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View Tree for Thomas GreeneThomas Greene (b. June 01, 1628, d. June 05, 1717)

Thomas Greene (son of John Greene and Joan Tattershall) was born June 01, 1628 in Salisbury, County Wiltshire, England, and died June 05, 1717 in Warwick, Providence County, RI. He married Elizabeth Barton on June 30, 1659 in England, daughter of Rujus Barton.

 Includes NotesNotes for Thomas Greene:
One branch of the family are known as the Stone Castle Greenes. On
September 30, 1660, Thomas Greene No. 2 purchased from his
brother-in-law, James Sweet, a stone house at old Warwick, which had been
built at the earliest settlement of the town. This was the only stone
dwelling house south of Providence on the main land, and here he and his
posterity resided until 1795, when, to the regret of many, the house was
replaced by a wooden structure. During King Phillip's War, on the night
of March 16th and 17th, in 1675, every house in Warwick was burned,
except the stone castle, where Thomas Greene, his wife and six children,
with some of his friends and neighbors, remained in safety, and it thus
became the garrison house during the war. John Wicks only, a neighbor who
sought its shelter, was slain. He insisted upon going out against the
advice of his friends, to look after his cattle, thinking the Indians who
had been so friendly to him would not harm him; but he was killed and
quartered and his head set on a pole. His body was brought in and buried
in three separate graves near Stone Castle. Six generations of Greenes
lie buried near the original site of this dwelling. A picture of the
Stone Castle is in the possession of a number of those here today. Thomas
Greene married Elizabeth Barton on June 30th, 1659.


More About Thomas Greene:
Burial: Greene Graveyard, Warwick, Kent County, RI.

More About Thomas Greene and Elizabeth Barton:
Marriage: June 30, 1659, England.

Children of Thomas Greene and Elizabeth Barton are:
  1. Elizabeth Greene, b. July 12, 1660.
  2. Thomas Greene, b. August 14, 1662.
  3. Benjamin Greene, b. January 10, 1665/66.
  4. +Richard Greene, b. March 05, 1666/67, Warwick, Kent County, RI, d. September 25, 1724, Warwick, Kent County, RI.
  5. Welthean Greene, b. January 23, 1669/70.
  6. Rufus Greene, b. January 06, 1672/73.
  7. Nathaniel Greene, b. April 10, 1679, d. August 08, 1714.
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