Bartholomew Green

"BARTHOLOMEW1 GREEN, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born abt. 1590 in England, and died bef. 08 Feb 1635/36 in Cambridge, MA. He married ELIZABETH ______ bef. 1615 in England. She was born in England, and died bef. 20 Nov 1677 in Cambridge, MA.

Bartholomew Green(e) is considered a Founder of Hartford, even though he never went there, having died prior to the Rev. Hooker’s main party’s departure. Nonetheless, he had “several parcells of land in Hartford on the river of Conecticot, part wherof was sequestred for Bartholomew Greene, & now setled on John Crow by the inhabitants of this towne”. It is not possible to determine which specific parcels he had sequestered for, since all of the lands of John Crow are listed together in the land inventory of February 1639/40.

He emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633, residing in Cambridge, where he was made freeman 14 May 1634, and granted six acres in the Westend Field on 1 December 1634. He died in Cambridge by 8 February 1635/6. Of his family only two of his grandchildren, children of his son Samuel, ever made it to Hartford: Samuel, who married Hannah Butler, and Sarah, who married Nathaniel Butler, both Butlers being children of Hartford Founder Deacon Richard Butler."
[Bartholomew Green]
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Per Harold Milton Ellis:

The Greens of Cambridge and Boston, descendants of Samuel Green (c. 1614-1702), have been probably the most remarkable family in the annals of American printing. The earliest ancestor in this country was Bartholomew Green, who, Savage says, came to Cambridge about 1632, was freeman in 1634, and died in 1635, while preparing to proceed to Connecticut. His widow, Elizabeth, died 28 October, 1677, aged 88.

Per Rubye Townsley:

Came in "The Griffin" with Thomas Hooker's Company

It was 4 Sept. 1633, that the ship "The Griffin" dropped its ancher off shore from the little settlement called Boston. Among the members of Thomas Hooker's Company was BARTHOLOMEW GREEN with his wife ELIZABETH and their four children: SAMUEL, Nathaniel, Sarah, and Phebe. Modern scholarship has disproved Isaiah Thomas' statement that the GREEN family came to Massachusetts with Governor Winthrop in 1630. BARTHOLOMEW moved his family to Cambridge where he became a freeman on 14 May 1634. He died the following year. His widow ELIZABETH died 28 Oct. 1677, at the age of eighty-eight.

Sources

• "The Green Family: Early Connecticut Newspaper Publishers." Connecticut State Library. < link > Accessed 30 October 2021.
• Ellis, Harold Milton. "Joseph Dennie and His Circle: A Study in American Literature From 1792 to 1812." Studies in English, no. 3 (1915): i–285. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20779346.
• Ancestry Family Tree: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=162543467&pi...
• Townsley, Rubye. "Bartholomew Green." Warren/Townsley Tree via RootsWeb, published 31 July 2019. < link > Accessed 30 October 2021.