Anne Greene

• Ann Agnes Almy Greene Find A Grave Memorial# 17902941
• Inscription (best guess please review): Here lyeth buried ye body of Ann ye wife of Major John Greene, she deceast in the 82nd year of her age may ye 6th 1709
• Spring Greene Burial Ground, Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA Find A Grave
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...
• not the wife of Robert Griffin

The daughter of William & Audrey (Barlow) Almy, she married Dep. Gov. John Greene, (Jr) in 1648 in East Greenwich, RI. She was baptized on February 26, 1626/7 in South Kilworth, Leicestershire, England.

Dept. Gov. John Greene referred to "brother" Christopher Almy, Annis' brother, in a letter dated November 5, 1690. Rhode Island Vital Records, Warwick: "Ann, Widow of Capt. John Greene, d. Warwick 6 May 1709, aged 82"

Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Almy-8

Anne Almy was baptized 26 Feb 1627 at South Kilworth, Leicestershire, England.[1] (The parish register at South Kilworth begins in 1559. Parish register transcripts, Family History Library British Film 585282, Item 2.) She was the daughter of William Almy and Audrey Barlowe.

Anne died 6 May 1709 as per "Warwick: Ann, Widow of Capt. John Greene, d. Warwick 6 May 1709, aged 82."[2] at Warwick, Rhode Island, and was buried at at Spring Greene Burial Ground, Warwick. Her Find a Grave memorial has a biography, photos and links to those of her parents, husband and children.[1]

Anne immigrated to New England with her parents and two siblings in 1635, aged 8, aboard the Abigail. Refer to the Passenger List of the Abigail 1635.[3] She married Deputy Governor John Greene [Jr] 1648 at Warwick.[4]

Dept. Gov. John Greene referred to "brother" Christopher Almy, Annis' brother, in a letter dated November 5, 1690.
Children of John Greene and Anne Almy.

In John Greene's will, dated 1706 and proved 20 Dec 1708, he calls himself "inhabitant of Greene Hole, alias Occupasituxet, in eighty-seventh year." He mentions his wife is in her eightieth year and lame in her left side.[5]

Family

John Greene and Anne Almy had 11 children. (Clarke, Louise Brownell : "Copied from Warwick, R. I., records, 1st Book of Marriages, commenced by James Greene (see No. 5), Town Clerk, May 6, 1664.")[4][5][6]:

1. Deborah Greene, b. 10 Aug 1649; d. 1728; m. William Torrey Find A Grave
2. John Greene b. 6 Jun 1651; d. bef. 1686; unmarried
3. William Green, b. 5 Mar 1652-3; d. 1680; m. Mary Sayles Find A Grave
4. Peter Greene, b. 4 Feb 1654; m. Elizabeth Arnold[7]
5. Job Greene, b. 24 Aug 1656; d. 6 Jul 1745; m. Phebe Sayles
6. Phillip (daughter) Greene, b. 7 Oct 1658; d. 1706; m. (1) Caleb Carr (2) Charles Dickinson Find A Grave
7. Richard Greene, b. 8 Feb 1660; d. 1711; m. Eleanor Sayles Find A Grave
8. Anne Greene, b. 13 Mar 1662-3; d. 1713; m. Thomas Greene, Jr.
9. Catherine Greene, b. 8 Aug 1665; d. 1753; m. Charles Holden Find A Grave
10. Audrey Greene, b. 27 Oct 1667; d. 1733; m. John Spencer Find A Grave
11. Samuel Greene, b. 30 Jan 1670; d. 1720; m. Mary Gorton Find A Grave

References

• Genealogy of one branch of the Peckham family of Newport and Westerly, R.I, Page 68
• Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33, profile for "WILLIAM ALMY"
• John Osborne Austin, Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders Born in the 18th Century, Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons (1889), page 57
• George Walter Chamberlain, "The English Ancestry of William Almy of Portsmouth, R.I.," in NEHGR, Volume 71, Oct. 1917, pp 321-322
• Find a Grave : Anne Agnes Almy Greene, memorial #17902941