John "the Surgeon" Greene

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John "the Surgeon" Greene

Sailed from Southampton (England) on April 16, 1635, on the ship JAMES and landed in Boston, Massachusetts on June 3, 1635. They settled in Salem but were driven out by religious persecutions, and soon after went to Providence (Rhode Island). Here he was one of the twelve to whom Roger Williams conveyed land in his 'initial deed', thusly called because the men are mentioned only by their initials, and one of the twelve original members of the first Baptist Church in Providence. He was of the party who with Samuel Gorton purchased Shawomet, later called Warwick (Rhode Island), from the Indians. His is the only name of a white man signed as a witness to the deed. His own plot, called Occupassnatuxet, more commonly known as Pastuxet, remained in the family until 1782, when it was bought by Governor John Francis, whose heirs are still in possession.

The children of John & Joanne Greene (born in Salisbury, England and baptized at St. Thomas Church):

1. Dep. Gov. John Greene b. Aug. 15, 1620, d. Nov. 27, 1708
2. Peter Greene bpt. March 10, 1622
3. Richard bpt. March 25, 1624
4. James bpt. June 21, 1626; d. 1698
5. Thomas Greene bpt. June 4, 1628; d. 1717
6. Joan Greene bpt. Oct. 3, 1630, m. John Hade/Haden
7. Mary Greene bpt. May 19, 1633; d. 1686; m. James Sweet

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From: http://www.whosyomama.com/gabroaddrick3/4/26185.htm

"The Greene Family and it's Branches"; by Lora S. LaMance; Mayflower Publishing Company, Floral Park, New York, 1904, p 47,48.

"John Greene the Surgeon"

John Greene emigrated from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England to Salem, Massachusetts on board the ship "James" 3 June 1635, a surgeon. He followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island in 1637 and was one of the original proprietors of Providence RI. With Samuel Gorton he was one of the founders of Warwick RI. in 1643. He was a commissioner to England in 1644 when England granted Rhode Island it's first charter. In 1652 Surgeon John Greene came from Salisbury, England in the next company following Roger Williams and with his wife settled in Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, where the Warwick branch of the Greene family was founded.

FIRST GENERATION. 1. JOHN GREENE, surgeon, the progenitor of the Warwick Greenes, was the son of Richard and Mary (Hooker) Greene, and was born on his father's estate at Bowridge Hill in the parish of Gillingham, County Dorset, England. about I590. ' Though not so recorded, dates before and after him would seem to determine this is the year of his birth.(1)

The mother of John Greene, surgeon, Mary Hooker, was the daughter of John Hooker (alias Vowell), who was born at Exeter, England, about I524, his father, Robert Hooker, having been mayor of that city in 1520. His parents died when he was about ten years old. His early education was acquired under Dr. Moseman, Vicar of Menhussin in Cornwall, and he afterward studied law at Oxford. Later he traveled in Germany and resided some time in Cologne and Strasburg, where he was the guest of Peter Martyne and attended the divinity lectures of that learned Reformer. He returned to England and after a short stay went to France, intending to extend his travels to Spain and Italy, but was prevented by the war. Returning to his native country he settled in Exeter, and was chosen first chamberlain of that city, 1555. He devoted himself after this to the study of history and antiquities. In 1568 was a member of the Irish Parliament, and in 1571 was one of the members of the English Parliament from Exeter (Wood). Price says he died 1601 (?), when about eighty years of age, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral, but had no monument. He was the author of several works, among them: "State of Ireland and Order of keeping a Parliament in that Country," the same being found in the British Museum under title, "Order and Usage of keeping Parliament in England" (MS. Harl., II73, vol. I9). (From History of Devonshire, by Rev. Thomas Moore, vol. ii. p. I 25)

John Hooker was uncle to the celebrated divine, Richard Hooker, Rector of Bascombe, County Wilts, 1591, and Prebendary of Sarum. John Greene removed early to Sarum (Salisbury), the county town of Wiltshire, (2) [IT:(2)((Leland's Itinerary (pp. 7-8, 31)gives the following: 'The city of Old Saresbyri standing on a hill is distant from the New a mile by north weste and d is incompace half a mile and mo. This city has been ancient and exceeding strong but syns the building of New Saresbyri it went totally to ruin. . . . In times of civil wars--insomuch as the castellanes of Old Saresbyri and the chanons could not agree, whereupon the bishop and they consulting together at the last began a church on their own proper soyle and then the people resorted strangers to New Saresbyrie and builded there and in continuance were a great number of the houses of old Saresbyri pulled down and set up at New Saresbyri."

Thomas's Church was built as a Chapel of Ease to the Cathedral by Bishop Bingham in the Year (?). It was dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was martyred in the reign of King Henry II., and is said to be in some respects more beautiful than the Cathedral.

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From: http://www.warwickonline.com/view/full_story/5352939/article-Then-a...

One of the first six colonists to receive "home lots" in Providence was the remarkable John Greene, Surgeon. Like many of the other settlers, he wanted more land to begin his life in America. In 1642, a few years after settling in Providence, Greene purchased 700 acres of land from the Indian sachem Miantonomi. This land was south of the settlement of Pawtuxet and was called Occupasuetuxet. Later it was known as "Greene's Hold." When Providence merchant John Brown purchased it in 1782, he called it "Spring Green." Today, it is known as Spring Green and/or Governor Francis Farms.

According to the very informative The Greenes of Rhode Island (compiled from the manuscript of Major-General George Sears Greene), published in 1903, John Greene “was well respected by his contemporaries in Providence. Roger Williams, in 1637 wrote, "... Mr. Greene here is peaceable, a peacemaker, and a lover of all English that visit us."

It appears that while Greene took no active part in the Providence politics at the time, he became very friendly with Samuel Gorton, who did. Gorton became embroiled in the politics and quarrels in Providence and was called by William Arnold “a turbulent troublemaker." When Gorton and his followers left Providence, John Greene joined him and, with 10 others, purchased a tract of land directly below his Occupasuetuxet holdings. This was, of course, the Shawomet Purchase of 1642, the tract of land that was four miles wide and extended for about 20 miles west from Narragansett Bay. This later became the towns of Warwick, West Warwick and Coventry.

Life was very difficult in this early period, especially for many of the women who had left the security and comfort of Old England to eke out a living in the New World. One of those who succumbed to the rigors of Rhode Island's wilderness was Joanne Tattershall Greene, John Greene's first wife and the mother of his children.

Prior to his leaving Providence in 1642 to take up permanent residence in Warwick, John Greene married Alice Daniels, a widow with a young son and a tract of land in Providence. The newlyweds found little peace in that first year as the Massachusetts Bay Colony, claiming jurisdiction over Shawomet, invaded the fledging colony with "forty mounted and armed men" to arrest Gorton and his followers. Panic ensued and the women fled to the woods or the safety of the nearby islands as the soldiers descended upon Shawomet. The G.S. Greene manuscript tells us that the “fright and exposure caused the death of two of the women. One of them was Alice Daniels Greene. An unpublished and historically accurate manuscript by Hedley Smith, Stubborn Saint: A Portrait of Samuel Gorton, tells us that John Greene went to his wife's assistance on the island of Conanicut (Jamestown). He was too late, as Alice died before he could reach her.

When Gorton and the others barricaded themselves against the Massachusetts men, Greene was not with them. The siege lasted for several days and Gorton and his men were taken captive and sent to Boston. The trial was a travesty of justice as the legal aspect was ignored. The goal was to punish Gorton for his religious views and his criticism of the Boston magistrates and the Puritan preachers. Many historians call this episode in Warwick history the "Greatest Crime of the Colonial Period." The Shawomet men were whipped, shackled and given hard labor for a year. They were to be permanently banished from the colonies under Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth Colony jurisdiction. This, the court claimed, included Shawomet.

As John Greene was never taken captive (although placed on a wanted list) he was free to cultivate the good graces of the Narragansett Indians, and when the Gortonites were finally released he was there to help plan a petition to Parliament.

The story of John Greene's involvement to free Shawomet from Massachusetts rule will be continued.

Read more: Warwick Beacon - Then and Now John Greene Surgeon 2 Mr Green a peacemaker

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JOHN GREENE, Surgeon, was the first of my Green ancestors to come to America. He was the fourth son of Richard and Mary Hooker Green of Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, County of Dorsetshire, England. John Greene was born 1590 in England; died in January of 1659 in Warwick, Providence (now Kent) County, Rhode Island, in the America's; married first in 1619 to JOANNE TATTERSHALL, daughter of Richard and Margaret Fox Tattershall. He was the Surgeon of Salisbury, County of Wilkes, England. One page 234 of "A Family Genealogy" by William Henry Beck, III, is the following account of JOHN GREENE (1590-1659):

JOHN GREENE, the pioneer in this country, with his wife and children, sailed from Southampton on April 16, 1635, on the ship JAMES and landed in Boston (Massachusetts) on June 3, 1635. They settled in Salem but were driven out by religious persecutions, and soon after went to Providence (Rhode Island). Here he was one of the twelve to who Roger Williams conveyed land in his 'initial deed', thusly called because the men are mentioned only by their initials, and one of the twelve original members of the first Baptist Church in Providence. He was of the party who with Samuel Gorton purchased Shawomet, later called Warwick (Rhode Island), from the Indians. His is the only name of a white man signed as a witness to the deed. His own plot, called Occupassnatuxet, more commonly known as Pastuxet, remained in the family until 1782, when it was bought by Governor John Francis, whose heirs are still in possession.

In August 1637, he was accused of having spoken contemptuously against magistrates and stood 'bound in a 100 marks to appear at the next Quarter Court', by order of the Massachusetts authorities.

In September following, for the same offense, he was fined $20.00 and was to be committed until the fine was paid, and enjoined not to come into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts upon pain of fine or imprisonment at the pleasure of the Court. A few months later the same court of Massachusetts received a letter from Greene with which he charged the court with usurping the power of Christ over churches and men's consciences. The court again ordered him not to come into their jurisdiction under pain of imprisonment and further censure.

In 1643 came the summons to the Warwick men to appear in Boston to answer to the complaints of Pomham and Soconoco, 'as to some unjust and injurious dealing toward them by yourself'. Then soldiers were sent to bring them by force to Boston, after the accused refused to go, declaring they were legal subjects of the King of England, and beyond the limits of Massachusetts authority. On their arrival, there was a parley during which the officers declared that the Warwick settlers 'held blasphemous errors of which they must repent' or go to Boston for trial. Greene escaped capture but was banished like the rest.

After Joanne's death in 1643, John Greene returned to England and remarried. Three years later, however, when he and Gorton returned from England, he had the satisfaction of landing in Boston, justified by the King of England.

Like others of this company of Shawomet settlers, Greene held responsible positions under the charter and was magistrate, assistant member of the town council, representative in the assembly, and commissioner from 1654 to 1657.

John Greene died in Warwick (Rhode Island) in January of 1659.

"REF.: -- COLONIAL FAMILY OF AMERICA by McKenzie. Volumes I and 2, Pages 209 and 198." Paper arranged by Miss Mary A. Greene, Providence, Rhode Island USA.

"The Greene Family and it's Branches"; by Lora S. LaMance; Mayflower
Publishing Company, Floral Park, New York, 1904, p 47,48.

"John Greene the Surgeon"

John Greene emigrated from Salisbury, County Wiltshire, England to Salem, Massachusetts on board the ship "James" 3 June 1635, a surgeon. He followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island in 1637 and was one of the original proprietors of Providence, Rhode Island. With Samuel Gorton he was one of the founders of Warwick, Rhode Island in 1643. He was a commissioner to England in 1644 when England granted Rhode Island it's first charter. In 1652 Surgeon John Greene came from Salisbury, England in the next company following Roger Williams and with his wife settled in Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, where the Warwick branch of the Greene family was founded.

FIRST GENERATION TO AMERICA.
JOHN GREENE, surgeon, the progenitor of the Warwick Greenes, was the son of Richard and Mary (Hooker) Greene, and was born on his father's estate at Bowridge Hill in the parish of Gillingham, County Dorset, England. about 1590. ' Though not so recorded, dates before and after him would seem to determine this is the year of his birth.(1)

John Greene removed early to Sarum (Salisbury), the county town of Wiltshire, (2) [IT:(2) ((Leland's Itinerary (pp. 7-8, 31)gives the following: 'The city of Old Saresbyri standing on a hill is distant from the New a mile by north weste and d is incompace half a mile and mo. This city has been ancient and exceeding strong but syns the building of New Saresbyri it went totally to ruin. . . . In times of civil wars--insomuch as the castellanes of Old Saresbyri and the chanons could not agree, whereupon the bishop and they consulting together at the last began a church on their own proper soyle and then the people resorted strangers to New Saresbyrie and builded there and in continuance were a great number of the houses of old Saresbyri pulled down and set up at New Saresbyri."

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Apparently JOANNE "JOAN" TATTERSHALL GREENE did not die at sea in 1635 as
was previously believed. JOAN sought refuge with the Indians in Occupassnatuxet (aka Pastuxet, now Warwick), Rhode Island, from the Massachusetts authorities in 1643. She died there from shock that year.

The following year (1644), JOHN GREENE, with other leading men of the plantation, went to England and succeeded in obtaining a just assertion of their rights. We find in JOHN GREENE that sturdy spirit of freedom which burned in the breasts of so many of our ancestors, in his reply to the Legislature of the Bay, wherein he charged them with usurping the power of Christ over the Churches and men's consciences in definance of either secular or ecclesiastical authority .....

....(JOHN GREENE) made his Will on the 28th of December 1658 which was proved on the 7th day of January the following year (1659), and was witnessed by JOHN WICKES and ANTHONY LOW, and in it he gave to his 'beloved wife PHILLIPPA GREENE yet part of buildings, being all new erected, and containg a large hall and chimni with a little chamber joing yet with a large garden wit ha little dary room which butts against ye olde house to enjoy during her life. Allso I give unto her half ye orchard, allso I give unto her my Lott adjoing to ye orchard together with ye swamp which the towne granted me.' (sic) After some ofther bequests to his wife, he gave to his son JOHN, the neck of land called Occupasnetuet with an adjoing meadow, and a small island, all of which he says he bought of Miantonomi. To his children he bequeathed other other tracts of land, including his portion of the Warwick purchase and appointed his wife sole executrix of the will. He left a large estate to his descendants, much of the property being still in the possession of his posterity. He enjoyed the confidence and respect of his associates through a long and active political life of many years. He was buried by the side of his first wife at Conanicut. His children were all born before coming to (America).

SOURCE: "Ancestors of Forrest Greene In England and America"

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Robert Potter of Warwick, Rhode Island (USA)
Deed from the Sachem Myantonomy to Samuel Gorton, Robert Potter, and others of Shawomett (now Warwick), January 12, 1642: "Know all men; that I Myantonomy, chiefe sachem of the Nanheygansett, have sould unto the persons here named, one parsell of lands with all the rights and privileges thereoff whatever, lyinge uppon the west syde of that part of the sea called Sowhomes Bay, from Copassanatuxet, over against a little island in the sayd Bay, being the north bounds, and the outmost point of that neck of land called Shawomett; beinge the south bounds from the sea shoare of each boundary uppon a straight lyne westward twentie miles. I say I have truly sould this parsell of lands above sayde, the proportion whereof is according to the mapp under written or drawne, being the forme of it to Randall Holden, JOHN GREENE, John Wickes, Francis Weston, Samuel Gorton, Richard Waterman, John Warner, Richard Carder, Sampson Shotton, Robert Potter, and William Waddall for one hundred and fortie-foure ffathom of Wampumpeage, I say I have sould it, and possession of it given unto the men above sayed, with the ffree and joynt concent of the present inhabitants, being natives, as it appears by their hands hereunto annexed.

Dated ye twelfth day of January, 1642.

Beinge enacted uppoon the above sayed parsell of land in the presence off

PUM HOMM JANO

MYANTOMY, Sachem of Shawhommett

TOTANOMANS, his marke."

SOURCE: Local and Family Histories: New England, 1600-1900s, page 151, FTM CD-ROM #449

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Other interesting notes about JOHN GREENE:
It is presumed (by some) that he made no settlement in Massachusetts. Probably because of the church 'authorities' problems?

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John "the Surgeon" Greene Disc #141 Pin #2148032 Marriage: 4 Nov 1619 St. Thomas Church, Salisbury, County Wiltshire, ENGLAND to Joane Tattersall.

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'John Greene the Surgeon' John Greene emigrated from Sailsbury Wiltshire England to Salem Massachusetts on board the ship 'James' 3 June 1635, a surgeon. He followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island in 1637 and was one of the original proprietors of Providence RI. With Samuel Gorton he was one of the founders of Warwick RI. in 1643. He was a commissioner to England in 1644 when England granted Rhode Island it's first charter. In 1652 Surgeon John Greene came from Salisbury, England in the next company following Roger Williams and with his wife settled in Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, where the Warwick branch of the Greene family was founded. FIRST GENERATION. 1. JOHN GREENE, surgeon, the progenitor of the Warwick Greenes, was the son of Richard and Mary (Hooker) Greene, and was born on his father's estate at Bowridge Hill in the parish of Gillingham, County Dorset, England. about I590. ' Though not so recorded, dates before and after him would seem to determine this is the year of his birth.(1) The mother of John Greene, surgeon, Mary Hooker, was the daughter of John Hooker (alias Vowell), who was born at Exeter, England, about I524, his father, Robert Hooker, having been mayor of that city in 1520. His parents died when he was about ten years old. His early education was acquired under Dr. Moseman, Vicar of Menhussin in Cornwall, and he afterward studied law at Oxford. Later he travelled in Germany and resided some time in Cologne and Strasburg, where he was the guest of Peter Martyne and attended the divinity lectures of that learned Reformer. He returned to England and after a short stay went to France, intending to extend his travels to Spain and Italy, but was prevented by the war. Returning to his native country he settled in Exeter, and was chosen first chamberlain of that city, 1555. He devoted himself after this to the study of history and antiquities. In 1568 was a member of the Irish Parliament, and in 1571 was one of the members of the English Parliament from Exeter (Wood). Price says he died 1601 (?), when about eighty years of age, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral, but had no monument. He was the author of several works, among them: 'State of Ireland and Order of keeping a Parliament in that Country,' the same being found in the British Museum under title, 'Order and Usage of keeping Parliament in England' (MS. Harl., II73, vol. I9). (From History of Devonshire, by Rev. Thomas Moore, vol. ii. p. I 25 ,.) John Hooker was uncle to the celebrated divine, Richard Hooker, Rector of Bascombe, County Wilts, 1591, and Prebendary of Sarum. John Greene removed early to Sarum (Salisbury), the county town of Wiltshire, (2) [IT:(2)((Leland's Itinerary (pp. 7-8, 31) gives the following: 'The city of Old Saresbyri standing on an hill is distant from the New a mile by north weste and d is in compace half a mile and mo. This city has been ancient and exceeding strong but syns the building of New Saresbyri it went totally to ruin. . . . In times of civile wars--insomuch as the castellanes of Old Saresbyri and the chanons could not agree, whereupon the bishop and they consulting together at the last began a church on their own proper soyle and then the people resorted strangers to New Saresbyrie and builded there and in continuance were a great numbre of the houses of old Saresbyri pulled down and set up at New Saresbyri.' Thomas's Church was built as a Chapel of Ease to the Cathedral by Bishop Bingham in the Year (?). It was dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was martyred in the reign of King Henry Il., and is said to be in some respects more beautiful than the Cathedral. In the (?) with the living in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral. )) :IT] and was there married at St. Thomas's Church,' November 4, 16I9, to Joanne Tattershall (or, as it was written on the church register, 'Tatarsole''. Nothing is definitely known of her English connections. The name is frequently, found in early records among post-mortem examinations, parliamentary writs, and charters, and is variously written Tatersall, Tateshall, Tatershal, and Tattershall. The first of the family of whom we have mention came in with William the Conqueror and obtained the lordship of Tattershall in Lincolnshire, where he seated himself and from which he took his surname. His descendants were seated in Berkshire and Northamptonshire, and were held in high repute. It is probable that other branches located in other counties, and it is not improbable to suppose that Joanne wife of John Greene, who emigrated to America from Salisbury, County Wilts, was a connection of the family of George Tattershall, who was seated at Stapleford, County Wilts, which is about five miles distant from Salisbury home; but as yet this relationship has not been proved. The following note, recently received by the compiler in answer to an inquiry about records at Stapleford, may be of interest in this connection: STAPLEFORD VICARAGE, SALISBURY, October I 8, I 900. Madam: I have received your letter of the 25th September, but say that I cannot help you in your research, as the Stapleford register begins only with the year I637. J. F. D. Hoernle, ' Vicar of Stapleford. ' Joanne Tattershall's marriage date was I6I9, eighteen years earlier.] marriage of John Greene and the baptisms of all his seven children, recorded in the Parish Register of St. Thomas's Church at Salisbury, England.. He is therein styled ' Mr.' and ' Gent.,' a mark of some distinction on at that date.(3) [IT:(3)(( John Greene received by will from his brother Richard, Clerk of the Close of Salisbury Cathedral April 28, 1614, half of his Latin books, the other half being given to his brother, Robert, who by will October 20, 1649, gave them also to his brother John Greene in New England if he come after them' The possession of these Latin books by three brothers indicates that they were of an educated family. Mr. Greene in the Baptismal and Marriage Records at Salisbury was (?) Mr. or Gent.,' denoting his social position.'--G. S. G.)) :IT] He resided at Salisbury with his family, following his profession, for about sixteen years. On April 6, I635, he was registered for embarkation at Hampton, England (see Appendix II.), with his wife and six children (one having probably died in England before this date), ' in the ship James, of 200 tons, William Cooper, Master, for New England.' .After a voyage of fifty-eight days he arrived at Boston, Mass., June 3, I635. He first settled at Salem, Mass., where he was associated with Roger Williams. purchasing or building a house there, but soon after Mr. Williams's flight from Salem (I636) he sold it and, joining Williams at Providence, secured his home lot. No. I 5, on the main street. He was one of eleven men baptized by Roger Williams, and one of the twelve original members of the first Baptist church on this continent, organized at Providence, R. I. He was the first professional medical man in Providence Plantations. He is alluded to in Goodwin's Pilgrim Republic (p. 407) as ' one of the two local surgeons ' at Providence in I638, though we are told ' the people of Providence relied solely upon him for surgical aid long after his removal to Warwick in I643.' His first wife, Joanne Tattershall, the mother of all his children. died soon after his removal to Rhode Island and it is supposed was buried at Conimicut, Old Warwick (?). He married (2) ' Ailsce (Alice) Daniels. a widow' (recorded as proprietor of a home lot in Providence, 1637)(see below). They removed to Warwick, I642-3. At the time of the persecution of the Shawomet pioneers (October, 1643), when ' forty mounted and, armed men, sent from Boston to arrest them, fired over their houses, the women and children fled to the woods. Fright and exposure caused the death of the (second) wife of John Greene. (It seems more-probable that this was the wife who was buried at Conimicut.) Samuel Gorton wrote of this attack of the Massachusetts troops: ' Afflicting our wives and children, forcing them to betake themselves some into the woods among the Indians. suffering such hardships as occasioned the death of divers of them, as the wife of John Greene. as also the wife of Robert Potter.' Judge Staples, in Annals of Providence, mentions the fact that the second marriage of John Greene was not recorded, but he found evidence in Probate Records, where mention is made of the son of Alice Daniels as 'John Greene's stepson' Evidence of this marriage is also given in the following item: In the division of 52 House lots John Greene senior Had lot between Thomas James on the North and John Smith on the South, and he inherited the lot of Alice Daniels his second wife between Wm. Harris on the North and John Sweet on the South' (Rhode Island Colonial Records (Printed), vol. i.,p. 24) In files. City Clerk's office, Providence, is a book containing ' A revised List of Lands and Meadows as they were originally lotted for the beginning of the Plantations of Providence in the Narragansett Bay in New England unto the [then] inhabitants of the said Plantations until anno I6--.' First in order are the 'home lots,' beginning at the Mile-end Cove, south end of town, between Fox Point and Wickenden Streets, lots all bounded by Town (Main) Street on the west and by what is now Hope Street on the east. The name of Alice Daniels is found on this list. Mr. Greene was married (3) in London, England, about 1644, to Phillippa (always written Phillip), who returned with him to Warwick, R. I., 1646. Her family name is not known. She died at Warwick, March II, I687, aged about eighty-seven years, having survived her husband for nearly thirty years(4) [IT:(4)((Mrs. Phillip Greene, widow, deeded to her stepson, Major John Greene, all her houses and lands for maintenance, etc., in 1668, twenty years before her death, Her will described the locality of the John Greene homestead, which description exactly coincides with that given in the will of Peter Greene. son of John, surgeon. (See notes of General Greene on Warwick Records, Appendix II )) :IT]' In further support that his third wife was from London we quote the words of Samuel Gorton, who, in a letter from Warwick addressed ' to Edward Calverly at his house by the east end of Christ Church in Newgate Market, London,' and dated November 20, I649, wrote of this last wife of John Greene: ' Your auld neighbor, our loving friend, Mrs. Greene, hath writ a letter of advise to you (which) made me laugh not a little, which I heartily wish may come to your hands. She laies out the benefights of these parts better than I could have advised to have done. She takes well with the country and cheerfully performs her place (part), hath the love of all, non can open their mouth against her, which is a rare thing in these parts.' John Greene, surgeon, was a prominent man in the public affairs of the town and Colony and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his associates through a long and active political life, holding office almost continuously until the summer before his death, when he refused to accept the office of Commissioner, being repeatedly urged thereto. A few months later, the General Court of Massachusetts at the request of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony (whose wife was Rachel Perne, daughter of John Greenes sister, Rachel), granted him permission to visit Boston in the coming spring, but he did not live to accomplish this visit. He died and was buried at Conimicut, Warwick, it is supposed beside his first wife ( ?) in the first week of January, I659. Although John Greene must have been in Providence as early as April 27, I637, as mentioned in a letter of Joshua Verin of that date ('we six which came first'), and when 'the first portions of grass & meadow were appropriated to Throckmorton, Greene, Harris, Verin, Arnold, and Williams,' June 10 I637, (see Rhode Island Colonial Records (Printed), vol. i, p. I7), his name is not mentioned on Massachusetts records till August I, I637 ' Mr. John Greene of New Providence bound to Quarterly Court first Tuesday of seventh month next for speaking contemptuously of magistrates in I00 marks' (Massachusetts Colonial Records, i., p. 200). On which account taken as follows: 'John Greene of New Providence fined 201 and forbidden this jurisdiction on pain of fine and imprisonment for speaking contemptuously of magistrates Sep. I9, I637' (Massachusetts Colonial Records, i., p. 203). John Greene, feeling the injustice of the magistrates, wrote a letter concerning which the following entry was made, March I2, I638: 'A letter was sent to the Court by John Greene dated New Providence, wherein the Court was charged with usurping the power of Christ over the churches and men's consciences, and it was then ordered (March I2, I638) that he should not come within their jurisdiction, ' ' etc. The late Henry E. Turner, M.D., of Newport, in The Greenes of Warwick in Colonial History (p. 7), writes: ' However insignificant in the aggregate of historical items this transaction may appear, it was one of the earliest assertions of entire and absolute freedom of opinion in defiance of either secular or ecclesiastical authority, and was one of the scintillations from the profound which aided to kindle the flame which is now lighting the world in its march to universal emancipation, and it seems to me to entitle John Greene to a high place among the apostles of fine thought.' In all transactions in Warwick, John Greene was a prominent figure,'enjoying fully the confidence of his fellow citizens and suffering in common with them from the machinations of their enemies in Mass.,' inasmuch as, though he escaped imprisonment(5) [IT:(5)((During these persecutions of Gorton and his companions, John Greene was not arrested by the Massachusetts Bay authorities. Possibly this was due to the influence of Edward Rawson, Secretary of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who had married a niece of John Greene, surgeon. The warrant for the arrest of John Greene. surgeon, and his son John was never executed--G. S. G.):IT]) he was with them under the ban of oulawry by name, and was forced to submit to interference with and destruction of his property. In 'Letters from the Pawtuxet,' by Henry Rousmaniere, on 'Genealogy of the Greenes, published in the Providence Journal, May, I859, mention is made of John Greene as 'This Adam of Shawomet [Warwick], who was driven out of Massachusetts, not Paradise, for the great crime of obeying his conscience in religion,' and ' who left to his family a fair name and a large landed estate.' His will was dated December 28, I658, and proved January 7, 1659. He left his large estate to his descendants, much of the property being still in the possession of his posterity. POLITICAL RECORD OF JOHN GREENE, SURGEON. August 8, I647. Member of first Town Council of Warwick, R. I. February 26, I648. Commissioner (Representative of Warwick in General Assembly) May 7, I649. Magistrate in Court of Trials at Warwick. June 4, I649. Assistant. July 2, I649. Member of Town Council. October 26, 1650, May 8, 1655, October 6, 1656, and August 9, 1657 )commissioner He is mentioned in Col. Rec., R. I., pp. 241, 278, 304, 325, 326, 337, 354; 'Commissioner, 1652, 1654, 1657, Magistrate, 1656.' JOHN GREENE CHILDREN BY FIRST MARRIAGE ONLY: John, bap. August 15, 1620, married Anne Almy. Peter, bap. March 10 1621-2, married Mary Gorton. Richard, bap. March 25, 1624, died young (probably in England). James, bap. June 21, 1626, married (1) Deliverance Potter; (2) Elizabeth Anthony. Thomas, bap. June 4, 1628, married Elizabeth Barton. Jone, bap. October 3, 1630, married John Hade. Mary, bap. may 19, 1633, married James Sweet. ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH IN THE CITY OF SALISBURY, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND. EXTRACT FROM THE PARISH REGISTER, WHICH BEGINS 1570. MARRIED . I6I9, November 4, John Greene mar. to Joane Tatarsole. BAPTIZED. 1620, August 15, John ye sonn of John and Joane Greene. 1621-2, March 10, Peter the sonn of John and Joane Greene. 1624, March 25, Richard, the son of Mr. John and Mrs. Joan Greene. I626, 1626, June 21, James, of Mr. John and Mr.is Joane Greene. 1628, June 4, Thomas, sonne of John and Joane Greene, gent'm. 1630, Oct. 3, Jone daur. of John and Jone Greene. 1633, May I9, Mary of John and Jone Greene, Chirurgeon The above John Greene, chirurgeon, and Joane Tatarsole settled in Warwick, R. I., and were ancestors of the Warwick Greenes. This information I copied from the internet from Susan Shannon 1. John2 GREENE , Surgeon (Richard1) (Source: Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.) was born Abt. 1590 in Bowridge Hill, Dorset, England, and died January 1658/59 in Warwick, Kent, RI. He married (1) Alice Daniels Abt. 1618. He married (2) Joan/Joanne TATTERSALL November 04, 1619 in St. Thomas Church, Salisbury, England. He married (3) Phillis 1644 in England. Notes for John GREENE , Surgeon: John, the surgeon, resided at Salisbury with his family, following his profession, for about sixteen years. On April 6, I635, he was registered for embarkation at Hampton, England, with his wife and six children (one having probably died in England before this date), ' in the ship James, of 200 tons, William Cooper, Master, for New England.' . After a voyage of fifty-eight days he arrived at Boston, Mass., June 3, I635. He first settled at Salem, Mass., where he was associated with Roger Williams. purchasing or building a house there, but soon after Mr. Williams's flight from Salem (I636) he sold it and, joining Williams at Providence, secured his home lot. No. I 5, on the main street. He was one of eleven men baptized by Roger Williams, and one of the twelve original members of the first Baptist church on this continent, organized at Providence, R. I. He was the first professional medical man in Providence Plantations. He is alluded to in Goodwin's Pilgrim Republic (p. 407) as ' one of the two local surgeons ' at Providence in I638, though we are told ' the people of Providence relied solely upon him for surgical aid long after his removal to Warwick in I643.' His first wife, Joanne Tattershall, the mother of all his children. died soon after his removal to Rhode Island and it is supposed was buried at Conimicut, Old Warwick (?). He married (2) ' Ailsce (Alice) Daniels. a widow' (recorded as proprietor of a home lot in Providence, 1637)(see below). They removed to Warwick, 1642-3. At the time of the persecution of the Shawomet pioneers (October, 1643), when 'forty mounted and, armed men, sent from Boston to arrest them, fired over their houses, the women and children fled to the woods. Fright and exposure caused the death of the (second) wife of John Greene. (It seems more-probable that this was the wife who was buried at Conimicut.) Birth: 09 FEB 1591 in Gillingham, Dorset, England Death: 07 JAN 1659 in Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island

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John Greene (Feb 09, 1597-Jan 07, 1659) and Joanne Tattershall are my maternal 9th great grandparents. This is a sketching of the Tattershall Coat Of Arms found in England. My direct lineage is then via his first son John GREENE "of Warwick" who was born August 15, 1620 in Salisbury, County Wiltshire, England, and died November 27, 1708 in Kingstown, Providence (nka Kent) County, Rhode Island USA, and his wife Ann (or Agnes, Annis) ALMY, d/o William Lynn ALMY and Audrey BARLOWE.

John Greene (1597-1659), aka John "the Surgeon" Greene was the first of my Green ancestors to come to America. He was the fourth son of Richard and Mary Hooker Greene of Bowridge Hall, Gillingham, County Dorset, England. John Greene was born September 9, 1597 in Bowridge Hall, Gillingham, County Dorset, England; died in January of 1659 in Warwick, Providence (nka Kent) County, Rhode Island, in the America's; married first in November 04, 1619 at St. Thomas Church, Salisbury, County Wiltshire, England, to Joanne Tattershall, daughter of Richard Tattershall and wife Margaret Fox. John Greene (1597-1659) was the Surgeon of Salisbury, County Wilkes, England. One page 234 of "A Family Genealogy" by William Henry Beck, III, is the following account of JOHN GREENE (1590-1659):

"JOHN GREENE (1597-1659), the pioneer in this country, with his wife and children, sailed from Southampton (England) on April 16, 1635, on the ship JAMES and landed in Boston, Massachusetts on June 3, 1635. They settled in Salem but were driven out by religious persecutions, and soon after went to Providence (Rhode Island). Here he was one of the twelve to who Roger Williams conveyed land in his 'initial deed', thusly called because the men are mentioned only by their initials, and one of the twelve original members of the first Baptist Church in Providence. He was of the party who with Samuel Gorton purchased Shawomet, later called Warwick (Rhode Island), from the Indians. His is the only name of a white man signed as a witness to the deed. His own plot, called Occupassnatuxet, more commonly known as Pastuxet, remained in the family until 1782, when it was bought by Governor John Francis, whose heirs are still in possession.

In August 1637, he was accused of having spoken contemptuously against magistrates and stood 'bound in a 100 marks to appear at the next Quarter Court', by order of the Massachusetts authorities.

In September following, for the same offense, he was fined $20.00 and was to be committed until the fine was paid, and enjoined not to come into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts upon pain of fine or imprisonment at the pleasure of the Court. A few months later the same court of Massachusetts received a letter from Greene with which he charged the court with usurping the power of Christ over churches and men's consciences. The court again ordered him not to come into their jurisdiction under pain of imprisonment and further censure.

In 1643 came the summons to the Warwick men to appear in Boston to answer to the complaints of Pomham and Soconoco, 'as to some unjust and injurious dealing toward them by yourself'. Then soldiers were sent to bring them by force to Boston, after the accused refused to go, declaring they were legal subjects of the King of England, and beyond the limits of Massachusetts authority. On their arrival, there was a parley during which the officers declared that the Warwick settlers 'held blasphemous errors of which they must repent' or go to Boston for trial. Greene escaped capture but was banished like the rest.

Apparently Mrs. Joanne "Joan" Tattershall Greene did not die at sea in 1635 as has been recorded by others. Joan sought refuge with the Indians in the area called Occupassnatuxet (aka Pastuxet, now Warwick), Rhode Island, from the Massachusetts authorities in 1643. The event was so trying that she died there from shock.

After Joanne's death in 1643, John Greene returned to England and remarried twice. First to Alice Daniels of Gillingham on May 08, 1644 Gillingham, County Dorset, England, who died soon after marriage. Then to Phillippa "Phillis" Arnold of London on October 20, 1645 in London, County Middlesex. Three years later, however, when he, 3rd wife Phillippa, and Samuel Gorton returned from England, he had the satisfaction of landing in Boston, justified by the King of England.

Like others of this company of Shawomet settlers, Greene held responsible positions under the charter and was magistrate, assistant member of the town council, representative in the assembly, and commissioner from 1654 to 1657.

John Greene died in Warwick, Rhode Island in January of 1659." - See more at: http://www.redbirdacres.net/greenehistory.html#sthash.OlYFC8Kz.dpuf

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4 kids. First settler in Old Warwick, R.I. First MD in Providence Plantation (orig name of R I), R I.

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Dr John Greene

Birth: Feb. 9, 1597, Gillingham, North Dorset District, Dorset, England

Death: Jan. 7, 1659, Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA

Death is in the first week of January. His is known as: Surgent John Greene. The First Settler in old Warwick, Rhode Island. The first medical professional at Providence Plantations c. 1636

Father: Richard Greene (1560 - 1606)

Mother: Mary Hooker (1567 - ____)

Spouse 1) Joane Tatarsole (1598 - ____)

The children of John & Joanne Greene (born in Salisbury, England and baptized at St. Thomas Church):

1. Dep. Gov. John Greene b. Aug. 15, 1620, d. Nov. 27, 1708
2. Peter Greene bpt. March 10, 1622
3. Richard bpt. March 25, 1624
4. James bpt. June 21, 1626; d. 1698
5. Thomas Greene bpt. June 4, 1628; d. 1717
6. Joan Greene bpt. Oct. 3, 1630, m. John Hade/Haden
7. Mary Greene bpt. May 19, 1633; d. 1686; m. James Sweet

Spouse 2) Alice Daniels? Beggarly Greene (1610 - 1643)

Siblings:

• Rachel Greene Perne (____ - 1656)

Burial: Surgeon John Greene Lot, Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island

Inscription: The First Generation of the Greene Family John Greene, Surgent the 1st. Settler in Old Warick Died Jan. 1659 2nd. Gen. James Greene The son of John Died Apr 27, 1698 Aged 71 years 3rd. Gen. Capt. James Greene Jr. The son of James Died March 12, 1712 Aged 52 years

Source:

Dr John Greene memorial created by: James Charles Rogers II - https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17759415

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John Greene Sr. was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence, and a co-founder of the town of Warwick in the colony, sailing from England with his family in 1635. Wikipedia

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John Greene (c. 1594 - 1658) was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence, and a co-founder of the town of Warwick in the colony. Sailing from England with his family in 1635, he first settled in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but had difficulty with the Puritan authority, and soon followed Roger Williams to Providence, becoming one of the original proprietors of that town.

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greene_%28settler%29

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June 3, 1635, Ship "James" arrived in Boston, Suffolk County, MA.

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John Greene, known in the records as John Greene of Kings Town, came to Narragansett about the year 1639, living in the family of Richard Smith, as his testimony shows. In 1663, he with others of Wickford, declared themselves in favor of being under jurisdiction of Connecticut, rather than of Rhode Island. On May 20, 1670, having changed his allegiance to the Colony of Rhode Island, he took the oath. On January 1, 1672, he with five others bought of Awashuwett, Chief Sachem of Quoheset, in Narragansett, certain land there. In 1678-79 he served as conservator of the peace. He was the owner of considerable land in the early settlement of Kings Town, and was prominent in affairs. He married Joan Tattersall, and they were the parents of four children, sons, all of whom settled in the vicinity of and about Kings Town.

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Death is in the first week of January. His is known as: Surgent John Greene. The First Settler in old Warwick, Rhode Island. The first medical professional at Providence Plantations c. 1636

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--well-known surgeon in London, England, before migrating to MA/RI --noted as being a Puritan

Dr. JOHN GREEN

7/4/2016: The Wikipedia article states Dr. Greene had six children: John, Peter, Richard, James, Thomas, Joan and Mary. It also says he had difficulty w/ Puritan Colonial authority and was a friend of Roger Williams. At one point Greene was ordered not to go into the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Colony. I therefore respectively question that he was a Puritan. (Joann Tarbox).

English Puritan(?) who fled England and arrived in Massachusetts on Pilgrim ship, James in 1635. Lost his wife, Joanna Tattershall during crossing. Two years later, he left Massachusetts with Roger Williams for Rhode Island. He founded city of Warwick, R.I.

John Greene, of Warwick, Rhode Island, was born in England, 1597, fourth son of Richard and Mary Greene, of Bowridge Hill, England. He married in St. Thomas Church, Salisbury, England, November 4, 1619, Joanna Tattershall, who died at Canonicus or Newport, Rhode Island. He came to America in the ship "James of London," sailing from Southampton in April, 1635, arriving m Boston, June 3, 1635.

He proceeded to Rhode Island, residing in Providence until 1643, when he with twelve others made arrangements for the purchasing of Narragansett from the Indians. He was a sturdy champion of the right of speech and conscience, became embroiled in the fierce religious controversies of the day, and in the land dispute between Connecticut and Rhode Island, which raged for half a century. At Warwick he filled the offices of magistrate and clerk of the court. He had a second wife, Alice Daniels, and a third, Phillippa ————. His will was proved January 7, 1659.

John Greene, the son of Richard Greene, was born in 1597 at Bowridge Hall in Gillingham, Dorsett, England. He was born during the reign of the great Queen Elizabeth I. HIs mother may have been related to both the famous clergyman, Richard Hooker, and to Thomas Hooker who came to America. He was six years old when Queen Elizabeth died. He grew up during the reign of James I, and at the age of 22 years old he married Joan Tattersall in St. Thomas Church at Salisbury, England on 11/4/1619.

He became a surgeon at Salisbury in Wiltshire during a time when there were three classes of doctors (physicians, surgeons, and barbers). Physicians were the highest order, surgeons next and then barbers (who could lance boils and treat minor injuries).

He and Joan had been married for six years, and had children when James I died and Charles I became king. John Greene belonged to the gentry, and though he was a Puritan, he was not persecuted at first as were some of the more rabid Puritans. But as time went on, even this class were subjected to persecution. So, in this time of great religious unrest, we find him a the age of thirty-eight setting sail on the ship James, April 5, 1635 from Portsmouth with his wife and large family of children. HIs son John was fifteen at the time. They arrived at Salem, Massachusetts June 3, 1635 and joined that colony for a time.

In 1637, they moved to Providence, Rhode Island after differences in religious beliefs with t he Salem people. John Greene became one of the twelve original elders of the First Baptist Church established in America at Providene.

He lived first at Salem, Mass., for a short time, and in 1637 was of New Providence, where he was brought before court for speaking contemptuously of the magistrates, and fined twenty pounds and ordered to remain outside the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. In 1638 he sent a letter to the court charging it with usurping the power of Christ and men's consciences, and again was ordered not to come within the jurisdiction under penalty of imprisonment. On October 8, 1638, he was one of the twelve to whom Roger Williams deeded land purchased of Canonicus and Miantonomi, and the following year he was one of the twelve original members of the Baptist church.

In 1642-43 he was made purchases of land. In the latter year he and others were summoned t o Massachusetts court to hear the complaint of Pomham and Socconocco as to some unjust and injurious dealing toward them by yourselves. The Warwick men refused to appear, declaring they were subjects of England and not under Massachusetts authority, and soldiers were sent to take them. They were besieged and all but Greene was taken to Boston, he fortunately escaped imprisonment. In 1644 he and two others went to England to obtain redress for their wrongs and were successful in their purpose. He served as commissioner in 1654-55-56-57; was made freeman in 1655. His will was dated December 28, 1658, and was proved January 7, 1659. I n 1668 his widow deeded the house and estate to her step-son, John Greene. John Greene married (first) in Salisbury, England, November 4, 1619, Joan Tattersall; (second) Alice Daniels , widow, who died in 1643. He married a third time.

The family later started the town of Warwick, Rhode Island in 1643: "I can trace the lineal descent of Susannah Greene, the wife of William Chadsey, back to her great-grandfather, who emigrated from England in the year 1636 with his family, and settled in Massachusetts, but was obliged to flee from that colony on account of Friendly or Quaker principles. In the year 1642 he came to Rhode Island and took up his abode in Warwick. His name was John Greene. He had four sons: John, Peter, James and Thomas all born in England . James Greene was born in England in 1628, and died in 1698. He had eleven children, Jabez , one of whom, was born in Warwick, in 1673; he was the father of Susannah, wife of William Chadsey, and also the grandfather of General Nathaniel Greene.

MARRIAGE: The Anthony Family book page 311: Vital Records of RI 1836-1850.

BIRTH (year) DEATH (year) MARRIAGE: New England Marriages Prior to 1700 p. 320; same years given in the Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy.

Ancestral file gives same birth date in Salisbury Wiltshire, England.

BIRTH: John Greene, surgeon of Salisbury, Wilts County, sailed from Southampton 6th Apr 1635 on the ship "James", landed at Boston 3 June 1635 (making child b. 1625 born in England, not RI): Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island Vol I by J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago 1908; Orlando Public Library RD 794.5 R V1. Father removed to Wiltshire and in 1619 married Joanne Tattershall.

Same book pg. 1283 says he came from England with his parents.

Info also found in Colonial Families of the United States (Vol 3?) page 199.

BIRTH: of Warwick, RI 1626 s/o John and Joan Tattershall of Salisbury, Wells.

England, and of Warwick, RI. An associate of Roger Williams. James was deputy 14 years. Commissioner 4 years, Elizabeth was his 2nd wife, 1st wife was Deliverance Potter, d/o Robert & Isabel Potter. Elizabeth had 8 children: Genealogy of the Anthony Family pg. 61

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GEDCOM Note

John Greene emigrated from Sailsbury Wiltshire England to Salem,Massachusetts on board the ship James 3, June 1635 a surgeon. He followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island in 1637 and was one of the original proprietors of Providence RI.

Note: The following information was found on the internet with a search for John Green. When I went back to get proper reference information, I could not find the file. This appears to be well researched and I appologize for not being able to give proper citations. L.L. Cook 2005

With Samuel Gorton he was one of the founders of Warwick RI. in 1643. He was a commissioner to England in 1644 when England Granted Rhode Island it's first charter.

THIS LETTER WAS SENT TO ME BY RICHARD BRUCE GREEN MY BROTHER I AM NOT SURE WHERE HE GOT IT. THERE ARE FACT'S THAT DO NOT AGREE WITH ME AND I WILL CLEAR IT UP SOMEDAY WHEN I CAN.
EARLY HISTORY of GREEN FAMILY in AMERICA. My knowledge of our early ancestors in America comes from. Marion Greene Miller of Penn Yan, N. Y. Mrs. Miller states that we are descended originally from a John Greene who came to America in 1635. My own studies have revealed that a John Greene from Wiltshire, England emigrated to Boston in 1635. It is likely that both mentioned men are one and the same. If so, this coat of arms belonging to the John Greene from Wiltshire, England, would be the coat of arms of our branch of the Greene family in the United states today. This Coat ofArms also belonged to John Greene, deputy governor of Providence Rhode Island in 1637, and to Richard Greene, who settled in Providence Rhode Island in 1635. In 1652 Surgeon John Greene came from Salisbury, England in the next company following Roger Williams and with his wife settled in Warwick, Rhode Island, where the Warwick branch of the Greene family was founded. The 2nd in decent was James, 3rd - Jabez; 4th - Benjamin; brother of Nathanael the Quaker preacher and father of General Nathanael of Revolutionary , war fame; 5th - brother Lodowick, brother of William Chief Justice and afterwards, Governor of the colony for many years. Lodowick came to Pennsylvania in 1796 and settled in what is now Greene's Landing. He was born in March 1760. Nathanael and Lodowick's fathers were brothers.} Lodowick and the general Nathanael were cousins. Lodowick Green was the son of Elisha and Edith Stafford Green of Greenwich, Rhode Island. Elisha was the 5th in decent from John Green who came from England in 1635, who also is an ancestor of the famous General. Lodowick and his wife, Mary Pierce, moved with their children from Rhode Island to Athens Township, settling at Greene's landing in 1801. Their children were Henry, Benjamin, Franklin, Susannah, Thomas and John. ( NOTE; I suspect, but have not been able to prove yet, that one of these sons was the great-grandfather of our own Grandpa Greene. ) Benjamin, born . April 9, 1792, married Mary Brown and resided at the homestead until his death. Their daughter married Gyles M. Hoyt.. Susannah Greene married Thomas Lane and lived at Greene's Landing. Their children were: Mary - married G. W. Plummer Sarah - married Gabriel Walker Martha - married William Drake If this information is accurate, we are decedents of Lodowick of Greene's Landing. Each year all decedents are welcome to a reunion at Greene's Landing to perpetuate the Greene name. Mrs. Marion Greene Miller's ( who provided this information ) father was Franklin Jackson Greene, who was a brother of Almira, who married Gyles Hoyt. Franklin Jackson Greene married Harriet Murphy of Rome, Pennsylvania. They had 4 children: Alice, Frank, Edith and Marion. Nathanael Greene was father to Timothy Greene who was the father of our father/grandfather/uncle etc. William Greene born July 18, 1865. Timothy's children were: Martha Greene Japhet, Myra Greene Gurne, Lena Greene, George Greene, Richard Greene and William Greene. Martha Green Japhet's children were Ray, Ed, and a daughter who was the mother of Lydia. Richard Greene's children were ,Minnie, Dick, Lou and Leana. Timothy Greene is buried in Berkshire Cemetery, Binghamton, N.Y. William Greene's first marriage produced one daughter, a Grace Green George, last known of as being in Buffalo, N. Y. William Greene married Louisa Knickerbocker ( Earl) born June 27, 1878. Her father - Harly Knickerbocker; her Mother - Marion Prouty. Their marriage, which occurred February 21, 1895, was witnessed by Adelbert Bruce and Darwin Knickrbocker. Their children were: Tinnie Greene Feb. 2, 1896 Amy Florence Greene Nov. 26,1897 William Dewey Greene Apr. 26,1899 Adelbert ( no middle name)Greene Jan. 1,1901 Robert Mason Greene Oct.10, 1903 Ruth Harriet Greene Nov. 15, 1905 Llewellyn Theodore Greene Dec. 13, 1902 Kenneth Raymond Greene Jan. 23, 1911 Carl Bruce Greene June 1, 1913 [UL:[BO:This information below was sent to me by Beverly Benson 5 O'Connell Drive RFD 14 Londonderry NH 03053-2430 an april 4, 1994:BO]:UL] DESCENDANT of the Greenes of Greene's Norton, County Northampton, John Greene, came over from Salisbury, County Wilts, to Boston, in I635- His ancestry is traced back to Robert Greene of Gillingham (I545). " Sir Bernard Burke states that this John Greene was a companion of Roger Williams and a party to the Providence purchase from the Indians. A family; tombstone in the King's Chapel Burial Ground, Boston, shows the same devices; as does also the book-plate of Gardiner Greene (b. I 753), who married a sister of Lord Lyndhurst. " The crest A is that found on the tombstone The family uses more generally the crest B. " Crests: A. A dove holding a sprig of olive. B. A buck's head, erased, or " Motto: Nec Timco itCC Sper1lo"; [also Virtus semper viridis]. (Am. Heraldica, p. 58, edited by E. de V. Vermont. Brentano Bros., I886.)

FIRST GENERATION. 1. JOHN GREENE, surgeon, the progenitor of the Warwick Greenes, was the son of Richard and Mary (Hooker) Greene, and was born on his father's estate at Bowridge Hill in the parish of Gillingham, County Dorset, England. about I590. ' Though not so recorded, dates before and after him would seem to determine this is the year of his birth.(1) (1) [IT:((Concerning the birth of John Greene, surgeon, General Greene made the following ingenious calculation when ninety-five years of age: "Morristown, N. J., November 30, 1896 Anne. the youngest child of Richard and Mary (Hooker) Greene of Bowridge Hill, was baptized at GiIlingham, 31 August, 1595. I suppose that Peter, their oldest child, was 20 years old in 1665 when his first child was born (which would make Peter's birth-date 1585). There are six intervals between Peter and Anne; time, 10 years or 120 months. These 120 months divided by 6 give intervals of 20 months. Then the three intervals between Peter and John, surgeon, would 60 months or 5 years, which, added to the birth-date of Peter (1585) would be 1590, the probable] date of birth of John. surgeon." (It is not likely that he was born at an earlier date, as this would have him twenty-nine years of age at the time of his marriage, 1619.) There was one error in the above calculation,--the omission of one child,--which error General Greene discovered and corrected, making seven intervals (between Peter and Anne) of 17 1/2 months, which difference, however. did not materially change the conclusion reached as to the approximate birth date of John Greene, surgeon, 1590 [COMPILER.)):IT] His father, Richard, grandfather Richard, and great-grandfather, Robert, had for nearly one hundred years before him resided at Bowridge Hill, and were undoubtedly a branch of the Northamptonshire family of Greene through a younger son. General Francis Vinton Greene, in his Introduction to that choice volume, A Photographic Facsimile from the Original Volumes of Halstead's Genealogies Pertaining to the House of Greene, states: "The antecedents (immediate) of this Robert Greene have not yet been traced with certainty, but it seems probable that he was descended from a younger branch of the powerful and wealthy family of Greenes of Northamptonshire," thereby coinciding with the conclusion reached by his honored father, General George Sears Greene, after many years of patient research. The mother of John Greene, surgeon, Mary Hooker, was the daughter of John Hooker (alias Vowell), who was born at Exeter, England, about I524, his father, Robert Hooker, having been mayor of that city in I520. His parents died when he was about ten years old. His early education was acquired under Dr. Moseman, Vicar of Menhussin in Cornwall, and he afterward studied law at Oxford. Later he travelled in Germany and resided some time in Cologne and Strasburg, where he was the guest of Peter Martyne and attended the divinity lectures of that learned Reformer. He returned to England and after a short stay went to France, intending to extend his travels to Spain and Italy, but was prevented by the war. Returning to his native country he settled in Exeter, and was chosen first chamberlain of that city, 1555. He devoted himself after this to the study of history and antiquities. In 1568 was a member of the Irish Parliament, and in 1571 was one of the members of the English Parliament from Exeter (Wood). Price says he died I60I (?), when about eighty years of age, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral, but had no monument. He was the author of several works, among them: " State of Ireland and Order of keeping a Parliament in that Country," the same being found in the British Museum under title, " Order and Usage of keeping Parliament in England" (MS. Harl., II73, vol. I9). (From History of Devonshire, by Rev. Thomas Moore, vol. ii. p. I 25 ,.) John Hooker was uncle to the celebrated divine, Richard Hooker, Rector of Bascombe, County Wilts, 1591, and Prebendary of Sarum. John Greene removed early to Sarum (Salisbury), the county town of Wiltshire,(2) [IT:(2)((Leland's Itinerary (pp. 7-8, 31) gives the following: "The city of Old Saresbyri standing on an hill is distant from the New a mile by north weste and d is in compace half a mile and mo. This city has been ancient and exceeding strong but syns the building of New Saresbyri it went totally to ruin. . . . In times of civile wars--insomuch as the castellanes of Old Saresbyri and the chanons could not agree, whereupon the bishop and they consulting together at the last began a church on their own proper soyle and then the people resorted strangers to New Saresbyrie and builded there and in continuance were a great numbre of the houses of old Saresbyri pulled down and set up at New Saresbyri." Thomas' Church was built as a Chapel of Ease to the Cathedral by Bishop Bingham in the Year (?). It was dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was martyred in the reign of King Henry Il., and is said to be in some respects more beautiful than the Cathedral. In the (?) with the living in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral. )):IT] and was there married at St. Thomas's Church,' November 4, I6I9, to Joanne Tattershall (or, as it was written on the church register, "Tatarsole. Nothing is definitely known of her English connections. The name is frequently, found in early records among post-mortem examinations, parliamentary writs, and charters, and is variously written Tatersall, Tateshall, Tatershal, and Tattershall. The first of the family of whom we have mention came in with William the Conqueror and obtained the lordship of Tattershall in Lincolnshire, where he seated himself and from which he took his surname. His descendants were seated in Berkshire and Northamptonshire, and were held in high repute. It is probable that other branches located in other counties, and it is not improbable to suppose that Joanne wife of John Greene, who emigrated to America from Salisbury, County Wilts, was a connection of the family of George Tattershall, who was seated at Stapleford, County Wilts, which is about five miles distant from Salisbury home; but as yet this relationship has not been proved. The following note, recently received by the compiler in answer to an inquiry about records at Stapleford, may be of interest in this connection: STAPLEFORD VICARAGE, SALISBURY, October I 8, I900. Madam: I have received your letter of the 25th September, but say that I cannot help you in your research, as the Stapleford register begins only with the year I637. J. F. D. Hoernle, " Vicar of Stapleford. " [Joanne Tattershall's marriage date was I6I9, eighteen years earlier.] marriage of John Greene and the baptisms of all his seven children, recorded in the Parish Register of St. Thomas's Church at Salisbury,England.. He is therein styled " Mr." and " Gent.," a mark of some distinction on at that date.(3)[IT:(3)(( John Greene received by will from his brother Richard, Clerk of the Close of Salisbury Cathedral April 28, 1614, half of his Latin books, the other half being given to his brother, Robert, who by will October 20, 1649, gave them also to his brother John Greene in New England if he come after them' The possession of these Latin books by three brothers indicates that they were of an educated family. Mr. Greene in the Baptismal and Marriage Records at Salisbury was (?) Mr. or Gent.,' denoting his social position."--G. S. G.)) :IT] He resided at Salisbury with his family, following his profession, for about sixteen years. On April 6, I635, he was registered for embarkation at Hampton, England (see Appendix II.), with his wife and six children (one having probably died in England before this date), " in the ship James, of 200 tons, William Cooper, Master, for New England." .After a voyage of fifty-eight days he arrived at Boston, Mass., June 3, I635. He first settled at Salem, Mass., where he was associated with Roger Williams. purchasing or building a house there, but soon after Mr. Williams's flight from Salem (I636) he sold it and, joining Williams at Providence, secured his home lot. No. I 5, on the main street. He was one of eleven men baptized by Roger Williams, and one of the twelve original members of the first Baptist church on this continent, organized at Providence, R. I. He was the first professional medical man in Providence Plantations. He is alluded to in Goodwin's Pilgrim Republic (p. 407) as " one of the two local surgeons " at Providence in I638, though we are told " the people of Providence relied solely upon him for surgical aid long after his removal to Warwick in I643." His first wife, Joanne Tattershall, the mother of all his children. died soon after his removal to Rhode Island and it is supposed was buried at Conimicut, Old Warwick (?). He married (2) " Ailsce (Alice) Daniels. a widow" (recorded as proprietor of a home lot in Providence, 1637)(see below). They removed to Warwick, I642-3. At the time of the persecution of the Shawomet pioneers (October, 1643), when " forty mounted and, armed men, sent from Boston to arrest them, fired over their houses, the women and children fled to the woods. Fright and exposure caused the death of the (second) wife of John Greene. (It seems more-probable that this was the wife who was buried at Conimicut.) Samuel Gorton wrote of this attack of the Massachusetts troops: " Afflicting our wives and children, forcing them to betake themselves some into the woods among the Indians. suffering such hardships as occasioned the death of divers of them, as the wife of John Greene. as also the wife of Robert Potter." Judge Staples, in Annals of Providence, mentions the fact that the second marriage of John Greene was not recorded, but he found evidence in Probate Records, where mention is made of the son of Alice Daniels as "John Greene's stepson" Evidence of this marriage is also given in the following item: In the division of 52 House lots John Greene senior had lot between Thomas James on the North and John Smith on the South, and he inherited the lot of Alice Daniels his second wife between Wm. Harris on the North and John Sweet on the South" (Rhode Island Colonial Records (Printed), vol. i.,p. 24) In files. City Clerk's office, Providence, is a book containing " A revised List of Lands and Meadows as they were originally lotted for the beginning of the Plantations of Providence in the Narragansett Bay in New England unto the [then] inhabitants of the said Plantations until anno I6--." First in order are the "home lots," beginning at the Mile-end Cove, south end of town, between Fox Point and Wickenden Streets, lots all bounded by Town (Main) Street on the west and by what is now Hope Street on the east. The name of Alice Daniels is found on this list. Mr. Greene was married (3) in London, England, about 1644, to Phillippa (always written Phillip), who returned with him to Warwick, R. I., 1646. Her family name is not known. She died at Warwick, March II, I687, aged about eighty-seven years, having survived her husband for nearly thirty years(4) [IT:(4)((Mrs. Phillip Greene, widow, deeded to her stepson, Major John Greene, all her houses and lands for maintenance, etc., in 1668, twenty years before her death, Her will described the locality of the John Greene homestead, which description exactly coincides with that given in the will of Peter Greene. son of John, surgeon. (See notes of General Greene on Warwick Records, Appendix II )) :IT]' In further support that his third wife was from London we quote the words of Samuel Gorton, who, in a letter from Warwick addressed " to Edward Calverly at his house by the east end of Christ Church in Newgate Market, London," and dated November 20, I649, wrote of this last wife of John Greene: " Your auld neighbor, our loving friend, Mrs. Greene, hath writ a letter of advise to you (which) made me laugh not a little, which I heartily wish may come to your hands. She laies out the benefights of these parts better than I could have advised to have done. She takes well with the country and cheerfully performs her place (part), hath the love of all, non can open their mouth against her, which is a rare thing in these parts." John Greene, surgeon, was a prominent man in the public affairs of the town and Colony and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his associates through a long and active political life, holding office almost continuously until the summer before his death, when he refused to accept the office of Commissioner, being repeatedly urged thereto. A few months later, the General Court of Massachusetts at the request of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony (whose wife was Rachel Perne, daughter of John Greenes sister, Rachel), granted him permission to visit Boston in the coming spring, but he did not live to accomplish this visit. He died and was buried at Conimicut, Warwick, it is supposed beside his first wife ( ?) in the first week of January, I659. Although John Greene must have been in Providence as early as April 27, I637, as mentioned in a letter of Joshua Verin of that date ("we six which came first"), and when "the first portions of grass & meadow were appropriated to Throckmorton, Greene, Harris, Verin, Arnold, and Williams," June 10 I637, (see Rhode Island Colonial Records (Printed), vol. i, p. I7), his name is not mentioned on Massachusetts records till August I, I637 " Mr. John Greene of New Providence bound to Quarterly Court first Tuesday of seventh month next for speaking contemptuously of magistrates in I00 marks" (Massachusetts Colonial Records, i., p. 200). On which account taken as follows: "John Greene of New Providence fined 20£ and forbidden this jurisdiction on pain of fine and imprisonment for speaking contemptuously of magistrates Sep. I9, I637" (Massachusetts Colonial Records, i., p. 203). John Greene, feeling the injustice of the magistrates, wrote a letter concerning which the following entry was made, March I2, I638: "A letter was sent to the Court by John Greene dated New Providence, wherein the Court was charged with usurping the power of Christ over the churches and men's consciences, and it was then ordered (March I2, I638) that he should not come within their jurisdiction, " ' etc. The late Henry E. Turner, M.D., of Newport, in The Greenes of Warwick in Colonial History (p. 7), writes: " However insignificant in the aggregate of historical items this transaction may appear, it was one of the earliest assertions of entire and absolute freedom of opinion in defiance of either secular or ecclesiastical authority, and was one of the scintillations from the profound which aided to kindle the flame which is now lighting the world in its march to universal emancipation, and it seems to me to entitle John Greene to a high place among the apostles of fine thought." In all transactions in Warwick, John Greene was a prominent figure,"enjoying fully the confidence of his fellow citizens and suffering in common with them from the machinations of their enemies in Mass.," inasmuch as, though he escaped imprisonment(5) [IT:(5)((During these persecutions of Gorton and his companions, John Greene was not arrested by the Massachusetts Bay authorities. Possibly this was due to the influence of Edward Rawson, Secretary of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who had married a niece of John Greene, surgeon. The warrant for the arrest of John Greene. surgeon, and his son John was never executed--G. S. G.):IT]) he was with them under the ban of oulawry by name, and was forced to submit to interference with and destruction of his property. In "Letters from the Pawtuxet," by Henry Rousmaniere, on "Genealogy of the Greenes, published in the Providence Journal, May, I859, mention is made of John Greene as "This Adam of Shawomet [Warwick], who was driven out of Massachusetts, not Paradise, for the great crime of obeying his conscience in religion," and " who left to his family a fair name and a large landed estate." His will was dated December 28, I658, and proved January 7, 1659. He left his large estate to his descendants, much of the property being still in the possession of his posterity.

POLITICAL RECORD OF JOHN GREENE, SURGEON. August 8, I647. Member of first Town Council of Warwick, R. I. February 26, I648. Commissioner (Representative of Warwick in General Assembly) May 7, I649. Magistrate in Court of Trials at Warwick. June 4, I649. Assistant. July 2, I649. Member of Town Council. October 26, 1650, May 8, 1655, October 6, 1656, and August 9, 1657) commissioner He is mentioned in Col. Rec., R. I., pp. 241, 278, 304, 325, 326, 337, 354; "Commissioner, 1652, 1654, 1657, Magistrate, 1656." JOHN GREENE CHILDREN BY FIRST MARRIAGE ONLY: John, bap. August 15, 1620, married Anne Almy. Peter, bap. March 10 1621-2, married Mary Gorton. Richard, bap. March 25, 1624, died young (probably in England). James, bap. June 21, 1626, married (1) Deliverance Potter; (2) Elizabeth Anthony. Thomas, bap. June 4, 1628, married Elizabeth Barton. Jone, bap. October 3, 1630, married John Hade. Mary, bap. may 19, 1633, married James Sweet. ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH IN THE CITY OF SALISBURY, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND. EXTRACT FROM THE PARISH REGISTER, WHICH BEGINS 1570. MARRIED I6I9, November 4, John Greene mar. to Joane Tatarsole. BAPTIZED. 1620, August 15, John ye sonn of John and Joane Greene. 1621-2, March 10, Peter the sonn of John and Joane Greene. 1624, March 25, Richard, the son of Mr. John and Mrs. Joan Greene. 1626, June 21, James, of Mr. John and Mr.is Joane Greene. 1628, June 4, Thomas, sonne of John and Joane Greene, gent'm. 1630, Oct. 3, Jone daur. of John and Jone Greene. 1633, May I9, Mary of John and Jone Greene, Chirurgeon The above John Greene, chirurgeon, and Joane Tatarsole settled in Warwick, R. I., and were ancestors of the Warwick Greenes.

This information I copied from the internet from Susan Shannon 1. John2 GREENE , Surgeon (Richard1) (Source: Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.) was born Abt. 1590 in Bowridge Hill, Dorset, England, and died January 1658/59 in Warwick, Kent, RI. He married (1) Alice Daniels Abt. 1618. He married (2) Joan/Joanne TATTERSALL November 04, 1619 in St. Thomas Church, Salisbury, England. He married (3) Phillis 1644 in England. Notes for John GREENE , Surgeon: John, the surgeon, resided at Salisbury with his family, following his profession, for about sixteen years. On April 6, I635, he was registered for embarkation at Hampton, England, with his wife and six children (one having probably died in England before this date), " in the ship James, of 200 tons, William Cooper, Master, for New England." . After a voyage of fifty-eight days he arrived at Boston, Mass., June 3, I635. He first settled at Salem, Mass., where he was associated with Roger Williams. purchasing or building a house there, but soon after Mr. Williams's flight from Salem (I636) he sold it and, joining Williams at Providence, secured his home lot. No. I 5, on the main street. He was one of eleven men baptized by Roger Williams, and one of the twelve original members of the first Baptist church on this continent, organized at Providence, R. I. He was the first professional medical man in Providence Plantations. He is alluded to in Goodwin's Pilgrim Republic (p. 407) as " one of the two local surgeons " at Providence in I638, though we are told " the people of Providence relied solely upon him for surgical aid long after his removal to Warwick in I643." His first wife, Joanne Tattershall, the mother of all his children. died soon after his removal to Rhode Island and it is supposed was buried at Conimicut, Old Warwick (?). He married (2) " Ailsce (Alice) Daniels. a widow" (recorded as proprietor of a home lot in Providence, 1637)(see below). They removed to Warwick, I642-3. At the time of the persecution of the Shawomet pioneers (October, 1643), when " forty mounted and, armed men, sent from Boston to arrest them, fired over their houses, the women and children fled to the woods. Fright and exposure caused the death of the (second) wife of John Greene. (It seems more-probable that this was the wife who was buried at Conimicut.) Samuel Gorton wrote of this attack of the Massachusetts troops: " Afflicting our wives and children, forcing them to betake themselves some into the woods among the Indians. suffering such hardships as occasioned the death of divers of them, as the wife of John Greene. as also the wife of Robert Potter." Judge Staples, in Annals of Providence, mentions the fact that the second marriage of John Greene was not recorded, but he found evidence in Probate Records, where mention is made of the son of Alice Daniels as "John Greene's stepson" Evidence of this marriage is also given in the following item: In the division of 52 House lots John Greene senior Had lot between Thomas James on the North and John Smith on the South, and he inherited the lot of Alice Daniels his second wife between Wm. Harris on the North and John Sweet on the South" (Rhode Island Colonial Records (Printed), vol. i.,p. 24) In files. City Clerk's office, Providence, is a book containing "A revised List of Lands and Meadows as they were originally lotted for the beginning of the Plantations of Providence in the Narragansett Bay in New England unto the [then] inhabitants of the said Plantations until anno I6--." First in order are the "home lots," beginning at the Mile-end Cove, south end of town, between Fox Point and Wickenden Streets, lots all bounded by Town (Main) Street on the west and by what is now Hope Street on the east. The name of Alice Daniels is found on this list. Mr. Greene was married (3) in London, England, about 1644, to Phillippa (always written Phillip), who returned with him to Warwick, R. I., 1646. Her family name is not known. She died at Warwick, March II, I687, aged about eighty-seven years, having survived her husband for nearly thirty years (4)((Mrs. Phillip Greene, widow, deeded to her stepson, Major John Greene, all her houses and lands for maintenance, etc., in 1668, twenty years before her death, Her will described the locality of the John Greene homestead, which description exactly coincides with that given in the will of Peter Greene. son of John, surgeon. (See notes of General Greene on Warwick Records, Appendix II )) ' John Greene, surgeon, was a prominent man in the public affairs of the town and Colony and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his associates through a long and active political life, holding office almost continuously until the summer before his death, when he refused to accept the office of Commissioner, being repeatedly urged thereto. A few months later, the General Court of Massachusetts at the request of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony (whose wife was Rachel Perne, daughter of John Greenes sister, Rachel), granted him permission to visit Boston in the coming spring, but he did not live to accomplish this visit. He died and was buried at Conimicut, Warwick, it is supposed beside his first wife ( ?) in the first week of January, I659. Although John Greene must have been in Providence as early as April 27, I637, as mentioned in a letter of Joshua Verin of that date ("we six which came first"), and when "the first portions of grass & meadow were appropriated to Throckmorton, Greene, Harris, Verin, Arnold, and Williams," June 10 I637, (see Rhode Island Colonial Records (Printed), vol. i, p. I7), his name isRhode Island Colonial Records (Printed), vol. i, p. I7), his name is not mentioned on Massachusetts records till August I, I637 " Mr. John Greene of New Providence bound to Quarterly Court first Tuesday of seventh month next for speaking contemptuously of magistrates in I00 marks" (Massachusetts Colonial Records, i., p. 200).

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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume II  Greene (I) John Greene , of Salisbury, county Wilts, England , sailed from Southampton, England , in the ship "James" to Boston , in 1635 , bringing with him his family. Mr. Greene was probably born at Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, Dorset , where his father, Richard (2), and grandfather, Richard (1) Greene , resided. His great-grandfather was Robert Greene , of Bowridge Hill . He was of Salem, Massachusetts , for a short period, and of Providence in 1637 . He was one of the twelve persons to whom Roger Williams deeded land bought of Canonicus and Miantonomo , in 1638 . He was one of the twelve original members of the First Baptist Church. In 1643 he and others purchased a tract of land now called Warwick . He was commissioner during 1654-57 ; was made a freeman in 1655 . John Greene was a surgeon in Salisbury , and there made his first marriage at St. Thomas Church. This was on November 4, 1619 , and to Joan Tattersall . His children and the dates of their baptism were: John , August 15, 1620 ; Peter , March 10, 1622 ; Richard , March 25, 1623 ; James , June 21, 1626 ; Thomas , June 4, 1628 ; Joan , October 3, 1630 ; Mary , May 19, 1633 . He married (second) Alice Daniels , a widow; married (third) Phillipa - . His death occurred in 1658 . Some of the conspicuous descendants of John Greene , of Warwick, Rhode Island , have been General Nathaniel Greene, of revolutionary fame; John , deputy governor of the colony; William , lieutenant-governor and governor of the colony; William (2), chief justice and governor of Rhode Island ; Ray Greene, United States senator; and the latter's son, William , lieutenant-governor, and graduate of Brown University; and General George S. Greene .

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<u><b>Surgeon John Greene
</b></u>9 February 1591 – 7 January 1659 • L4BD-9X9 ​

<b>Sex</b> Male

<b>Birth</b> 9 February 1591
Gillingham, Dorset, England

<b>Death</b> before 7 January 1658/1659
Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island

<b>Burial</b> Surgeon John Greene Lot,
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States

<b>Religious Affiliation</b> Anglican (Episcopalian) - 1597 - Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Puritan - 1634 - Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
One of 11 men baptized by Roger williams-original members of the First Baptist Church in America - 1636 - Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island

<b>Occupation </b> Surgeon

<b>Custom Event</b> 4/6/1635 sailed on "James" from Southampton, England.
6/3/1635 arrived Boston, MA.
1635 Moved from Boston to Salem, Massachusetts
1635 1st wife Joan Tattershall died on the ship "James."
6 Apr 1635 Ship "James" left Southampton, Hampshire, England for Boston
June 3, 1635 Ship "James" arrived in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
1636 Purchased Providence from Indians.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
1636 Fled with Roger Williams to R.I.
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
1636 Original Proprietor of Providence
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
1636 Lot #15, Main Street, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
1643 1 of 12 original founders ofWarwick
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island

Oct 1643 2nd wife killed by Mass. raiders
Kent County, Rhode Island
Oct 1643 Persecution ofthe Shawomet Pioneers
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island
1644 Commissioner to England-for Charter
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island
26 Feb 1648 Rep. of Warwick- General Assembly
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island
2 Jul 1649 Appointed member of Town Council
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island

<u><b>Family Members
</u>Spouse</b> Joane Tatarsole 1598–1635 • LCMX-VZC ​
<b>Marriage:</b> 4 November 1619
St Thomas Church, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

<b>Children</b> John Greene Jr. 1620–1708 • LZGX-VLX ​
Peter Greene 1621–1659 • MMNP-KWK ​
Richard Greene 1624–1625 • LCT6-79Q ​
James Greene 1626–1698 • LKDV-DP3 ​
Thomas Greene 1628–1717 • KFTN-D9Q ​
Joan Greene 1630–1659 • LVW3-YV7 ​
Mary Greene 1633–1686 • M2LM-CCT ​

<b>Spouse</b> ​Phillippa Arnold 1600–1687 • LV12-FYZ ​
Marriage: Oct 20, 1645
London, England

<b>Spouse</b> Alice Widow Daniels –1644 • L55Z-8N1 ​

<b>Parent</b> Richard Greene of Bowridge Hill, gentleman 1565–1617 • LHMM-X1B ​
Mary Hooker 1567–1617 • LZ8G-MGT ​
<b>Marriage:</b> about 1584
Bowridge Hill, Dorset, England

<b>Siblings</b> Peter Greene 1584–Deceased • KFBD-BJ4 ​
Richard Greene III 1585–1617 • LCCL-BH8 ​
Miss Greene 1586–Deceased • M537-FNQ ​
Robert Greene 1587–1651 • LSSS-HY6 ​
Surgeon John Greene 1591–1659 • L4BD-9X9 ​
Rebecca Greene 1592–Deceased • 9H1Y-F98 ​
Mary Greene 1594–Deceased • LWXF-D55 ​
Anne Greene 1595–Deceased • MRJ6-GNT ​
Rachel Greene 1596–1656 • KFBD-B7W ​
Thomas Greene 1599–1599 • KDSC-M1Y ​

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<u><b>John "the Surgeon" Greene

</u>Place of Burial</b>: Conimicut Farm Cemetery, Warwick, RI, USA

<b>Birth:</b> February 9, 1591
Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, Dorset, England

<b>Death:</b> January 7, 1659 (67)
Occupassnatuxet (aka Pastuxet, nka Warwick), Providence (now Kent) County, Rhode Island USA

<u><b>Immediate Family:
</u>Son</b> of Sir Richard Greene, Lord of Bowridge Hill and Mary Greene (Hooker)

<b>Husband</b> of Joanne Greene; Joan Greene and Phillippa "Phillis" Greene

<b>Father</b> of Major John Greene;
Peter Greene;
Richard Greene;
James "of Potowomut" Greene;
Thomas Greene of Stone Castle;
Rachel Greene;
Jone Hade;
Mary Sweet
and William Greene

<b>Brother</b> of Rebecca Greene;
Mary Greene;
Anne Greene;
Robert Greene;
Rachael Perne
and 3 others

Added by: Jennifer Siegmund on March 15, 2007
Managed by: David Prins and 72 others
Curated by: Hatte Blejer

John "the Surgeon" Greene

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<u><b>John Greene (settler)
</b></u>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<b>Born</b> c. 1594
Gillingham, Dorset, England
<b>Died</b> 1658
Warwick, Rhode Island
<b>Resting place</b> John Greene Cemetery, Warwick
<b>Occupation </b> Surgeon, deputy
<b>Spouse(s) </b> Joan Tattersall
Alice Daniels Beggerley
Phillipa _______
<b>Children</b> John, Peter, Richard, James, Thomas, Joan, Mary

<b>John Greene</b> (c. 1594 - 1658)[1] was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence, and a co-founder of the town of Warwick in the colony. Sailing from England with his family in 1635, he first settled in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but had difficulty with the Puritan authority, and soon followed Roger Williams to Providence, becoming one of the original proprietors of that town. In 1643 he joined Samuel Gorton and ten others in purchasing land that would become the town of Warwick. Difficulties with Massachusetts ensued, until he accompanied Gorton on a trip to England where they secured royal recognition of their town.
Once Warwick became safe from external threats, Greene became active in its government, serving on the town council, being Deputy to the General Court of the colony, and serving as magistrate of the General Court of Trials. He died in the last days of 1658, being survived by his wife and six grown children, and became the ancestor of many prominent citizens.

<b>Early life
</b>John Greene was likely born at Boweridge Hall in Gillingham, Dorset, England, and was the son of Richard Greene, whose father was also named Richard.[2] He became a surgeon and moved to Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, where he was married at St. Thomas in 1619 to Joane Tattersall/Tatarsole, and where all of his children were baptized.[1] On 6 April 1635 he and his family boarded the ship James at Southampton, England and sailed to New England, arriving in Boston on 3 June, and then going to Salem for a short while.[2]

<b>Providence
</b>Greene was consistently resistant to the Puritan authority of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and within a year or two of his arrival in New England he moved to Providence with Roger Williams.[3] He used this sanctuary to write haranguing letters to Massachusetts, speaking contemptuously of the magistrates, and in September 1637 he was fined 20 pounds and ordered not to come into the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts colony.[2] In 1638 he was one of the 12 persons to whom land was deeded by Roger Williams, he becoming one of the original proprietors of that town. He was also one of the 12 original members of the First Baptist Church there.[2]

<b>Warwick
</b>In October 1642 Greene bought a neck of land with a little island from the Indian sachem Miantonomi and named the property Occupassuatuxet.[4] This land remained in his family for the following 140 years.[2] He became a close friend of Samuel Gorton, and in January 1643 these two men and ten others purchased another tract of land from Miantonomi and named it Shawomet, later to become Warwick, Rhode Island.[2] The following September, many of these Shawomet settlers were summoned to appear in court in Massachusetts, based on supposed charges brought against them from two minor Indian sachems. The settlers refused the summons, telling Massachusetts that they did not have jurisdiction over their land, in response to which soldiers were sent and several of the settlers were taken to Boston.[2][5] Greene and his son John Jr. both escaped to Conanicut Island and were never captured.[6] Those who were taken to Massachusetts were tried, and several of them were convicted of blasphemy and for their beliefs, and then incarcerated. While the captives were released a few months later, they were banished from Massachusetts, and also from their homes in Shawomet.[2] Seeking redress for the wrongs against them, Greene, Gorton, and Randall Holden sailed to England, but had to board a ship in New Amsterdam, being banned from going to Boston.[2] While in England, Gorton was able to get a royal decree for his settlement of Shawomet from the Earl of Warwick. Greene and Holden returned to New England with this important document in 1646, while Gorton remained in England for another two years. When Gorton returned in 1648, he had his town renamed to Warwick, in honor of the earl who helped him get the protection he needed for the settlement.

<b>Later life and family
</b>Greene served on the Warwick town council in 1647 and 1648, was the Warwick Deputy to the Rhode Island General Court from 1649 to 1657, and was named one of the Warwick freeman on a 1655 list of freemen.[4] He was the magistrate for the Rhode Island General Court of Trials in March 1656.[4] He died sometime between 28 December 1658 when he wrote his will, and 7 January 1659 when it was proved.[2] Greene, his wife, and many descendants are buried in the Surgeon John Greene Cemetery, now located behind the Narraganset Bay Baptist Church on West Shore Road in Warwick.[7] Greene had seven children, six of whom grew to maturity, and all with his first wife, Joan Tattershall (or Tatarsole). The oldest child, John, lived a long life which was almost entirely devoted to public service, including ten one-year terms as Deputy Governor of the colony.[2] The second son, Peter, married Mary Gorton, a daughter of colonial President Samuel Gorton.[2] A great grandson, William Greene served as Governor of the colony for 11 one-year terms during the middle of the 18th century, and his son, William Greene, Jr. served as the second governor of the State of Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War. Greene is also the ancestor of former United States President Warren G. Harding, and of General Nathanael Greene, the only American general in the American Revolutionary War, besides George Washington, to serve for the entire war.[8]

<b>See also
</b>List of early settlers of Rhode Island
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

<b>References
</b>[1] ^ : a b Anderson, Sanborn & Sanborn 2003, p. 144.
[2] ^ : a b c d e f g h i j k l Austin 1887, p. 88.
[3] ^ Anderson, Sanborn & Sanborn 2003, pp. 145-146.
[4] ^ a b c Anderson, Sanborn & Sanborn 2003, p. 142.
[5] ^ Arnold 1859, p. 183.
[6] ^ Arnold 1859, p. 184.
[7] ^ Find-a-grave 2007.
[8] ^ Roberts 2009, p. 582.

<b>Bibliography
</b> * Anderson, Robert Charles; Sanborn, George F. Jr.; Sanborn, Melinde L. (2003). The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634–1635. Vol. III G-H. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN 0-88082-158-2.

• Arnold, Samuel Greene (1859). History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol.1. New York: D. Appleton & Company.
• Austin, John Osborne (1887). Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons. ISBN 978-0-8063-0006-1.
• Roberts, Gary Boyd (2009). Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 edition. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN 978-0-88082-220-6.

<b>Online sources
</b> * Rogers, James (30 January 2007). "Sgt John Greene". Find-a-grave. Retrieved 24 July 2012. The title of the website should read "Surgeon John Greene"

<b>External links
</b> * Find-a-grave for John Greene (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=868725&GRid=...)

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<u><b>Dr John Greene

</b></u>Birth: Feb. 9, 1597
Gillingham
Dorset, England
Death: Jan. 7, 1659
Warwick
Kent County
Rhode Island, USA

Death is in the first week of January. His is known as: Surgent John Greene. The First Settler in old Warwick, Rhode Island. The first medical professional at Providence Plantations c. 1636

Family links: 
 Parents:
  Richard Greene (1560 - 1617)
  Mary Hooker Greene (1567 - ____)

 Spouse:
  Joane Tatarsole Greene (1598 - ____)*

 Children:
  John Greene (1620 - 1708)*
  James Greene (1626 - 1698)*
  Thomas Greene (1628 - 1717)*
  Mary Greene Sweet (1633 - 1686)*

Sibling:
Rachel Greene Perne (____ - 1656)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial:
Surgeon John Greene Lot
Warwick
Kent County
Rhode Island, USA

Created by: James Charles Rogers II...
Record added: Jan 30, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 17759415

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<u><b>John Greene (1597 - 1659)

</u>Born</b> 9 Feb 1597
in Gillingham, Dorset, England

<b>Son</b> of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling%28s%29 unknown]
[spouse%28s%29 unknown]
[children unknown]

<b>Died</b> 7 Jan 1659
in Warwick, Kent Co., RI

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<b>Biography
</b>John Greene. [1][2][3][4]

Born 09 FEB 1597. Gillingham, Dorset, England. [5][6][7]

Died 07 JAN 1659. Warwick, Kent Co., RI. [8][9][10][11]

Occupation: Surgeon. Warwick, Kent Co., RI. [12][13]

Note: #N294.

Marriage Husband John Greene. Wife @I2378@. Child: @I4012@. Marriage St Thomas Church. 04 NOV 1619. Sarum, Co. Wiltshire, England. [14][15]

<b>Notes
</b> Note N294[Greene top suznkelley@aol.com.FTW]
John Greene, surgeon, was son of Peter of Aukley Hall, Salisbury,Wiltshire, England.

He died at Warwick, 1658; his first wife, the mother of his children, died at Conanicut, 1643, having taken refuge there when the MA troops, under Captain Cooke, made their raid on the defenceless and inoffensive inhabitants of Warwick, or as it was then called Shawomet, and was possibly, and even probably, one of the victims of that monstrous aggression.

His second wife was Alice Daniels, a widow, who was taxed 2s. 6d. for land held in Providence, in 1637. [Col. Rec. 1, 15.]

His third wife, who survived him, was named Philip; an unusual feminine name, probably designed to be Philippa.

According to Savage, John Greene came from Hampton, in the James, April 6, 1635, and arrived at Boston, with wife and five children, June 5, 1635; had been of Salisbury, was at Providence in 1636, went to London in 1644, to negotiate for Narragansett.

According to Drake's researches, John Greene, surgeon, shipped at Hampton, in James of London, April 5, 1635, wife and children not mentioned. As the name of John Greene does not appear in MA Colonial Record, in the period intervening between his arrival at Boston and his settlement at Providence, it is to be presumed that he made no settlement in Boston or elsewhere in MA; we know, however,that he was at one time in Salem, where he probably was associated with Roger Williams; August 1st, 1637, he first appears on Massachusetts Colonial Record in this wise. [Greene top suznkelley@aol.com.FTW] He had by his first wife, Joan Tattersall, six children, of whom five survived, one dying in infancy. First, John, born 1620, baptized August 15, 1620, died November 27, 1708, aged 88 years. Married Ann Almy of William, Portsmouth. Second, Peter, born 1621, baptized March 10, 1621. Married Mary Gorton of Samuel, Warwick. Third, James, born 1626, baptized June 21, 1626, died April 27, 1698, aged 71 years. Married, first, Deliverance Potter of Robert, Warwick; second, Elizabeth Anthony of John, Portsmouth. Fourth, Thomas, born 1628, baptized June 4, 1628, died June 5, 1718, aged 90 years. Married Elizabeth Barton of Rufus, Warwick. Fifth, Joan, born 1630, baptized October 3, 1630, died young. Sixth, Mary, born 1633, baptized May 19, 1633. Married James Sweet, and is reputed to be the progenetrix of the well known race of bonesetters. All these have very numerous descendants, except Peter, who died childless.

<b>Sources
</b>[1] ↑ Source: #S206 Date of Import: 27 Apr 2006
[2] ↑ Source: #S269 Birth date: 9 Feb 1597Birth place: Gillingham, Dorset, EnglandDeath date: 7 Jan 1659Death place: Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island
[3] ↑ Source: #S207 p. 4-5
[4] ↑ Source: #S254 Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=10471435&pid...
[5] ↑ Source: #S269 Birth date: 9 Feb 1597Birth p