Born about in England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Thomas Greene
— married
about 1634 (to 1638) in St. Mary's County, Province of Maryland [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Mother of
Thomas Greene and Leonard Greene
Died about
at about age 28
in St Mary's, St Mary's Co., Province of Maryland
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Biography
Ann (Cox) Greene migrated from England to Colonial America.
NOTE: LNAB IS NOT PROVED
Ann Cox, passenger from England to Maryland aboard the Ark and Dove in 1634, married Thomas Greene, Esq. as his first wife.[1] Newman states Thomas Greene and mistress Ann Cox were married soon after landing, on the banks of the St. George River. The courtship was on the the trip to Maryland. Their marriage was considered to have been the first Christian marriage performed in Maryland.[2]
After her arrival, as Mrs. Ann Cox, she received a special grant of 500 acres of land from Lord Baltimore in 1633.[3]
Thomas and Ann had two sons:
Ann died in 1638[2] probably in St. Mary's County, Province of Maryland.
Disputed Origins
- Ann Cox is listed as a gentlewoman (no other description) on the list of Ark & Dove passengers from The Society of The Ark and The Dove. Also listed are Richard Gerard, Esq. and Thomas Greene. The info attached to Thomas Green's name states that he "married 1st Ann d/o ... Cox."[4]
- She is referred to as (widow) Ann Cox in “Ark and Dove Record, Passengers, Crew and Indentured Servants,” compiled by Mrs. G. W. Hodges and reprinted in the Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families which reports that she, as Mrs. Cox nee Gerrard and her brother Sir Richard, immigrated in the group with the Ark and the Dove to found Maryland.[5]
- Newman's passenger list only refers to her as "Ann Cox, Gentlewoman, Emigrant"[6] and in his biography of Thomas Greene in The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate, she is called Mistress Cox with no mention of Gerard/Gerrard.[7]
- In The Baronetage of England, Richard, son of Thomas is named as one of Thomas' six sons and only one daughter, Frances is mentioned. No Ann named.[8]
- The History of Parliament Online has Sir Thomas Gerard having 7 sons and 3 daughters, none of them named.[9]
- The 1664 Visitation of Lancashire lists 7 sons of Thomas and Frances Gerard of Brynne (William, Thomas d/y, Richard, Gilbert d/y, Peter, Thomas, John) and 3 daughters (Frances and Cecile, d/y and Frances, a nun).[10]
Research Notes
- Thomas Gerard and Frances Molyneux were disconnected as her parents on 17 Nov 2019 as there is no evidence they are related.
- No passenger or crew lists are extant for either the Ark or the Dove (although the latter, designated a supply ship, probably carried very few other than crew members). A number of versions have been published over the years, each a compilation based on other records. One of the earliest was researched and compiled by Mrs. G. W. Hodges and published as the “Ark and Dove Record, Passengers, Crew and Indentured Servants,” in the Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families, Series II, by Alice Norris Parran, 1938. In 1968, another version published was that of Harry Wright Newman in The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate, self-published, Washington, D.C.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), vol. II, page 266, GRESLEY 16.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Newman, Harry Wright. The Maryland Seemes and Kindred Families: A Genealogical History of Marmaduke Semme(s), Gent., and His Descendants. (Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical Society, 1956). Online at GoogleBooks, pages 134-142 (limited view).
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Greene_(governor)
- ↑ Ark and Dove: compiled by The Society of The Ark and The Dove.
- ↑ Parran, Alice Norris. Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families: period from 1634, March 25th to March 25th, 1935. (Baltimore, MD: Printed by H.G. Roebuck & Son, c. 1935-1938. Online at Ancestry.com pg. 74, 201.
- ↑ Ark and Dove
- ↑ Newman, Harry Wright. The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate. (Washington: the author, 1961). Online at FamilySearch, pages 213-218.
- ↑ Betham, Rev. William. The Baronetage of England. (1801). Online at GoogleBooks, page 62.
- ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/gerrard-sir-thomas-1584-1630
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/visitationcount02raingoog#page/n30/mode/2up
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Thomas Greene, married (1st) Ann Cox, who immigrated on also the Ark and Dove. They had two sons, Thomas and Leonard. He married (2nd) before 1647 Winifred Seyborn. They had two sons, Robert , and Francis. Following the death of [Gov.] Leonard Calvert on 9 June 1647, h was appointed, and acknowledged Governor of Maryland. For causes not known, the Lord Proprietary removed Gov. Greene and appointed [Capt.] William Stone as Governor 6 August 1648. On 2 May 1649 Gov. Stone commissioned him to act on his behalf during his absence from the province. He was discharged from all offices 6 August 16 for usurping authority.
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