195624126_5f250672-4317-463b-9288-00f6fa0c69e1

Greene, Thomas 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6 7 8a 9

Birth Name Greene, Thomas
Gender male
Age at Death 41 years, 9 months, 24 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1609-03-27 Bobbing, Kent, England   10
Death 1651-01-20 Greens Rest Manor, St. Mary’s City, Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America   10

Age: 41y 9m 24d

Burial 1652-01-00 St. Mary’s City, St. Mary's, Maryland, British Colonial America Burial 10

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Greene, Robertabout 1575about 1666-11-00
Mother 1578
         Greene, Thomas 1609-03-27 1651-01-20

Families

Family of Greene, Thomas and Cox, Anne Gerard
Unknown Partner Cox, Anne Gerard ( * 1609 + 1638 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Greene, Thomas1635
Greene, Leonard Calvert16361688-07-04
Greene, Anne1642

Family of Greene, Thomas and Seybourne, Winnifred Clarke
Unknown Partner Seybourne, Winnifred Clarke ( * 1612 + 1656 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Greene, Robert1646
Green, Hannah1647
Green, Francis Sr.1648
Green, Thomas1650

Source References

  1. Tho. Greene, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
      • Page: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQWM-449 : 5 February 2023), Tho. Greene, 1609.
      • Citation:

        Name Tho. Greene
        Sex Male
        Christening Date 27 Mar 1609
        Christening Place Bobbing, Kent, England, United Kingdom
        Christening Place Bobbing, Kent, England
        Father's Name Tho. Greene
        Father's Sex Male
        Event Type Christening
        Tho. Greene's Parents and Siblings
        Tho. Greene
        Father
        M
        Name Tho. Greene
        Sex M

  2. Archives of Maryland Online, A Relation of the Successfull Beginning of the Lord Baltemore's Plantation in Mary-Land
      • Source text:

        The seventeen gentlemen of "good birth and qualitie"
        who actually went to settle are listed in A Relation of
        Maryland, a pamphlet published in London in 1635.
        They were Leonard Calvert, Esq. (the Governor) and
        Mr. George Calvert, Lord Baltimore's younger brothers;
        Jerome Hawley, Esq., and Thomas Cornwallis, Esq.,
        named commissioners with Leonard Calvert for the
        voyage; Mr. Richard Gerard, son of Sir Thomas Gerard,
        baronet; Messrs. Edward and Frederick Wintour, sons
        of Lady Anne Wintour; Mr. John Saunders; Mr. Thomas
        Green; Mr. Henry Wiseman, son of Sir Thomas Wise-
        man; Mr. John Medcalf; Mr. Nicholas Ferfax; Mr.
        John Baxter; Mr. Edward Cranfield; Mr. Thomas Dor-
        rell; Captain John Hill; and Mr. William Saire. Lord
        Baltimore himself had expected to lead the expedition,
        but challenges to his charter forced him to remain in
        England.
        Nothing is known about the background of the last
        five men listed in the 1635 Relation, except that Dorrell
        was Catholic.11 Most is known about the first nine, six
        of whom were the heaviest investors. Of these nine, all
        were born gentlemen. All, except Jerome Hawley, were
        younger sons, and all, except possibly John Saunders,
        were Roman Catholic. Indeed none of the gentlemen in-
        vestors who actually went to Maryland appear to have
        been Protestant. Except for Hawley, they were men who
        could not inherit any major share of the family fortune,
        which in England went to the oldest son. Younger sons
        received education but their portions of the family
        estate were small and they were expected to make their
        own way. Furthermore, Catholic younger sons faced

      • Citation:

        https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000551/html/am551--13.html

  3. Ship information from Anne Stevens of Packrat
      • Source text:

        8. William Stone, commissioned by the Proprietary June 9, 1647 (3 Mi.
        Arch. Coun. 187), was in office as early as April 26, 1649 (4 Md. Arch.
        Prov. Ct. 503). Formerly of Northumberland County, Virginia, he
        was made Governor, partly because he promised to bring over five
        hundred colonists. On his temporary departures from the Province
        he named the following men to act as Governor, May 2, 1649 (3 Md.
        Arch. Coun. 231); Thomas Green and in case of his refusal, Thomas
        Hatton; September 20, 1649 (3 Md. Arch. Coun. 242), to January
        26, 1649-50 (4 Md. Arch. Prov. Ct. 538). Greene was acting as
        Governor on November 19, 1649 (4 Md. Arch. Prov. Ct. 531) the
        same persons; May 22, 1650, to June 25, 1650, Thomas Hatton (3
        Md. Arch. Coun. 255, 10 Md. Arch. Prov. Ct. 23).

      • Source text:

        23o Jany. These presents Wittness that I Thomas Green

        of St Maries in the Province of Maryland Esq at the desire and

        request of my Loveing wife Winifred Green and out of my

        Natural affection I bear to my Loveing Children Thomas

        Greene Leonard Green Robert Green and ffrancis Green with

        divers other reasons me thereunto moveing, have assigned

        given and made over, and Doe by these presents assign give and

        make over unto my Loveing friends, Henry Adams & James

        Langworth, All my whole Estate in the Province of Maryland

        or elsewhere, as wcll of Land3 and title thereunto as of goods

        Servants Cattle Swyne, debts or whatsoever else is any ways

        mine now or hereafter may be unto me within the Said Prov-

        ince or elsewhere to the uses and intents following vizt That

        my Loveing wife Winifred be really possessed of all and every

        part and parcell of my foresaid Estate for her freely to use and

        enjoy the Same in her own person during the term of her

        Natural life without Wast diminution or alteracon thereof

        Saving the Value of one thousand weight of Tobacco to be

        delivered to my most honoured friend Thomas Copley Esq or

        his Successors whenever I Shall happen to die, In testimony

        I die a faithful Christian and desire the prayers of the holy

        Church, Provided also that my Self during my life, and that

        p. 189 my Loveing Children Thomas Green Leonard Green Robert

        Green and ffrancis Green aforesaid, and what other it Shall

        please God to Send me hereafter be Sufficiently maintained

        and Provided for out of the Same both for Subsistance and

        Education answerable to their quality untill each of them re-

        spectively come to eighteen years of age, And that my present

        true reall and proper debts be also paid with all possible Con-

        veniency, And that at the end of ten years next following the

        date hereof She my Loving wife Winifred Green deliver or

        Cause to be delivered unto my Loving and Eldest Son Thomas

        Green the first part of all Such Estate in kind as Shall then

        and at that time be in her possession or in Value as my Said

  4. Thomas L. Greene, "Find A Grave Index"
      • Page: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7N1F-L6N2 : 11 January 2022), Thomas L. Greene, ; Burial, Saint Marys City, St. Mary's, Maryland, United States of America, Saint Marys College of Maryland Burial Ground; citing record ID 195624126, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
      • Citation:

        Name Thomas L. Greene
        Death or Burial Place Saint Marys City, St. Mary's, Maryland, United States of America
        Cemetery Saint Marys College of Maryland Burial Ground
        Death Date 20 Jan 1651
        Birth Date 27 Mar 1609
        Event Type Burial
        Photograph Included N

  5. Thomas Greene, "Find A Grave Index"
      • Page: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGN-JK2B : 23 November 2022), Thomas Greene, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 122272778, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
      • Source text:

        A FOUNDING FATHER OF MARYLAND

        • Lord of Greene & Bobbing Manors
        • Gentleman Adventurer on the Ark
        • Member of His Lordship's Council
        • 2nd Provincial Governor of Maryland
        • Commissioner of the Treasury
        • Magistrate

        MARYLAND LEGISLATIVE CAREER

        • Freeman at the Assembly of 1637/38
        • Special Writ to the Assembly of 1640-'41
        • Special Writ to the Assembly of 1641/42
        • Burgess at the Assemblies of 1642 A & B
        • Upper House in the Assembly of 1646/47
        • Presided over the Assembly of 1647/48
        • Special Writ to the Assembly of 1649
        • Special Writ to the Assembly of 1650/51

        The following is from Harry Wright Newman's The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families, page 134-7:

        GOV. THOMAS GREENE
        1609 — 1651/2

        THOMAS GREENE, one of the "twenty gentlemen of very good fashion" who sailed on the Ark and the second Provincial Governor of Maryland, was one of the most interesting characters of early Maryland and one whose history has been quite neglected. He had invested in the adventure to a minor extent, so consequently its success was of more than casual interest. He was always styled by Governor Leonard Calvert "my well beloved friend," but the tradition that he was a kinsman of Leonard Calvert has not been proved and the oft repeated statement that he married Helen, a daughter of George, Lord Baltimore, is merely a myth of genealogy. His brother, Robert Greene, Esq., emigrated to Maryland, but being the son and heir to the parental estates in England he returned to the mother country, but before departing he assigned his land rights to his brother Thomas.

        Governor Thomas Greene was a member of the Catholic faith, like most of the gentlemen on the Ark, a Royalist in politics, a supporter of the Stuart dynasty, and for his loyalty to the crown he was castigated figuratively before his death by the radical elements which were then gaining strength in the Province—principally the Puritans who had been outlawed in Virginia and virtually driven out and to whom Lord Baltimore offered a haven in his province.

        His marriage to Mistress Ann Cox, a spinster, * who was among the few gentlewomen on the initial voyage of the Ark and the Dove, was undoubtedly the first Christian marriage to have been celebrated on Maryland soil. She died within a few years, but was living as late as April, 1638. He married secondly, Mistress Winifred Seybourne [Seaborne] who arrived in Maryland some time during 1638.

        The mother of his children has been the subject of much discussion, but of the two younger sons there is no question of their being the issue of Winifred his last wife. When he applied for land rights on September 15, 1647, among the claims was "100 acres more being the right of his wife Mrs. Winifred Seyborne for Transporting herself into the Province 1638." It is therefore proved that she emigrated and financed her passage in 1638. At the same time he proved rights for 50 acres each for his children "100 more for Transporting 2 children in the year 1644 vizt Thomas and Leonard Green." From the strict construction of the wording, there is no implication that Mistress Seyborne brought them over or was their mother. Mistress Seyborne came in 1638 and the boys came six years later. This point is important. They were less than 18 years of age in 1650 and they came out of England in 1644. There is no record of Thomas Greene returning to England, so the only inference that can be placed on the matter is that two children were born in Maryland and had at one time been sent to England, presumably for a year or two for schooling.

        Children of Thomas Greene, Esq.

        1. Thomas Greene.
        2. Leonard Greene married Anne —.
        3. Robert Greene married Mary Boarman.
        4. ffrancis Greene married Elizabeth —.

        Before sailing from England, or shortly thereafter, Thomas Greene was granted a large manor of 10,000 acres, for Father Copley writing to Cecilius, Lord Baltimore on April 3, 1638, cautioned him against the excessive taxation imposed on the manor lords "An accordingly Mr. Green one of the Gentlemen that came in the Arke, reflecting that besydes the losse of his halfe share of trucks [harvest] he was now to pay tenne barrels of Corne for his 10,000 acres and that only he had three men to raise that and maintaine himself and his wyfe confidently told me that he must necessarily deserte the Colonye." As no further record has been found for this manor, he probably permitted it to escheat to the Lord Proprietary being in those difficult times more of a burden than an asset.

        After the manor of Richard Thompson on Popely Island in the Bay was forfeited by treason against the Lord Proprietary, Lord Baltimore granted the manor to Thomas Greene, though the letters patent were apparently among those papers burned by Ingle on his raid into Maryland during 1645. The manor consisted of 500 acres on the tip of Kent Isle not far from Fort Kent Manor of Giles Brent and the entire Isle of Popely of 1,000 acres on which Thompson was seated and which was the scene of the entire massacre of his wife and children by Indians during his absence. If Thomas Greene maintained a steward on his manor, no record has come down, but leases were made for records exist of Gersom Cromwell being a tenant on the portion on Kent. Greene gave the name of Bobing to his island manor and held it until February 8, 1650/1, when he sold for 10,000 lbs. tobacco to Thomas Hawkins, of London, Mariner, "all rights and interests in my whole Mannor."

        He received other land grants, one of which was a warrant for 2,500 acres, but he died before the patent was issued. Consequently, in 1665 it was surveyed and granted to his three sons who gave it the name of "Green's Inheritance." His seat, however, was on "Green's Rest" within the environs of St. Mary's City and bordering St. Mary's River.

        He took a serious interest in all the affairs of the Province and became one of the leading factors in the early political developments. He attended the early General Assemblies to whom all freeholders were summoned. When the legislature became representative and the Upper House or Privy Council developed, he was one of the first to be appointed by the Lord Proprietary to that body which was virtually a counterpart to the British House of Lords. He was also appointed one of the Justices of the Provincial Court at its inception. He retained his seat in the Council until 1647 when he succeeded to the governorship by the death of Leonard Calvert, the first Provincial Governor. His term of office lasted until April 26, 1649, when Lord Baltimore commissioned Captain William Stone, of Virginia, and for a short period thereafter acted as governor when Stone was on a business trip to Virginia.

        On November 18, 1650, he negotiated a document whereby he assigned his entire estate in trust under certain conditions to his friends, Henry Adams and James Langworth, for the benefit of his wife, Winifred, and sons—Thomas, Leonard, Robert, and Francis. He desired his wife to have full possession of the estate during life except for a certain amount of tobacco which was bequeathed to his friend Thomas Copley. His widow was to grant his sons the designated shares in succession as they come of age, " . . . be Sufficiently maintained and Provided for . . . both for Subsistence and Education answerable to their quality until each of them respectively come to eighteen years of age." ** In the event of his widow's decease and the death of his sons without issue, then three-fourths of his estate were to be distributed to charity and the residue to Henry Adams and James Langworth.

        He died before January 20, 1651/2, the day on which Henry Adams appeared in court as the trustee of the estate. His widow married secondly Robert Clarke, Gent., one-time Surveyor-General of the Province, and became the mother of at least two children—Robert and Thomas. On November 16, 1654, Robert Clarke on behalf of his wife Winifred Clarke "late wife of Thomas Greene deceased and her children by the said Greene" demanded 400 acres of land for the transportation of four servants by Thomas Greene on June 10, 165-.

        In 1658 William Hewes instituted actions against Robert Clarke for repairs on "Green's Rest" before Clarke married the widow of Thomas Greene. At the time Madame Greene-Clark was deceased. Hewes claimed that Captain William Stone engaged him for the work and that the overseers of the estate of Thomas Greene should be responsible for expenditures.

        * Mistress in the 17th century was the title given to an unmarried woman of gentle birth who had acquired an estate and independent status. The statement that she was the widowed sister of Thomas Gerard is wholly unfounded.

        ** The fact that his two older sons were less than 18 years of age in 1650 disproves the statement often made that the two sons were conceived of a marriage contracted in England before his sailing in 1633.

      • Citation:

        Name Thomas Greene
        Death Date 20 Jan 1652
        Birth Date 1609
        Event Type Burial
        Photograph Included N
        Note Contains Biography

         

  6. [Lineage Book of] Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
  7. Heritage of faith : the Calvert, Green, and Alvey family histories
  8. Alyce Rebecca (Pulliam) Perry: Deakins Pulliam & Allied Families of America
      • Page: pg. 77-
      • Source text:

        Page 76. "...arrived in Maryland on the "Ark" March 25, 1834 with his friend, Governor Leonard Calvert, and the first Maryland colonists. The ships "Ark" and "Dove" said from Cowes, England, November 22, 1633. .... February 27th the ships arrived in Virginia....Sailed up the Potomac River...March 25th landing small island they named St. Clements.

        Page 77. ".....Governor Leonard Calvert died Jun 9, 1647; and on his death bed names Thomas Greene as his successor. Green's term of serviced as the second governor of the Province of Maryland was troubled and brief." "In 1846 Lord Baltimore removed Thomas Greene from govenorship."

        Page 78: "Thomas Greene married Mrs. Ann Cox, a fellow passenger on the "Ark", they soon returned to England where Thomas and Leonard Greene were born. "

      • Citation:

        https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066042284;view=1up;seq=1
        https://archive.org/details/deakinspulliamal00perr/page/n209/mode/2up

  9. Will of Thomas Greene Esq
  10. LBLF-6QM FamilySearch.org