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Benjamin Greene

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island
Death: Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Captain Samuel Greene and Mary Greene
Husband of Mary Almy Owen and Ann Greene
Father of Mary Greene; Christopher Greene; Delight Rogers; Sarah Bragg; Stephen Greene and 6 others
Brother of William Greene, 23rd, 25th, 27th, and 29th Gov. of Colonial Rhode Island; Mary Fry; Samuel Greene, Jr and Anne Greene, Died Young

Managed by: George Ramon Howard
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About Benjamin Greene

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Greene-283
Benjamin Greene (abt. 1702 - bef. 1774)

Elder Benjamin Greene
Born about 5 Jan 1702 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Islandmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Samuel Greene and Mary (Gorton) Greene
Brother of William Greene, Mary (Greene) Fry, Samuel Greene Jr. and Ann Greene
Husband of Almy (Angell) Greene — married 2 Sep 1731 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Islandmap
Husband of Margaret (Strickland) Greene — married 30 Oct 1743 in New London, New London, Connecticutmap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Mary (Greene) Comstock, Christopher Greene, Delight (Greene) Rogers, Stephen Greene, Nancy (Greene) Rogers, Unknown Greene and Benjamin Greene
Died before 23 Dec 1774 before about age 72 in New London, New London, Connecticutmap
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Profile last modified 17 May 2023 | Created 21 Oct 2010
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Biography

Benjamin Greene was born about January 5, 1702/1703 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, the son of Samuel Greene and Mary Gorton.

Note that one of the merged profiles estimated that he was born about 1710.

Greene Benjamin, of Samuel, dec., and Almy or Mary Angell, of James ; m. by William Greene, Justice, Sept. 2, 1731.

m2. in New London, Oct. 30, 1743 Margaret Strickland, dau. of Peter Strickland (Children: Benjamin, Almy, Katheron, Samuel, Margaret, and Anne)

Sources

Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1903), Page 116
Connecticut Gazette' (New London, Connecticut) Friday, December 23, 1774 newspaper: Volume: XII, Issue: 580, Page: 3. "Died here, Capt. Benjamin Greene, Brother to the late Governor Greene, of Rhode Island."
Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880, Vol. 23, p. 2: Howland, John. Page 3
Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut (J.H. Beers & Co., 1905) Page 142
Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QV7Q-7LP : accessed 31 January 2022), entry for Benjamin Greene, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch. Source: Ann Smith Lainhart; Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 23 pt. 2) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2010en
James Rogers of New London CT and his descendants. J.S. Rogers 1902 page 229. Reprint 2012.



GEDCOM Note

Benjamin owned property in Warwick, later removed to Montville, near New London, CT
Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175881509823label=@S51@

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Benjamin Greene's Timeline

1702
January 5, 1702
Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island
1732
January 28, 1732
Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
1733
1733
Preston City, New London County, Connecticut, British America Colony
1735
July 30, 1735
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
1736
September 14, 1736
Warwick, Kent, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America
1737
February 19, 1737
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, British America Colony
1738
April 23, 1738
Warwick, Kent, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America
1739
March 5, 1739
Warwick, Kent, Colony of Rhode Island, British Colonial America, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States