Eleventh Generation

1616. John GREENE was born about 1596 in Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, Dorset, England. He died in 1658 at the age of 62 in Rhode Island. He was the younger brother of the owner of Bowridge Hill at the time of his emigration. He came on the ship "James" to Boston in 1635, bringing with him his family. He was of Salem for a short period and removed to Providence in 1637. He was one of the twelve persons to whom Roger Williams deeded land bought of Canonicus and Miantonomo in 1638. In 1643 he and others purchased a tract of land now called Warwick.

The family of
Greene of Greene's Norton, Northamptonshire, England, flourished in England from 1319 until the time of Henry VIII. Sir Henry Greene, Knight, was lord chief justice of England in 1353. His younger son, Sir Henry Greene, was beheaded in 1399 for his attachment to the cause of Richard II. a branch of this family, from which the American Greenes are descended, owened and occupied the estate of Bowridge Hill in Gillingham parish, Dorsetshire, in the reign of Henry VIII and so continued until 1635 and after. Joan TATTERSALL and John GREENE were married on 4 November 1619 in St. Thomas Church, Gillingham, Dorset, England.

1617. Joan TATTERSALL was born (date unknown).

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