. The Greene family in England and America, with pedigrees. -ried ? and died leaving a son Robert*. His will 38 THE FAMILY OF GREENE. dated October 21, 104:9, was proved January 7,L650/1, and Robert made sole iv. John,4 born 1597. v. Rebecca,4 married to Downton. vi. vii. viii. Anne,4 baptized at Gillingham, August31, 1595. ix. Thomas,4 baptized at Gillingham, May 13,1599; buried August 15, 1599. x. A Daughter. (1.) John4 Greene, fourth son of Richard3Greene, of Bowridge Hill, was born in 1597. Heresided for some time at Salisbury, in Wiltshire,where, on November 4,
. The Greene family in England and America, with pedigrees. -ried ? and died leaving a son Robert*. His will 38 THE FAMILY OF GREENE. dated October 21, 104:9, was proved January 7,L650/1, and Robert made sole iv. John,4 born 1597. v. Rebecca,4 married to Downton. vi. vii. viii. Anne,4 baptized at Gillingham, August31, 1595. ix. Thomas,4 baptized at Gillingham, May 13,1599; buried August 15, 1599. x. A Daughter. (1.) John4 Greene, fourth son of Richard3Greene, of Bowridge Hill, was born in 1597. Heresided for some time at Salisbury, in Wiltshire,where, on November 4, 1(319, he married, at Church, Joan Tattershall, who died in1643, at Newport or at Conanicut. If she was atConanicut (as tradition has it), she must have beenindebted to the hospitality of the Indians, sinceConanicut was sold to William Coddington andothers in 1656, thirteen years later, by Caganaquant. In the Parish Register recording the baptism1* his children, he is sometimes called gentleman,and once Chirurgeon. According to a docu-. THE FAMILY OF GREENE. 39 ment still preserved in the Rolls Office, at London,Mr. Greene, described as Surgeon, late of Salisbury,together with his wife and children, took passage forNew England in the James of London, which sailedfrom Southampton in April, 1635. This vesselarrived at Boston on the third of June, and proceeded to Rhode Island and resided atProvidence until 1(543, when he with twelve othersmade arrangements for the purchasing of Narragan-set from the Indians. His name does not appearon the Massachusetts Colonial Record in the periodintervening between his arrival at Boston and hissettlement at Providence;: hence it is to be pre-sumed that he made no settlement in Boston or else-where in Massachusetts; we know, however, that hewas at one time in Salem, where he probably wasassociated with Roger Williams. The settlement which was made led to hostileaggressions by the Massachusetts authorities, whoinvaded the pl
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