THE FAMILY OF DR. JOHN AND JOAN (TATTERSALL) GREENE

This couple begins our study of our eighth great grandparents, at last! (I was beginning to worry that I might never finish working on the blogs for our seventh ggs...so many of them! It's possible, I suppose, that I may have missed a few of them. If I do find any missed ones, I'll insert them along the way.)

John Greene was born on his father's estate at Bowridge Hill, Gillingham Parish, County Dorset, England in 1597. His father, Richard, grandfather, Richard, and great grandfather, Robert, had resided at the same place for a hundred years before. He married Joan Tatttershall  in 1619 at St. Thomas' Church in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. They had seven children. Their home was at Aukley Hall, Salisbury, where he practiced as a surgeon sixteen years. He and his family sailed from England on the ship "James of London" which set sail April 1635. After a voyage of fifty-eight days, they arrived in Boston on June 3, 1635. He first went to Salem, Massachusetts, but soon removed and went with Roger Williams to Rhode Island. He settled in Providence on April 27, 1637 and was a man of great power in the settlement of Rhode Island. He and 12 others made arrangements for the purchasing of Narrangansett from the Indians.

Joan Tattersall was born about 1598 in Gillingham, England.  All of the children of Joan and John Greene were born in England, as follows:
unk Job
unk Daniel
1620 John, our ancestor
1621 Peter
1626 James
1630 Jone (female)
1633 Mary

Joan died shortly after their arrival in Boston in 1635 and John's second wife died as a result of the "Shawomet Persecution" when mounted and armed men from Massachusetts forced many to flee into the woods, where they died of exposure.

 John Greene was the first professional medical man in Rhode Island. He moved to Warwick in 1643 and held many important offices until his death. He was a sturdy champion of the right of speech and conscience, and became embroiled in the fierce religious controversies of the day, and in the land dispute between Connecticut and Rhode Island, which raged for half a century. At Warwick he filled the offices of magistrate and clerk of the court. He had a second wife, Alice Daniels, and a third, Phelippa, unknown surname. His will proved January 7, 1659. His children were all prominent in the colony of Rhode Island. His son, John, was Deputy Governor of Rhode Island for ten years. 

DR. JOHN GREENE
BORN: 9 Feb 1597 in Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, Dorset, England
MARRIED: 4 Nov 1619 in St. Thomas' Church, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
DIED: 9 Jan 1659 in Conimicut Farm, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island

JOAN TATTERSALL
BORN: abt 1598 in Gillingham, Dorset, England
DIED: 1635
SOURCES: Vol 2 (D-J), p 302, Green families appear in the book by James A. Savage, "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England": showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692 on the basis of Farmer's Register", (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994); Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, by James N. Arnold, The Arnold Collection, Url: www.newenglandancestors.org/databases, Page number: 1708 Capt. John Greene, aged 89 years; "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVG-NCRB : 12 March 2019), null, ; Burial, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States of America, Surgeon John Greene Lot; citing record ID 17759415, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com; The Greene Family in England and America with Pedigrees, Film: FHL microfilm 1321195, Greene, John, Privately Printed, Boston, Massachusetts, 1901, Page number: :38-39.