John Greene (1593 - 1658)

Born 1593 in England

Husband of Perseverance (Johnson) Greene — married 1610 in England

Husband of Joann (Unknown) Shatswell — married about 1650 in Colony of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 22 Apr 1658 at about age 65 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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John Greene migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 811) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Disputed children

Joseph who was listed after the servant, Sarah Jones, on the passenger list of the James, may or may not be a son - he may have been some other relative - research is needed in England to prove/disprove this.

Disputed origins

1. This profile does NOT represent the John Greene from Salisbury, Wiltshire who migrated in 1635 on the James who resided in Boston.
2. As well, this profile does NOT represent the John Greene who was closely related to Dorcas Greene and who sailed with her in 1634 on the Francis.
3. There was a John Greene born March 17, 1593 and christened at Bourne, Lincoln, England; father Marke Greene. However, there is no evidence that this is the migrant discussed in this profile.^[1]
4. No sources have been listed for parents Edward Greene and Elizabeth Wheeler. They have been disconnected.
5. No sources have been shown for William Greene (abt.1640-1713) being a son of John and he has been disconnected.

LNAB

Lacking any reference point for a Last name at Birth, the ship's manifest lists him as Greene.^[2] His will spells the name as Greene.^[3]

Biography

John Greene was born probably in England about 1593. He and his wife Perseverance ______, left to come to New England in April, 1632 on the ship James. With them aboard the ship were sons John and Jacob. Also with them were Abigail Green and Joseph Green, undetermined if these were their children, and Sarah Jones, servant. ^[4]

At his death 22 April 1658 he is noted to be aged 65. ^[4]John Green Horizontal Monument John Green aged 65 y, 22 April 1658 Charleston, MA. ^[5]

• 1632: April: The names of the men and women, and their children which are to depart for New England to be residents of the plantation and have taken the oath of allegiance: John Greene; wife Perseverance Greene; John Greene; Jacob Greene, Abigail Greene; Joseph Greene. ^{[6] [7]}
• 1633: March 29: Admitted to the First Church, Charlestown, with his wife Perseverance. ^{[4] [8] [9]}
• 1633: Appointed ruling Elder of the Church, and served as such for many years. Was the only ruling Elder the church ever had. ^{[9] [10]}
• 1633: April 1: Made a Freeman as Sgt. Greene. ^[4]
• 1634/5: January 10: Granted 8 acres of planting ground. ^[4]
• 1635: Surrendered 5 acres of land on the Mystic side. ^[4]
• 1635: Received proportions of 1 and of 4 1/2 of the hay ground allotment. ^[4]
• 1636/7: January 13: Granted a cow's lot and a houseplot provided he build and live upon it. ^[4]
• 1637: Granted 5 acres on the Mystic side. ^[4]
• 1637: Held 3 and 3/4 cow commons. ^[4]
• 1638: April 23: Received allocations on the Mystic side of forty five, fifty and five acres. ^{[4] [11]}
• 1638: Held five cow commons on 'stinted' commons. ^[4]
• 1638: Land inventory of John Greene had eight parcels at Charlestown including: 3/4 acre lot at the west end with a dwelling house; 2 acres meadow in South Meade; 8 acres arable land in Line Field; 5 milk cow commons; 5 acres plus 15 acres woodland in Mystic Field; 4 acres in Mystic Marsh; 60 acres in Water Field. (p. 58) ^{[11] [4]}
• He later purchased an additional 10 acres of woodland from John Sibley. ^[4]
• 1645/6: January 2: Elected Town Clerk, likely served until his death. ^[10]
• 1645: 22: 10: (December 22) John Greene purchased bought the house of Alice Hubbard of Charlestown. ^[11]
• 1646 -1658: Elected Selectman and served every year, excepting one, until his death. ^[9]
• 1649: September 8: Sold to John Knight of Woburn, a dwelling house and 80 acres of land in Woburn. ^[4]
• 1652: June 17: John Greene sold two parcels of land, on the Mystic side and in Malden, to Edward Carrinton. ^[11]
• 1658: March 1: The Town prepared a list of land owners on the 'Mystic side' (Malden boundary): Elder Greene, 28 acres, 5 cow commons. ^[11]

He died on April 22, 1658. ^[9]

His tombstone, near Harvard monument which is damages was partially inscribed:

MEMORIAL OF YE JUST IS BLESSED

Here lyeth ye body of Mr. John Greene born at London, in Old England, who married Perseverance, the daughter of ___ Johnson in Amsterdam, by whom he had 6 children, with whom and 3 children he came to Charlestown, in New England, in 1632, was ruling elder in ye church, and deceased April 22, 1658, leaving behind 2 sons and one daughter, viz, John, Jacob, and Mary, who erected this monument to the memory of him and his wife, their father and mother.^[9]

His will dated April 21, 1658; inventoried May 22, 1658: and proved June 15, 1658 has bequests to:

• my beloved wife Joane
• son John
• son Jacob
• daughter Mary Greene
• daughter-in-law Elizabeth, wife of Jacob
• grandsons Jno. and Jacob, sons of Jacob and Elizabeth
• my wife's grandchild Joanna Shachwell (sic), and my son-in-law Richard Shatchwell (sic) to keep for his daughter ^{[4] [12][13]}

Marriages

His married first wife named Perseverance ___ (?Johnson ^[9]), probably by about 1620, by the births/ages of their children. ^[4]

Anderson Great Migration sketch of John Green says he married secondly after Mar 1647, Joanna (Taylor) (Tuttle) Shatswell, widow of Richard Tuttle and John Shattswell, and that she died at Ipswich, Massachusetts on April 17, 1673, as widow Joanna Shatswell. [Anderson cites Annis Spear Anc. 159-160] Joanna was named in his will and Joanna Greene as executrix of his estate sold land in 1667. ^[4][14]

• Is this correct? No, but probably a "slip of the pen."
  • From The Ancestry of Annis Spear: John Satchwell's will was probate 30 Mar 1647, naming his wife Joanna. Joannah Shatswell, widow, died in Ipswich, 17 April 1673.^[15] No mention is made of her maiden name or of a previous or later marriages.
  • John Shatswell's Great Migration sketch, says the same thing as the Annis Spear Ancestry, that John married (2) Joanna ___, who died a widow, in 1673. John's son Richard m. Rebecca Tuttle, d/o Richard and Anne (Taylor) Tuttle
• To round this off. The Richard Tuttle Anderson sketch^[16] says that Richard Tuttle married 1622 Anne Taylor, who married (2) by 8 Sep 1648 Edward Holyoke (does not have an Anderson Sketch). Genealogies by Mary Lovering Holman and Donald Jacobus both mention that Edward Holyoke married (2) the widow of Richard Tuttle.^[17][18]

John Green married (2) Joanna ( ____) Shatswell, widow of John Shatswell. Joanna Shatswell, widow died 1673.

Children of John and Perseverence

1. John was born about 1620 and died about February 21, 1688/9 as John Green of Stow." He names brothers Jacob and Thomas, sister Mary Stevens, nephew John Stevens. Kinsmen Thomas Stevens, Cyprian Stevens and Jacob Stevens.^[4] (p. 247)^[19]
2. Jacob was born about 1623, by depositions He married by 1654 to Elizabeth. Their eldest child was born in Charlestown on October 11, 1654.^[4]
3.  ? Abigail sailed to New England in 1632, no further record.
4.  ? (probably) Joseph who sailed to New England in 1632. (no further record.)
5. Mary born at Charlestown, Massachusetts on April 1, 1634; baptized at the First Church on April 6, 1634 ^[8]; married by 1658, Thomas Stevens ^[4]; died at Stow, Massachusetts on January 15, 1721/2. ^[19]

Sources

1. ↑ England: Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. FamilySearch, 2014.)
2. ↑ Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874 p. 150
3. ↑ See attached
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20} Anderson, R. C. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. p. 811-13 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
5. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/46388264:2495
6. ↑ Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, Publ. by the Historical Society, Boston, MA, 1852 p. 93
7. ↑ Hotten: James C. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England, London, England, 1874 p. 150
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Records of the First Church in Charlestown, 1632-1789 by J.F. Hunnewell, editor, Charlestown, MA, 1880
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5} The History of Charlestown, Massachusetts, Part 1, by Richard Frothingham, C.C. Little and J. Brown, Boston, MA, 1845
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630-1880, Volume 1 -The Early and Colonial Periods, Ed. by Justin Winsor, J. R. Osgood and Company, Boston, MA, 1880
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4} Records Relating to the Early History of Boston: Third Report of the Record Commissioners of Boston, Document 39-1878, Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, MA, 1878
12. ↑ Case 9764: p.1-6: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
13. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1654-1673”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9D5-B3L8 : 7 May 2023) or (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9D5-B556 : Transcription), FHL microfilm 007554513, image 100-103, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Vol 1, 1654-1661, Page 184-190.
14. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (John Green & 2/wf Joanna (_____) Shatswell, w. John; by 1656; Charlestown
15. ↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin, 1885-1966. The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine. Portland, Me.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945.
16. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. "Richard Tuttle" Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB496/i/13260/137/24792871
17. ↑ Holman, Mary (Lovering), 1868-, and Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury And John Sargent Pillsbury. [Concord, N.H.: Priv. print. at the Rumford press], 1938. p. 287
18. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House, and related families : mainly of the Connecticut River Valley Hartford, Conn. : Connecticut Historical Society, 1952 p. 641
19. ↑ ^{19.0 19.1} Vital Records of Stow to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, MA, 1911 p. 247: 259

Unless otherwise referenced, this bio is cited to Anderson's Great Migration, featured name: John Greene

• Anderson, Robert Charles Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA: NEHGS 1995, pp 811-814 featured name.subscription site

• Anderson, Robert Charles Great Migration Begins, featured name of John Shatswell.[https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image?pageName=1656&volumeId=12107&rId=23896015 subscription site.

• NEHGR p. 184 Boston, 185. "Mary was the daughter of John Greene & Perseverence his wife, born in 1634"[www.archive.org/stream/newenglandhisto00wategoog#page/n184/mode/1up see at archive.org]

• England: Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. FamilySearch, 2014.)subscription site

• New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (John Green & 2/wf Joanna (_____) Shatswell, w. John; by 1656; Charlestown.subscription site

See also

1. Find A Grave Memorial# 35753974 [[1]]
2. Find A Grave Memorial# 35753991[ Find A Grave: Memorial #35753991 ]