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English settler of the Colony of Rhode Island

John Greene Sr.
Born	9 Feb 1597 Gillingham, Dorset, England
Died	7 January 1659 Warwick, Rhode Island
Resting identify	John Greene Cemetery, Warwick
Occupation	Surgeon, deputy
Spouse(s)	Joan Tattersall Alice Daniels Beggerley Phillipa (terminal name unknown)
Children	John, Peter, Richard, James, Thomas, Joan, Mary

John Greene Sr. (ix February 1597 – 7 January 1659)^[1] was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Isle and Providence Plantations, i 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 offset settled in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, only he had difficulty with the Puritan authorization and soon followed Roger Williams to Providence, becoming 1 of the original proprietors of that town. In 1643, he joined Samuel Gorton and ten others in purchasing country that became the boondocks of Warwick. Difficulties with Massachusetts ensued, until he accompanied Gorton on a trip to England where they secured royal recognition of their boondocks.

In one case Warwick became safety from external threats, Greene became active in its government. He served on the boondocks council, was Deputy to the General Court of the colony, and served 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 condign the ancestor of many prominent citizens.

Early life [edit]

John Greene was likely built-in at Boweridge Hall in Gillingham, Dorset, England, and was the son of Richard Greene, whose father was as well 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 (or Tatarsole) and where all of his children were baptized.^[1] On half-dozen Apr 1635, he and his family unit boarded the send James at Southampton, England and sailed to New England, arriving in Boston on 3 June, then going to Salem for a brusque while.^[ii]

Providence [edit]

Town layout of Providence with Greene, Jr.'southward lot fifth from the top and Greene, Sr.'s lot 10th from the height.

Greene was consistently resistant to the Puritan authority of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and he moved to Providence with Roger Williams inside a twelvemonth or ii of his arrival in New England.^[3] He used this sanctuary to write haranguing letters to Massachusetts, speaking contemptuously of the magistrates, and he was fined twenty pounds in September 1637 and ordered not to come up into the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts colony.^[2] In 1638, he was ane of the 12 persons to whom Roger Williams deeded state, condign ane of the original proprietors of that settlement. He was as well one of the 12 original members of the First Baptist Church building in America located there.^[2]

Warwick [edit]

In October 1642, Greene bought a cervix of land with a piffling isle from Indian sachem Miantonomi and named the holding Occupassuatuxet.^[four] This country remained in his family for the following 140 years.^[2] He became a close friend of Samuel Gorton, and they and x others purchased another tract of land from Miantonomi in Jan 1643 and named information technology Shawomet, which later became the Warwick settlement.^[two]

The following September, many of these Shawomet settlers were summoned to appear in court in Massachusetts, based on charges of fraud brought confronting them from ii pocket-sized Indian sachems. The settlers refused the summons, telling the court that Massachusetts Bay did not have jurisdiction over their land, in response to which soldiers were sent and several of the settlers were taken to Boston.^{[2] [five]} Greene and his son John Jr. both escaped to Conanicut Island and were never captured.^[6]

Those who were taken to Massachusetts were tried, simply they were not tried for the charges of fraud brought past the Indians. Instead, they stood trial concerning their theological beliefs, and several of them were convicted of blasphemy and incarcerated for those beliefs.^[seven] They were released a few months later, and then banished from Massachusetts—and also from their homes in Shawomet.^[2]

Greene, Gorton, and Randall Holden sailed to England seeking redress for the wrongs done to them, but they had to board a send in New Amsterdam because they were banned from going to Boston.^[2] Gorton was able to get a royal prescript 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 he returned in 1648, he renamed the settlement "Warwick" in honor of the earl who helped him get the protection that they needed.

Later life and family [edit]

John Greene'south grave marker, Surgeon John Greene Cemetery, Warwick

Greene served on the Warwick town quango 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.^[iv] 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 seven January 1659 when it was proved.^[2] He, his wife, and many descendants are cached in the Surgeon John Greene Cemetery, now located behind the Narraganset Bay Baptist Church on W Shore Route in Warwick.^[8]

Greene had seven children, six of whom grew to maturity, and all with his kickoff married woman Joan Tattershall (or Tatarsole). The oldest child was John, who lived a long life which was almost entirely devoted to public service, including 10 one-year terms as Deputy Governor of the colony.^[2] Their son Peter married Mary Gorton, a daughter of colonial President Samuel Gorton.^[2]

Swell-grandson William Greene Sr. served every bit Governor of the colony for eleven one-year terms during the centre of the 18th century, and his son William Greene Jr. served every bit the 2nd governor of the State of Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War. Greene is too the ancestor of sometime The states President Warren G. Harding and of General Nathanael Greene, the only American general in the American Revolutionary War to serve for the entire war, besides George Washington.^[9]

See besides [edit]

• Listing of early on settlers of Rhode Island
• Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Anderson, Sanborn & Sanborn 2003, p. 144.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f m h i j thousand 50} 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. ^ Austin 1887, p. 302.
8. ^ Find-a-grave 2007.
9. ^ Roberts 2009, p. 582.

Bibliography [edit]

• Anderson, Robert Charles; Sanborn, George F. Jr.; Sanborn, Melinde L. (2003). The Cracking Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634–1635. Vol. III G-H. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN0-88082-158-2.
• Arnold, Samuel Greene (1859). History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol. 1. New York: D. Appleton & Visitor.
• Austin, John Osborne (1887). Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, New York: J. Munsell'south Sons. ISBN978-0-8063-0006-one.
• Roberts, Gary Boyd (2009). Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 edition. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN978-0-88082-220-half dozen.

Online sources

• Rogers, James (30 January 2007). "Sgt John Greene". Find-a-grave. Retrieved 24 July 2012. The championship of the website should read "Surgeon John Greene"

External links [edit]

• Find-a-Grave: John Greene
• Geni: John "the Surgeon" Greene

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greene_(settler)