5 Dec 2005 John Green Sr. & Abraham Warren of Salem, Massachusetts First Generation 1. JOHN GREEN was born about 1630/1631. He died on 11 Jan 1690/1691, AE 60 in Beverly Essex, Co. MA.1 John Green was in Salem, MA as early as June of 1650 when he was involved in a court case with Francis Ingolls for detaining a bullock.2 In 1659 John's house stood on the easterly side of Bridge Street near the bridge.3 This area was called the Rial side of Salem and is now part of Beverly, MA In 1661 John was granted two acres of land where Abraham Warren lived 4 On 13 May 1672 Warren sold to his son-in-law John Green his ten acre house lot .5 On 1 Feb. 1677 John Green among others leased town common land on the Ryall side for a thousand years and a day6 In Jan 1669 one John Green was appointed to bury a drowning victim.7 On 23 Mar 1684 John Green was given liberty to bury thenceforward his dead in Beverly burial place.8 John Green died intestate. His estate was divided 28 Feb. 1690/91.9On 8 Aug. 1693 the following agreement was made "Be it known unto all men by these present; that whereas John Green formerly a liver in the bounds of Salem...on the land that is near and adjoining to ye land commonly called by ye name of Royal Side and having a part of the said Royal Side land as it is hired of ye town of Salem; but ye above John Green being by ye providence of God lately removed out of this world by death and not having ye opportunity in his time of sickness to set his house in order so as to dispose of and settle his estate to his wife and children.......both married and unmarried......those parties above said jointly meeting together in ye serious considerations of a good agreement and settlement in ye distributing of whole estate........ Widow Mary Green was assigned one end of the dwelling house which she should chose, the back leanto of said house and one-half of the barn; the best bed in the house; 1/3 part of the whole estate of the land excepting the land at Burch Plain and the 10 acres of land at Salthouse Point in the Ryall Side and two acres of land in the Ryall side commonly called by the name of Rockwell. Abigail, wife of Nicholas Rich, received four pounds in money and four acres of land upon which they lived. Elizabeth Green received four pounds in money and four acres of land at Salt House Point, and Mary, wife of Tobias Trow was given money and land. John Green Jr. received that part of land on Ryall Side which his father hyred of the Town of Salem and that part of said land which hath been laid out upon said land by his father. The inventory of the estate was taken by Nehemiah Grover and Alexander Osburn on 21 Mar 1690/91, showed three acres of land, an orchard, a dwelling house, five pounds, 15 acres of land, 30 acres of land at Burch Plain, two acres of land at Ryall Side; ten acres at the Salt House Point in Ryall Side. The value of the estate was 476 pounds and 4 shillings.10 John Green is buried in the Green Family Burying Ground in Beverly, MA located at the corner of Livingston and Carver Streets in Beverly his tombstone reading "HERE LYETH BURIED ye BODY of JOHN GREEN AGED about 60 years deceased ye 11 DAY of JANUARY 1690/91".11 JOHN married MARY WARREN, daughter of ABRAHAM WARREN and ISABELL, on 7 Oct 1659 in Salem, Essex Co., MA.12 Mary survived her husband. They had the following children:13 + 2 F i. ABIGAIL GREEN was born on 20 Feb 1660/1661 and died after 1697. + 3 F ii. MARY GREEN was born in Mar 1663/1664 and died 8 Sep 1748 AE 85. 4 F iii. SARAH GREEN was born in Aug 1666 in Salem, Essex Co., MA. She died before 1691. + 5 F iv. ELIZABETH GREEN was born on 20 Feb 1667/1668. + 6 M v. JOHN Jr. GREEN was born on 28 Jun 1671 and died in 1697. 7 F vi. HANNAH GREEN was born say 1673. Second Generation 2. ABIGAIL GREEN (JOHN) was born on 20 Feb 1660/1661 in Salem, Essex Co., MA. She died after 1697. ABIGAIL married NICHOLAS RICH. Nicholas was born about 1660. He died in 1720/1726 in Preston, New London Co., CT. SEE RICH FAMILY BY COMPILER NICHOLAS and ABIGAIL had the following children: 8 M i. SAMUEL RICH was born about 1683/1684 in Wenham, Essex Co., MA. 9 F ii. ABIGAIL RICH was born on 2 Oct 1687 in Wenham, Essex Co., MA. 10 M iii. DAVID RICH was born on 18 Jul 1695 in Wenham, Essex Co., CT. 11 F iv. SARAH RICH. 12 F v. MARY RICH 13 M vi.JONATHAN RICH . 3. MARY GREEN (JOHN) was born in Mar 1663/1664 in Salem, Essex Co., MA. She died 8 Sep 1748 AE 85 in Wenham, MA 14 MARY married TOBIAS TROW. Tobias died in 1718 in Wenham, MA.15 TOBIAS and MARY had the following children:16 14 F i. MARY TROW was born on 14 Sep 1685 in Beverly, MA. 15 M ii. JOHN TROW was born on 1 Dec 1686 in Beverly, MA. 16 M iii. SOLOMON TROW was born on 11 Sep 1688 in Beverly, MA. 17 F iv. MARY TROW was born on 25 Mar 1692/1693 in Beverly, MA. She died on 19 Feb 1697/1698 in Wenham, MA.17 18 M v. JOHN TROW was born on 8 Oct 1695 in Wenham, MA. 19 M vi. RICHARD TROW was born in 1697 in Wenham, MA. He died in 1697 in Wenham, MA18. 20 M vii. JOSEPH TROW was born on 3 Nov 1698 in Wenham, MA. 21 M viii. ISRAEL TROW was born in Feb 1701/1702 in Wenham, MA. 22 F ix. MARY TROW was born on 15 Jul 1703 in Wenham, MA. 23 M x. BENJAMIN TROW was born 18 Ma. 1704/5 in Wenham, MA. 5. ELIZABETH GREEN (JOHN) was born on 20 Feb 1667/1668 in Salem, Essex Co., MA. ELIZABETH married JACOB READ in Dec 1693 in Salem, MA.19 JACOB and ELIZABETH had the following children:20 24 M i. AARON READ was born in Jan 1693/1694 in Salem, MA. 25 M ii. JOHN READ was born on 6 Jan 1694/1695 in Salem, MA. 26 F iii. MARY READ was born on 9 Mar 1697/1698 in Salem, MA 27 M iv. JACOB READ was born on 12 Feb 1699/1700 in Salem, MA. 28 M v. JONATHAN READ was born on 12 Jan 1700/1701 in Salem, MA. 29 F vi. SARAH READ was born on 15 May 1703 in Salem, MA. 30 F vii. ELIZABETH READ was born on 13 Mar 1703/1704 in Salem, MA. 6. JOHN Jr. GREEN (JOHN) was born on 28 Jun 1671 in Salem, Essex Co., MA. He died in 1697 in Salem, MA.21 JOHN married HANNAH DODGE on 24 Jan 1692 in Salem, MA.22 They had the following children:23 31 M i. JONATHAN GREEN was born on 19 Dec 1693 and was christened on 19 Sep 1697 in Beverly, MA. 32 M ii. JOHN GREEN was born on 12 Sep 1695 and was christened on 19 Sep 1697 in Beverly, MA. 33 M iii. WILLIAM GREEN was born on 18 May 1698 in Beverly, MA. Abraham Warren of Salem Massachusetts First Generation 1. ABRAHAM WARREN died in 1682 in Salem, Essex Co., MA.24 Abraham Warren was in Salem, MA on 28 Dec. 1635 when he was granted a house lot and a two acre lot 25 Abraham sold the land he was granted in 1635 to his son-in-law John Green on 18 Sept. 1661.26 In 1658 Warren was involved in a difference of opinion with John Bachelor which was eventually settled in a court action. Abraham complained about Bachelor's cattle feeding on his land .27 Abraham Warren of Salem presented for violently withstanding John Bachelor in the lather’s grounds attempting to drive back the cattle feeding there. Abraham went to his own house and returned with naked sword in his hand saying that he would then stop them." 28 On 21 Sept. 1682 Peter Woodbury & Nehemiah Grover inventoried the estate of Abraham Warren which amounted to L31:70:09 before debts. John Green was the administrator and the Court ordered him to pay the widow & relict (not named) the remainder of the estate cleared after debts were paid, for her support and maintenance.29 ABRAHAM married (1) ISABEL. Isabel died on 5 Apr 1672 in Salem, Essex Co., MA.30 They had the following child (May not be complete) 2 F i. MARY WARREN died after Jan 1690/1691. Mary married JOHN GREEN SEE PRECEDING JOHN GREEN GENEALOGY ABRAHAM also married (2) UNKNOWN after 1672.31 END NOTES 1. Beverly MA printed VR, 456 2. Essex Quarterly Court Records 1:192 hereinafter EQCR 3. Sidney Perley, History of Salem Massachusetts {Salem, Perley1924} Vol. 3:15 4. Salem Town Records 2:18 5. Essex Deeds Vol. 3: Leaf 154 6. EQCR Vol. 9:457/8 7. EQCR 4:99 8. The Essex Antiquarian Vol. 3:171 hereinafter EA 9. Essex Deeds Bk 9:leaf 127 10. Essex PR Docket 11680 11. EA 1899 12. Salem MA printed VR 13. Ibid, 389 & Perley. 15 14. Wenham MA printed VR, 222 15. Essex PR #28162 16. Beverly & Wenham MA printed VRS 17. Wenham MA printed VR 18. Ibid 19. Salem MA printed VR 20. Salem MA printed VRS, 227-228 21. Essex Probate Docket 11681 22. Salem MA printed VR 23. Perley, 15 & Beverly MA printed VRS 24. Essex PR Docket 28978 25. Perley, 1:303 26. Salem Town Records Vol. 2:18 27. Essex Historical Collections Vol. 1:216/217 28. EQCR Vol. 2:107 29. Essex Probate Court Docket 28978 30. Salem MA printed VR, 303\ 31. Essex PR Docket #28978