Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Individual Notes
• In 1639, or shortly before, as appears from an affidavit given later in this sketch, Richard Smith, Sr., built a trading-post near the present village of Wickford, in North Kingstown, R. I. With him was living one John Greene, concerning whose parentage and previous history nothing is certainly known.1801, P 7
• It will be seen that their settlement was within three years of the founding of Providence by Roger Williams, and about one year after the first settlement of the island of Rhode Island. It was several miles beyond the remotest white settlement, and seems to have been made not only for the purpose of trade with the Indians, but to escape the persecution of the Massachusetts Puritans.
Two other men bearing exactly the same name settled in Rhode Island about this time--John Greene of Newport, and the surgeon John Greene (ancestor of General Nathaniel Greene), who settled in Warwick three or four years later; but, so far as known, no relationship existed between them and the subject of this sketch.1801, p 8
• March 24th, 1682, he deeded his son Daniel 120 acres bordering on Allen's Harbor, and to his son James 60 acres adjoining, each of said sons to pay thirty shillings annually as long as their father or mother should live. The land was bounded partly by land of son John.
July 16th, 1686, he signed an address to the King.
May 13th, 1693, he signed as witness to a deed. He probably died within the next four years, as his name does not appear in the list of Kingstown freemen of 1696.
He left a will, as is shown by an allusion in a deed by his son Edward.
His wife, in 1682, at the time of the transfer of land to his sons, was named Joan, but nothing further is known about her.
His descendants, now numbering thousands, and scattered from ocean to ocean and beyond, have for the most part been Baptists, and a large portion of these Seventh-day Baptists, ready, if need be, to sacrifice and to give good reason for their faith. In the struggle at the birth of our nation, and in the times of her subsequent peril, they have freely given themselves to her defence, and, like the immigrant founder of the race, have largely been tillers of the soil.1801, p 10
• It will be seen that their settlement was within three years of the founding of Providence by Roger Williams, and about one year after the first settlement of the island of Rhode Island. It was several miles beyond the remotest white settlement, and seems to have been made not only for the purpose of trade with the Indians, but to escape the persecution of the Massachusetts Puritans.
Two other men bearing exactly the same name settled in Rhode Island about this time--John Greene of Newport, and the surgeon John Greene (ancestor of General Nathaniel Greene), who settled in Warwick three or four years later; but, so far as known, no relationship existed between them and the subject of this sketch.1801, p 8
• March 24th, 1682, he deeded his son Daniel 120 acres bordering on Allen's Harbor, and to his son James 60 acres adjoining, each of said sons to pay thirty shillings annually as long as their father or mother should live. The land was bounded partly by land of son John.
July 16th, 1686, he signed an address to the King.
May 13th, 1693, he signed as witness to a deed. He probably died within the next four years, as his name does not appear in the list of Kingstown freemen of 1696.
He left a will, as is shown by an allusion in a deed by his son Edward.
His wife, in 1682, at the time of the transfer of land to his sons, was named Joan, but nothing further is known about her.
His descendants, now numbering thousands, and scattered from ocean to ocean and beyond, have for the most part been Baptists, and a large portion of these Seventh-day Baptists, ready, if need be, to sacrifice and to give good reason for their faith. In the struggle at the birth of our nation, and in the times of her subsequent peril, they have freely given themselves to her defence, and, like the immigrant founder of the race, have largely been tillers of the soil.1801, p 10