1
of Canute, are pointed out.
In
"Domesday Book
THE FAMILY OF CiREEXE.
29
the place was "the King's land," and William the
Conqueror gave the church

bury.
to the
Abbot of
Shaftes-
The Rev. John Hutehins has

church as
tells
it
a description of this
was a century and
us
it
was
a half ago.* He " a royal peculiar, in Shafton Deanery,
and the
official
has
archidiaconal jurisdiction'
in
most parts of the parish.

to the Blessed Virgin
fabric, consisting
"The church
is
is
dedicated
Mary, and
a large, ancient
of a body [or nave] and two aisles

it,
of equal height, a chancel, a chapel adjoining

a high tower in
and
which are
great
six musical bells, a clock
and chimes.
The
bell, as tradition says,
was
given by Thomas Butt, of this parish, yeoman.
The
nave
is
fifty-four feet long

is
and twenty-two
feet wide,
and the roof

chancel
is
supported by four
pillars."
The
very deep, being forty-eight feet long,
twenty-one feet wide, and twenty feet to the eaves

thus nearly as large as the body of the church.
aisles are
The
fifteen
upwards of
fifty feet in length,
and
to eighteen feet
in breadth, the
south aisle being

;
three feet wider than that on the north
and the
feel
tower,
*
sixty
feet
in
height,
is
about
fifteen
See his " History of Dorset," London, 1774, from which our ac-
count has been drawn.
30

Here was anciently an organ,
the civil wars by Waller's folseats about
square on the inside.

but
"demolished
in
lowers.''
The church
one thousand.
a
Ilutchins gives descriptions of
number
of
the
their
monumental tombs within the

inscriptions;
edifice,
and of
some of
these, in his day,
were broken
and
loft,
illegible.
is
On
the wall of the belfry, or ringing

:
this
memorandum
The porch new

the
built, the
lead thereof
new
cast,
church and the vestry repaired, 1617.

feet,
The
and
tower raised 21
the
dial,
ringing
loft,
the King's arms made, by the gift of several, 1618.
There was anciently

altar of
St.
"perpetual chantry
at
the
Katherine the virgin, attached to the

provision
church,
and
[1331], to
St.
was made, 4 Edward III celebrate divine service in the Church of

Grillingham
1
Mary de
last
every day forever."
But
the
"chantry priest'
in
was Galfrid
list
Gyll,
who
was pensioned
vicars
for
1553.
five
of the rectors and

will
about
centuries
be
found
in
Ilutchins.
The Parish Register begins
in 1560.
It
contains
many
entries of baptisms,
marriages and
burials of persons of the
name of Greene, most of
whom
appear to have been of the junior branches.
31
Some of
these records will
be found on
subse-
quent page of this volume.
For many years the parish enjoyed which was held, says our authority, in
building near the church, with a
a free-school,
" a large, old

for the
is
mean house
Master, formerly a church house.
The founder
unknown .... This

repute.
school was
it
formerly in good
In the great rebellion
was
full
of the
sons of loyal gentlemen.
Lord Chancellor Claren-
don had part of
his education here."
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
the last century.
There was
also a curious
is
custom
of great antiquity in the parish, which

to us, for
line
It
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
large wells, "with

o-ame,
their
mynstralls
and myrth of
till
and
from one of the clocke
too of
the-
clocke,
by the space of one hole hower,
theire they
32
shall

daunce .... and
if
the daunce fayle thai daye,
and the queue's
bayliffe
have not his dutye, then the
sayd bayliffe and his

the wells of
men
shall
stop the water of
Enmore from
the borough of Shafton."
Shaft on, which adjoined
Mot comb,
in the parish of
Gillingham, was seated on a high

tirely destitute
hill,
and was en-
of springs, and had so few wells that
water for the use of the people of the borough was

"
brought, from time immemorial, on horses' backs,
or on people's heads, from three or four large wells a
quarter of a mile below the town, in the hamlet of
Moteomb."
sufficient of
These wells apparently were not always

themselves to supply the needs of Shaf-
ton,
and so an arrangement was made by which the
mayor of Shafton was obliged ta provide a "prize besom or byzant, .... somewhat like a May garland
in
form, with gold and peacocks' feathers .... and

it
carry
to
Enmore Green
as an
acknowledgment
over, the byzant
to
for
is
his water.
The ceremony being
restored to the
mayor and brought back

This byzant
is
town
with great solemnity.
generally so
richly adorned with plate
and jewels, borrowed from

it
the neighboring gentry, that
has sometimes been
worth not less than 11500." *

*
Butchins' Dorset,
II,
i>.
24,
under Shaftesbury.

It
33
also appears that the Shafton visitors used

in
"to
walke or daunce, hand

in
a long*
hand round the Green,
daunce, there being a mnsition, or tabor

also the staff or
and pipe, and

feathers,
besome adorned with

and
other Jewells
pieces
of
gold,
rings
(called a prize
besome) which daunce being ended,

fees.
the bayliffe
at
"
claimed his customary
The date
presently,
it
which
" its
it
was
held,
"
as will be
shown
with
besome
or pole, seems to indicate
had
some connection with the May-day sports. An agreement was made 1 May, 1(362, in the
four-
" teenth year of the reign of Charles II, between Sir
Edward
Nicholas, Knt., one of his majesties principal
Secretaries of State, a
member of
his Privj^ Council,
and lord of the manor of Grillingham, on the one

part,"
and " the mayor and burgesses of the towne

in
and borrongh of Shafton
Dorset," on the other,
in
which
have,
"
it
was
recited that the people of said
borough
By
prescription beyond
the
memory
of
man, claymed,
all
used and enjoyed the privilege of taking away at
times
and on
in
all occations,
water from any of the wells and springs

in
the waste
and common ground,
the
tything of Mot-
combe, within the manor and liberty of Gillinghain, and by

like prescription have yearly, on the
Sunday
or Lord's day
34

May (commonly
called
next after the third of
Holy Rood
day
used to walk from Shafton into a place called

is
Enmore
Green, where there
a pool of water
and divers springs, and
there daunee [as described above], paying unto the bailiff of
Gillingham one payre of gloves, a
calfe's
head raw and un-
of dreased, a gallon of ale or beere, and two penny loaves
white bread" [to the
bailiff's
private use].
The document
cited quaintly says,
"the observa-
cion of which custome on the Lord's day occationing
some neglect of divine

to " tion
was changed the Munday next before the Feast of the Ascenservice," the time
of our Lord," without prejudice to the mayor,
burgesses,
privileges.
and other inhabitants, of
their
ancient
" pubcopy of the agreement was

as well
lished
and inrolled
among
as
the rolles of the
court of the
manor of Gillingham
among
the rolles
of the court of the borrough of Shafton."
This was
signed and sealed by
Edward
<k
Nicholas, for Gilling-
ham, and by Peter King,

the consent
maior" of Shafton, with
of the burgesses then present, and six
witnesses, of
to sign.
whom
Richard Greene was the second
This regard
"
for the
Lord's day,
in the
time of the
merry monarch," by the parish
officers, is at least
noteworthy.
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(1.)
35
Robert Greene,
of GKllingham, from
is
whom
an unbroken line of descent
traced,
was assessed
to that King's subsidy, as appears
Exchequer bearing date 1545. three sons and two daughters, viz:
2
by the Rolls of the He was father of
i.
Peter,
his
heir,
who succeeded
to the
estate of
Bowridge
Hill,
in
Gillingham, and dying

heir.
without issue, his brother Richard became his
He made
his will
May
20, 1583,
which contains be-
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
printed in another place

that he
volume.
The Parish Register shows

31, 1583.
was interred May
Bowridge
Hill, the scat
of the principal family of the Greenes of Gilling-
ham,
is
said to have derived

hill
its
name from
the shape
It
of the
lies
on which their residence was placed.
about a mile from the church, and the remains
of the ancient mansion house are

a tanner.
2.
ii.
now occupied by
Richard. 2
John. 2
2 Alice, married
iii.
iv.
to
Small, and had a
3 daughter Elizabeth.
36
v.

2 Anne, married
to
Roger Tapps, of
a son
Gil-
m, and had issue, lingham,
ai them among
Richard. 3
She survived her husband.
(2.)
Richard
Greene, second son of Robert

Hill,
Greene, succeeded to Bowridge

his brother Peter.
on the death of
By
3,
his will,
dated
May
10, 1606, to
his
and proved
May
1608, he
made bequests
his
children and grandchildren, and appointed his " son
and heir apparent, Richard Greene,"
executor.
As
no record of
his burial
nor of the baptisms of

the Parish Register of
his elder children is
found
in
Gillingham,
it
is
probable they were recorded in one
of the hamlets of the parish where he resided prior

to his succession to the estates of his elder brother.
His children were:

3.
i.
Richard. 3
3 Katiieiune, married to
ii.
Turner, and
had
issue.
(3.)
Richard Greene,
3
the only son and heir of

Hill,
Richard Greene, of Bowridge

,
by
his wife
Mary
had
five sons, and,
as appears
by
his father's
will, five
daughters; the names of four of the daugh-
ters are
found
in
the will of their brother Richard

printed hereafter.
37
has
not
The
date of his death
been learned.
i.
His children were:

4
Peter Greene, who

left
inherited
Bowridge
Hill.
His grandfather
" fourtie shillings in
By
his wife
1.
2.
Joan
5
him "a gonlde ring," money," and other remembrances. he had issue:
Mary,
baptized December 29, 1605.

7,
William, baptized April

Joan, baptized April
1607.
3. 4. 5. 6.
7.
25, 1609.
Margery,
baptized April 11, 1611.

6,
Richard, baptized August

Richard, baptized April
1612
died young-.
30, 1615.
23, 1617/18.
Robert, baptized January
ii.
Richard, who,
in his will
dated April 28>
1614, with a
memorandum
of September 29, 1010,
(hereinafter printed) describes himself 'of the Canon's

Close,' in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
cies,
Among
other lega-
he bequeathed his Latin books to his brothers
Robert and John.
He
appointed his father and his
wife as his executors.
He
seems to have been
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
and died leaving
son Robert*.
His
will
38
dated

October 21,
104:9,
was
proved January
7,
L650/1, and Robert

4.
iv.
made
sole executor.
4 John, born 1597.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
4 Rebecca, married
to
Downton.
Mary.
Rachel. 4
Anne,
baptized at Gillingham, August
31, 1595.
ix.
Thomas, baptized
at
Gillingham,
May
13,
1599; buried August 15, 1599.

x.
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
Conanicut (as tradition has

indebted to the
hospitality
to
she must have been

the
of
Indians,
since
Conanicut
was sold
William
Coddington
and
others in 1656, thirteen years later, by Caganaquant."

In
<>1*
the
Parish
Register
recording
the
baptism
his
children,
he
is
sometimes called gentleman,
and
once " Chirurgeon."
According
to
docu-

ment
still
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
James of London, which
sailed
This vessel Southampton in April, 1635. arrived at Boston on the third of June, and Mr.
Greene proceeded
Providence
to
Rhode
Island and resided at

others
until 1(543,
when he with twelve
made arrangements
set
for the purchasing of
Narragan-
from the Indians.
His name "does not appear

in the period
on the Massachusetts Colonial Record

intervening between his
arrival
':
at
Boston and
is
his
settlement at Providence;
hence "it
to be pre-
sumed
where
that he
in
made no
settlement in Boston or else-
Massachusetts;
in
we know, however,
that he
was
at
one time
Salem, where he probably was
associated with
Roger Williams." The settlement which was made
led
to
hostile
aggressions by the Massachusetts authorities,
who
invaded the plantation, took nearly
all
the settlers
severe punishment. prisoners and subjected them to
Mr. Greene's wife sought safety
at
Conanicut
(or
Newport) where she died soon

,
after.
year,
Mr. Greene, with other
The following leading men of the

in
plantation,
went
to
England and succeeded
ob-
40

a just assertion
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
account of these bitter controversies cannot here be

given, for they extended over
many
years, and the
proceedings of the adverse parties

in
may
be regarded
very different lights, according to the point of
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
the party were viewed with suspicion.
Among them
were Richard Carder, Randall Holdeu, and Robert

Potter, into
whose
families
some of the Greenes subIn 1042/3

their privi-
sequently married, as will be seen below.

those just
leges and
out
named were "disfranchised of

prerogatives, and
their
names cancelled
of the record."
41
studied the
On
and
the
other hand, some
who have
proceedings of Massachusetts find in John Greene

his
companions
" that sturdy spirit of freedom
which burned
cestors;
in the breasts of so
many of our
an-
"in the reply of Greene
to the Legislature
of the Bay, wherein he charged them with "usurp-
ing
the
power of Christ over the churches and

is
men's consciences,"
discovered one of the earliest
assertions " of entire and absolute freedom of opinion, in
defiance
of either secular or ecclesiastical
authority."
So
far as the questions at issue
were theological,
they involved powers which the Massachusetts clergy
had always exercised with Opinions which differed from
little
or
no
restraint.
their
own
they regarded
as the rankest heresy; religious toleration
was un-
known: on the
contrary, the people of the Bay, as
Chief Justice Story says, " not only tolerated the

civil
power in the suppression of heresy, but they demanded and enjoined it." Against this doctrine
his
Greene and
companions strenuously protested.
Not only theological but political questions were involved. The claim to the JSarragansct country was
a disputed one.
Greene and
to
his associates held title
by the deed of Shawomet
Miantonomoh, of Janu-
42
ary 12, 1642; that of Massachusetts was founded on

a vote of the
Commissioners of the United Colonies,

title
which recognized the
to be in
Plymouth, but
it,
authorized Massachusetts to accept
in
case Ply-
mouth refused
it,
which she
did.
Thereupon the
authorities of the
Bay attempted
Greene and
to drive
away
their
obnoxious neighbors and break up their settlement
by force of arms.
his friends
regarded
re-
this course as tyrannical
and a usurpation, and
sisted
it.
The
dispute
continued for near half a
century, during which period

the territory
Rhode
Island claimed
by right
of
was hers by Charter, and Connecticut, of conquest. In the end it became a part
Rhode
of
name
Through the John Greene appears

Island.
entire struggle " the
as
the
undeviating
champion of the rights of the latter Colony," for the

son of the emigrant,
who
bore his father's name,
followed in his footsteps.

It
has been stated that while

a
in
England Greene
married
second wife, Alice
Daniels,
whom
he
brought back with him; but Dr. Henry E. Turner,

in a
monograph on the Warwick Greenes, says that she was a widow, and was taxed 2s. Gd. in Providence for land held there
in
1637 [Col. Rec,
I: 15],
which was some
six years before the death of the

first
4-'>
wife.*
Alice died soon, and he married thirdly,

,
Philippa
who
survived him and died March 11,

his
1687, aged 87.

his
On
return, Mr.
Greene fixed
RTar-
residence at
Warwick, the chief town of

place
raganset, of which
he was one of the most

filled
prominent
trate
citizens,
and
the offices of Magis-
and Clerk of the Court.

his will
He made
on the 28th of December, 1658,
which was proved on the 7th day of January following.
He was
buried by the side of his

all
first
wife at
Conanicnt.
His children,
born before he came to
New
were: England, *&

j
i.
John, baptized August
15, 1G20.
He was
;
a proprietor of Westerly, in
Rhode
Island, in 1661
in
one of the Council to Sir

his
Edmund Andros
1G87;
name, however, does not appear upon the record
during that administration; he also held the rank of

"
Major of the Main," equivalent to our Major GenIn 1651 he eral, from 168.3 to the time of Andros.
* " Greenes of
Warwick
in Colonial History, read before the

27,
Rhode
Island Historical
whom we
Society, February have freely quoted, says that John was the son of Peter, of
1877,"
p. 4.
Dr. Turner, from
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

elected Commissioner from
was
Warwick, and was
constantly re-elected until 1659,
when he was chosen
Assistant, and continued so to be every year, with
two exceptions, until 1686, when the Charter was suspended by James IT. He was again elected Assistant
in
'
1689, and in 1690 as
Deputy Governor,
which
and
that
a
office
he held until 1700, a period of ten years,
longer time than any other person occupied
position in the Colonial
Government continu-
ously,
and longer than any man was Governor, ex-
cept Samuel Cranston,

years. bly
who
held the office for thirty
The
in
lapses in his service as Assistant proba-
were
those years
when he was absent
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.,
daughter of William Aliny, of Portsmouth, R.
who was born
in
1627 and died
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.
Some, though not
all,
may he
explained by
the difference between Old and
New
Styles.
THE FAMILY OF GHEEXE.

1.
4o
married Wil-
Deborah, born August

liam Torrey.
10,
1049
2.
6 John, born June 6, 1051 and 1680, without issue.
died between
1081
3.
William, born March

1678 or 1679;
0,
1652/3
;*
died about
17,
married
December
1074,
Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Williams)

Sayles.
4.
6 Peter, born February 1, 1054 died August 12, 1723 married December 0, 1080, Elizabeth,
; ;
daughter of Stephen Arnold, and left issue. He was several times Deputy from Warwick.
5.
Job,
of
Warwick, born August

married
of
his
24,
1656
died
1744;
a sister
January
22,
1684/5,
Phebe,
brother William's wife.
Job
was frequently a Deputy from Warwick, and

several times chosen Assistant.
Deborah was the second wife

mother and
of the wife of
His daughter of Simon Ray and
of the wife of
Governor Samuel Ward, Governor William Greene
the second, and was grandmother of the wife

of
of
Gen. Nathaniel Greene.
By
the marriage
Job with Phebe Sayles, says Dr. Turner,
"his descendants derive a strain from the blood
0.
Roger Williams." 6 Phillippa, born October 7, 1658; married (1) Caleb Carr, of Jamestown, and (2) John Dickof
enson, f
* Dr.
t
Turner gives this date as December

-
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.

Richatcd,
died
of
Warwick, born February

24, 1711
;
8,
1G60
May
married
February
died
1G,
11,
1692/3, Eleanor
Sayles,
who
March
1714, (and was perhaps the
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
was elected to succeed him.

8.
g Anne, born March
19,
1662/3
1
she was married
May
27, 1686, to
Thomas' Greene, her cousin,

Elizabeth (Barton)
son of
Thomas 5 (5) and
Greene.
9.
Catharine, born August
18,
1665
I.
married to
Charles Holden, of Warwick, R.

10.
Audrey,'' born December 27, 1667

Dr. John Spencer.
6
married to
11.
Samuel,
of
Warwick, born January

8,
30,
1669/70
died September
1694/5,
1720
married January 24,
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
than his brothers.

5
ii.
Peter,
second son
of John,
baptized
lie
March
ried
10,
1021/2, was of Warwick, where
mar-
Mary (daughter of Samuel) Gorton, but had no
issue.
He was drowned
in 1(359.
* For a further account of this family see

p. 59.
"Greenes
<>i'
Warwick,"
17
Samuel Gorton, the father-in-law of Peter Greene,
came
to
Boston
in
1630; he was a resident, for a

in
time, at
Plymouth, and afterwards
Rhode
Island.
lie
Like John Greene of Warwick, with

closely
whom
was
of
associated
during the
troublous
times
that settlement, he
authorities
was severely condemned by the
of the
Bay Colony
calls
for
his
attitude.
Johnson, one of the Massachusetts Commissioners
who
visited
Warwick,
Gorton " the ringleader
of the rout," and assails him with very emphatic not

to say vituperative language.
Referring to a paper
in
signed by Gorton and his friends,

leader had not hesitated
to
which
their
apply
equally abusive
epithets to his adversaries, Johnson,
who seems
to
have regarded Gorton as an arch

writes
"
:
heretic, piously
Getting into favor again with those who had formerly whipped him out of their company, lie turns devil himself.
The godly Governors

phemous
bull
of
his,
of the Massachusetts, seeing this blas-
resolved
to
send forty persons, well
appointed with weapons of war, for apprehending him."
Greene, the elder, was absent

ing to his wife,
at the time, minister-
who was
then
on her death-bed.
given
in his
Gorton's version of the

"
affair is
famous
Simplicity's
Defence against Seven-headed Policy."
48

sent to arrest the offenders appeared in
28, 1643,
The troops
Warwick, September
"
and besieged those
had taken refuge, remaining, in a house in which they

where they passively defended themselves," that is without tiring a shot, and where Gorton
says)
(as
they finally capitulated.
They were marched

tells us, it
to
Bos-
ton in chains, and the same writer
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
men who escaped were
spear," but the " as equally regarded
sufferers with the others,
inasmuch as they were put

their prop-
under the ban of outlawry by name, and

*
erty sequestered."
5
hi.
iv.
KiciiAKi), baptized
March
25, 1623/4.
5 James, baptized June
21, 1626; of
War-
wick.
He
married twice: (1) about 1658, Deliver-
ance, daughter of
Robert Potter, of Warwick, by

;
whom
he had two sons and two daughters

3,
(2)
August
1665, Elizabeth,
daughter of John An-
thony, by
whom
he had six sons and two daughters.

the second marriage,
17, 1697/8,
One
of his sons by
Jabez,
who married March
Mary Barton, was
See "Greenes of Warwick," pp. 16-21, and Gorton's "Simplicity's

et
102 Defence," Judge Staples' edition, pp.
seq.
cr
:*:
on
<
o
LU
o
hco CO
<;

the grandfather of Gen. Nathaniel
49
Greene, of the
Revolution.
5.
v.
vi.
James died April 27, 1698. 5 Thomas, baptized June 4, 1(328.

5
Joan,
baptized
October
3,
1630
died
young.
Mary, baptized May James Sweet, of Rhode Island.

vii.
19,
1633
married to
(5.)
Thomas5 Greene,
fifth
child
and youngest
son of John4 Greene of Salisbury and Warwick, was

baptized at St. Thomas's Church, in Salisbury, June
4,
1628.
He came
at
and resided
England with his father Warwick, where he died June 5, 1717.

to
New
He
married, June 30, 1659, Elizabeth, daughter of

I.
Rufus and Margaret Barton, of Warwick, R. died August 20, 1693), and by her had issue.
(who
Shortly after his marriage, as the family tradition
has
it,
he erected the stone house in Warwick, R.

as
" Greene's
I.,
known
Stone Castle," which was a
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
century and a half.
Children
i.
6 Elizabeth, born July
12, 1660.
50
ii.

6 Thomas, of Warwick, bora August
14,
6
16(52
married
May
27,
1(586,
his
cousin
Anne,
had
died
5 daughter of John Greene (4), by
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
married January 21,
1689, Susannah, daughter of Randall Holden, born
December
min,
first
7
8,
1670, by
whom
he had one son, Benja7
and
daughter, Catharine,
who married
born March
the
Governor William Greene, of Rhode Island.

iv.
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.
Welthean, born January

Rufus, born January
6 6
23, 1670.
6,
1673.
10, 1679.
6.
vii.
Nathaniel, born April
(6.)
Nathaniel
Greene,
youngest
child
of
10,
Thomas 5 Greene of Warwick, was born April

1679.
He removed
to Boston,
where he married
at
King's Chapel, February 27, 1703/1, the Rev. Samuel Miles officiating,
ter of
Anne, born about 1685, daughof
Thomas and Frances (Robinson) Gould,

Boston,
51
who
survived her husband and died Janu-
ary 16, 1728, aged 42.
He made
his will
on the
6th of August, 1714, and died two days after.
His children were:

7.
i.
7 Thomas, born June
7
4,
1705.
Rueus, born May 30, 1707; married at King's Chapel, December 10, 1728, the Rev. Henry
ii.
Harris officiating, Katherine
Stanbridge, by
he had three sons and seven daughters.
whom He died
was
December
1768.
31,
1777.
His wife died January 13,
His
will,
dated at Boston,
13,
May
13, 1772,
proved January
8
1778.
His
second daughter,
in
Catherine,
born November 22, 1731, died

in
1777,
was married
1757 to John Amory, youngest son of
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.
1709, at Bos27, 1729, the
ton;
Rev. Dr. Joseph Sewall
officiating,
Elizabeth Taylor,
who
died October
3,
1768, aged 62, by
whom
s.
he
had two sons and two daughters.

iv.
7 William, born May 7
3,
1711
died
p.
8.
v.
vi.
Benjamin, born January

John,
7
11, 1712/13.
b.
married and had issue.
52

(7.)
Thomas,
eldest son of Nathaniel 6

in
and Anne
4,
(Gould) Greene, was born
Boston June
1705;
he died in 1763; he married (1) February 22, 1727,

Elizabeth, daughter of
John and Sarah (Chandler)

Gar-
Gardiner, and great-grand-daughter of Lion

diner, of Gardiner's Island,
by
whom
son,
he had seven
8 Thomas, born
children
of these his
18,
I.,
eldest
February
dence, R.
1729, married
Mary Olney, of Provi;
and died without issue
John,
the
second son, born December 24, 1731, married Catharine,
daughter of the
first
and
sister
of the second
Governor William Greene (see page 50), and died

without issue
1,
;
8 Mary, the eldest daughter, born
May
13,
1734,
died July
9,
1808, was married July
and Martha (Coit) Hubbard, her step-brother, whose daughter Eliza1757, to Daniel, son of Daniel
beth was the second wife of Gardiner 8 Greene (see

10).
Thomas married
1,
(2),
Mrs. Martha
(Coit),
born April
1706,
widow of Daniel Hubbard and

(Chandler)
"
daughter of Dr. John and Mehitable

Coit,
by whom
"
he had four children.
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.
Originally a fund of 500, but
THOMAS GREENE.
From
a
Portrait by Copley.
MRS.
From
a
MARTHA COIT GREENE.
Portrait by Copley.
53
now
increased twenty-fold,
its
it
furnishes a substantial
addition to
funds."*
Mr. Greene was long a

Chapel, where he
member of
the parish of King's
occupied part of
mother.
pew
56, previously
He removed
7
to
owned by his Trinity Church about 1740.

fifth
(8.)
Benjamin Greene,
son of Nathaniel 6
Greene, was born January 11, 1712/13, and resided

at Boston,
where he died April

left
10, 1776.
(" Portrait
of him by Mr. Copley

C. Greene.)
1717, at
me by my
Mary,
b.
mother." J. S.
By
his wife,
Ct.,
September
9,
New
London,
daughter of the Hon.
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.
29, baptized April

2,
;
3,
1711, at Trinity Church;

iii.
died September
1791.
John,
born September 27, 1743
died
young.
* See
"Annals
of King's Chapel," I: p. 496,
where there
is
an en-
graving of his autograph.

" For a sketch of Judge John Chandler, see History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co., of Boston^ (of which he was the Commander in 1736), I: pp. 469-470. Portraits by Smibert of Judge
t
Chandler and his wife are owned by Mrs. Franklin Dexter, of Boston,
Mass.
54
iv.

8 Mary, born November 8 Joseph, third son of Thomas
3,
7
1745; married
to
(7)
and Martha
(Coit)
Greene,
and
6 grandson of Nathaniel and
Anne (Gould) Greene.

v.
8 Lucretia, born July
16, 1748;
died in
Boston,
May
13, 1824;
married October 25, 1774, to

15, 1745,
S. A.,
John Callahan, born December

October
vi.
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.
Anne, born and

Benjamin,
8
died February 28, 1756.
(9.)
of
Boston, the eldest son 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
was dated June
3,
1805, and proved February 23, 1807.
His children,
:
of
whom
i.
all
but the second survived him, were

9
Mary, born March

9 Martha, born June
9,
1762;
died April
5,
1852, unmarried.
ii.
9,
1763; died March
1,
1790.

hi.
55
17(54
Benjamin,
3,
born July
20,
died
November
he had
1822;
married Miss Grew, by
whom
issue.
He was
9
one of the executors of his
father's will.
iv.
Elizabeth,
2,
born April 21, 1760;
died
October
v.
1833; married to John Chandler.

9 Hannah, born
April 29, 1708; died
May
4,
1850; unmarried.
vi.
Ltjoretia,
born January 29, 1771; died

8,
June
18,
1851; married December
1795, by the
Rev. Dr. Parker, Rector of Trinity Church, Boston,

to
Henry Wainwright, who died August 25, 1827. 9 vii. Sarah, born November 4, 1773; married Henry Chapman.
viii.
to
Anne,
2,
born November 17, 1774;
died
January
1818; married October 21, 1805, to John
Grew.
(10.)
Gardiner 8 Greene,
the youngest son of
Benjamin and Mary (Chandler) Greene, was born he died there September 23, 1753, in Boston
;
December
19, 1832.
He
married (1) June
2,
1785,
Ann
issue
Reading, born January 29, 1762, died without
October 25, 1786: she was the daughter of
Dr. William and
Ann
(Livingston) Reading.
56
He
married
(2)
November
25, 1788, Elizabeth,
daughter of Daniel and Mary (Greene) Hubbard, and grand-daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Garshe was born March 23, 1700, in Greene
diner)
;
Boston, and died September

S.
7,
1797, in Demerara,
A.
The
issue
of this marriage
was three sons
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,
was consigned the

famous tea-party.
Boston by the Elizabeth Clarke Copley was born

tea destroyed in
November
20, 1770, in Boston,
and was baptized

9,
in
Trinity Church, Boston,
December
1770; she died

father
February
to
1,
1866, in Boston.
Her
removed
London with
his family in 1776,
and was soon
after elected a
Royal Academician.
in
Mr. Greene spent a number of years
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
an returning to Boston he purchased
GARDINER GREENE
From
a
Portrait by Copley.

estate
57
on what was afterwards Pemberton Square

this
The following account of

vironment
is
property and
its
en-
based
in part
on investigations made in
1886 by the Hon. Francis C. Lowell,

the United
States
now Judge
of
District Court, and partly on a
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
existed a hundred years ago,

Hill.
was covered by Beacon
This was so
much
Hill or Fort Hill, that in
Copps some views of Boston they

seems to
into
larger than either
disappear altogether, while Beacon Hill

fill
up the peninsula.
It
was divided
three
principal crests, the highest in the centre, on which
the beacon stood, with
Mount Vernon
to the
west
and Cotton Hill to the
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
the top, and
rather
higher than the roof of the present State House.
From
this point the land fell
away abruptly toward

of
Bowdoin and Bulfinch

*
Streets, so that a piece
Second
Series, Vol. I: pp. 312-326,
where some further particulars
will be found.
58
THE FAMILY OF GEEENE.
land between Bulfmch and Somerset Streets, extending- a little
farther to the eastward,
was called Valley

rose
Acre.
Hill.
From Valley Acre eastward
Cotton
Upon
it
there
small crests,
one
a
appear
to
have been three
where the summer-house of Mr.

stood,
Ebenezer Francis
estate, with
another
on
the
Greene
small
valley
between the two, and
probably a third on the adjoining Phillips estate.
Cotton Hill was, therefore, a short ridge nearly parallel
to
Somerset Street, with an abrupt
descent
toward Tremont Street and Tremont Row, and a
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,
and rising from Howard Street

is
(formerly Southack's Court) toward what

cast entrance of estate
now
the
Pemberton Square.
Dr. Shurtleif's
in turn,
was lower than Mr. Lloyd's, which,
was lower than Mr. Greene's.

Mr. Greene's mansion house stood on land about
fifteen
leet
higher than the street, but
it
was
at
the
bottom of the steep descent of the

abruptly behind
it
hill,
which rose
in four or five terraces.
The
crest
of the
feet
hill
on the Greene estate was about sixty-five
above the present elevation, while the centre of
o
hce UJ CD

the enclosure* in Pemberton Square has
59
been cut
down about
house
is
fifty-five
feet.
The Francis summerseventy feet above the

it
said to have been
present level of the land on which

the crest of the
hill
stood.
From
the
Green
estate descended to-
ward Somerset
feet deep,
Street,
where a cutting, some twenty

street
had been made when the
was
laid
out
in
1801.
At
the beginning of this century, the

hill
steep sides of the
were nearly bare of
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
house, there were doubtless
many
trees.
The gar-
dens seem to have been laid out, and the terraces

built,
by Mr. Greene.
In the
the
Book
of Possessions, compiled soon after of Boston,

the
settlement
estate
larger part of the
Greene
is
set
down
as belonging to the Rev.
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
southernmost part of his
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

what
is
now Somerset
Street to the east line

in
of the
Mount Vernon Church
Ashburton Place.*
of the Vassallin
His house stood very near the

G-reene house, and in 1636
Sir
it
site
was doubled
size
by
Harry Vane, who
lived with
him
for
two years.
Mr. Cotton died
in 1653,
and
his estate, after being-
divided and passing through
several
hands,
was
united in 1682 in the possession of

master, and coiner
John
Hull, mint-
of the "Pine
Tree Shillings."
Hull died a year

his
later,
and the premises passed to

first
daughter Hannah,
wife of Samuel Sewall,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province.

In 1697 Sewall bought about half an acre of the Bel-
linoham
it
lot,
and the estate took the boundaries which

it
had
in
Mr. Greene's day, except that
extended
farther to the westward, across

Street,
what
is
now Somerset
lot,
and except for the Maud- Waldo
bought
in 1821,
his
which Mr. Greene never treated as part of
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
the wind from the
Cotton Hill," which
stood exposed and at a distance from other houses.

* This building is
now occupied by Boston
University.

His
petition
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
refused sternly, both because the land had
once belonged to John Cotton, and also because he

"
would not
set
up what the people of
New
England
came over
tinues, "I
to avoid."
" In after discourse," he con-
mentioned
chiefly the crossing
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,
were other houses standing upon
which he
let to
Mr. Hirst, Obadiah Gore and others, and he took

great pains that Mr. Leblond, or Lebloom,
who then
owned what was
later called the
Waldo
house, should
his
not wrongfully open a

premises.
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
Mathers mentions that the

Golgotha,
probably
was sometimes
similar
from
circumstance
which happened
the
hill
earlier.
Curiously enough, when

it
was dug down
in 1835,
was found that the

it
cellar of
a
one of the houses upon
had been used as
family burial vault.
About 1758 Judith Cooper's
heirs sold the prop-
a relative erty to William Yassall,
of that Yassall
who
in
built the
well-known Craigie-Longfellow house
Cambridge.
At
this time there
were three dwell-
ing houses on the land
one
last.
where the Yassallsite
Greene house stood, one on the and

a third
of the
stable,
behind the
Directly south of the
mansion
garden.
house, behind
the
Waldo
house,
was a
Soon
tore
after his purchase,

all
it
seems that Mr. Yassall
down
the houses on the estate, and built of

is
wood
the house which
shown
in the picture.
Here
he lived, no doubt in great state.
He was
a royal-

ist,
63
and, in 1775, he entertained in his house Earl

at
Percy, when the latter was in Boston

of the battle of Lexington.
after the
the time
He was
a refugee, and,
peace in 1790, his estate was sold to Patrick
Jeffrey, uncle of Francis Jeffrey,
and brother-in-law
of
in
John Wilkes.
handsome
Like Mr. Vassall, Mr. Jeffrey lived
style.
In 1801 he sold a strip of land to the city of Bos-
ton for Somerset Street, and
thus
separated
the
smaller western portion of his estate from the larger
eastern part.
last to
lars.
On November
2,
20, 1802, he sold this
Jonathan Mason
for thirty-six
thousand dolit
On
April
1803, Mr.
Mason conveyed
to
Mr. Gardiner Greene, with the mansion house and

brick stable thereon, the consideration being forty-
one thousand
dollars.
Of
this estate in
Mr. Greene's
day, Mr. Bowditch says:
"The house had no remarkof any kind, but the
able architectural pretensions
natural beauties of the

art,
site,
improved by taste and
made
in
it
altogether the most splendid private resi-
dence
the city."
Mr. Marshall P. Wilder says:
"The most
conspicuous and elegant garden of those
days was that of Gardiner Greene, who had one of The grounds the early green-houses of Boston.
were terraced and planted with
vines, fruits, orna-
64
mental
to me,

trees, flowering
shrubs and plants, and were
when
I visited
them
sixty-five years
ago, a
scene of beauty and enchantment I never shall forget.
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.
Here were many ornamental

foreign lands."
It
is
brought from
the
supposed that
famous
gardens,
gingko
either in
tree
was.
among them.
in great part,
These
whole or
Avere laid out
by
Mr. Greene.
In 1824 he bought the small Maud-
Waldo
lot Avith the brick

it
house standing on
it,
but
he never treated
as part of the homestead.

estate, containing
Mr. Greene died in 1832, and the

103,915
feet,
was appraised
at $142,000.
In 1835
it
was sold
self
to
Mr. Patrick T. Jackson, acting for him-
and others, the price paid being $160,000.
At
about the same time Mr. Jackson bought the Lloyd

estate to the north, the Phillips estate to the south,
and several estates on Somerset Street
to the west.
He employed Mr. Asa G.

hill
Sheldon to cut down the

the western part of
and carry away the

old Mill Pond, near
soil to
the
Lowell Railroad Station.
Causeway Street and the Between seven and eight
o m 2 o
XI
m XI H O
CD

o'clock on the
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,
and one hundred and ninety
Irishmen for shovellers.
The
various
houses on the
hill
were
$2,000.
sold,
the
Greene mansion house
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-
moved from Cotton
Hill
something over one hundred
thousand yards of gravel, for which he was paid

about twenty-eight cents a yard.
The day
after his
work was done,
the property, which had already been

lots,
by auction. It is understood that Mr. Jackson's speculation was not

divided into suitable
successful.
was
sold
The English elms on

sold
for
the
top
of the
hill
were
timber to the
Charlestown
Navy Yard,
Mr.
and the abundant shrubbery was destroyed.
Sheldon was offered $300 to move the gingko tree
and warrant
fully,
its life for
a year.
He
examined
it
careesti-
and did not dare undertake the job; he

tree
7,
mated that the

cordwood.
contained
it
about two feet of
May
1835,
was successfully moved
60
to the

Boston Common, opposite Joy
Street,
where
it
now
stands.*
This tree has been, ever since
an object of great interest to furnished a theme for more than one poetic
was transplanted, Bostonians, and has

it
effusion,
and many inquiries

its
in
the public
press concerning
history. "
vigorous youth, in Mr. Greene's garcentre plot, den, in the sheltered position of the
During
its
bordered with low box,
laid out in
the quaint, old,
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,
none ever appearing upon
surface-t
at
It is believed that the tree
was
in the
garden
the time the estate
was purchased by Mr.
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.
same columns, December 3, 1887. the Boston t From a note in
GARDINER GREENE.
[From
a later Portrait in the possession of
Gardiner Greene, Esq., of Norwich, Ct.]

Its botanical
it
67
name
is
"Salisburia Adiantifolia," and

It is a
belongs to the coniferae or pine family.
native of Japan.
The
leaves are very peculiar, re-
sembling the beautiful maiden-hair fern, which gives

the tree a part of
tree of the
its
name, "Adiantifolia."
A smaller
Garden
same species stands
in the Public
near the Sumner statue.

It will interest his
descendants to read the follow-
ing tribute
to
the character of Mr. Greene, which
appeared in one of the public prints soon after his

death; the article had no signature, and the
name
of the writer has not been discovered
cannot permit [says the writer] the occasion of the death
of
Mr. Greene, who was both our friend and our father's
without a few observations on points of
friend, to pass over

his
character
which, while they do honor to his memory,

all.
should have a salutary influence over us

of
The
early life
Mr. Greene, as well as
his latter clays,
was characterized
and
by the grand secret of success, the habit

in
of application,
him
it
was no
less
powerful than his integrity
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

use
a
r
familiar
expression.
And
know not
the
instance of an}
charge being made for the faithful care of
the trusts.
In
all
the public trusts reposed in
him
and
they were
very numerous and responsible

course, he was alike punctual
;
and
in his
commercial inter-
and was possessed of a very
philosophic temperament of mind.

of this trait I will relate.
One
instance of the
many
the
He made
a large
shipment to the
loss.
north of Europe, and sustained a very heavy
On
return of the supercargo to Boston, Mr. Greene took him by

the hand in his usual friendly manner, without a mention of
the loss, and shortly after, by letters of introduction, etc.,
was instrumental
in
in placing
him
in a very eligible situation
Europe.
His manners were of the old school, and the open hospitality
of his
house
will
be
cherished and remembered by
many
of distinguished foreigners and a very extensive circle
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
" Lions of the City." long been considered one of the

to his public benefactions, I think
With regard
they will
compare with those
of his
compeers
and
is
his private ones
were very numerous ....

fathers, in
And now
that he
gathered to his
shall good old age, without sickness or suffering,
we not
his life,
trust an actuating Christian principle has sustained
and given the high presage
of a better?
would
69
sympathize with the widow and children of the deceased in

their
affliction,
well
it
knowing that could
all
he has
left
life,
behind restore him to the fond and dear relationships of

they would count
but dross.
The
children of Gardiner Greene by his second
marriage* were:
i.
Mary Anne,
died July
born
April
19,
1790,
in
Demerara;
10,
1827;
she was married
June
8,
1815; to Samuel, son of William and Joanna

2,
(Perkins) Hubbard, born in Boston, June

died
1785;
in
December
2-1,
1847.
He
graduated
at
Yale
1802, and received the degree
of LL.D. from his

in
Alma Mater
in
1827,
and from Harvard
1842;
he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
and was
descendant of the Rev. William
Hubbard, of Ipswich, Mass., the historian of

England,
one
of the
first
Xew
at
class
to
graduate
Harvard, and of Governor John Leverett, of Massachusetts.
Their children were:
1.
Elizabeth Geeene, 10 born February 11, 1817 who was married June 8, 1841, to Edward, son
;
of
6,
Gurdon and Susannah Buck, born October

1814.
As
stated on p. 55, he had no children by his
first
marriage.
70
2.

Joanna Perkins,
died in
10
born September 26, 1818
Colchester, Conn.,
to Philo
August
4,
1862;
who was married

in Colchester,
3.
born in Hebron, Conn., January
Augustus Gillette, died 3, 1810

;
January 20, 1858.

born
;
Mary Ann,
July
25,
10
1864
died September 7, 1820 who was married October

;
26, 1837, to
Edgecombe Heath, son

of
of
Judge
York,
Samuel and Alicia Blatchford,

died February 14, 1853.
4.
New
born in Lansingburgh, N. Y., March 24, 1811
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,
ber 15, 1868
who was married January

McCurdy,
of
1852, to Theodore
New
York,
born February
above).
7,
1829 (brother of Gertrude,
Judge Hubbard married

1828,
as his second
wife,
in
Mary Ann, daughter (Manwaring) Coit, who was
of Elisha and
Rebecca
a descendant of Gover-
nor AVinthrop, and by

ii.
whom
born
he had issue.
Gardiner,
January
5,
1792,
in
Demerara; died April

11.
179.'),
iii.
20, 1797, in Boston.

9,
Benjamin Daniel, 9 born December

Demerara.
in
MRS. GARDINER GREENE.

12.
iv.
71
William Parkinson, 9 born September
7,
1795, in Boston.
The
children
of
Gardiner Greene by
his
third
marriage were:
v.
9 Gardiner, born April
21, 1802, in
Bos-
ton; died February 20, 1810, in Boston.

vi.
1804, in
Elizabeth Hubbard, 9 born March 20, Boston; died December 12, 1844; who was
married December 27, 1826, to Henry, son of George
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
23, 1860, to Martin, son of
Harriette
9,
Brimmer, born
Boston, December
14, 1896.
2.
1829
he died January
George Henry, 10
2,
in Milan, Italy, April 30,
born January 11, 1829; died 1875 married July 1857, Virginia Minunzio, daughter of Jean
;
Baptiste
and
Savina
at
Frova, and
widow
of
2,
Count Porro, born

1828.
3.
Milan, Italy,
May
Elizabeth Greene, 10 born December

died January
4,
16,
1833
1835.
72
4.

Henry Palmer,
Susan
died
10
born
September
October
;
13,
1834;
1841
died June 18, 1835.

5.
Hammond, 10
February
27,
born
2,
1894
married March
son of
4,
1861,
Augustus Thorndike, Handasyde and Jane F. R. (Dumaresq) Perborn
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
and Sarah Hammond, of Boston, born October

1800, died at Brooldine, September 10, 1834.
children were:
1.
7,
Their
Francis Henry, 10 born October November 28, 1829.
6,
1829;
died
2.
Samuel Hubbard,
10
born
October 13, 1830;
died July 20, 1833.

3.
Gardiner Greene, 10 born November

married
19,
1832;
29, 1856, (1) Crowninshield, daughter of Charles and Mary (Crowninshield) Mifflin, born in Philadelphia,
October
Elizabeth
December 7,1835; died

February
21,
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.

4.
73
Samuel,
born January 4,1835; died May 27, 1896; married October 28, 1858, Mary Crown-
10
inshield,
daughter
of
Jonathan
Mason
and
died
Anne Caspar (Crowninshield) Warren,
May
viii.
4,
1890.
9 Saka, born August
15, 1808, at
Boston;
died February 26, 1863, in Paris, France, unmarried.

13.
ix.
John Singleton Copley, 9

at
born
Novem-
ber 27, 1810,

x.
Boston.
9
Martha Babcock,
born November
15,
1812, at Boston; died in Paris, France, in January,
1880;
son of
who was married October

Thomas
15, 1832, to Charles,
Coffin and Harriet

10, 1808, in
Kowe
(Linzee)
in 1898.
Amory, born May
Boston; died

1.
Charles Copley,
10
born August 15, 183G
died
May
21, 1871
married December
Louisa, daughter of George
8, 1858, M. M. and Elizabeth
A. Dexter, born March

2.
1,
1839.
9,
Susan Greene, 10 born January
1840
married
October 10, 1863, to Franklin Gordon, son of

Franklin and Elizabeth (Prescott) Dexter, born
in 1824.
3.
10
Copley,
16,
born
;
May
9,
1841;
died December
1879
married June 12, 1865, Catharine,
daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth Chace, born

in 1841,
4.
who
died April 21, 1871.

10
Edward
Linzee,
born September
1,
1844.
74
xi.
Mary Copley,
born
5,
in
Boston, July 21,
1817; died in Boston, April
1892; married by the
Rev. Dr. Wainwright, Rector of Trinity Church,

Boston,
November
28, 1837, to
James
Sullivan, son
of Jonathan and Mehitable (Sullivan)
Amory who
and died
1884.
in
was born
in
Boston,
May
11,
1809,
8,
Boston, on Trinity Sunday, June

children were
1.
:
Their
James Appleton, 10 born

1839; died
in
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.
(Brown) Ingersoll, born May 10 Robert, born in Boston, May
30, 1840.
3,
1842
married
(1) at St. Paul's Church, Brookline,

1864, Marianne Appleton, daughter
May 12, of Amos

12, 1843,
A. and Sarah E. Lawrence, born
May
who
died
May
15,
1882;
he married (2) at
Trinity Church, Boston, September 4, 1884, Katharine Leigh ton, daughter of George Clar-
endon and Lucy Catherine (Daniell) Crehore,

born February 14, 1864. Fanny Meredith, 10 born in Brookline,
4.
May
23,
1843; died in Brookline, August

5.
25, 1844.
;
Frederic,
10
born in Boston, November 26, 1844
unmarried.
6.
Gertrude,
10
born in Boston, January
6,
1846
died in Boston, January 12, 1847.

7.
7,">
Harold,
10
born in Boston, December
4,
1847
died in Boston, September 24, 1852.

8.
Mary
Copley,
10
10
born in Brookline,
May
3,
1849
died September 12, 1852.

9.
Montfort,
1850;
born
in
Boston,
September
13,
died September 10, 1852.
10.
Augustine Heard, 10
20,
born in
Brookline, July
1852; married in
Emmanuel Church, Bosdaughter

Ellicott
ton,
May
31, 1883, Elizabeth Tilden,
of
Samuel
George
and
Eleanora
11.
Gardiner Greene, 10
ber 27,
1854.
(Paul) Snelling, born February 2, 1855. born in Brookline, Novem1853;

died in
Brookline.
March
14,
12.
Harcourt, 10 born
1855; married
in
in
Brookline,
February
10,
Emmanuel Church,
Boston,
April 18, 1891, Gertrude Lowndes, (laughter of
George Bigelow and Anne (Lowndes) Chase, born October 23, 1868.
(11.)
Benjamin Daniel
8
Greene, second son

1793.
of Gardiner
and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Greene, was

S. A.,
born in Demerara,
December
9,
He
died, without issue, in Boston,
October 14, 1862; he
married,
May
31, 1826,
Margaret Morton, daughter

graduated
at
of Josiah Quincy.
He
Harvard
in
a
1812
after
leaving
in
the University he became
student at law
Litchfield,
his
Conn.,
and entered
which,
hoAv-
on
the
practice
of
profession,
76
ever,
THE FAMILY OF GKEEKE.

he soon
relinquished
for
that
of
medicine.
Passing four years abroad, he travelled extensively

in
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
the intimate appreciated as a botanist, and became

friend
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-
founders, and was

able
library,
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
and valuable herbarium, especially rich

specimens
authenticated
and
in
standard
their
North
con-
American
collections.
... To
to
secure
tinued usefulness, these were at length, by gift and
by bequest, consigned
the
Boston Society of
a
.
Natural History, to which, besides, he bequeathed

in money. large legacy [ten thousand dollars]
.

Eminently kind and disinterested,
thought to secure for himself a he should
all
77
he gave no
if
scientific reputation,
the more be remembered for the wise

liberality
and considerate
to
through which he sought

in a
promote the investigations of others
chosen
department of natural history."
Mr. Greene's learning as a botanist was every-
where recognized by
his
fellow scientists;
note
from Prof. Asa Gray, to Mrs. Waterston, says:

Mr. Nuttall, in
his exploration into
Arkansas many years
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."
In the same year Drs.
Wight
iind
Arnott, the latter a friend of Mr. Greene's, in their
" Flora of the Peninsula of India," published another genus
Greenia, from
Dr. Wight's
Indian collections, which, they
remark, we have named in honor of B. D. Greene, of Boston.

It thus
happened that two different plants were named
for
Mr. Greene, in opposite parts of the world, at the same time.
But
as
from calculation the Indian plant
is
little
earlier, it
takes precedence with botanists.
From an
taken
appreciative tribute to his
memory, which
appeared a few days after

:
his death, the following is
The strength and depth
of
feeling
which marked
his
character were combined with a peculiar delicacy and ten-
78

Though
habitually silent and reserved
derness of manner.
in conversation, his
words told when uttered.
Shrewdness of
observation and keen discernment pointed his remarks, and
caused them to be long recollected.
His ample fortune was

all
ever quietly but most generously dispensed in

ties of life.
the chari;
His mansion was the abode of hospitality

circle of his family
and
beyond the immediate

will ever cherish his
and
relatives,
who
memory with
the warmest affection, he

in all
was beloved and highly respected by numerous friends

ranks of society.
(12.)
William Parkinson
8
Greene,
third son
of Gardiner
born
in
and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Greene, was he died in Boston, September 7, 1795

;
Norwich, Conn., June
18,
1864.
He
married in
Boston, July 14, 1819, Augusta Elizabeth, daughter

of
Leonard Vassall and Sarah

in
(Lloyd)
Borland,
who was born
Boston,
November
12, 1795,
and
a
died in Norwich, Conn.,
June
21, 1861.
He was
graduate of Harvard
Prescott was for
a
in
1814, where the historian
time his room-mate, and Presithe Rev. Francis
dent James
Walker and
later
W.
P.
Greenwood,
were
the
minister of
King's
Chapel,
his classmates.
He began
lie
the study of law in the office of his
brother-in-law, Samuel
Hubbard, with whom,

Suffolk bar, he
after
was admitted
to the
was
for a
THE FAMILY OF GPtEENE.

time a partner.
practice he
79
After a few years of successful

to
removed
Norwich
in the
summer of
For
a
1824, where he engaged in manufacturing.

single year he held the office of
in a very acceptable
Mayor of
that city,
manner, but declined further
public political service.
He was
greatly interested in educational matters,
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
that institution not long after his death,

his college
some interesting incidents of
days are
given, showing his strong character;
while his later

in
business
life,
his
liberal
aid
to
associates
the
his
financial troubles of 1857, his public spirit,
and
unfailing
generosity
are
well
portrayed
by
Mr.
Elbridge Smith.
" I
have no fellowship,"
" for
Mr. Greene once
re-
marked,
* "
the
commonly received maxim
that
The
Life and Character of the Hon. William Parkinson Greene,

of
an Address delivered before the Alumni

January
25, 1865,
Norwich Free Academy,

Principal, etc.
by Elbridge Smith, A.M.,

18(35."
Printed at
the Riverside Press, Cambridge,
80
business
is

one thing and friendship another.
friend, I
;
If a
man
is
my
have a right to go to him in

I
my
to
necessity
and
should
think
little
of
my
friendship for a man, if he did not feel at liberty
come
to
me
a
for assistance in his time of need."

trait
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
taken by the various bodies of which he was a
member.
At
meeting of the Trustees of the Norwich

it
Free Academy
"
was
we
record our most emphatic testimony worth and distinguished ability of our
spirit,
Resolved, That
to the great personal
departed President, his public

his
his
large benevolence,
warm and
genial friendship, his firm integrity, his high
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
fellow-men and the honor of his (rod."
The City Government of Norwich

of
his
also took notice
decease,
adopted
similar
Resolutions,
and
attended his funeral in a body; most of the places

of business in the city were closed during the cere-

monies, and
his
81
as
a
death
was mourned
public
bereavement.
The
children of William Parkinson and
Augusta
10
E. Greene were:
i.
Margaret Yassall Borland,

in
born
in
Boston,
1825.
ii.
1820
died
in
Norwich, Conn., May,
Gardiner,
died
2(5,
10
born in Boston, September
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
;
Henry Lee and Mary Wilson nolds, born March 6, 1868.

11
(Hill) Rey-
2.
Leonard Vassall,
ber 22, 1857
;
born in Norwich, Decem-
died at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
September 18, 1895.
iii.
Elizabeth
1821
;
Copley,
10
born
in
at
Boston,
June
26,
died,
unmarried,
Bordeaux,
France, April 11, 1872.

iv.
James Lloyd,
10
born at Norwich, January

married at Salem,
17, 1827;
died October 18, 1883;
82
Mass.,
November
Children
14,
1849,
Matilda,
daughter
of
Edmund and
7,
Harriet Smith, born in Norwich,

:
May
1828.
1.
2.
William Parkinson, 11 born August
14, 1850.
Mary
Lloyd,
11
3.
4.
James Lloyd, Harriet Augusta, 11 born August

September
25, 1877.
11
11
born August 12, 1854. born October 30, 1857.

1,
1860; died
5.
6.
Matilda Elizabeth,
born January
9, 2,
1862.
Margaret Quincy,
11
born February
1868.
v.
5,
Anna Lloyd,
John,
Jeffries,
10
born in Norwich, January

married
1829;
to
died January 19, 1900;
May
8,
1851,
son
of
John
in
and
Ann Geyer
(Amory)
born
Boston, December 30,
1823; died in Boston, December 12, 1897.

vi.
William Parkinson,
18, 1854,
10
born
7,
in
Norwich,
Conn., March 25, 1831; died June

in
1898; married
Norwich, October
Theodocia Davenport,
daughter of Benjamin Wildman
and
Eliza
2,
Ann
1833.
Tompkins, born
Children
1.
:
in
Middletown, Conn., July
Augusta Borland,
ber
4,
11
born in Norwich, Septem-
1855.
in
2.
Benjamin Tompkins, 11 born

1857
;
Norwich, April
6,
died
May
29, 1898.

vii.
83
in
Augusta Elizabeth,
6,
10
born
Norwich,
Conn., April
1834; died July 25, 1900; married
January
19, 1865, to
William Grosvenor, son of Jesse
Sandford and Harriet (Grosvenor) Ely.

viii.
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,
1872; married (1)
June
15, 1836, Elizabeth P.,
daughter of John ami

23, 1815; she died in
Jane P. Hubbard, born April
Waltham, Mass., January
24,
1841
married
(2)
November
and Mary
died in
5,
1841,
Mary Anne,
daughter of William
Ann
Appleton, born March 28, 1820; she

4,
Boston, December
2,
1852
married
(3)
November
1858,
Isabel
W., daughter of James
William and Abby Sears McCulloch, born

1825; she died in
children by his
i.
May
1,
New
10
York, March
:
15, 1870.
His
first
wife were
Elizabeth,
10
born
in
Waltham, April
10,
1839; died in Waltham, April 30, 1839.

ii.
Copley,
born in Waltham, December
4,
1840; died in Waltham, December 27, 1840.
84

The
children
b}' his
second wife were:

10
iii.
Johx
S.
Copley,
born
in
Waltham, Oc-
tober 13, 1845; died in Berlin, Germany,

9,
November
3,
1872
married in Brookline, by his father, June

of the Rev.
1868,
tian
Mary Abby, daughter
Henry ChrisChildren
1869; died
and Mary Louisa (McCnllocb.) Mayer, born in

14, 184(3.
:
Washington, D. C, September
1.
Coplev,
11
born in Boston,
May
22,
in
2.
Newport, R. I., July 21, 1869. 11 Belle, born in Brookline, August
20, 1870.
3.
Henry Upham,
vember
11
born
in
Vienna, Austria, No-
21, 1871.*
iv.
Elizabeth Clarke, 10 born

11, 1868, to Caspar, son of
S.
in
Waltham,
father,
June
30, 1848; married in Brookline,
by her
November
George Caspar
and Harriet
ton,
in Bos(Sears) Crowninshield, born

;
October 23, 1837
he died January 10, 1897.
The
children of the Rev. J. S. Copley Greene by
his third wife were:

v.
Mary Amory,
10
10
born
in
Newton, May
3,
1860.
vi.
Margaret, born
in
Newton, February
11,
1S62.
* Mr.
i.ky
Henry Upham Greene has changed his name

in
to
Henry Cop-
Gbeene,
accordance with the provisions of the Massachusetts
Statutes.

Mr. Greene graduated
1828,
at
85
of
Harvard
in the class
among
his classmates
being the Hon. Robert
C. Winthrop, Chief-Justice Gilchrist, of

shire,
ter's
New Hamp-
and Dr. Henry
I.
Bowditch.
He
took his Mas-
degree in course, and received the honorary

After gradin
degree of A. M. from Racine, in 1854.

uation he
studied medicine, taking his degree
1831, and was a

cal Society.
istry,
member
of the Massachusetts Medi-
Some
years later he entered the min15, 1855,
and was ordained January
by Bishop
Eastburn; he was in charge of parishes in Waltham
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
Church was unfailing

1872, and
to the last.
His funeral was
held in St. Paul's Church, Brookline, on Tuesday,
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,
and the Rev. Dr. Stone,

It
is
rector of the
that
in
parish.
interesting to observe
his
official
report to
the Diocese, the
last
entry
made by Bishop Eastburn
before
his
own
death was an affectionate tribute to the character of
86
his friend, with
whom
he had long been on the most

report he
also
intimate relations.
In this
said of
Mr. Greene: "Christ Church, Waltham, of which he
may
justly be called the founder,
and
in
which he
always
manifested
an
affectionate
its
interest,
and
Chris-
Grace Church, Newton, with

venient parsonage,
tian beneficence."
beautiful
and con-
are
monuments of
his
Bofton,
ff.
A PURPOSE
Mr. John Grew
of
MARRIAGE
Mils
Between
and
Ann Green
Space of fourteen
Hath flood entered with me
for the
Days, and due Publication of fuch their Intention or
Purpofe
has
been
made by
afking
their
Banns
faid
at
three feveral public Meetings within the

as the
Town,
Law
directs.
Certified
under
my Hand
1805.
the
ist
Day
of
Oct'r
Anno Domini,
William Cooper,
Town-Clerk.
NOTES FROM PARISH REGISTERS,
the
Parish
Registers
of
St.
Mary's
in
Church, Gillmgham, which begin

are
1560
many
entries of baptisms, marriages
and burials of persons of the name of Greene; the to have been part of these, however, appear
greater
of the junior branches of the family.

list
The following
not
all
of such entries includes most
if
of those
so recorded, and shows the authority for several of

the dates given on previous pages, which are indi-
cated by a f
ciation of
It
shows
also the colloquial
pronun-
Bowridge
Hill:
BAPTIZED.
1565
-6.
Jany.
15, Alice, dau. of

1,
Jeremy Greene.
of
1568-!'. Jany.
Edmund, son
Anne, dau.
of
Jeremy Greene.
Jeremy Greene.
1570.
L571.
1573.
Sept.
Sept.
1, 1,
Elizabeth, dau. of
Jeremy Greene. Jeremy Greene.
Oct.
16, Gregory, son of
NOTES PROM PARISH REGISTERS.

1576.
1577.
89
Nov.
Deer.
12, John, son of

4,
Jeremy Greene. Judith, dau. of Thomas Greene

ham.
of
Lang-
1579.
Sept.
14, Joan, dan. of

Street.
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
26, Frances, dau. of

9,
William Greene.
Thomas, son
Street.
of
Thomas Greene
of
Wyke
1587.
1592.
Sept.
24, Jasper, son of
William Greene.
July
28,
Robert and Mary, children of Thomas Greene of Wyke Street.

Gregory, son of
1592.
Octr.
6,
Thomas Greene
of of
of
Lang-
ham.
1592. 1592.
Novr. 26, John, son of
Novr. 26, John, son of
Edmund Greene Edmund Greene

Thomas Greene
Langham.
Newbury.
1595.
1595.
Aug. Aug.
Oct.
24, John, son of
of
Langham.
Gentle-
31, Anne, dau. of Richard Greene,
1596.
1598.
man, f
,
Jeremy, son of
Edmund
Greene.
of
Deer.
10, Francis, son of
Thomas Greene
Lang-
ham.
1599.
1599.
May May
3,
Edmund, son
Thomas, son
man, f
of
Edmund
Greene.
23,
of Richard Greene, Gentle-
J)0
NOTES PROM PARISH REGISTERS.

Oct.
Oct.
9,
1601.
John, son of
Thomas Greene,
of
Junr.
1601.
L604.
25,
Morgan, son
Edmund
Greene.
May
Aug.
29, Margaret, dan. of

5,
Thomas Greene.
Greene.
L604.
Joan, dan. of John Greene, Merchant.
1604.
160.").
Dec. 12, Richard, son of
Edmund
Dec. 29, Mary, dau. of Peter Greene of Porridge

Hill.f
1606.
Oct.
23,
7,
Anne, dau.
of
John Greene.
1607.
April
William, son of Peter Greene of Porridge
HilLf
1607.
1608-9.
1609.
Aug. March
9, 9,
Jeremy, son of Jeremy Greene.

Robert, son of John Greene.
April 25, Joan, dau. of Peter Greene of Porridge
HilLf
1609.
Nov.
Dec.
1, 6,
Joan, dau. of Jeremy Greene.
1609.
1(1
John, son of
Thomas Greene
of
Langham.
10.
Sept. 23, Florence, dau. of Christopher Greene.
1610.
1611.
Dec. 29, William, son of
Edmund
Greene.
April 11, Margery, dau. of Peter Greene, Gentle-
man, f
1611.
1
Sept. 25, Joan, dau. of

9,
John Greene
of
Waggor.
till 12. Feb.
Dorothy, dau. of Christopher Greene of
Langham.
1612. 1612.
June Aug.
8, 6,
Jeremy, son of Jeremy Greene. Richard, son of Peter Greene of Porridge
HilLf
1614-15. Feb. 28, John, son of Jeremy Greene.
tl
114-15. Mar.
5,
Margaret, dau. of Christopher Greene of
Langham.
1615.
April 30, Richard, son of Peter Greene, Gentleman. f
NOTES FROM PARISH REGISTERS.

lt>16.
91
of
Oct.
15, Joan, dau. of Christopher
Greene
Lang-
ham.
1617.
Sept. 21, Francis, son of
1617-18. Jan. 23, Robert, son of
Jeremy Greene. Peter Greene, Gentleman.
of Porridge Hill.f
1618.
Oct.
28, George, son of
Thomas Greene, Mercer.

Car-
1619-20. Feb. 10, Nathaniel, son of Jeremy Greene. 1621. July 4, Cndborn, dan. of Robert Greene,
penter.
1621.
Dec. 18, Joan, dan. of Thomas Greene, Mercer.
1621-2.
Mar. 10, Agnes,
dau.
of
Christopher
Greene of
Langham. MARRIED.
1560-1.
1574.
1575.
Feb. 25, Jeremy Greene and Christian Coward.
Nov.
9,
William Greene and Joan Binnocks.
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,
Jeremy Greene. Edmund Greene and Anne, dau.

Alice, dau. of
ert
of
Rob-
Pyke.
1602-3.
Feb. 17, John Greene and Edith, dau. of William
Davys.
BURIED.
1560.
1570.
Aug.
Sept.
2,
John Greene.
Elizabeth, dau. of
4,
Jeremy Greene.
1578.
Aug.
22,
Henry Greene, suddenly.
92
1583.

Ultimo die Maii, Petrus Greene, gen., of Poridge
Hill, erat sepultus.f
1585. 1585.
1585.
May
12,
Jeremy Greene.
July 15, Christian Greene, widow.

Dec. 22, Robert Greene of Langham.
1587.
July
Feb.
6,
9,
Jane, dan. of
Thomas Greene
of
Langham.
1592-3.
1596.
William Greene, buried at Mudford.

Agnes, dau. of Thomas Greene of Langham.
Joan, wife of
May
July
27,
1597.
8,
Thomas Greene Thomas Greene
of
Langham.
1598.
1599.
Sept. 10, John, son of
of
Langham.
Aug.
15,
Thomas, son
man. |
of Richard Greene, Gentle-
1609-10. Mar.
1,
John, son of
Thomas Greene.
In 1616 seats were assigned in the church " to
Richard Greene, Gentleman."
The Parish Register of
St.
Thomas's Church,
in
Salisbury, Wiltshire, begins in 1570.
This, like the
preceding, contains notes of interest to the family;
among them
are the following:
MARRIED.
1619.
Nov.
4,
John Greene, mar.

BAPTIZED.
to
Joane Tatarsole.
1620.
Aug.
5,
e John, y sonn of John and Joane Greene.
1621-2.
Mar. 10, Peter, the sonn of John and Joane Greene.

1623-4.
93
Mar. 25, Richard, son of Mr. John and Mris. Joane

Greene.
1626.
June
21, James,
of
Mr.
John
and
Mris.
Joane
Greene.
1628.
June
4,
Thomas, sonne
gent.
of
John and Joane Greene,
1630. 1633.
Oct.
3,
Jone, dau. of John and Jone Greene.
May
19,
Mary, of John and Jone Greene: Chirurgeon.
SUBSIDY ROLLS.
IJjriESE records contain the supplies to the King from his tenants in cwpite, generally
his
given gratuitously to aid him
in
wars and emergencies.

assessed
They
<>-oods.
contain the names

their
of the persons
and the amount of
assessments for lands and
The
shire,
introduction
to
the
Returns
of
from
Dorsetis
made
in
the reign
Henry the Eighth,
as
follows:
In
tli
ys
Cedule indentyd
is
c conteignyd as well y naniys-
of all and ev'y p'son

of xlti or
&
p'sons
havyng landis
e
to
yerly valeu
above as also goods to y

set oute
valeu of xlti or above
&
also y e
naiiiys
'
sumes pytclerly
uppon ev'y
off
ther seyd
dew
to
our soverenge Lorde the king for y e fyrst of

e
four yerys sbsydie grauntyd unto hys hygnes in y e last
p'lymet
& upon &
after
taxacyon
&
cessing thereof.
DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA.

Then
cluding
|
97
follow the
names of
fifty-three persons, inlate
John Greene,
|.
Surgeon,
of
New
Sara
Salisbury
The
p'sons.
totall
number
of these
men, youthes and boyes
;ire liii
Besids the wives and Children of Dyvers of these.
N. DlNGLEY, Coillpt
1 '.
John Knapp,
Searcher.
THO WURFRIS,
:
Coll
'.
ihm.
his
To
the
(
right
ho rl,le the lords of
ma ts
honorable privie
'onnsell. this at Whitehall.
London.
rble Right ho
.
After the p'formance of our most humble Duties,

please yor. good
may
it
Lops, to receaue hereinclosed a
list
of the
names
for
of suche
passeng
rs
.
as tooke
shippinge at this porte
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
Due obedience and observance
of
yo
r
.
honrs
Ire
Dated the
last of
Decemb
'.
past
Thus wee humbly take

of June, 1635.
leave.
Southampton the
serv ts
xijth
Day
Yo r LoP s most humble

.
Tho: Wurfris,
N. Dingley,
Coll r
r
.
Compt
JOH. KNAPP, Searcher.
Drake,
in
his
"Founders of
and
New
England," pp.
55, 56, prints the letters
this list in full.
Most
98
of
the
DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA.

fifty-three
were
from
Wiltshire.
Drake,
however, places against one group of nine names, of
which " John Greene, surgeon"

" late of
is
the last, the words
Hew
England," as
viously gone thither
John Greene had preand returned, and was now

if
departing a second time.
In the copy in " Colonial
Documents
"
bility,
':
it
appears, with
much
greater proba-
Hew
Sarum," as mentioned above.
GREENE OF BRAMDEANE, HAMPSHIRE.
jtN"E
branch of the family of Greene,
of
Dorsetshire, settled in Hampshire in the

early part
of the
sixteenth century, as
by the Heraldic Visitation of 1619, and were seated at Petersheld and Bramdeane. In 1543
appears
Richard Greene, of Bramdeane, was assessed

1
to the
King's Subsidy, and

Parish.
his tax
was the
largest in the
He
left a
son and heir,

2
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,
and was buried Dec.
1(5,
1583.
100

iii.
Nicholas,
of Bramjleane.
He
held the
living of the
parsonage of West Tisted, adjoining
Bramdeane.
He was
3
buried
December
12,
1585,
leaving daughters Eleanor and Jane.

iv.
Margery,
,
wife of Innocent Sharpe.
v.
wife of
Williams.
BRAMDEANE.
Bramdeane
is
a parish in Hampshire, about eight

It is a pleasant village con-
miles from Winchester.
taining about two hundred and thirty inhabitants and
1,300 acres of land.
The church, dedicated

is
to St.
Simon and
St.
Jude,
a small edifice of ancient but
unknown
date, consisting of
an
aisle,
chancel and
small tower.
The
living
is
in the gift of the
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
have passed from the family about the end of the

seventeenth century, and
Woodcote House
is
now
the seat of Colonel William Greene.
The following
extracts from the Parish

in
Register
of Bramdeane, which begins
1573, doubtless refer
GREENE OF BRAMDEAXE, HAMPSHIRE.

to
101
It
members of the family mentioned above.
is
difficult,
however, to assign them, by reason of the
frequent repetition of the same Christian names:

BAPTIZED.
1577. 1597.
Dec.
15, Jane, dan. of Nicholas Greene.
April 30, Edward, son of Stephen Greene.
1598.
May
Dec.
13, Nicholas" and Dorothy, children of Stephen
Greene.
1(300.
15, Elizabeth, dan. of Stephen Greene. 10, Peter, sun of
1602.
Feb.
Stephen Greene.
1004.
1000.
Nov.
12, William, son of Nicholas
Greene
June
July
Oct.
12, Stephen, son of Stephen Greene.

2,
1610. 1021.
Thomas, son
of
Stephen Greene.
8,
William, son of
Thomas Greene. Thomas Greene.
1625-6. March 16, Frances, dan. of Thomas Greene.

1028.
Nov.
17, Margaret, dan. of
1083.
Aug.
26, Peter, son of Peter Greene, born Aug. 10.

29, 12,
1635-6. Feb.
1080.
John, son of Peter Greene, horn Feb. 22.

Richard, son
2.
June
of
Edward Greene, born
June
1087.
Nov.
23, Stephen,
son
of
Edward Greene, horn
Nov. 14.
1009.
Sept.
6,
Catherine, dan. of Stephen and Catherine
Greene.
10)73.
June
2,
Mary,
dan.
of
Stephen
and
Catherine
Greene.
MARRIED.
1023.
June
9,
Nicholas Pescod and Dorothy Greene.
102

BURIED.
L583.
>ec.
16,
1
Peter Greene.
Nicholas
(
L585.
Dec.
2,
;> >.
ireeiie. S-reene.
1587.
L604.
June
Nov. Nov.
1.
Richard
16,
14. L6,
William, son of Nicholas Greene.
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
the fly-leaf of the Register:

:
Memorandum
That
in
1<*>41.
Mr.
Peter Greene
of
gave
unto the Parish
Church
received
of
Bramdeane the sum
ten shillings which

for a
was
com-
by the
Church Wardens and expended
munion
In
table-cloth and a pewter howl.
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
THE GREENES OF BOUGHTON.

REFERENCE
part of this
was made
in
the
first
volume to the Greenes of
Boughton, anciently called Buketon or

Buckton, and to an account of that branch of the
family which
in
is
given
in a
work now
rarely found
our Public Libraries

It is
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
Name, Arms, Alliances, Greatand Possessions of the House of Greene," as

heads
his
he
quaintly
account,
:
and we therefore
quote the passage below

Of the
Greene we have no certain
original of the house of

it is
apparent they assumed their name and arms from an allusion to their principal and beloved lordinformation, but
ship,
which was Buckton, or the town

of
of
Bucks,
in
the
County
a
Northampton, being
in
the
Hundred
its
of Spelho,
place
memorable
for the excellency of
soil
and situa-
Kl
THE GREENES OE BOUGHTON.

spacious and delightful Green, upon which at the
tion, as a
desire of the
Lords was yearly held
and exercised
Fair.
with particular and
extraordinary privileges.
Hence they
from Buckton,
in
were called Greene, or of the Greene.

or the
a field
And
town
of
Bucks, they have assumed for their arms,

or.
it
Azure, three Bucks trippant

the
first
In
mention of this family we find

possessed
of the
in
very
flourishing
condition,
manor
of
Buckton,
style,
from which the lords thereof did take their usual

also of the lordships of
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
should be at that time in England.

Sir
And
of these
of
was Lord
Buckton,
Thomas
of
Buckton, or Sir
Thomas Greene
been
who
lived in the reign of
King Edward
the First.
Of these
Greenes we find divers to have

riches, their
qualified from their

prin-
cipal
power and the esteem they held, for the employments in the counties where they lived.
the
Among
it
other
it
advantages
of
this
House, the great

it
blood of which
was participant did honor
very much,
having had the fortune
to ally itself to the great
Houses
of Stafford,
lex
last
De
la
Zouch, Mauduit, Talbot, Ferrers of Chart-
and
liosse. all of the illustrious
and old
nobility.
But
it
at
coming
in
to
the
fortune
of
all
transitory things,
con-
cluded
the
Sir
Henry Greene, who dying without

and
Veres
inheritance of this family
that
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
following documents include not only
Wills of various members of the family

in the direct line of descent,
fully
which careorthography
and
all
literally
its
follow the
original
also
with
eccentricities,
but
embrace Wills
(or abstracts) of individuals
of
are
other branches of
the family in England,
who
supposed, by realess
son of their residence, to have been more or

closely
related
to
Robert
Greene- of
Gillingham,
although no
attempt has been made to establish
any connection.
WILL OF PETER* GREENE,

()F
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
Elizabeth by the grace of
God
of
Englande, Fraunce, and
108
GREENE WILLS.
I
[relande queene defender of the faytjie etc.

of
Peter Greene
Porridgehill
within
the
parrishe
of
Gillingham in the
Countie of Dorsst. beinge sicke in bodye, but of good and

perfects
memorye (God be thancked) Doe constitute ordeyne and make this my testamente and laste will in manner and
forme followinge.
First
I
bequeathe
my
sowle to allmightie god, and to be
saved
by the death passioun resurrection and assention of
oure Lorde Jesus Christe;
And
to reste
with Abraham, Isack
and Jacob, with the blessed company of heaven. And my bodye to be buried in the churche of Gillingham abovesaid.
Item.
pence.
give to the Cathedral! churche of Wells twelve
Item.
shillings
gyve to the parrishe churche fowre pence.

I
of Gillingham three
Item.
give
to
the
poore
people
of
Gillingham
fyve
poundes
to
be paide unto those that hath moste neede of
theme, by the discretion of myne overseers within one moneth

nexte after
Item.
Lnge.
I
my
deceasse.
to
gyve
my
brother John Greene
my donne
geld-
Item.
geve unto Alice Smale,
thirteene shillings
Fowre poundes fowre pence whiche she dothe owe me.
my
syster,
Item.
give unto
Elizabeth Smale the daughter of
my
one
saide Sister Alyce, one
cowe and one brounded
heiffer of
yeares oulde, and

I
vauntage.
gyve unto Johane Greene

twoe yeardes and
a half
my
wieff
of
my
white nagge, and

shillinges a
also
of
puke
Twelve
vcarde to
make
her
SfOWlie.
GREENE WILLS.
[tern.
(
109
of
gyve unto Anne Tapps the wife
Roger Tapps
my
sister)
Fyve poundes
to
be paide unto her within one
half yeare next after
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
everye one of theme, one ewe and one Lanibe.

I
gyve unto everye one
of
my
god children twelve
gyve moreover unto Richard Tapps one
of the
sliil-
childrenn of
my
saide syster
Anne Tapps, twenty

the sonne
of
linges.
Item.
.->.
gyve
unto
Richarde Greene
my
brother Richard Greene,

Item.
his
weifT",
I
A donne Mare
cropeard.
give and bequeathe unto John Spencer and Avis Twentie yeares of and in all my Moytye of the
there-
house withe thappurtenannces called Jynns, payinge

fore yearlye
unto myne heires the rente of Fower

all
shillinges,
and doinge, payinge, and discharginge
other customes and
duetves which shalbe due and payable of and for the same
duringe the sayde tyme.

intente and
shall
full
'I
Provided allwaies and

that yf
my mynde,
meaninge
is,
Thomas Dyrdoe gentleman
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
exchange the fee symple of
my Moytye
Jynns
of the
to
same bowse withe thappurtenannces
called
and
withe the sayde Thomas Dyrdo for the Fee symple of suche
and so muche other Lande within Gillingham soe good
as
110
that,
GREENE WILLS.
withe consideration by the sayde
heires ami
in
myne
for
the
Thomas Dyrdo unt<> charges by me and myne assignees
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
gyve unto Richarde Orcharde
my
servaunte in
sixe
sliil-
consideracion of his wags for his service,
Twentye
unto linges eighte pence to be paid

withe decente apparell.
Item.
I
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
imgoods and chattells moveable & unto perfourmed, I gyve wholye
Richarde Greene
my
brother,
whome
ordeine and
make my
Dcsyr-
whole executor
of this
my
laste will
and testamente.
freendes John Belman and inge and appointinge my verve
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.
Yeoven the daye
and yeare
above written.
Belman, Stephen Popley, George
Witnesses hereof, John

1
laylwaye, Robert Lovett.
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 coininaundmente of the saide Peter Greene, thefoure
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.
WILL OF RICHARD GREENE,

3
OF BOWRIDGE HILL, IN GILLINGHAM.

3fn
tlje
name
of (0oto &inen,
Anno Dni one thowsand
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 faithe etc. the fourthe and of Scotland

thirtith,
I,
the
in
nyne and
Parrishe
Richarde Greene of Porridge Hill
the
of Gillingham in the
in
Countye
former
of Dorsstt thelder beinge sike
bodye but of good and perfect memorie (god be thanked)

all
revokinge
this
other
my
wills,
in
doe make and ordaine
my
last will
and testament
manner and forme
fol-
lowenge.
First
I
bequeathe
it
my
sowle to almightye god and
my body
to be buried as
beconieth a Christian.
Item.
give to the
Poore of Gillingham aforesaid Five
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
Cockelofte, one chayer stoole, and fourtie shillings Item.

I
in
money.
geve
and
bequeathe unto Richard Greene
my
Graundchild that serveth Mr. Blacker, Five poundes
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.
unto John Greene give and bequeathe
my Graund-
childe the sonne of Richard Greene,

that
is
my
sonne, Five poundes
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
and bequeathe unto
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
shall thincke t'ytte.
unto Joane Greene the wief give and bequeathe
Peter Greene aforesaid, fower
pewter platters and two

Richard Greene
pottingers.
Item.
geve
and
bequeathe
unto
my
sonne, Fonrtie shillings to be ymployed and bestowed uppon
my Daughter
tymes and
Item.
in
Katherine Turnor. and

such sorte as
hir
children at such
my
sayde sonne
Richard shall
think e fytte.
I
servante
all
bequeathe unto Eleanor. such some and somes of money wch
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
Raigne Lorde Kinge .lames, together wth the saide
Maye
in the
thirde yeare of the
wrightinge.
Item
give and bequeathe unto
Marye Greene, the wief of my my best Bedde & my best Coverlett wth the best Furniture
thereunto
Item,
titt
daughter in lawe, saide sonne Richard Greene,
my
for the furnishinge of one bedde.
all
the rest of
my
goodes and chattells whatsoever,
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
my sonne and make my fulle and
whole executor of
my
and testament, appoynt-
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
them Twelve pence.
In wittnes whereof
have sette
firste
my
hande and
sealle
to
these p'nts the daie and yeare
above written.
Witnesses
Sudall,
hereunto,
John
Baker,
John
Davidg, Walter
Edmunde Brewer
Proved by Richard Greene, son of the testator

1608.
May
:> >.
WILL OF RICHARD GREENE,

4
OF SALISBURY.
3Tn
tfjc
name
of (Bali
91
men
Richarde Greene of the Close
of
the Canons of the Cathedrall Churche of
Sarum
in
the
County of Wiltes gent, consideringe wth myself the
frailtie
Ill
of
GREENE WILLS.
lief
man's
and howe inuche

his
it
behoveth everye true Chris-
tian
a
man
to
remember
ende and to addresse himselfe by
cares and affayres tymelye disburdening of himself of the

this
lief
of
to
joyful!
it
expectacon of
please
of
his
dissolucon departcall
ure hence vvhensoev
shall
a
God
that
to
him, Profess-
inge
my
self
to
be
member
body and
churche
is
whereof Christe .lesus
God and Man

the
in one
person
the
supreme and
worthie)
I
all-only
head whereby (thoughe altogether un-
am vouchesafed
a
(
sweete and glorious name

I
and tytle of
as
nistian
wherein
reioyce
Beleevinge alsoe
undoubted truthes whatsoev. the holy
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-
of pecting the accomplishment and fulfillinge
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
the cr.isse for
my
synnes, doe willingly and wth
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
hathe prepared for

assured
his electe
come
hope of wch
gracious god
infinite
I
uiercye to be vouchesafed unto
me by my
repose myself on his goodness and
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
dye since faithe calleth
me
am
betake myselfe whollye to his mercifull providence and
proteccon knowinge that the thinge comitted to him cannotl

pishe desyringe only to be enabled by his assistinge grace to
live (wildest
he giveth
lief) in his faithefull service
and true
totall
feare
and
in deathe to be
all
made happye by
his
free
and
remission of
my
greate and greavous synnes and by the
blessed fruicon of his favoure
&
love in Christe .Jesus

interringre of niv
Amen
body
1
Evon
soe
come Lorde
Jesus.
The
Leave to the discreacon of
my
deare and Christian Frendes
when and wheresoev

whence
it
shall please the
Lorde
it
to call
me
to
be returnede to the earthe from

I
whence
came and from
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
former and other wills whatsoev
me
heretofore made.
I
First
give and
bequeathe unto
Father Richard Greene in
one double sovereigne of
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
Tenement and Garden wth
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
and appoynte that

that
my
sayd wief shall
houlde and enioye

in
Tenemt. wth thapp'tenncs lyenge

of Dorsstt called
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
the Parrishe of Gillinglnn aforesayd
widow
shall soe long live
and noe longer nor otherwise. and

bequeath the sayd Tenement called
the
Item
give
Gyns wth thappurtenncs charged wth

estate thereof
sayd Terme &
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
brother and to the heires males of
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
with appurtenncs shalbe
and reniayne
my
it
light heires forev.
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
Floud Gates meade and divers arable Landes

the
all
lyeing in
Parrishe of Gillingham
Reserving to himself only an
estate for terme of his nrall lief as
by the sayd deeds maye

the rather
I
appeare, the well
knowe and am perswaded he
did oute of a good opinion he had of
me
of
that
would
in
tyme
sisters
to
come be
helpfull to
the
rest
my
brothers and
according to
my
[tower and abilitie.
Therefore and
in token of
my
thanckf nines and dutye towards him as alsoe
of
1
my
love and carefnll affection to
my
brothers and sisters

I
doe requyre will and appoynte that yf
shall
dye wth oute
yssne of
my bodye
lawfullye
begotten,
then
my
heire
to
whom
my
the sayd
Tenement
called Coles or
Brownes and other

after
the sayd last mentioned Landes shall
come and descend
deathe shall
wthin three monethes after

in
my
death by
deeds sufficient
the lawe give
Robert Greene and John Greene
to each of
and graunte to the sayd them one severall
annuytie of Five poundes apeece lawfull englishe moneys to

be yssuinge out of the sayd last
menconed Tenement and
p 'misses and to be payde yearelie onto them for & dnringe the terme of theire nrall lives severally and respectively from
and after the death of

tresse in the
my
sayd Father with clauses of dis-
sayd
sev'all
deeds to be conteyned for the sure
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
Tenn poundes lawful
englishe
monye
wthin six monethes next after the deathe of
my
sayd Father.
IS
GREENE WILLS.
the
And
some
of
Tenn
poundes more
Like
lawful]
monye
Father.
w thin twoe yeares next after the deathe of Bui

if
my
sayd
incase
mv
heire unto
whome
shall
leave and suffer
the sayd last
mentioned Tent called Coles or Brownes and

last
other the sayd

after
mentioned
Landes
to
descend & come
my
deathe and the deathe of

liniitted
my
sayd Father shall not

snl'lieientlye
wthin the tyme before

graunte and
lawfnllye and
assure the sayd
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
bequeath the sayd Tenement
Coles or Brownes and other the sayd last meneoned
Landes after
fully
wth oute yssue of my bodye lawbrother and begotten) unto the sayd Robert Greene my
my
death
the heires males of his bodye lawfnllye begotten.
And
for
defaulte of suche yssue

to the
Then
give and bequeathe the
same
sayd John Greene
my
brother and to the heires males

begotten.
of his
body lawfnllye
I
to be
And
for defaulte of
suche yssue then
give and
bequeathe the same unto
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
have and inheritte the sayd
meneioned premisses
they
daye.
will answere the eontrarie to allmightie
God
at the last
Provided
lawfullye
that
if
shall
have any heire of myne owne bodye

at
begotten
borne or begotten
the
tyme
of
my
GREENE WILLS.
deathe Then
Hi)
that
my
will
and
meaninore
is
suche heire of
to
myne owne bodye
shall not he
any wave charged or Lyable

hut
shall
the charges or condicons before mencioned
freelie
inheritte tlie p'misses cleerelie discharged of the sayd

ties
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
sayd Robert, John, Anne Greene
my
sayd Brothers and sister accordinge to the truthe of
my
intent as suche
my
heire of
myne owne bodye

at the last
will
answere the
therefore
contrarye
in
to allmightie
God
daye,
And
that ease
and for the discharge

in
of suche
heire of
myne
owne bodye
that behalfe
further will and appoynte that
my
said
brothers Robert Greene and John Greene shall (in
this ease
only) houlde and enioye the sayd Tenemt. called
Coles or Brownes and the sayd

shall receive the yssues
Landes
last
mencioned and
and
next
proffitts
thereof for and duringe

the
the
term of six years
after
deathe
of
my
sayd
I
Father
Uppon
this truste
and confidence nev'theless that
repose in them and requier at theire handes that they the
sayd Robert and John and the survivor of them shall paye
and allowe unto

p'misses
vearlie
my
sayde wief oute of the
proffitts
of the
yearelie
of
duringe the sayd
Term
of six yeares
the
of
some
Power poundes towardes the mayntennce

body.
such heire of
surplusage
the sayd
of
my
the
And
shall
lykewise of the
proffitts
whole
sayd yssues and
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
Anne Greene and
them by equal] porcons,
120
Provided that
if
I
GREENE WILLS.
shall
lawfullye begotten
then
this last
dye wth oute yssue of my bodye mencioned devise and be-
quest unto
my
sayd brothers Robert and John shalbe utterlye

as
voyde for and

the p'misses to
touchinge the sayde Terme of six years

as aforesayd.
in
them devised
And
in
this case
bothe they and
my
sayd
sister shalbe
excluded from elaym-
mencioned devise Because in inge anythinge by the sayd last

that case they are otherwise
will
provided for by
this
my
last
as
is
before expressed.
is
And my bumble and

to
earnest
peticon and request
bothe
the
Lorde Chancellor, of
England
of lawe
for the
tyme beinge and
to all other this
Judges bothe
any
and equitie before
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
true intent and
meaninge therein expressed.

decided accordingly.
Item.
I
And
(yf
neede be) maye be
give to
all sorts.
my
brother Peeter one suite of
my
my
best
apparrell of
Item
give to
my
brothers Robert and John
all
flat-
ten books to be divided
betwene them.
sister
Item.
(if
give to
my
goulde,
And
to
to eaehe
of
Rebecca Downton one Angell my sisters Marye, Rachel! and
Anne, and
my
a
Sister in lawe
Johane Greene to eaehe of
them an
eiiglishe
Crowne
in
goulde.
And
to each of
I
them
one handerehief
Item
chattells
I
peece, of the better sorte

all
wch
have.
give and bequeathe
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-
of Mr. Blacker of the

is
estated for terme of her

of
lief
thereby
to
chaunge
the
lief
William
Greene
it
my
nephewe
will
therein sett
downe
for
any other unles
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
handes of suche ptie to

called Coles or
whome
to
suffer the sayd
Tenemt
tliis
Brownes
to descende
and come either by
my
last
will
or otherwise
have that carefull regarde

I
&
respect unto
my
sayd wief that in case what
shall
other-
wise leave her be not sufficient for her convenient mayn-
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
sayd brother John Greene, and
lovinge wief Agnes Greene to be executors of this

will
my sayd my last
& testament
to see the
same
in all
things trulye per-
formed.
And
desire
my
approved Frendes Thomas Davye

tliis
Esquier and John Polden, gent, to be overseers of

last will.
my
wth
sett
In wittnes of
all
I
wch
to
this
my
last
will
written
myne owne hand

to
have alsoe subscribed
my name and
my
seale
of
the eighte and twentith daye of Aprill in the
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
Thirtye poundes in money wch he oweth-me and hath
in
his
hands
for pte
whereof
have
his bond.
12'2
GREENE WILLS.
me
Ri
:
Vicesimo nono Septmb. 1616, per

rand that these wordes
in
Greene: memoI shall
the firste sheete (vizt.) (If
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
thousand six hundred fowrtene
in the p'nce of us.
Phillippe Punkney
.John
Poulden.
Proved
father,
at London June "2->, 1(117 by Richard Greene the and John Greene, the brother of the testator.
WILL OF ROBERT GREENE,

4
OF CUCKLINGTON.
3Jn the
name
of (Soto, xlmen,
October, in the yea re
day of sixe thousand of our Lord God one

I
the one
and
twentith
hundred and
the
forty-nine,
Robert Greene, of Cucklington, in
County
of Somst.
in
Gent, make and ordaine
my
last will
and testament
First
I
manner and forme following:
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
bequeath to my brother John Greene my Latin books if he come for them

I
I
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,
goods and chattels, of whatsoever give and bequeath to my said sonne
my
Robert
whom
hereby appoint
my
sole executor of this
my
last will
and testament.
Robert Greene.
In presence of
John Cary.
Willm Burgess.
Proved January
7,
1650!
WILL OF JEREMY GREENE,

OF OILLINGHAM.
[ABSTKACT.J
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
the Virgin), twelve pence

to
his
poor twenty shillings;
most needy daughter Rachel forty marks

;
to the
when
to
married, or at the age of twenty-three

fifteen
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:
Gregory, John, Thomas and Jeremy cadi
it*
hound the money
to be
used and employed for their benefit
until they arrive at the age of
twenty-one years.
Should any
it is
of his children die before receiving his or their portion

to
be divided
among
the survivors.
To
his wife Christian,
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
son William his unexpired lease
of the
mills called Barnabies mills,
during
his life,
remainder
to the rest of his sons in succession.

his
life,
Also to his son William
unexpired lease of
a close called
Chantry
close,
during his
all
remainder
to
daughter Rachel.
leases,
Also to son William,

his life,
the rest of his unexpired

his other sons.
during
remainder to
Appropriates one hundred pounds for pur-
to the chasing an estate the profits of which are to he applied

of bringing up of his sons until they are twenty-one years
age.
Desires
that
his
wife
and son
to
a
William shall occupy

provide everything she
together his dwelling house, he
may
that
require so long as she remains

his
widow: and she
to see
children and hers are well governed and brought up.

his
Appoints
legatee.
son William executor, and makes him residuary
GREENE WILLS.
L25
WILL OF PETER GREENE,

OF BEAMDEANE.
[ABSTBACT.]
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,
and her husband Innocent Sharpe, each twenty

their married daughters each ten shillings, and
shillings, to
to the other
three unmarried children four pounds.
To Jane Greene, To
his
his
brother's daughter, his chest with his handkerchief of black
work,
lianis,
his
his
silk
knit
garters
and
his girdle.
.John
Wil-
sister's
son,
twenty
shillings.
To
mother-in-
law twenty shillings.
To
his
Peter, his brother William's son,
twenty
shillings.
To
brother
Stephen
ten
of
shillings.
Small legacies
to
Richard
and
Robert
Baker
London,
Peter Beale and his wife, William Demes, and
his wife, of
Andover, and
to
every servant
in
his
father's house.
Ap-
points Thomas, son of his brother William, his executor and
makes him residuary .legatee.
WILL
()K
NICHOLAS GREENE,
bstbact.]
OF BRAMDEANE.
[a
The
will of Nicholas
Greene of Bramdeane, dated NovemFebruary

1<,
ber 14, 1584, was proved

be buried near his wife.
1584-5.
Desires to
Speaks of
his
lease of the
Parson-
\'2i)
GREENE WILLS.
Mentions
his
Tisted. age of West
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,
to Stephen and William the younger:

.lane, silver plate:
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
cluding his farm
Bramdeane.
WILL OF STEPHEN GREENE,

OF BRAMDEANE.
[ABSTRACT.]
made Stephen Greene, of Bramdeane, December 13, 1631, which was proved
lor
his
1,
will
September
Provides
1632.
his
wife Catharine.
Names
his
brothers Peter, Ralph,
his wife and Thomas: also his son Edward and
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
dren of his brother Thomas.

Tisted.
Appoints
his
Speaks of wife executrix, and
his land
West
and
his brother Peter
Greene,
Gentleman,
BettS,
cousin
John
Bacon,
(bmtlen.au.
Edward
Gentleman, overseers.
GREEXK WILLS.
'27
WILL OF PETER GREENE,

OF MTCHAEL.MAKSH.
[ABSTRACT.]
Peter Greene, of Miehaelmarsh, in Hampshire, made his

will
there, without date,
He
bequeaths to his
which was proved daughters Martha and

fifty
May
17, 1650.
each sixty pounds: to his son Peter
Mary Greene, pounds, and to his

All his children
his brother Nich-
sons John and Thomas, each forty pounds.
under twenty-one years

olas.
of age.
Mentions
Appoints
his mother, Catherine Greene, executrix,

senr.,
and
Thomas Dowes,
of Elden,
Edward Greene
of
Bramand
deane, and Lionel Richards

overseers.
of Miehaelmarsh, assistants
Witnessed by Stephen Greene, and others.
THE FAMILY ARMS.
-cgjHE
armorial
of bearings of the Greenes

in
Greene's Norton,
j:
Northamptonshire
three
bucks trippant
are
well
estab-
lished
were carved upon by various authorities; they
as their tombs, alone, or impaled with allied families,
has been described on page 18, supra.
The charges
of the
suggest the early name

ancient seats of the
field
of the (Buketon) of one
family.
The
tincture
or,
was azure, and that of the bucks

for gold.
the heraldic
term
These arms
as thus blazoned
were
borne by the descendants of the Lord Chief Justice,

until
the
direct
line
of descent through the eldest
sons became extinct.
From
bore the
the
fact
that
other
families
of the with
name
is
same device,
occasionally
what
THE FAMILY AKMS.

called in heraldry a " difference,"
129
has been suga
it
gested that these families were derived from
com-
mon
ancestor,
it
who used
the
arms
at
an earlier
the
period; but
would be impossible,
at
present
day, to establish this theory as a fact.
The Greenes of Warwickshire,
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
confirmed to Sir William Greene of Oxfordshire,

1613, by
in
Camden, Clarenceux king-of-arms. Burke gives the arms of Greene of Greene's Norton, as
described
cited,
above
and other authorities might be

use in
different parts
showing
their
of the
kingdom.
The arms of Robert Greene of Gilliugham,

1545, as recorded at the Heralds' College in
land,
in
Eng-
are
identical
with
those
of the
Greenes of
Greene's Norton;
and that they were used by the

is
Gillingham branch
further established by the seal,

letter
having
this device,
on the
in
quoted on pages 27
<>f
and 28, supra, written

that parish,
1651 by Richard Greene

a son of Peter
who was probably

to
Greene
of Bowridge, and a nephew of John "the chiruro-eon,"
who came
New
England.
130
THE FAMILY ARMS.

crest as used
The
by the descendants of John

or.
is
a buck's head,
couped,
This crest, often called a

is,
stag's head,
in
sometimes
"
couped," that
terminating
a straight line,
off,
and
sometimes " erased," or as if
torn
with a ragged edge, has for centuries been

in
borne with these arms
England, and by the de-
scendants of the Greenes of Gillingham, in America.
This long-continued use by the latter family has
numerous instances both on tombstones, on

and
in early
silver,
book
plates.
INDEX.
INDEX.
Adams, Eleanor,
Francis, 81
112
Amory, Martha Babcock (Greene),

7.".
Mary Ricketts, 81 Mary Ricketts (Newton), Almy, Anne (Greene), 44

William, 44
81
Mary Copley, 75 Mary Copley (Greene),

Montfort, 75
74
Mehitable (Sullivan), 74
Amory, Ann Geyer

Arthur, 74
(Jeffries), 82
Rebecca (Holmes),
Robert, 74
51
Augustine Heard, 75
Catharine (Chace), 73 Catharine (Greene), 51
Charles, 73
Susan Greene (Dexter),
53, 73
Thomas,
51
Coffin, 73
Thomas
Charles Copley, 73 Copley, 73 Edward Linzee, 73 Elizabeth Tilden (Snelling), 75 Elizabeth Wilcox (Ingersoll), 74
Andros, Edmund, 43 Anthony, Elizabeth (Greene), 48 John, 48 Appleton, Mary Ann, 83
Mary Anne
(Greene), 83
Fanny Meredith,
Frederic, 74
74
Gardiner Greene, 75
Gertrude, 74
William, 83 Arnold, Elizabeth (Greene). 45 Stephen, 45 Arnott, 77 Ashley, George, 113

.
Gertrude Lowndes (Chase), 75 Harcourt, 75 Harold, 75

Harriet
Bacon, John, 126 Baker, 11, 15, 17,

John, 112, 113 Richard, 125 Robert, 125
Barton, 49
20, 22
James James
(Linzee) 73 Appleton, 74
Rowe
Sullivan, 74
John, 51 Jonathan, 74 Katharine Leighton (Crehore),74 Louisa (Dexter), 73 Marianne A. (Lawrence), 74
William, 126 Elizabeth

Margaret, 49
(Greene),
46,
Mary
(Greene), 48
134
Barton, Rufus. 49
Beale, Peter, 125, 120
INDEX.
Carr, Caleb, 45
Philippa
45
(Greene,
Dickenson),
Bellinghatn, Richard, 59
Bellomont, Lord, 61 Belman, John, 110

Betts,
(ary, John, 123 Chace. Caleb, 73
Edward,
12(5
Catharine (Amory), 73
Elizabeth. 73
Bigelow, Jacob, 66 Binnocks, Joan (Greene), 91

Blacker, 112, 121
Blatchford, Alicia, 70
Chandler, Elizabeth (Greene), 55
Hannah
John,
(Gardiner), 53
53, 55
Edgecombe Heath, 70 Mary Ann (Hubbard), 70

Samuel, 70
Borland,
Mary
(Greene), 53, 54, 55
Mehitable (Coit), 52 Sarah (Gardiner), 52
Augusta
Elizabeth
Chapman, Henry,
55
(Greene), 7S, 81
Leonard Vassall, 78 Sarah (Lloyd), 78

Boutell, Charles. 20, 22
Sarah (Greene), 55 Charles I, 25, 90 Charles II, 33

Chase,
Anne (Lowndes),
75
Bowditch, Elizabeth (Fay, Hammond), 72 Elizabeth (Francis), 72

;:;
George Bigelow, 75 Gertrude Lowndes (Amory), 75

Clarendon, 31 Clarke, Richard, 56
Henry
I.,
85
I.,
Nathaniel
72
Susannah Farnum (Copley), 56

Coddington, William, 38
Coit, Elisha, 70
Brewer, Edmunde, 113 Brimmer, Harriette E., 71

Martin, 71
Mary Ann
Brown, Buck, Edward, 69 Elizabeth Greene (Hubbard), 69 Gurdon, 69

Susannah, 69
Burgess, William,
Butt,
12:)
(Timmins), 71 Susan C. (Ingersoll), 74
John, 52 Martha (Hubbard), 52, 54 Mary Ann (Hubbard), 70 Mehitable (Chandler), 52
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
!aganaquant, 38 Callahan, John, 54 Lucretia (Greene), 54

(
John, 56
John
Susannah Farnum (Clarke). 56

Cotton, John, 59, 00, 01 Coward, Christian, 91, 92
(
iamden, 129 Canute, 28 Carder, John, 50

<
ranston, Samuel, 44
Mary (Greene), 50 Mary (Holden), 50

Richard, 40
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,
Elizabeth (queen of England),

Ely,
Caspar, 84 Elizabeth Clarke (Greene), 84 George Caspar, 84 Harriet S. (Sears), 84
Augusta
E. (Greene), 83
8:'.
Harriet (Grosvenor), Jesse Sandford, 83
Mary
Daniell, 74
(Mifflin), 72
William Grosvenor, 83
Exton, R.
B., 15
Lucy Catherine (Crehore),

Fay, Elizabeth (Bowditch,
Ham-
Daniels, Alice (Greene), 42, 43 Davidge, John, 112, 113
mond), 72
Ferrars [Ferrers], 22, 104 Elizabeth (de Spencer),
21, 22
Davis, 61
Davye, Thomas, 121 Davys, Edith (Greene), 91 William, 91 De Greene, Thomas, 9
Philippa (Greene), Robert, 21, 22

Flesher, Gilbert, 15
20, 21, 22
Francis, Ebenezer, 58
De De
Zouch, 11, 104 Denies, William, 125

la
Spencer,
21, 22
Elizabeth (Ferrars),
Elizabeth (Bowditch), 72 Frova, Jean Baptiste, 71 Savina, 71

Virginia Minunzio (Timmius), 71
Thomas,
21, 22
Dexter, Elizabeth A., 73 Elizabeth (Prescott), 73

Franklin, 73
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
Dowes, Thomas, Downton, 38
127
Gore, Obadiah, 61 Gorton, Benjamin, 4(5 Mary (Greene), 40
Rebecca (Greene),
38, 120
Drake, Samuel G., 1)7, 98 Drayton, 11 Dumaresq, Jane F. R. (Perkins), 72
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
Edmund, Ironside, 28 Edward I, 9, 25, 104

III, 9, 13, 19, 30
Alice, 88, 110
Alice (Daniels), 42, 43 Alice (Jorred), 91
L36
Greene, Alice
(.Small), 35, 108
INDEX.
Greene, Elizabeth (Hubbard),
54, 56, 75, 78
52,.
Ann, 87
Ann (Reading), 55 Anna Lloyd (Jeffries),

Anne,
38, 46,
50, lis, Hi), 120, 123
82
54, 89, 90, 117,
Elizabeth (Taylor), 51 Elizabeth Clarke (Copley), 56, 83 Clarke Elizabeth (Crowninshield), 84
Anne Anne Anne Anne Anne
(Ahny),
11
(Gould), 50, 52, 54 (Grew), 55, 87

(Pyke), 91
Elizabeth Copley, 81 Elizabeth Hubbard (Timmins),

71
(Taps) [Tappes], 36, 109,
Elizabeth P. (Hubbard), S3 Florence, 90

Frances, 89, 101 Francis, S9, 91
116, 121
Anne (Vaux), 13 Audrey (Spencer),
46
Gardiner,
(
52,
54,
55, 63, 69, 70,
Augusta Borland, 82 Augusta Elizabeth

78, 81
71, 75, 78, 81, 83
(Borland),
l-eorge, 91
Gregory,
88, 89, 124

53, 55
Augusta Elizabeth (Ely), 83 Belle, 84

Benjamin,
50, 51, 53, 54, 55 77, 83
Hannah,
Henry,
Harriet Augusta, 82
9, 13, 19, 91,
104
Benjamin Daniel, 70, 75, Benjamin Tompkins, 82

Catharine (Amory), 51
Catharine, 50, 52, 101, 126, 127
Henry Copley, 84 Henry Upham, 84 Isabel W. (McCulloch),

Jabez, 48
S3
Catharine (Holden), 46
Christian (Coward),
91, 92, 124
James,
48, 49, 93
James Lloyd,
Christopher, 89, 90, 91, 110 Copley, 83, 84
81, S2 Jane, 92, 100, 101, 125, 126 Jasper, 89
mlborn, 91 Deborah (Ray)^45

(
Jeremy,
124
88,
89,
90, 91, 92, 123,
Deliverance (Potter), 48 Dorotny, 90
Joan, 35, 37, 49, 89, 90, 92 Joan (Binnocks), 91
Dorothy (Pescod),
Edith
(Davys), 91
88, 89,
101, 126
Joan (King), 91 Joan (Tatarsole)

38, 92, 93, 120
[Tattershall],
Edmund,
Edward,
'.'0,
Hi, 123
L01, 102, 126, 127
Eleanor, L00, 125, 126 Eleanor (Sayles), 46

Elizabeth, 21, .v.. 88, 89,91, 101 Klizabeth (Anthony), 48
Job, 45, 46 John, 21, 35,

15,
si),
37. 38, 39, 41, 42, 43,

51),
46, 47, 48, 49. 90, 91, 92,
51, 52, 53,

9(i.
93,
97.
98,
Mil, 108, 112, 110, 117, 118. 119,
Elizabeth (Arnold), Elizabeth (Barton),
15
16,
120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 127. 129,

19
L30
Elizabeth (Chandler), 55
Elizabeth (Gardiner),
52, 56
John Singleton Copley,

83, 84, 85, Mi
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.
Nicholas, 100, 101, 102,

127
125, L26,
Peter, 35, 36, 37, 43, 45, 46, 47, 90,

91, 92,99, 101, 102, 107, 108, 110,
Leonard Vassall, SI Louise Eustis (Reynolds), 81

Lucretia (Callahan), 54 Lucretia (Wainwright), 55 Margaret, 84, 90, 101, 102, 126
111, 112, 120, 125, 126, 127, 129
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
Philippa (Carr, Dickenson), 45 Philippa (Ferrars), 20, 21, 22

Rachel, 38, 120, Ralph, 99, 12()
VS.),
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,
112, 113, 115, 121, 122, 126, 129
Robert,
24, 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 89,
90, 91, 92, 95, 107, 112, 116, 117.
Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary
(Barton), 4S (Carder), 50
118, 119, 120, 122, 123, L29
(Chandler), 53, 54, 55 (Gorton), 46
Rufus, 50, 51 Samuel, 46

Sara, 73
(Hubbard),
(Olney). 52
52, 56
Sarah, 54
(Sayles), 45, 46
Sarah (Chapman), 55 Stephen, 99, 101, 102,

127
125,
126,
(Sweet), 49
(Talbot), 19, 21, 22 Abby (Mayer), S4
Amory, 84
Susannah (Hammond), Susannah (Holden), 50 Theodocia Davenport

kins), 82
72
(Tomp-
Anne (Hubbard), 69 Anne (Appleton), S3

Copley (Amory), 74
Thomas,
12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 38, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54,
Lloyd, 82 Ricketts (Adams), 81 Matilda [Maud], 13
56, S9, 90, 91, 92, 93, 99,
101,
104, 124, 125, 126,
"-'7
Matilda (Smith), 82 Matilda (Throckmorton),

22
Welthean, 50 William, 37, 45,
46, 50, 51, 52, 89,
20, 21,
90, 91, 92, 99, 100, 101, 102, 121,
124, 125, 126, 129
Matilda Elizabeth, 82 Maud (Myddleton), 23
William Parkinson,
82
71. 78, 79, 81,
Maud
(Parr), 13
Morgan, 90
Greenwood, Francis W. Grew, Miss (Greene), 55
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
Halstead, Henry, 15, 17, 19, 103 Hammond, Elizabeth (Bowditch,

Fay). 72
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
Francis Henry, 72 Gardiner Greene, 72
Hannah
(id
(Sewall), 60
John,
Mary Crowninshield (Warren), 73

Samuel,
72, 73
Ilntchins, John, 29, 30

Iugersoll, Charles, 74
Samuel Hubbard. 72
.Sarah, 72
Elizabeth Wilcox (Amory), 74
.Susannah (Greene), 72 Harris, Henry, 51
Susan
C.
(Brown), 74
64, 65
Haylwaye, George, 110
Jackson, Patrick T.,
Henry
V,
VI,
Hill.
12
I,
25
James James
13, 23, 94,
I,
111, 113, 121
II,
44
12
VIII, 40,
Hirst, 61
95
81
Jeffrey, Francis, 63 Patrick, 63

Jeffries,
Mary Wilson (Reynolds),
Ann Geyer (Amory), Anna Lloyd (Greene), S2

John, 82
25
82
Holden, Catharine (Greene), 46

(
lharles,
-hi
Mary (Carder), 50 Randall, 40, 50

Susannah (Greene), 50 Holmes, Rebecca (Amory),
Hooker, John, 126
Sir William, 76 Howes, Estes, 57
51
John (king of England), Johnson, Edward, 40, 47

Jorred, Alice (Greene),
91
Richard, 91
Kennaway, Rd. Arthur, Kemys, Jo., Ill

King, Joan, 126
18
Hubbard, Caroline (MeCurdy), 70

Daniel. 52, 5
75, 7s
1.
Joan (Greene), 91
Peter, 34
56
52, 54,
Elizabeth (Greene),
56,
Thomas, 91 Knapp, John, 97

Lawrence, Amos A., 74 Marianne Appleton (Amory), 74 Sarah E., 74 Leblond, 61 Lebloom, (il
Elizabeth Greene (Buck), 69 Elizabeth P. (Greene), 83 Gardiner, 70

.ardiner Greene, 70 Gertrude Mercer (MeCurdy), 70
(
.lane P., S3
INDEX.
Leverett, John, 69
139
Linzee, Harriet
Rowe (Amory),
(Reading), 55
73
Livingston, Lloyd, 58
Ann
Nicholas, Edward, 33, 34 Not, Christopher, 113
Notyngham, John,
Nuttall, 77
12,
13
Sarah (Borland), 78 Lovett, Robert, 110

Lowell, Francis C, 57
Olney, Mary (Greene), 52 Orcharde, Richarde, 110
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
Matilda [Maud] (Greene),
L3
Thomas,
75
13
Paul, Eleanora Ellicott (Snelling),
W.
James
(Greene), 83 William, 83
Percy, Earl, 63 Perkins, Augustus Thorndike, 72

70
Mary Louisa (Mayer), 84 McCurdy, Caroline (Hubbard),
Gertrude M., 70 Gertrude Mercer (Hubbard), 70 Robert II., 70
Jane F. R. (Dumaresq), 72 Joanna (Hubbard), 69 Susan Hammond (Timmins),
72
Thomas Handasyde,
72
Theodore
F.,
70
(Coit), 70
Mamvaring, Rebecca
Pescod, Dorothy (Greene), 101, 126 Nicholas, 101, 126 Peterborough, Earl of, 104
Marshe, Richard, 111 Mary (queen of England), 13 Mason, Jonathan, 03 Mather, 62
Polden [Poulden], John, Ponchesdon, John, 116
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
Mary Abby (Greene), 84 Mary Louisa (McCulIoch), Miantonomoh, 41

Mifflin, Charles, 72
S4
Pyke, Anne (Greene), Robert, 91

Quincy, Josiah, 75
91
Elizabeth Crowninshield (Ham-
mond), 72
Margaret Morton (Greene), 75

72
Ratcliff, Robert, 61
Mary (Crowninshield),
Miles, Samuel, 50
Morton, Thomas, 109 Myddleton, Maud (Greene), 23 Richard, 22
Ray, Deborah (Greene), 45 Simon, 45
Reading,
Ann
Newton, Mary Ricketts (Adams), 81 William W., 85
Ann (Greene), 55 (Livingston), 55
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
Richards, Lionel, 127
Ankarete (Talbot), 21, 22 Sudall, Walter, 113

Sullivan, Mehitable (Amory), 74
Robinson, Frances (Gould), 50

Rosse, 104
46 Sayles, Eleanor (Greene), John, 4.")
Sweet, James, 49
Mary
Talbot,
(Greene), 40
10, 21, 22, 104
Mary Marj (Williams), 45 Phebe (Greene), 45, 46

Sears, Harriet S. (Crowninshield),
84
(Greene), 45, 46
Ankarete (Strange),
21, 22
Mary
(Greene), 19, 21, 22

21, 22
Richard,
Tapps [Tappes], Anne (Greene),

36, 109, 116, 121
Sewall,
Hannah
(Hull), 60
Richard, 36, 109
Joseph, 51 Judith (Cooper), 62
Roger, 36, 109 Tattershall [Tatarsole],
Joan
Samuel, 60, 61, 62

Sharpe, Innocent, 100, 125, 126 Margery (Greene), 100, 125 Richard, 126
(Greene), 38, 02, 93, 120 51 Taylor, Elizabeth (Greene),
Thome, Robert,
111
21, 22
Throckmorton, John,
Shawomet, Sheldon, Asa
41
G., 64, 65
Matilda (Greene), 20, 21, 22 Timmins, Elizabeth Greene, 71

Elizabeth
71
Shurtleff, Dr., 58
Hubbard
(Greene),
Small, 35 Alice (Greene), 35, 108

Elizabeth, 35, 108 Smibert, 53
Smith,
Edmund,
82
George, 71 George Henry, 71 Henry, 71 Henry Palmer, 72
Elbridge, 79 Harriet, 82
Mary, 71
Mary Ann (Brimmer),

Susan
71
Matilda (Greene), 82 Snelling, Eleanora Ellicott (Paul),

75
Hammond
Virginia
(Perkins), 72 Minunzio (Frova), 71
Tompkins,
82
Benjamin
Wildman,
Elizabeth Tilden (Amory), 75
Samuel George, 75 40 Spencer, Audrey (Greene),

Avis,
1
Eliza Ann, 82 Theodocia Davenport (Greene),

82
00, 110
John,
46, 109,
HO
Spines, 22 Stafford, 104
Torrey, Deborah (Greene), 45 William, 45
Stanbridge, Catherine (Greene)

Staples, 48 Stone, Rev. Dr. J.
S.,
51,
Troyte-Chafyn-Grove, 26 Turner, 36
Henry
85
4:> E., 42, 44,
Katherine (Greene),
36, 112
IXDEX.
Vane, Sir Harry, 60
Vassal!, William, 62, 63 Vaux, Anne (Greene), 13
Ill
Nicholas, 13 Vere, 104
Waterston, Mrs., 77 Wight, Dr., 77 Wilder, Marshall P., 63 Wilkes, John, 63 William the Conqueror, 29
Williams, 100 John, 125, 12(3
Wainwright. Eev. Dr., 74 Henry, 55

Lucretia (Greene), 55 Walker, James, 78 Waller, 30 Ward, Samuel, 45
Mary
(Sayles), 45
39, 45
Roger,
Winship, Jonathan, 66 Winthrop, Governor, 70 Robert C, 85

Wurfris, Tho., 97
Warren, Anne Caspar (Crowninshield), 73
Wykes, 22
73
Jonathan Mason, 73
Mary Crowninshield,
Zouch,
11, 104
INDEX TO PEDIGREES.
The Pedigrees follow
reference, by letters
this
Index and are indicated, for purpose of
to
inclusive.
Adams, Mary R. (Greene), F Almy, Anne (Greene), D

William,
Amory, Marianne A. (Lawrence),
H
Martha Babcock (Greene),
E,
Amory, Alice (Thorndike), Annie L., H

Arthur,
II
Mary Copley, II Mary Copley (Greene), Mary F. (Russell), H

M. Louisa (Dexter),
Montfort,
Robert,
E,
Augustine Heard, II Catharine (Chace), II Catharine (Greene), E

diaries, E,
Sullivan, II
Copley,
II
Edward Linzee,
H H
Elizabeth Tilden (Snelling), H Elizabeth Wilcox (Ingersoll),

Ethel, II
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),
Gertrude L., II Gertrude Lowndes (Chase),

Harcourt, Harold, II
[ngersoll,
William, G Arnold, Elizabeth (Greene),

Barton, Elizabeth (Greene), Rufus, D
D
1)
H
II
James Appleton,
John Siugleton,
H H
Baylie,
.lames Sullivan, E,
II
Beler, John,
Katharine Leighton, II Margarel Sullivan, H
Mariana, B Bellers, Mariana, William, A
INDEX OF PEDIGREES.
Borland, Augusta E. (Greene),
143
8.
Coolidge,
Harriet
(Crownin-
Bottesham, Alice,
A
Ham-
shield),
Thomas,
Copley, Elizabeth Clarke, E
Bowditch, Elizabeth (Fay, mond), G Nathaniel I., G
Cornwall,
John Singleton, E Edmund, B

,
Brimmer, Martin, F
Mary Ann (Timmins), F

Brooks, Edward,
Isabel (Greene), B A Cotton, Elizabeth (Greene),
(Hammond), G Browne, Anne (Greene), B
Mary
C.
Crehore, Katharine L. (Amory), Crowninshield. Caspar, G Elizabeth C, G
William, B Bruce, Joan, John, A
A
E
Elizabeth C. (Peabody), (; Elizabeth Clarke (Greene), G Harriet Sears (Coolidge), G

Daniels, Alice,
Callahan, Eleanor Clifford, Hannah Willard, E
John,
E E
Dawbury, Alice (Greene), B Bartholomew, B

Dexter, Franklin G.,
John Hardy, E
Lucretia (Greene), Mary, E Carder, John, E
H H
Gordon, H M. Louisa (Amory).
Mary
(Greene),
Carr, Caleb,
D D
Samuel, II Susan Greene (Amory), Dickinson, John, D

Philippa (Greene, Carr),
I) Downton, Bebecca (Greene), D
,
H
D
Philippa (Greene, Dickenson), Chace. Catharine (Amory), Chandler, Elizabeth (Greene), E
E Mary (Greene), E Chapman, Henry, E Sarah (Greene), E

John,
Chase, Gertrude L. (Amory), H Cheney, Elizabeth (Greene), A
Drayton, Catherine, John, A Simon, A
Edmands, Susan G. (Hammond)

William
0.,
<;
G
F
Thomas,
Chetwode,
A
Amabilia
(Greene,
Ely, Alice (Clute),
Anna
G.,
Reynes),
John, A Clute, Alice (Ely), F Cocks, Ellen, B William, B Coit, Martha, E Colepepper, Joan, A
Augusta E. (Greene), F Lloyd C, F William Grosvenor, F Eustis, Clemence (Jeffries), F

Emily A.
(Jeffries),
F
II
Fay, Elizabeth (Bowditch),

Ferrars, Philippa,
Thomas, A Coolidge, David
H., Jr.,
Robert,
144
IXDEX OF PEDIGREES.
Greene, Constance (Faulett), Constance (Stafford), A
Copley, G David, D
Fiske, Esther L. (Hammond), G Fitz Williams, Eleanor (Greene),
John,
A
B
Fogge, Jane, John, B

Frith,
,
Deborah (Torrey),
D
A
Frova, Virginia M.,
Deliverance (Potter), D Eleanor (Fitz Williams),
Eleanor (Sayles),
Gorton, Mary, Samuel, D
D
E
Elisha,
D
D D
Gould, Anne,
Elizabeth, A, B, D, E, G Elizabeth (Anthony), D
Thomas, E
Greene, Alice Alice Alice Alice
Agnes,
D
A
Elizabeth (Arnold), Elizabeth (Barton),
(Bottesham),
(Daniels),
(Dawbury), B
(Small),
Elizabeth (Chandler), E Elizabeth (Cheney), A Elizabeth (Cotton), A
Amabilia (Reynes, Chetwode),
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,
C. (Crowninshield), Clarke (Copley), E
Hubbard (Timmins),
Elizabeth P. (Hubbard), Ellen (Cocks), B

Gardiner, E,
Audrey (Spencer), U Augusta Borland, F Augusta E. (Ely), F Augusta Elizabeth (Borland), F

Belle,
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
Isabel (Cornwall), B Isabel W. (McCulloch),
Catherine Catherine Catherine Catherine

Christian,
(Amory),
(Holden),
(Malory),
(Drayton),
A D
D James, D
Jabez,
James Lloyd, F Jane (Fogge), B

Joan, A,
INDEX TO PEDIGREES.
Greene, Joan (Bruce),
145
E.,
Greene, Matilda
Joan (Pickering), A Joan (Reading), B Joan (Tattershall), D

Job,
Maude (Throgmorton), B Nathaniel, D, E

Nicholas,
Oliver,
A
D
D
E
E,
John, A, B, C, D,
Peter,
D
(Sayles), sayles),
John Singleton Copley,
Phebe
Katherine (Stanbridge), E Katherine (Turner), D
Philippa,
Leonard
V., F Louise E. (Reynolds),
Philippa (Ferrars), Kachel, D
Lucretia (Callahan), E Lucretia (Wainwright),
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,
Ralph, A Rebecca, D Richard, A, D, E Robert, D Rufus, E Samuel, D

Sarah, D,
Sarah (Chapman), E Sarah (Hinckley), E

Susannah, D, E,
E
B. (Amory), E,
Susannah (Hammond), E Susannah (Holden), E Theodocia D. (Tompkins), F Thomas, A, B, C, D, 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
William P., F William Parkinson, E, F Grew, E
Anne
John,
(Greene),
(Sayles),
D (Sweet), D (Talbot), A A., G
E
Charles M.,
Hammond,
G
<;
Edward C, G
A. (Appleton), A. (Mayer), G
Anne (Hubbard), E
Copley (Amory), E,
LI.,
Elizabeth (Bowditch, Fay), Elizabeth C. (Appleton), G Elizabeth C. (Mifflin), G
Esther L. (Fiske), Francis H., G
Ricketts (Adams), F Matilda (Mauduit), A Matilda (Parr), B Matilda (Smith), F
Gardiner G.,
G
G
Harriet P. (Lee),
Mary Mary
C. (Brooks), C. (Warren),
G G
146
INDEX OF PEDIGREES.
Fee, Harriet P.
Lois,
Hammond, Mason Warren, G

Samuel,
(Hammond), G
G Samuel II., G Susan G. Edmands), G Susannah (Greene), E, G

E,
(
Anne, B
William,
B
A
Luttrell, Jeffrey,
Mary B
Lysley,
(Greene),
[
A
A
Qaulte, Margarel (Greene), Nicholas, B Henry VIII. B
Viscount],
Hinckley, Sarah (Greene), Thomas. F
McCulloch, Isabel W., G A Mablethorpe, John, A

,
Hogg, Anne (Greene), B

Robert, B Holden, Catherine (Greene), Charles. I)
Randall, E Susannah (Greene), E
Malory, Anketil, A Catherine (Greene),
C Masterson, Elizabeth (Greene), C Maud u it, Matilda (Greene),

,
Holland, Elizabeth (Greene),
Thomas, A Mayer, Mary A. (Greene), C

Mifflin,
John. A
Elizabeth C. (Greene),
Hubbard, Daniel, E
Elizabeth (Greene), E Elizabeth 1*. (Creene),
Parr, Katharine [Queen],
Matilda (Greene),
Martha
(Coit),
Thomas, B
Paulett,
,
Mary Anne (Greene), E Mary (Greene), E

Samuel, E Huddleston, Margaret (Gr%ane),
Richard,
Constance (Greene), A Peabody, Elizabeth C. (Crownin
shield),
George
L.,
G G
F
Hynde, Mary (Greene), C Peter, C

Ingersoll, Elizabeth
Perkins, Augustus T., Elizabeth G., F
Esther
F.,
W. (Amory),
F
Henry
D.,
F F
Jeffries,
Anna
LI. (Greene),
CUSmence (Eustis), F Clemence d'Espaigne, F Emily A. (Eustis), F James hi., F

John, F
Susan H. (Timmins), F Winifred E. S., F Pickering, Joan (Greene),

John,
Pigeon,
,
A
Anne
C
(Greene),
John
A.,
Walter L., F William A., F

Lawrence, Marianne A. (Amory),
II
Pinchbeck, Anne (Greene), A Thomas, A Potter, Deliverance (Greene),

Robert,
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
Thorndike, Alice (Amory), Augustus, H Throgmorton, John, B
Maude
(Greene),
B
(I.,
Timmins, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Hubbard (Greene), E,
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),
Mary (Greene), D Phebe (Greene), D

Small, Alice (Greene),
,
Victor,
Virginia M. (Frova), F
Smith, Matilda (Greene), F Snelling, Elizabeth T. (Amory),
Tompkins, Theodocia D. (Greene),
F
Torrey, Deborah (Greene), William, D
H
Spencer, Audrey (Greene), John, D
Stafford, Constance (Greene),
D Turner, Katherine (Greene),

,
Edward, A
Humphrey, A
John,
Vaux, Anne (Greene), B

Nicholas, [Baron], B Vere, Isabel (Greene), A
Kic'd,
Margaret,
A
D
snmbridge, Katherine (Greene), E sweet, James, 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
Tapps, Anne (Greene), Roger, D
Tattershall. Joan, D Taylor, Elizabeth (Greene),
[C]
III.
PEDIGREE OF GREENE
OF DORSETSHIRE AND HAMPSHIRE.
FROM THE VISITATION OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Hableian Manuscbipt No.
1188,
IN
1619.
Folio
5.
Gbeene
in
of Orpidell [Aff puddle]:
Comitatu Dorset.
Gbeene,
mar: ye dau. of
Baylie.
field.
Thomas Gbeene:
of Orpidell, mar: ye dau. Frith of Petersof
Thomas Gbeene William Gbeene

s.
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.
eldest son, succeeded to the estate of
Bowridge Hill, died in May, 1583,8. p. Will dated the same year.
made
Gent.,: Bill, on the death his will in 1000 and
RICHARD GREENE,
of
Bowridge
Gent.,: Hill, only son and heir.
/ 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.
brother Richard left him half his Latin books.
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.
1621 -2: drowned in 1659: s. p.
Samuel
(
rorton.
of the Council to Sir
Edmond Andros
1687:
Deputy
Major and Governor

:
James
Mart
.1
Emsha
Sarah
died in 1708.
Peter Elizabeth John
aim./.,
iel
grandfather of Gen'l NathanGreene in the Army of American Independence.
Deborah, John
mar. to
Wli.UA M,
mar. Mary
Sayles.
liei
Peter,
mar. ElizaArnold.
li
Job, mar. 1'helie

Sayles.
mar. to
(air,
Philippa, (1) Caleb

(2)
Richard,
mar. Eleanor
Sayles.
William Torrey.
John
Dickinson.
GREENE.
I.
John Greene named in his brother

Peter's will.
Alice Greene
married to
Small.
A.W
I.
<
BEEN
married to Roger Tapps of Gillingham.
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
:
Salisbury, the wills of his grandfather and his
JOHN GREENE, Gent.,r Chirurgeon. Named in
Joan Rebecca Tattershall married

(1)
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_
Nov. 4, 1619. Died at Conanicut,
rrf-"3TTTre-r
-pToxettetlTto
Rhode
Rhode
Island and resided at Providence until

1643, when he removed to his estate at Warwick. He went to England in 1044, but returned to Warwick, R. I. soon His 2d wife, was Alice Daniels. after. His third wife was Philippa who survived him, and died in 1687, aged 87. Mr. Greene filled the offices of Magistrate and Clerk of the Court. He died in 1659, and was buried by the
Island, in 1643.
side of his first wife at Conanicut in
Warwick.
'
Deliver
\.\ci:
dau. of Robert Potter.

1st wife.
iJames Green et bap. June 21, 1626, of Warwick, died April 27, 1098.
rELIZABETH dau. of John Anthony, mar. Aug.

3,
THOMAS::
Êlizabeth
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.
Warwick, died June

5, 1717.
ton, married .June :!0, L659: died
L633:
married
to
James
Aug.
20,
M\ eet, of Rhode
Island.
David
Thomas
John
Susannah
Anne,
mar.
t<
Samuel, Catherine, Audrey, mar. to John mar. Mary mar. to

Charles Bolden.
Spencer.
Thomas
Greene.
Gorton.
(A)
[E.]
GREENE OF GILLINGIIAM AND NEW

ENGLAND.
[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, bora Aug. L4, 1662.
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.
Rufus Gbeene,: born May 30,

1707.
iKatherine Stanbbidge,
mar. at King's Chapel, Dec. 10, 1728.
Anne
d. y.
ATM
I.IIIXK,
Rufus
Maby Anne Henby Elizabeth William,

d. iinm,
SARAn,
mar. to Thos. Hinckley.
Martha
mar. to John
Amory.
Benjamin Gbeene,:
iif
Êlizabeth,
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.
born Mar. born Sept. born Nov.

174.).
Martha (Coit) Hubbard,

mar. Mar.
5,
d.
young.
llllirll,
1761.
April
J741.
3,
Eleanor
Clifford
I
Hannah
Willard
Mary
John
and
others.
Hardy
Maby Martha
mar
Benjamin, Elizabeth, mar. to John Grow. Chandler.
Ha XX AH
Lucbetia,
mar. to Henry Wainwright.
mar.t.o
Sarah. Axxe, Henry mar. to John Grew. Chapman.
Gabdineb Gbeene,
bapt. at Trinity
EMZABETH-H
i
:
i;i;ard
1804;
Si
BEENE, born
mar. to
I
sax \ wi Gbeene, born 1805; mar to
Church, June 20, 1802; d. young.
lenry
SamT Hammond.
(D)
Timmins.
(C)
GKEENE.
II.
(A)
RlCHARD" Greene, of Warwick, born Mar. 5,

1667.
: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.
n m.. dau. of Thomas
John
Carder.
Will dated Aug.
(i,
proved Sept.
18, 171
1.
Gould, mar. al Kin Chapel, Feb.

27, L703
(I.
I:
Richard
Thomas
Welthean
Mary
Elizabeth
Jan'y 16, L728, aged 42. Executrix of her
husband's
will.
Nathaniel Greene. born May 14, 1709,

died 1792.
:Elizareth Taylor, mar. June

27, 1729.
William
Greene,
born
May
of Boston, born Jan'y 11, 1712-13.
BENJAMIN GREENE,
Ma i:v
(
1 1
>
: .
dau. of
3, 1711.
Hon. John Chandler, mar. Feb. 7,

1736.
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
<
.
Clarke, dau. of John

Singleton
<
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,
mar. in London, July ').

L800.
-'Id
p. Oct. 25, 1st wife. 1786.
wile.
She was bap.

in Trinity
<
Sept.
7,
1797.
lniR'li,
Bos-
ton, Dec. 9, Died 1770. Feb. 1. L866,
Mary-Anne
Greene, born
April 19, 1790, mar. to Sam'l
Gardiner BenjaminDaniel Greene,

born Jan'y
5,
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.
JOHN-SlNG LETONCopley Greene,. born Nov. 27, 1810?

(E)
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.]
GREENE OP GILLINGHAM AND NEW

ENGLAND.
[HI.]
PEDIGREE OP
(B)
William Parkinson Greene:

d.
iAugusta
b.
E.
Borland,
June
18, 1864.
Nov. 12, 1795: mar. July 14, 1819: d. June

21, 1861.
Margaret
V.
B.,
b. 1820: d.
Gardiner: Greene,
b. Sept. 19, 1822: d. Oct.
:MARY
RlC'KETTS
Elizabeth C., b. June 26,

1824: d. April 11, 1872: nnni.
James Ll.: Greene,

b.
iMATILDA
Smith,
b.
Adams,
Nov. l!t, 1822: mar.
b.
Jan. 17,
May
1849.
7,
May,
1825.
30, 1895.
1827; d. Oct. 18,

1883.
1S28: mar.
Nov.
14,
June
26, 1850.
Gardiner Greene
b.
iLouise E.
Leonard
b.
V.
William
P.
Greene. James Ll.

Ll. Ll.
d. Sept.
Walter
b.
L.
Aug.
31, 1851.
Reynolds,
b.
Greene,
Dec.
22,
Mary
James Harriet A.,
5,
Jeffries,
b.
Mch.
6,
Jan. 24,
Jeffries, Nov. 26,

1854: d.
1868: mar.
April
4,
1857: d. Sept. 18, 1895.
1853: d.
1877,
unm.
E.
Feb. 23,
1S54.
1894.
Matilda
Aug.
1898,
30,
unm.
Margaret
Q.
Jonn A. Jeffries.
Clemence d'EspAiGNE Jeffries.
(C)
Elizabeth Hubbard Greene:

b.
Henry
b.
Timmins,
20, 1804: mar. Dec. 27, 1826: d. Dec. 12, 1844.
Mch.
Jan. 19, 1800: d. Sept. 6, 1863.
Mary
A. Timmins
Martin Brimmer,
b.
George H. Timmins:
b. Jan. 11, 1829: d. April 30, 1875.
b. Sept. 2, 1827: mar. 23, 1860.
May
d.
Dec. Jan.
s.
9,
1829:
:VlRGINIA M. Frova,
b.
14, 1896,
May
1828.
2,
p.
Henry Timmins.
Victor Timmins.
Minna Timmins.
Herbert Timmins Sarah 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,
1834: mar. Jan. 19, 1865:

d.
26, L836: d. Dr.-.

13,
July
d.
Dec.
12,
June
7, 1898.
Jan. 19,
1900.
1897.
1833: mar. Oct. 18,1854: d. Oct. 14, 1896.
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,
1857: d. May 29, 1898.
1869: mar.
June
IS! 17,
1893.
1892: mar. Sept. 26, 1889,
Alice Cluto.
Emily A.
Eustis, b.
July
21,
1858.
John Jeffries.
William G. Ely, b. May 23, 1898.
Lr.oYi> c. Ely, b. Apr. 22, 1900.
Eiizybeth
Timmins, b Dec. 16,
1833: d. y.
Henry
P.
Timmins,
Susan H. Tlmmins=Augustus
b. Oct. 2, 1841:
b.
:
b. Sept. 13, 1834:

d. inf.
T. Perkins, Sept. 28, 1*27: d.
mar. Mch. 4, 1861 d. Feb. 27, 1894.
April 21, L891.
Henry
D. Perkins,
d. inf.
Elizabeth G. Perkins.
Esther
F.
Perkins.
Winifred
E. S.
Perkins.
[G-]
greene of gillingham and mow

ENGLAND.
[IV.]
PEDIGREE OF
Si
SANNAH
I..
GBEJE N
isi).'):
",
:Sami
1).
ki.
Ha.mmhn
7,
ii,
Oct. 29, mar. Sept.

(1.
Oct.
Sept.
1800:
1834.
(1.
1828:
1844.
in.
Mch.
22,
Francis II. II WIMDM),

b.
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.
wife, b. Dec 7, 1835: mar. Oct. 29, 1856: d. Feb.

21,
1st
Bowditch,
I'd
1).
.June
wife, 11, 1836:

11, 1881.
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).
1858: d. July 1. 1880: mar. !o William
mar.
8,
June
1893, Esther L.
25, 1868.
1861: mar. Harriet 1\ Lee.
1864 mar. to Edward
1808:
num.
Appleton.
Fiske, b. Apr.
William (). Edmands.
Brooks.
Son.
A
A
(E)
Eliz a
o.
beth
1st
P.
Hubbard
1">:
wife,
:Rcv. John SINGLETON: Copley Greene,

1).
:Mary
b.
A. Appleton, 2d wife,
5,
April 23, 18
15,
mar.
Juno
1836: d. Jan. 24, 1841.
Nov. 27, 1810: July 6, 1872.
d.
Mch.
Nov.
28, 1820: m. 1844: d. Dec. 4, 1S52.
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.
A. Mayer, Sept. 14, 1846:

"
April
1839: d.
10, inf.
Nov.
mar. June
1868.
3,
Copley Greene,
b.
May
d.
22, 1869:
inf.
b.
Belle, Aug. 20,

1870.
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.
Mason Wakben HAMMON

I),
S AMI EL 1>. July
HAMMOND,
28,
1859.
b.
9, L868: d. July 14, 1899.
Mch.
Elizabeth b. June 30,

Nov.
C.
Greene:
Caspar. Crowninshiei.d,
b.
Mart
18(i().
A.
M
b.
\i;i.
i
\ki.t
1848: mar.
Oct. 23, 1837: d. Jan.

10, 1897.
11, 1868.
Greene, b. May 3,
Gbi
Feb. n.
1862.
Harriet
David
S.
II.
Crowninsiiielp,
mar. to
Jr.
Elizabeth
b.
C.
b. Sept. 23, 1869:
June
16, 1871:
Crownixshielp, mar. June 4,

L.
Coolidge,
1891, to
George
Peabody.
[H.J
GREENE OP GILLINGHAM AND NEW

ENGLAND.
PEDIGREE OF
(F)
CHABLES AmOB"5 1). May 10. L808:

d. 1898.
Maktha
b.
B.
Greek e,
m.
Nov.
Oct.
15, 1812:
i:,
L832: d. Jan., 1880.
CHARLES AMOBT,:
1).
Aug.
15, 1836:
(1.
May
21, L871.
=M. Louisa Dextee, 1. Mch. 1, 1839: mar. Dor. s. L858.
Susan
1).
<;.
'.i.
Amort
is
lit:
Fkanki.in G. Dextee,
b. 1824.
.Ian.
mar. Oct.
10.
L863.
Annie L. Amort.
Charles Amort,
d.
lsoi).
Susan Coplet Amort.
Gordon Dexter.
Samuel Dextee
d. 1891.
(G)
Mary Copley Gkeene:

July 21, 1817: mar. Nov. 28,1837: d. April
b.
5,
:James Sullivan Amory, b. May 14, 1S09: d. June

8, 1884.
1892.
James
a.
GREENE.
V.
Copley Amoky: b. May 9, 1841:

d.
^Catharine Chace, b. 1841: mar. June

12,
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,
Chase, Oct 23,

18,
1846: d. Jan. 12,

1847.
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,
1847: d. Sept. 24, 1852.
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
GREENE OF GILLINGHAM AND NKW

ENGLAND.
[VI.]
PEDIGREE OF
NATHANIEL GREENEE.] [See Pedigree II. Tli nl Generation from John (Jreene, Chirurgeon of Salisbury,
i
:Anxe Gould,
mar.
at
dan. of Thomas Gould, King's Chapel, Feb. 27.
170:'.-4: d. .Ian. HI, L728, aged 42. Executrix of her husband's will.
England.
[See Pedigree
I.
D.]
BENJAMIN GREENEof Boston, 1. Jan. 1712-13.

1
:Mary Chandler,
Sept.
0,
7, 173(5.
dau. of
b.
1,
Hon. John Chandler,
1717: mar. Feb.
Lucretia Greene:
[Third daughter.] b. Julv 16, 174,s.
r.IoiIN
CALLAHAN,
b. Dec. 1"), 1745, mar. Oct. 25, 177

d.
Oct. 11, 1806.
Eleanor Clifford Callahan.
Hannah Willard
Callahan.
Mary
Callahan.
John Hardy 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.
Francis M A BY Perkins. Perkins.
Louis Perkins.
Francis
Perkins.
GREENE.
VI.
James Perkins(lst
:Ei.izaCAL.I,-
:George Washington Doane,

(2d husband.) Consecrated Bishop of NewJersey Oct. 31, 1832: d.
husband.)
AHAX.
April
1859.
Henky
Perkins.
George Horary
Doane,
b. Sept.
'),
William
1).
Crosavei.i/
2,
S V.RAH
Doane,
Mch.
1832:
2,
ATM A BINE CONDIT, mar. Nov.

(
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,
James Terry Gardiner.
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 GKEENE EAMILY.
The
erations
pedigrees in
"The Greene Family,"

the
of
give the
descendants of the daughters' children for two genonly.
At
chart
the
suggestion
Bishop Doane
the
foregoing
has
been
printed,
which should
he
placed
after
other pedigrees in that volume,

of the descendants
and which gives four generations

of
Lucretia Greene, who married John Callahan.
An
The
error of assignment of
after
one of the plates was
discovered
the
volumes
had
been
distributed.
picture facing page 39 should have been given as
the Rectory at Greene's Norton instead of Ghillingham.
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ENGLAND AND AMERICA

BOSTON PRIVATELY PRINTED

the following account of the the

have not attempted

Genealogy, but rather to

branch with which we are more imme-

diately connected, to trace their line to the English ancestry

name who came

show the descent from

died in Boston in 1714, and more

especially to the families

Gardiner Greene of Boston, with only such occasional

branches as would aid

so desire, to follow out the lines at their leisure.

valuable material has been gathered, which might

have been included, had

been consistent with the plan

the Genealogy of the family,

by a descendant eminently qualified

Discrepancies between a few of the dates herein and

doubt be disthose of some of the family records will no

has been given proper to say that nothing

believed to be good authority, and, except on what was

were furnished, the decision was made on

the best information accessible at the time.

Careful copies of early Wills from the

these the pages following the Genealogy, and

be found of special interest and value.

some lines of In the Pedigrees which close the volume,

what generation or two beyond

authorities consulted will

The Gentleman's Magazine, 1826. Boutell's Monumental Brasses of England.

Lower's English Surnames.

Foote's Annals of King's Chapel.

Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Perkins's Sketch of the Life,

John Singleton Copley

THE FAMILY OF GREENE.

derive their name,

Greene, from their

ancient possessions in Northamptonshire,

where they were seated so early

and was Lord of the

lines reference will

be made on a subsequent page.

Boughton, the ancient name of which was Buketon,

three and a half miles north of the town of

was the former seat of the Earls

THE FAMILY OF GREENE.

Lord of Boughton Manor, obtained

his heirs the grant of a Fair, to be held yearly for

of the Parish; Baptist, the patron Saint

beginning of the present

Fair century, and perhaps later, this

historian to have been

the kingdom, and

and business of every great numbers for pleasure

Here there formerly

doubtless used in early times to supply the sacra-

mental waters of baptism, the parish church, dedicated to St.

was half a mile away

the tower and

about 1785; nothing