Benjamin Greene, youngest son of John John Greene and Joan (_____) Beggarly[1] was born ABT 1662 [2] in the Quidnesset(t) area, (nka North Kingstown Twp., Washington Co.,) Rhode Island Colony.
"He was very prominent in the affairs of Kings Town and East Greenwich, R. I. He was deputy to the General Court in 1698, 1700-01-03., surveyor of highways in 1701, Appointed in 1705 to Lay Out Highways#S6 a member of the Town Council in 1701-03-04, and was rate maker in1702. His death occurred in 1719, and that of his widow in the following year." [3]
He married Humility Coggeshall 1685-1687 in North Kingstown, Washington Co., RI[1][4][5][6]
He died after the writing of his will on 7 Jan 1719 at E. Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island; Probate 3 March 1719 showed an estate of 166 pound's left to wife and children, clearly named.[7]
NOTE
Geographical note: The northeastern part of North Kingstown was known as the old Quidnessett territory (Aquidndesset to the Narragansett Native Americans); it was about six miles long and three broad and bordered Narragansett Bay. In 1674 it was incorporated as Kings Towne and from 1722 it has been North Kingston (description from "The History of Washington and Kent Counties, Rhode Island" by J. R. Cole, W.W.Preston & Co., New York, 1889 <http://theusgenweb.org/ri/washington/NK/kingstown1.html>
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 La Mance, Lora S. The Green Family and all its Branches from A.D. 861 to A.D. 1904. Floral Park, NY: Mayflower Pub. Co., 1904. Page 125.
↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 102365614, no photo, no source for text <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102365614&ref=acom> site gives his birth as Apr. 13, 1665 but according to Rhode Island Vitals this was another Benjamin Greene, son of Thomas and Elizabeth. Also gives his death as 7 Jan 1719 but this was date he wrote will. Site lists 11 children by name and date of birth but omits Sarah.
↑ New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985 , p320
↑#S-2046909198 Family Data Collection - Individual Records,
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.or Portsmouth, Newport, RI
↑ <http://www.genealogytrails.com/ri/kent/wills.html>
[Will transcribed by By Norman H. Isham & Howard W. Preston, Rhode Island Historical Society, 1903-1917]
BENJAMIN GREEN (sic) Husbandman. January 4, 1718/9 (sic); March 5, 1718/9 (sic)
To wife, Humility, estate during widowhood. To son, John, and hrs., farm he now lives on. To son Benjamin, and hrs. 1/2 homestead. To son Henry, other half of homestead. To son Caleb.
Minors: To son Joshua. To daughters, Mary Spencer, wife of Thomas, 20 sh.; Ann Tennant, wife of Daniel, 20 sh.; hoebe Wells, wife of Thomas, 20 sh.
To daughters Sarah Green, Dinah Green, Deborah Green, Katharine Green --under 18.
Exec.: wife. Humility, Capt. Benjamin Nichols, of Kingston (sic) John Coggeahall (sic), and Joshua Coggeshall. Test: Joseph Maxon, Joseph Lewis, Mary Lewis.
I, 11, 12, 13 (?Book I, pp11-13?)
See Also
Frank Llewellyn Greene, Greene, Descendants of Joseph Greene, of Westerly, R.I. Also, other branches of the Greenes of Quidnesset, or Kingston, R.I., and other lines of Greenes in America, Albany, N.Y. : Joel Munsell's Sons, 1894. page 10{Genealogy of the descendants of Benjamin Green of this profile}
The Greene Family, Being A Record of the Ancestry and Descendents of Maxson Alvaro Greene, Submitted by PHGS Members Dick & Charlotte Baker http://www.paintedhills.org/green_family.htm
"The Greenes of Quidnesset" by Ray Greene Huling from the "Genealogies of Rhode Island Families" I:371; Indexed by Carol Lee Ford, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1983 (974.5 RI/Genealogies SCGS)
"History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" by Thomas William Bickwell; pp.180-2; The American Historical Society, Inc.; New York, New York; 1920 (974.5 B583 LAPL)
New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial. Vol. I-IV. New York, USA, 1915, v4, pp2318-9.
#S415 Page #442 Book 10B pp.24 [Call Number: CS 71 P616 [where?] Index to North Kingstown Deeds 1686-1821 in Pierce Manuscripts: parts 1 & 2, of the Bates Collection by John Hazard Wells; typed by Ana Silva.Typescript photocopy found on www.WorldCat.org but no library location/ Microfilm
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I'm not the one who used "Mr." but I think it was an honorific back then, meaning that the person was a "gentleman" as opposed to a man who earned his living with his hands.
Nonetheless, if it were up to me, I'd remove it.