James Greenwood (1687)

Born 19 Dec 1687 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Trowbridge) Cheney — married 5 Jan 1715 in Massachusetts

Descendants

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Biography

JAMES GREENWOOD^ (Thomas^) brother of the preceding and son of Thomas and Abigail ( ) Greenwood of Newton, Mass., b. there Dec. 19, 1687 ; m. first, Apr. 13, 1713, Thankful Wilson b. , d, Feb. 4, 1716, daughter of Joseph Wilson; second, Jan. 5, 1716, Abigail . He was a joiner in Roxbury and d. in Holliston, Mass., , 1742.^{[citation needed]}

Children:

1. James^ b. Jan. 27, 1714; m. Patience Leland.
2. Abigail b. , 1716

Abigail Trowbridge married first on 5 Jan 1715/6 to James Greenwood and second on 12 Oct 1721 to Joseph Cheney^[1]

Research Notes

He married Thankful Willson (daughter of Joseph Wilson per Savage v2). She died 1714, as a widow, but James died in Cambridge "1715. His w. d. 4 Feb. in that yr." (Savage v2). James second married Abigail Trowbridge, in Newton, 1715. James may have died in Roxbury, Suffolk County (Savage v2) 26 May 1720, but record gives no indication that it is the same person.

Sources

1. ↑ Francis Bacon Trowbridge. The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America. New Haven, CT: 1908. Online at Archive.org, pages 503-509.

See also:

• FamilySearch Person: LHL9-YJC
• Frederick Greenwood. Greenwood genealogies, 1154-1914 : the ancestry and descendants of Thomas Greenwood, of Newton, Massachusetts; Nathaniel and Samuel Greenwood, of Boston, Massachusetts; John Greenwood, of Virginia, and many later arrivals in America, also the early history of the Greenwoods in England, and the arms . (page 6 of 53) http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/frederick-greenwood/greenwood-genealogies-1154-1914--the-ancestry-and-descendants-of-thomas-greenw-eer/page-6-greenwood-genealogies-1154-1914--the-ancestry-and-descendants-of-thomas-greenw-eer.shtml
• Slaughter, John. Early Vital Records of Massachusetts From 1600 to 1850, on-line images of public domain books

"James [dup. Greenwood, s. Thomas and Abigaill [dup. Abigail (second w.)], Dec. 19, 1687."] birth.

Greenwood: "Thankfull [dup. Thankful, w. James, Feb. 4, 1713-14. [Feb. 3. PR1]"] death of widow.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5D-9ZV : 10 November 2020), James Greanwood, 26 May 1720; citing Death, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009473.

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