Person:John Greenman (5)

Sailing of the Mary and John 1630
On 20 March 1630, the ship Mary & John sailed from Plymouth, England with 140 passengers aboard. The Rev. John White of Dorchester, Dorset, recruited all the families. Nearly all of them came from the West Country of England, which included the counties of Somerset, Dorset and Devon. The ship landed in New England on 30 May 1630, two weeks before the Winthrop Fleet arrived. These people founded one of the first towns in Massachusetts, Dorchester, in 1630, and one of the earliest in Connecticut, Windsor, five years later.

51 2 Residence: 1636 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA 52 15 2 Residence: 20 Mar 1638 Newport, Rhode Island Note: Admitted As A Freeman Residence: 20 May 1638 Newport, Rhode Island Note: Admitted As A Freeman 3 26 4 53 2 17 Residence: 2 Jul 1638 Aquidneck (Now Rhode Island) Note: Admitted To 45 Residence: 1638 Newport, Rhode Island Note: Freeman 16 21 Residence: 1638 Portsmouth, Rhode Island Note: Moved To Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Was One Of The Compact Signers 1 Residence: 1638 Westerly, Rhode Island 23 Residence: 1643 Portsmouth, Rhode Island 24 Residence: 1655 Newport, Rhode Island

Now in the twelfth year of the reign of Charles the First King of Great Britain, and the dominions thereunto belonging, Haynes being Governor of the colony of Massachusetts, and Bradford of Plymouth, Wilson and Cotton being chief priests at Boston, Roger Williams, filled with the spirit of liberty and anabaptism, was banished from their presence and fled to the head of the Narraganset Bay, where he built a town for his persecuted brethren, and founded a State, which is now called Rhode-Island.
Second Church.—This church originated in 1656, when twenty-one persons broke off from the first church, and formed themselves into a separate body. Their names were William Vaughan, Thomas Baker, James Clark, Jeremiah Clark, Daniel Wightman, John Odlin, Jeremiah Weeden, Joseph Card, John Greenman, Henry Clark, Peleg Peckham, James Barker, Stephen Hookey, Timothy Peckham, Joseph Weeden, John Rhodes, James Brown, John Hammet, William Rhodes, Daniel Sabear, and William Greenman.

1.   Greenman, Peter Holden. The Greenman family in America : genealogy. (Block Island, Rhode Island: Greenman Family Association, 1998).

   Greenman Family in America, The
   Title: Greenman Family in America, The
   Author: Peter Holden Greenman
   Publication: 1988 by the Greenman Family Association
   
   Occupation: Hoopmaker & Cooper 20 May 1638 46 26
   Occupation: Hood(P)Maker To Job Carr, a Cooper Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA 2
   Event: Property Nov 1636 Taunton, Massachusetts
   Note: One Of The Original Purchasers 3 46 2
   Event: 5 acres within the common fence Property 1643 Portsmouth, Rhode Island 24
   Event: Property 1647 Newport, Rhode Island
   Note: He & Brother, David, Gave Deed To John Greene, Jr. For Land In 47
   Event: Property Feb 1682
   Note: He Acknowledged Deed To John Greene, Jr. Of 1647 47
   Event: Property
   Note: He Had Large Landholdings And Shared In The Division Of The Islands In Narragansett Bay 46
   Event: Relative 1665
   Note: by this date his children were residents of South Kingston, Hopkinton & Charlestown, later generations were living in Westerly. The Greenmans were ship builders in Westerly & Mystic. 21
   Event: Relative
   Note: Jerry William Hill 48
   Religion: 1617 Melksham, England
   Note: Purchased A Seat In The 3rd Seat Of The Gallery On North Side 49
   Religion: 1617 Melksham, England
   Note: Purchased 1 Seat In The Gallery In The 2nd Seat On South Side Of The Gallery For 7 Shillings 49
   Religion: 1644 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
   Note: Member Of First Baptist Church Of 1
   Religion: one of the founders of the Second Baptist Church 1656 Newport, Rhode Island 20
   Residence: Bef 1628 Somerset, England 43
   Residence: 5 May 1628 Newport, Rhode Island
   Note: Settled At 8
   Residence: 1628 King's Town, Westerly, Rhode Island 50
   Residence: 1628 Rhode Island 15
   Residence: 1631 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
   Note:
   Admitted As A Freeman