Capt. Thomas Green, Jr., of Malden

Not the same as “the other Thomas Green of Malden"

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Green-410

Thomas Greene was born abt.1630 of father Thomas Green and mother Elizabeth Unknown in Toppesfield, Essex, England. His christening record has not been found but his siblings were all christened there as was his father and his aunts and uncles.

He married in 1653 at Malden, Massachusetts (Middlesex), Rebecca Hills. She was baptized Maldon, Essex, England, 20 April 1634, died 16 June 1674, the daughter of Joseph Hills and his wife, Rose Clark.[1] Rebecca Hills' sister, Mary Hills, married John Waite. In his 13 (12) 1671 will, Thomas Green named overseers "my Bror John Green & my Bror Waite."[2]

Thomas Green died Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts,13 Feb 1671/72, [3][4] leaving a will dated 13 February 1671/1672, proved on 2 April 1672. He gave his wife Rebecca 1/3 of his estate, and made her his executrix, the rest of his estate went to his four children: Rebecca, Hannah, Thomas and Samuel.[5]

Children

1. Rebecca (Greene) Newhall (1654 - 1725). Married Thomas Newhall
2. Thomas (Greene) Green (abt. 1655 - 1674) unmarried
3. ? Hannah Greene (abt. 1658 - abt. 1659)
4. Hannah (Green) Vinton (1659 - 1740) Married John Vinton
5. Samuel Green (1670 - 1736) Married Elizabeth Upham

Research Notes

This is NOT the Thomas Green who was on the ship's register for both the Planter and the Hopewell in 1635 apparently alone and as a 15 year old, placing his birth about 1620. His entry on the Hopewell listed him as "Son of George"[6] while his entry the Planter simply listed his name and age.[7]

In fact it is not clear if that young man ever traveled to New England and while records in Roxbury, Massachusetts and another Thomas Green of Malden who married Margaret Call and seemingly Elizabeth Webb have been identified as possible candidates, it was definitely not THIS Thomas "jr" who was only about 5 years old in 1635. Anderson in "Great Migration" discusses this scenario as well and thinks that the 15-year old never appeared in New England.[8]

References

• Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via sister Hannah Richardson (born Green) by SmartCopy: Oct 21 2015, 15:11:02 UTC
• The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908. Page 292-293. < Archive.Org >
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Green-410 Cites

1. William Sanford Hills and Thomas Hills, ed., Genealogical data relating to the ancestry and descendants of William Hills (Boston, Press of A. Mudge & son [1902]), 69-72 (Joseph Hills),72 (Hills-Clark child list), 74 (Rebecca Hills); digital images, Hathi Trust].
2. Citing "Middlesex Probate 4:102-103" for the will of Thomas Green, Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn in 2000, The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908 in 4 parts (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2000), (4) 293-310 (Green), at 307-308; digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
3. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) Vol. 2, Page 306
4. Greene, Samuel S., A Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Thomas Green of Malden, Mass. (Henry W. Dutton & Son, Boston, 1858) Page 8-9
5. Thomas Green abstract of will, http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I25761&tree=Schirado
6. 1635 Hopewell passenger list at packratpro.com
7. 1635 Planter passenger list at packratpro.com
8. Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. p. 151 $subscription See Also
9. Hall, Edward Hagaman. Register of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (Empire State Society, New York, 1899) self-reported ancestry of Andrew Haswell Green b.1820 Page 171
10. Hanaford, Mary Elisabeth Neal. Family Records of Branches of the Hanaford, Thompson, Huckins, Prescott, Smith, Neal, Haley, Lock, Swift, Plumer, Leavitt, Wilson, Green and Allied Families (Rockford, Ill., 1915) for general information but nothing of the English origins of the family Page 265