Thomas GreenAge: 491622–1671
- Name
- Thomas Green
- Given names
- Thomas
- Surname
- Green
| Birth | 1622 22 England |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | between 24 February 1650 and 60 (Age 28)
daughter -
Hannah Green
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| Birth of a brother | about 1632 (Age 10) England
younger brother -
John Green
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| Birth of a sister | about 1633 (Age 11) England
younger sister -
Mary Green
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| Birth of a brother | 1635 (Age 13)
younger brother -
Capt. William Green
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| Birth of a brother | 1638 (Age 16) Ipswitch?
younger brother -
Henry Green
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| Birth of a brother | March 1645 (Age 23)
younger brother -
Samuel Green
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| Birth of a sister | 1647 (Age 25)
younger sister -
Hannah Green
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| Birth of a sister | 1650 (Age 28)
younger sister -
Martha Green
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| Marriage | Rebecca Hills - View family 1653 (Age 31) |
| Birth of a sister | 1 May 1653 (Age 31) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
younger sister -
Dorcas Green
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| Birth of a daughter #2 | 1654 (Age 32)
daughter -
Rebecca Green
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| Birth of a son #3 | 1655 (Age 33)
son -
Thomas Green
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| Death of a mother | 22 August 1658 (Age 36) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
mother -
Elizabeth LYNDE-SWINDELLS?
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| Birth of a daughter #4 | 16 October 1658 (Age 36)
daughter -
Hannah Green
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| Death of a daughter | 25 March 1659 (Age 37)
daughter -
Hannah Green
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| Marriage of a father | Thomas Green - View family 5 September 1659 (Age 37)
father -
Thomas Green
step-mother -
Frances Molton?
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| Death of a father | 19 December 1667 (Age 45) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
father -
Thomas Green
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| Birth of a son #5 | 5 October 1670 (Age 48)
son -
Capt Samuel Green
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| Death | 13 February 1671 (Age 49) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts |
| Globally unique identifier | 718020CC7C61194CB1BD8B7A28124B1D342D |
| Last change | 16 March 2009 |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Thomas Green
Birth about 1600 St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Death 19 December 1667 (Age 67) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Loading...
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| mother |
Elizabeth LYNDE-SWINDELLS?
Birth England
Death 22 August 1658 Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Loading...
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Marriage: — England |
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| #1 elder sister |
Elizabeth Green
Birth 1620 20 England
Death yes Loading...
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2 years #2 himself |
Thomas Green
Birth 1622 22 England
Death 13 February 1671 (Age 49) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Loading...
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10 years #3 younger brother |
John Green
Birth about 1632 32 England
Death yes Loading...
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1 year #4 younger sister |
Mary Green
Birth about 1633 33 England
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2 years #5 younger brother |
Capt. William Green
Birth 1635 35
Death 30 December 1705 (Age 70) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Loading...
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3 years #6 younger brother |
Henry Green
Birth 1638 38 Ipswitch?
Death yes Loading...
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7 years #7 younger brother |
Samuel Green
Birth March 1645 45
Death yes Loading...
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22 months #8 younger sister |
Hannah Green
Birth 1647 47
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3 years #9 younger sister |
Martha Green
Birth 1650 50
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3 years #10 younger sister |
Dorcas Green
Birth 1 May 1653 53 Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
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| Father’s family with Frances Molton? - View family |
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Thomas Green
Birth about 1600 St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Death 19 December 1667 (Age 67) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Loading...
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8 years step-mother |
Frances Molton?
Birth 1608
Death yes Loading...
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Marriage: 5 September 1659 |
| Family with Rebecca Hills - View family |
| himself |
Thomas Green
Birth 1622 22 England
Death 13 February 1671 (Age 49) Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Loading...
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12 years wife |
Rebecca Hills
Birth 20 April 1634 32 Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
Death 6 June 1674 (Age 40) Loading...
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Marriage: 1653 |
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1 year #1 daughter |
Rebecca Green
Birth 1654 32 19
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1 year #2 son |
Thomas Green
Birth 1655 33 20
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4 years #3 daughter |
Hannah Green
Birth 16 October 1658 36 24
Death 25 March 1659 (Age 5 months) Loading...
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-9 years #4 daughter |
Hannah Green
Birth between 24 February 1650 and 60 28 15
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21 years #5 son |
Capt Samuel Green
Birth 5 October 1670 48 36
Death 2 January 1735 (Age 64) Leicester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts Loading...
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| Note | Thomas Green, came to Massachusetts at the age of fifteen in the ship "Planter," which sailed from England, April 2, 1635. The same name and age appear also in the passenger list of the ship "Hopewell." which sailed the next day and are believed to represent the same Thomas Green Jr. Preceding the list of passengers in the "Planter" is a certificate which states that Thomas came from St. Albans, Hertfordshire. - William Richard Cutter, <i>New England families,
</i>The following came from another book:
<i>Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity
By Ellery Bicknell Crane
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
Item notes: v. 1
</i>(II) Thomas Green, son of Thomas Green (i), was born in England 1620,—if the record of the list of passengers of the ship "Planter" which sailed April 2, 1635, or the "Hopewell," which sailed the next day, is correct. He claimed to be fifteen years old then. He married in 1653, or before, Rebecca Hills, daughter of Joseph Hills, of Malden, later of Newbury, Massachusetts. (See sketch Joseph Hills family in this work.) Rebecca's mother was Rose Dunster, a sister of Rev. Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College. Thomas Green (2) settled in Malden. He was a farmer, was admitted a freeman. May 31, 1670, and died February 13, 1671-2. His will was dated the same day. and proved April 2, 1672. His widow, Rebecca, died June 6, 1674. The inventory of her estate was filed March 4, 1674-5, by her son-in-law, Thomas Newell. The children of Thomas and Rebecca Green were:
1. Rebecca, born 1654; married to Thomas Newell, of Lynn, 1674.
2. Thomas, born February, 1655-6; died April 15. 1674.
3. Hannah, born October 16, 1658; died March 25, 1659.
4. Hannah, born February 24, 1650-60: married August 26. 1677, t° John Vinton, of Maiden, and later of Woburn, Massachusetts.
5. Samuel, born October 5, 1670; married to Elizabeth Upham, about 1692.
(III) Captain Samuel Green, the only son of Thomas (2) and Rebecca Hills Green who came to full age. was born October 5, 1670. He was one of the principal men in Leicester or Strawberry Hill, where he' settled in 1717. The town was granted February 10, 1713-14. and Capt. Samuel Green was on the committee with Col. William Dudley of Roxbury and others to settle it. He owned three lots of forty acres each, and two of thirty each, in the town of Leicester, and was highly respected and .very influential. The vicinity of his old homestead, now a village, is called after him, Greenville. He built a house, grist mill and saw mill. At the first town meeting of which there is any record, he was elected moderator, first selectman and grand juror, and he held like offices in the town of Leicester the remainder of his life. Governor Washburn. in his history, calls him a prominent man, and he is honored as one of the pioneers. He also owned land in Hardwick, Massachusetts. He was always called Captain, a rank he won at Maiden, and he was the first captain of the Leicester company of militia. Cnpt. Samuel Green married Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut. Phinchas Upham. of Worcester, a son of Deacon John Upham, who had arrived from England, September 2. 1635, settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, moved to Maiden about 1650, and was one of the original proprietors of Quinsigamond. His son Phinehas Upham settled in Worcester in April, 1675. After the Indians had destroyed the first white settlements at Mendon, Brooklield and Worcester, Lieut. Upham fought bravely in the battle of Narraganset Fort, December 19. 1675. where he was mortally wounded. Capt. Samuel Green died January 2, 1735-6. His will was made at Maiden just before he came to Leicester to settle. April 18, 1717, and it was proved February 5, '735-6. His wife died at Leicester, probably in 1761. Their children were:
i. Elizabeth, born April 4, 1693, married to Thomas Richardson of Maiden.
2 Rebecca, born April 4. 1695, married to Samuel Baldwin. (According to Maiden records the first two were twins, born April 4, 1695).
3. Ruth, married to Joshua Nichols.
4. Thomas, born 1699, married to Martha Lynde in Maiden. January 13. 1725-6.
5. Lydia. married to her cousin, Abiathar Vin- ton of Maiden, April 30, 1723. He resided in Brain- tree a year or two after his marriage, then settled in Leicester, where he lived until his death in 1740. His widow Lydia married secondly, January 15, 1746. Samuel Slower, of Leicester, a native of Maiden.
6. Balhshcba. married to EHsha Nfevins.
7. Abigail, married to Henry King.
8. Any (Anna?), married to Ebenezer Lamb. (IV) Dr. Thomas Green, son of Capt. Samuel
Green (3), was born in Maiden in 1609. He married. January 13, 1725-6. Martha Lynde, daughter of Capt. John Lynde by his third wife, Judith Worth, widow of Joses Bucknam of Maiden. Martha Lynde was born July 6, 1700. Before Capt. Samuel Green removed his family to Leicester, in 1717, he and his son Thomas had driven some cattle from Maiden to the site of their new home, preparatory to moving the family. Thomas was left at Leicester in charge of the cattle, while his father returned to Maiden. While there alone the boy was attacked with fever and became very ill. In his weak state he lay in a sort of cave made by an overhanging rock on a little stream, and secured food by milking a cow which he induced to come to him frequently by tying her calf to a tree near the cave. At length two of his former neighbors at Maiden, who had come on horseback to look after their cattle, found him. but refused to take him home. They notified hi? father, however, who went at once to his relief, and got him home on horseback after a painful journey of four days.
Thomas Green's attention was early turned to the studv of medicine. His impluse in this direction is said to have come from two English ship-surgeons—it is even said they were pardoned buccaneers.—who lived in his father's house at Leicester, taught young Thomas with interest and lent him medical books. He grew to be friendly with the Indians and learned from them the curative proper- tics of native herbs. As the settlement grew his medical practice extended over a wider field and even into Rhode Island and Connecticut. Many young men came to him for instruction in medicine: he is said to have taught one hundred and twenty-three medical students. The very slight facts which have come down to us about Dr. Thomas Green's study and practice of medicine show him to have been the most prominent practitioner of the country doctors of his time: but these facts are especially interesting because he was the first of a long line of famous physicians and surgeons. His
son, grandson and great-grandson, each named John Green, were each of them the most distinguished physician in Worcester county; while Dr. John Green of St. Louis, the descendant of Thomas in the next generation, is now the foremost eye-surgeon in the Mississippi Valley; and his son Dr. John Green, Jr., also of St. Louis, is already a prominent and successful practitioner in the same specialty of medicine. Five generations of Dr. John Greens go back to Dr. Thomas Green as their progenitor and their forerunner in the noble art of improving the health of man.
Dr. Thomas Green (4) joined the First Baptist Church at Boston, November 7, 1731. But in 1735 he was dismissed from that church to take part in forming another church at Sutton, the parent- church of his denomination in Worcester county, and the fourth Baptist church in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. On September 28, 1737, he and Benjamin Marsh were ordained as pastors of this Sutton church. One year later to a day, the Leicester families of the congregation erected a church of their own at Greenville (in Leicester), the eighth Baptist church in Massachusetts, and Dr. Thomas Green, who was a charter member of both the Sutton and the Leicester church, was chosen the first pastor of the new church, and he remained its pastor for almost thirty-five years. In a historical discourse delivered at the Greenville church in 1888, on the 150th anniversary of its foundation, the Rev. Hiram C. Estcs, D. D., its pastor, says of the church- building, "that Dr. Green was the principal proprietor of the house; that its grounds were given by him, and its frame was raised and covered at his expense." "While he was preaching on Sunday," said Hon. Andrew H. Green on the same anniversary, "at his home across the way the pot was kept boiling to supply the needed sustenance to the little flock which came from all directions to attend upon his ministrations." During his ministry in Leicester,- he baptized more than a thousand persons. In "Rippon's Register" he is spoken of as "eminent for his useful labors in the gospel ministry." His preaching was not confined to his own parish; he was widely known as Elder Grrcn. In 1756. Rev. Isaac Backus, the Baptist Annalist in New England, held a meeting with Mr. Green's church, and made the following entry in his diary: "I can but admire how the Doctor (Thomas Green) is able to get along as he does, having a great deal of farming business to manage, multitudes of sick to care for, several opportunities to instruct in the art of physic, and a church to care for and watch over; yet in the midst of all he seems to keep religion uppermost—to hold his mind bent upon divine things—and to be very bold in Christian conversation with all sorts of people." Dr. Estes said, in his discourse above quoted, that "Dr. Green lived three lives and did the work, of three men in one. He was a man of business, active, energetic and successful. * * * He was also a noted physician ; * * * and was a preacher of the gospel finite as eminent in this as in his other spheres of life."
Dr. Green's homestead was next beyond the river from the Baptist Church on the road to Charlton. where his grandson, Samuel Green, afterwards kept a tavern. He died August 19, 1773, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife Martha died June 20. 1780. They were buried in the churchyard at Greenville, but their remains were removed to the Rural Cemetery in Worcester, by Dr. John Green (7). a descendant, where the graves are suitably marked. The children of Thomas and Martha Green were:
1. Samuel, born in Leicester 1726; married to Zerviah Dana; married secondly to Widow Fish.
2. Martha, born at Leicester April 23, 1727, married about 1753 to Robert Craig (born December 10, 1726; he died October 13, 1805); she died September 17, 1801; Craig studied medicine under Dr. Thomas Green, but returned to the manufacture of spinning wheels instead of practicing; they had nine children.
3. Isaac, married to Sarah Howe.
4. Thomas L., born 1733, married to Hannah Fox; married secondly to Anna Hovey.
5. John, born in Leicester August 14, 1736, married to Mary Osgood, and secondly to Mary Ruggles.
6. Solomon, married to Elizabeth Page.
7. Elizabeth, married first, to Daniel Hovey; married secondly, January 16, 1776, to Rev. Benjamin Foster (Yale 1774; Brown DD. 1792), who succeeded Rev. Thomas Green as pastor of the Baptist church at Leicester; removed to Newport, Rhode Island, thence to Gold Street Church, New York city, where he died of yellow fever in 1798.
"Dr. Thomas Green," says Samuel S. Green in his biography of the late Andrew H. Green, "bought the homestead in Worcester which forms the nucleus of the extensive and beautifully situated estate on Green Hill, lately owned by Andrew H. Green. This is one of the finest gentlemen's places in that neighborhood, contains over five hundred acres of field and forest and water- and has lately become a part of the park system of the City of Worcester. The deed was given by Thomas Adams to Thomas Green of Leicester, dated May 28, 1754, in consideration of 330 pounds." His son John appears to have married and gone to Green Hill to live, about the year 1757. when he came of age. The tradition of the family is that Thomas located his son on this hill remote from Worcester village that he might be protected by distance from the temptations of the town. At Dr. Thomas Green's death, August 19. 1773, his entire estate passing through the probate office was appraised at 4,495 pounds, equivalent very nearly to $22,477; an estate said to have been larger than any that had been entered at the probate office in Worcester previous to his death. |