Genealogy of the Greenlee families : in America, Scotland, Ireland and England : with ancestors of Elizabeth Brooks Greenlee and Emily Brooks Greenlee, also genealogical data on the McDowells of Virginia and Kentucky . e. THOMAS GREENLY was a shoemaker in Tenbury, England. He emigratedto America in 1801, living first in New York City. He was very fond of musicand played upon various wind instruments then in use. He was the first personto ring the chimes in Trinity Church. Later he removed to New Canaan, Con-necticut where he spent the remainder of his life. At New Canaan he engaged inthe shoe
Genealogy of the Greenlee families : in America, Scotland, Ireland and England : with ancestors of Elizabeth Brooks Greenlee and Emily Brooks Greenlee, also genealogical data on the McDowells of Virginia and Kentucky . e. THOMAS GREENLY was a shoemaker in Tenbury, England. He emigratedto America in 1801, living first in New York City. He was very fond of musicand played upon various wind instruments then in use. He was the first personto ring the chimes in Trinity Church. Later he removed to New Canaan, Con-necticut where he spent the remainder of his life. At New Canaan he engaged inthe shoe manufacturing business and amassed a considerable fortune for thosedays, but eventually lost all through the manipulation of a partner whom hehad taken into the business. He had a brother Richard who came over afterhe did and settled in Columbia, Pennsylvania. 226. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS GREENLY, son of Thomas Greenly and Esther Nor-man, was born Jlay 14, 1793, or March, 1799, at Tenbury, or Tewksbury, Eng-land; died May 27, or April 16, 1S86 at Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., NewYork; married June 1, 1819 at New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, HAR-RIET CHICHESTER, born December 11, 1798 at New Canaan, Connecticut,. >*^ -••?^--••-^ p op < 231. V. 232. VI. VII. VIII. ENGLISH FAMILIES. 533 died Jidy 12, 1861 at Hartford, Connecticut, daughter of Stephen, or HarveyChichester and Betsy Weed. He was a shoe manufacturer; Bepublican; Episco-palian; resided at New Canaan, Connecticut. CHILDREN: 228. L Amelia Esther, born January 10, 1820; married Joseph Webster; married second Horace Raymond.+ 229. H. Matilda Ann, bom January 5,1822; married Jacob 230. m. Stephen Thomas, born October 30, 1823; married Nancy Weed; married second Mary Ann |-IV. William Augustus, born May 26, 1825; died unmarried February 6, 1894 in Louisa, bom June 9, 1827; married Asahel S. Eliza, bom August 27, 1829; married William Harvey, bom Ju
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