Week # 12 - William Greene ( 22 Aug 1651 - 1732)
An ancestor a week for 52 Weeks! #52ancestors
Continuing my quest to study our ancestors who were children of migrants in the Great Migration (1620-1640) we find William Greene- born 22 Aug 1651 in Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts Bay Colony. While not exactly "Cape Cod Folks" I cannot ignore the contribution of this 8th great-grandfather to our heritage.
He was the son of William Green and Hannah Carter who arrived in Charlestown about 1640 - From Wm Senior's wiktree profile [1] "In December of 1640, the elder William [Sr] was one of the original subscribers to "town orders" for the founding of Woburn (incorporated in 1642). These original founders were exempt from taxes for the first two years, so the first year we find William paying taxes is 1645. Little is known about William's life in Woburn; after his death, testimony was given concerning certain lands allotted to him."
William Greene [Jr] married about 1674 Mary Felch He married about 1677 Hannah Kendall. We are descended from his second wife. "Because his parents died when he was young, he is said to have been raised by his Carter uncles (mother's brothers-possibly Uncle Samuel Carter). He received £38 from his father’s estate in 1670." [2]
William [Jr] and 2d wife, Hannah Kendall (1655-1719), daughter of Francis Kendall and Mary Tidd "had 12 children: Francis (1678-1759); Ebenezer; Mehitable; Hannah; Mary; Samuel; Jacob; Joseph; Thomas; Benjamin (1698-1753)(our 7th Great grandfather); John; and Abigail. Birth records of their children show they remained in Woburn for the majority of their life. In 1676 he was drafted to help in the efforts against the Narragansett in King Philips War [member of the Woburn Garrison]. William died after 1726 in Mendon, Massachusetts. Hannah may have moved to Mendon, Massachusetts, or stayed in Woburn and she is said to have died in 1719."
From Holman's work- "William Green became a cordwainer, or shoemaker." He moved to Mendon where he "became a proprietor and his rights in land were divided off to him, year by year."
His death should be at least 1726 and most likely in Mendon- the primary source, Holman, on page 106 says "William Green, of Mendon, deeds land there to his daughter Hannah and her husband, Thomas Beard in 1720; and in 1726 Green gave more land to his grandson, Thomas Beard (Worcester Deeds, 26:592)." There is even another deed on 25 May 1732 which is likely this William [Jr].
[1]https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Green-1445
[2]https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Greene-2280 This wikitree page has some great sources
[3]Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 vols., (Concord, N.H.: privately printed at the Rumford Press, 1948–1953) Pages: 101-107 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067408831&view=2up&seq=127
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