Deliverance Greene

James Greene, "of Potowomut," was baptized June 21, 1626, and came to New England with his parents. He married (first) about 1658 Deliverance, born in 1637, daughter of Robert Potter and wife Isabel. (Robert Potter was the ancestor of Bishop Potter, of New York and Pennsylvania.) She died in 1664.

Deliverance was born Jan 5, 1637 Boston and died 27 Mar 1664 Warwick, RI. She died from exposure while fleeing from the Indians into the wilderness. "The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island." [NO]

The other erroneous assertion made is that Deliverance died of exposure while out in the wilderness. No, she likely died in 1664 due to complications of childbirth. According to the 1904 genealogy of the Greene family, it was her mother, Isabel, who died of exposure when the Massachusetts authorities raided Warwick in 1643, and took many of the Warwick men prisoner.

The children of the first marriage of James Greene were: James, Mary, Elisha and Sarah; and of the second marriage: Peter, Elizabeth, John, Jabez, David, Thomas, John and Susanna.

1657c: James Greene married Deliverence Potter at Warwick Settlement, Rhode Island Colony and Providence Plantations.

Children, born at Warwick:

• 1) James, Jr.; born January 1, 1658; married Mary Fones; death March 12, 1712;
• 2) Mary; born September 28, 1660; married February 19, 1685, James Reynolds; died 1690c;
• 3) Elisha; born March 17,1663; married Hannah (unknown) and
• 4) Sarah; born August 27, 1664; married 1685c, Henry Reynolds; died 1716c.

He married (second) Aug. 3, 1665, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Susannah Anthony, of Portsmouth, R. I. She died in 1698.

James Greene died "at his mansion in Potowomut," April 27, 1698, in the seventy-second year of his age.

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Potter-1037
• The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, American Historical Society, New York, 1920 , Page 181, at 182. Available without charge at Archive.org: RI History
• A report of the Record Commissioners of the city of Boston, Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699 Boston, Massachusetts : Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers. Office, 1883; Page 5. Accessed at FamilySearch on 30 Sept 2021. Page 4-5
• Cutter, William Richard. New England families, genealogical and memorial, Vol 1, 1915. Page: 53. Accessed on 30 Sept 2021 at Books.Google.com. Cutter
• Anderson, Robert Charles New England, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston: 2003. Vol. III, Page 145.
• Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1903). Page 65. Accessed on 30 Sept 2021 at Archive.org. Page 65
• Cutter, William Richard. New England families, genealogical and memorial, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York: 1915. Vol 1, Page 53. Accessed at on 30 Sept 2021 at Books.google.com: Page 53
• Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania, Jordan, John W., ed. Lewis Publishing Co., New York: 1911. Vol. 1, Page 707. Accessed on 30 Sept 2021 at FamilySearch.org Page 707; also at Archive.org Page 707
• "The History of Washington and Kent counties, Rhode Island" by J. R. Cole; W. W. Preston & Company; New York City, New York; 1889 (974.501 W27C ACPL)
• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Feb 8 2017, 1:22:20 UTC
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191770840/deliverance-greene

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Note: No death or burial record has been found for Deliverance, and she has no extant gravestone. However, when she died in Warwick, the Greene family cemetery had already been established with the death of her father-in-law five years earlier, and her husband was later interred here. It seems unreasonable that she would be buried elsewhere. Her death year is the year her last child was born, as her husband remarried in 1665.Deliverance was the daughter of Robert and Isabel Potter of Roxbury, Mass. and Warwick, Rhode Island. She was baptized at the Boston church on 5 March 1636/7, but her father was called of Roxbury in the baptismal record, and that is likely where Deliverance was born. Not long after her baptism, her family came to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and then to Warwick by 1643. She was married c. 1657 to James Greene of Warwick, the son of Surgeon John Greene and Joanne Tatersole.There is some mis-information surrounding Deliverance that should be presented. First, her mother's maiden name has been given as both Anthony and Tripp. The reason for these assertions is that her brother John Potter had an uncle John Anthony, and her father Robert Potter was uncle to John Tripp. However, Anderson, in the Great Migration series, cautions that these statements can be construed in different ways, and the maiden name of Isabel has as yet not been determined. The other erroneous assertion made is that Deliverance died of exposure while out in the wilderness. No, she likely died in 1664 due to complications of childbirth. According to the 1904 genealogy of the Greene family, it was her mother, Isabel, who died of exposure when the Massachusetts authorities raided Warwick in 1643, and took many of the Warwick men prisoner.The children of Deliverance and James, born in Warwick, were:* James, b. 1 Jun 1658* Mary, b. 28 Sep 1660* Elisha, b. 17 March 1662* Sarah, b. 27 March 1664.

Following the death of Deliverance, her husband m. (2) 3 Aug 1665 Elizabeth Anthony, daughter of John and Susanna Anthony.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 1 2022, 4:28:44 UTC