Peter Greene

PETER GREENE of Warwick (John 1) was born at Salisbury, England, and was baptized at St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury 10 March 1621/2. [1]

He came with his parents to New England in 1635.[2]

Peter married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Gorton of Warwick. Peter died shortly after their marriage and had no children. Mary married John Sanford in 1663.[2]

He inherited from his father's the homestead in Old Warwick, where he resided and where he died, by drowning, February, 1659. Peter left the property to his nephew, Peter, son of his brother, Deputy Governor John Greene. He may be buried in the Greene Graveyard (private), Warwick, Providence (now Kent) County, RI.[2]

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Peter Greene (bef. 1622 - 1659)

Peter Greene aka Green [uncertain]

Born before 10 Mar 1622 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Son of John Greene and Joane (Tattershall) Greene

Brother of John Greene, Richard Greene, James Greene, Thomas Greene, Jone (Greene) Hade and Mary (Greene) Sweet

Husband of Mary (Gorton) Sanford — married about 1657 [location unknown]

[children unknown]

Died Feb 1659 in Warwick, Providence, Rhode Island

Greene-858 created 23 Aug 2011 | Last modified 5 Jan 2021

Peter Greene migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

PETER GREENE of Warwick (John 1) was born at Salisbury, England, and was baptized at St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury 10 March 1621/2. [1]

He came with his parents to New England in 1635.[2]

Peter married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Gorton of Warwick. Peter died shortly after their marriage and had no children. Mary married John Sanford in 1663.[2]

He inherited from his father's the homestead in Old Warwick, where he resided and where he died, by drowning, February, 1659. Peter left the property to his nephew, Peter, son of his brother, Deputy Governor John Greene. He may be buried in the Greene Graveyard (private), Warwick, Providence (now Kent) County, RI.[2]

Sources

↑ St Thomas Salisbury Parish register image 176 by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61187/45582_1831109331_1166-00002 ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Greene, George Sears. The Greenes of Rhode Island: With Historical Records of English Ancestry, 1534-1902 (Knickerbocker Press, 1903)
Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island with historical records of English ancestry, 1534-1902 (Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1903) Page 62-4
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 381: "drowned at Konimicott"
"Notices of the Greene Family" New England Historical & Genealogical Register. Vol.4 pg 75
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Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985.)
"A Family Genealogy" by William Henry Beck, III (book)
Turner, Henry E. Greenes of Warwick in Colonial History (Davis & Pitman, Newport, Rhode Island USA, 1877)
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. (Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862).p. 201 vol 2
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register "Notices of the Greene Family", Vol. 4, Page 75
Gorton, Adelos. Samuel Gorton of Gorton, England and of Warwick, Rhode Island and His Descendants in America, 1592-1906 (Philadelphia, 1907) Page 162
Smith, Joseph Jencks. Civil and Military List of Rhode Island, 1647-1800 (Preston and Rounds Co., Providence, R.I., 1900) Page 1: 1648, May. First General Court Tryalls, Warwick, Peter Greene.