The naming of John, the first born son, in the will of his uncle, Samuel More, who, as far as we can know, survived baby-hood, explains the bequest of Edmund Greenleaf to a grandson James, his eldest son's son. One cannot help surmising that John Greenleaf, the silk dyer of St. Andrews Undershof [Undershaft], London, who married Hester Hoste, daughter of James Host of Stepney, 18 May 1856, may have been that eldest son and elected to say in England when the rest of the family migrated. It might also be that the John Greenleaf who married in Braintree, Mass., who nobody has been able to place might be another grandson though it is granted that actual proof is needed. Also curiously an Edmund Grenelif, a mariner, in the City of Tangier, made a will, dated 10 April 1670, in which he left a dwelling in the parish of Stepney to his wife if she was living--it was proved 21 January 1670-1 by Hannah Greneleafe, the widow (see Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, p. 499 under "Enoch Greenleaf;" also p. 472, the account of John of Braintree; the will of Edmund of Tangier is filed in London).
