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James (Captain) Greene, II[1]

Male 1659 - 1712  (52 years)


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  • Name James (Captain) Greene  [2] 
    Suffix II 
    Birth 1 Jun 1659  Potowomut Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 12 Mar 1712  Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    Burial Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I27548  Master
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2017 

    Father James Greene,   b. 21 Jun 1626, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Apr 1698, Potowomut Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Deliverance Potter,   b. 19 May 1637, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Mar 1664, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years) 
    Marriage 1658  Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6965  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Fones,   b. 1668, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Mar 1722, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Marriage 29 Jan 1689  Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Children 
    +1. Fones Greene,   b. 23 Mar 1689, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jul 1758, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     2. James (Major) Greene, III,   b. 2 Apr 1692, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Apr 1758, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)  [Father: natural]
     3. Elisha Greene,   b. 5 Aug 1698, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1780, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]
     4. Deliverance Greene,   b. 12 Feb 1700, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
     5. Mary Greene,   b. 25 Sep 1703, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
     6. John Greene,   b. 26 Feb 1705, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Dec 1757, Potowomut Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]
     7. Jeremiah Greene,   b. 16 Dec 1708, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Potowomut Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
     8. Samuel Greene,   b. 8 Jun 1711, Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Feb 1788, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F6963  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2017 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Jun 1659 - Potowomut Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 29 Jan 1689 - Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 12 Mar 1712 - Nausauket Village, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • 526 RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF RHODE ISLAND
      . . . . . . . . .
      Proceedings of the Generall Assembly of the Collony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, held at Newport, the 4th of May 1675

      Mr. William Coddington, Governor.
      Mr. John Easton, Deputy Governor.
      ASSISTANTS.
      Mr. Henry Bull, Mr. Thomas Harris,
      Mr. Walter Clarke, Mr. Joshua Coggeshall,
      Mr. Daniell Gould, Mr. John Tripp,
      Mr. William Harris, Mr. Job Almy,
      Capt. Arthur Fenner, Mr. Benjamin Barton.

      AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. 527
      DEPUTIES. 1675
      For Newport
      , Mr. John Coggeshallj Sen'r, engaged. ~~
      " Mr. William Case.
      " Mr. Peter Easton, engaged.
      " Mr. John Wood, engaged.
      " Mr. Thomas Clifton, engaged.
      •' Mr. John Read, engaged.
      For Providence
      , Mr. Tolleration Harris, engaged.
      " Mr. Edward Smith, engaged.
      " Mr. William Astin, engaged.
      " Mr. Vail. Whitman, engaged.
      For Portsmouth,
      Capt. John Albro, engaged.
      " Mr. George Lawton, engaged.
      " Mr. Gideon Freeborne, engaged.
      " Mr. William Wodell, engaged.
      For Warwicke,
      Capt. Randall Holdon.
      " Capt. John Greene.
      '' Mr. John Weecks,
      " Mr. James Greene,

      Mr. William Coddington, Governor, chosen Moderator.
      John Sanford, chosen Clerke of the Assembly.

      Voted, Elisha Smith, James Barker, Jun'r, Walter
      Newbery, William Coddington, Jun'r, Adam Wooley,
      Joseph Bryer, Nathaniell Coddington, James Weeden,
      Jun'r, Robert Malins, William James, William Edwards,
      John Johnson, Thomas Peckham, Richard Hailes, Clement
      Weaver, the third,
      John Weaver, George Browne,
      James Carde
      , John Woodman, beinge freemen of the
      towne of Newport, are all admitted freemen of this Collony.

      Voted, John Pearce Mason, William Manchester, John
      Wilbore, Joseph Tripp, beinge freemen of the towne of
      Portsmouth,
      are admitted freemen of this Collony.
      Voted, William Greene, John Weecks, Jun'r, John
      Rice, John Low, Thomas Stafford, Jun'r, Jeremiah
      Smith, beinge freemen of the towne of Warwicke, are
      admitted freemen of this Collony.

    • Excerpt from 'Greene Family of Rhode Island' pg 83-85

      (Captain) JAMES GREENE "of Nassauket" (James, John), eldest son, was bom June 6 1659. He was admitted freeman of the Colony on June 26, 1683, when twenty-four years of age. In October, 1685, he joined with others in a petition to the General Assembly for settling a plantation
      in the Narragansett and the Niantic countries. On May 5, 1696, he was
      Deputy from Warwick, and November 14, 1711, he was allowed the use of
      ;£3oo bills of credit for four years free of interest, he paying for printing and signing the same, for nine months' service and expenses in accompanying his uncle. Major John Greene, Agent of the Colony in 1668 to England.

      He resided at Nassauket, Warwick, where he built a house in 1687 which was still standing (1887). He married, January 29, 1688-9, Mary,
      daughter of Captain John and Margaret Fones of Newport, Jamestown, and
      Kingstown. Captain Fones, one of the prominent planters of Kingstown
      (called Rochester during Andros's administration), was a member of the
      court-martial at Newport for trial of Indians, August 24, 1676; was Deputy, 1679-80-81. On May 26, 1686, he was appointed Justice of the Peace by President and Council then governing New England. He was Clerk of the Court of Commissioners, June 23, 1686, and Deputy and Assistant, 1698-99.

      Captain Fones died December 20, 1703, and left by will a legacy of land to his " daughter Mary." Captain James Greene died March 12, 1712, and was buried in his father's burial ground at Old Warwick. His wife died March 20 1721, aged fifty years.

      His will was dated March 11 1712, "widow Mary, administratrix," to whom he bequeathed half his farm; also, "I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Fones Greene the other half of my housing and farms where I
      now live, to enjoy after my decease, to him his heirs and assigns forever and further my will is that in consideration of the above ; said housing and farms which I have given to my son Fones, that he shall pay unto my son James Greene one hundred pound to be paid to him in two year after my decease but if my wife should marry, as is above promised then my will is, that my son Fones shall enjoy that part of my housing and farms which is given to her at the time of her marriage he paying the above sd fourty pounds according as it is above promised to be to him his heirs and assigns forever" (Appendix I.).

      Children:
      104. Fones, bom March 23, 1689-90, married (i) Dinah Batty, (2) Rebecca Tibbitts.
      105. James, bom April 2, 1692, married (i) Roby Carr, (2) Susannah .
      106. Mary, bom March 16, 1693, died October 21, 1695.
      107. Daniel, bom April 7, 1696. No further record.
      108. Elisha, bom August 5, 1698, married (i) Martha Brown, (2) Abigail Fenner.
      109. Deliverance, bom February 12, 1 700-1, married John Holden, died s. p. no.
      110. Mary, bom September 25, 1703, married Resolved Rhodes.
      111. John, bom February 26, 1705-6, died December 8, 1757, unmarried (see No.111).
      112. Jeremiah, bom December i6, 1708, died April 17, 1758; married (i) Anne Wylis.
      113. Samuel, bom June 8, 1711, died February 18, 1778; married (i) Mary Whitford, (2) Elizabeth Stanbrough.

  • Sources 
    1. [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=109420572&pid=61

    2. [S751] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    3. [S738] Ancestry.com, Rhode Island, Births, 1636-1930, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).

    4. [S887] Ancestry.com, Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    5. [S739] Ancestry.com, Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).


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