Greene Potter Family
James Greene, son of
John "The Surgeon" Greene
and
Joanne Tattershall,
was born
in 1626 in
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England and
died
April 27, 1698 in
Potowomut, Rhode Island.
He married
Deliverance Potter about 1658.
Other Events in the life of James Greene (Also see
biography)
Occupation: Farmer.
Residences and life: He was baptized
at St. Thomas Church, Salisbury, England on 21 June 1626.
He emigrated to America in 1635 with his parents. (See
James
passenger list). He was made a freeman of Warwick and
Providence plantation in 1647. He was on the roll of
freemen in Old Warwick in 1655 and was town clerk in 1661.
He was a member of the General Assembly of the Colony between
1660 and 1675. He resided at Old Warwick until the Indian
war (1675-6) when the family moved to Portsmouth, where his
father-in-law, John Anthony lived. His home in Warwick was
burned to the ground during the Indian War. In 1684, he
purchased Warwick land and moved to Potowomut, where there was
an old mill. The home at Potomomut of James Greene was the
birthplace of his great-grandson, Nathanael Green. His land
and home stayed in the family for 200 years.
Other
spouses:
Elizabeth Anthony (1646-1698) married August 3,
1665 after Deliverance's death.
Burial: Old
Warwick burial ground.
Deliverance Potter,
daughter of
Robert Potter and
Isabell
Tripp, was born
in
1637 in Portsmouth Township, Newport, Rhode Island and
died
October 27, 1698 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island.
Children of James Greene and Deliverance Potter
(Captain) James Greene "of
Nassauka" was born in June 1659 and died on March 12,
1712. He married Mary Fones on January
29, 1688-89 who was born in 1671 and died in 1708.
Mary Fones was the daughter of Capt. John and Margaret Fones of
Newport, Jamestown and Kingstown .
Mary Greene was born
at Warwick on September 28,1660. She married
James Reynolds, brother of her two sister's husbands,
on February 19, 1684-85.
Elisha Greene
was born March 17, 1662-3 and died young.
Sarah Greene
was born
August
27, 1664 and
died
in 1716.
She married
Henry Reynolds, who's brother married her sister
Mary.
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