Percival GREEN

                   Daughter of John and Ruth (Mitchelson) Green. Sister of Bethiah Green who married her husband's brother Joseph.-------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------From Abell, Horace A. "One Branch of the Abell Family". Privately Printed, Rochester 1933. Found in FTM GenealogyLobrary.com under the listing "Ancestors of Robert Abell, ", p 30-31:GREEN1. PERCIVAL GREEN, born probably 1603; died Dec. 25, 1639, in Cambridge, Mass, married Ellin (???). She was born about 1600; died May 27, 1682, aged 82, in Cambridge, Mass. She married secondly Thomas Fox, about 1650. On the list of early emigrants who were to be transported (from London) to New England, "imbarqued in the Susan and Ellen, Edward Payne, Mr." Apr. 18, 1635, are the names of "A Husbiman, Percival Green 32, uxor Ellin Green 32," who came to this country with two servants. They were at Cambridge, in 1636, and were both members of the Church. He took the freeman's oath Mar. 3, 1635-6, his name being spelled in ?? text Passeville Greene. In the ?? Persevalle, and in the ?? In 1691 there was a law-suit between the grandchildren of Percival Green on the one side and Thomas Fox on the other to recover the old homestead which had belonged to the grandfather and that was then in the possession of Fox who succeeded in keeping it. Percival Green is supposed to have been a brother of Bartholomew Green of printing fame, who settled at Cambridge, in 1633, and who now has many descendants in Connecticut. (Note: Anderson "The Great Migration Begins", NEHGS, Boston, 1995, in its account of Bartholmew Green does NOT mention this relationship.)Children: 2. John, b. June 1636. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 1639; d. Feb. 14, 1713-4; m. John Hall, of Concord, June 2, 1656. ------------------------------------------------------------------------2. JOHN GREEN, born June 1636, in Cambridge, Mass.; died Mar. 3, 1690-1; m arried RuthMitchelson, Oct. 20, 1656. She was born Nov. 9, 1638, in Cambridge, Mass.; daughter of Edward and Ruth (Bushnell) Mitchelson. She married secondly Samuel Champney, of Cambridge. He and his wife were both members of the Church of Cambridge, Mass.His father-in-law was Marshall General of the Colony, and he succeeded him. "John Greene is chosen Marshall Gennirall by the whole court and took the oath the same day before the Governor and Magistrate the third of June 1681." During the Andros usurpation in 1687, he was superceeded in office by Samuel Gookin, but after the Revolution two years later he was reinstated through apparently with some opposition.An inventory was made of his estate Apr. 4, 1691, when it was appraised at 95 pounds.Children, born in Cambridge, Mass.: John, b. July 24, 1657; was taken prisoner by the Turks, in 1 681. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 25, 1658. Percival, b. Mar. 29, 1660. Harvard graduate. ** Ruth, b. Nov. 25, 1661; m. Zachariah Hicks. Samuel, b. May 4, 1663; m. Elizabeth Sill. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 22, 1665; m. Thomas Johnson. Edward, b. Apr. 15, 1667. Thomas, b. Mar. 7, 1668. Jonathan, b. in 1671. ** Bethia, b. Jan. 20, 1673-4; m. Joseph Hicks. Joseph, b. Nov. 24, 1675; m. Elizabeth Gerrish. Benjamin A., b. Aug. 13, 1677. Mitchelson, b. Mar. 14, 1680-1; d. Oct. 21, 1681. Mary, b. May 1679; m. Rev. Nathaniel Hunting, Oct. 27, 1701. Ref: The Hunting Genealogy, by T. D. Huntting. Paige's History of Cambridge, Mass., page 567. Cambridge Vital Records. New Eng, Gen Register, Vol. 15, p. 105-6; Vol. 13, p. 47. Account of Percival and Ellen Green and of their descendants, by Samuel A. Green. Savage.