John Green (1632 - 1707)

Born 6 Dec 1632 in Toppesfield, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Wheeler) Green — married 18 Oct 1660 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 16 Oct 1707 at age 74 in Malden, Massachusetts

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Biography

John Green immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

John Green was christened 6 Dec 1632 at Toppesfield, Essex, England along with several of his siblings, before the family immigrated to Massachusetts (estimated at between 1642 and 1644).^[1] (mother listed as Elizabeth)^[2]

See "The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton" for extensive research using primary records (parish registers, wills, court records etc) on this family. Several internet narratives using unsourced or poorly sourced publications have confused their narrative in several ways. Details are on the father of this man, Thomas Green of Toppesfield and Malden^[3]

The sources listed here previously associated with a Malden christening actually show other information about the Greens of Malden such as the 3rd marriage of Thomas senior to Frances Unk. / Wheeler / Cook and births of some of the children of Thomas Junior and his siblings.^{[4] [5]}

Dea. John Green, son of Thomas, married Sarah Wheeler, daughter of Isaac Wheeler whose wife Frances Wheeler afterwards married Richard Cook and after that she married John Green's Father, Thomas Green, Sr. His mother-in-law married his father Thomas Green, Sr. ^[5]

"He was a respectable and influential citizen of Malden; freeman, 24 oct 1668; captain of a military company, and for many years deacon of the church. He was selectman nineteen years between 1678 and 1701, and represented the town in the General Court 1692-3-4-6." ^[5]

John Green died 16 October 1707 at age 75 years [Gravestone]. His gravestone proves out his birth year of 1632. His Will is dated the previous day, 15 oct 1707; proved 10 Nov 1707; recorded Midd. Prob., 11:177. After making bequests to wife Sarah, dau. Sarah Sprague and gr. dau. Mehitable Sprague (then under 18) he gives the rest of his estate to his son John, who is made executor. ^{[6] [5]}

Duplicate of John Green-5305, son of early immigrant Thomas to Malden. will be merged. Discard bio upon merge.

Sources

1. ↑ Essex : Toppesfield : St Margaret of Antioch : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581826e9e93790ec8bd200f9 : viewed 19 Nov 2021) baptism John Greene 06 Dec 1632
2. ↑ Parish registers for Toppesfield, 1559-1974 Baptisms, 1559-1692; burials, 1560-1689; marriages, 1598-1690. film 857071 Item 5 1632 baptism of John Green, son of Thomas Image 553 of 615 bottom of right side page
3. ↑ The ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908 by Smith, Dean Crawford; Sanborn, Melinde Lutz Publication date 1996 Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society pp. 293-304
4. ↑ Births, Marriages and Deaths in Malden, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1856) Vol. 10, Page 162
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Greene, Samuel Stillman (1810-1881) A genealogical sketch of the descendants of Thomas Green of Malden, Mass. Boston: Henry W. Dutton & Son, Printers, 1858. E-book available in the public domain at: https://archive.org/details/genealogicalsket00gree/page/n4/mode/2up
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. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) [1]

• Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850 (University Press, Cambridge, 1914) Page 237.

• Green, John, m. Sarah Wheeler. Capt. Marshall. 18 (10), 1660.

• Essex : Toppesfield : St Margaret of Antioch : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581826e9e93790ec8bd200f9 : viewed 19 Nov 2021) baptism John Greene 06 Dec 1632