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(I) John Perham appeared in Chelmsford as a young man in 1664, with no property, relatives or friends, and was bound out or apprenticed to meet the requirements of the law of the colony then in force. He evidently served his term of apprenticeship very faith- fully. He was born in England, probably about 1633, but just when or by which vessel he reached the coast of New England is not known. Evidently he learned the business of farming, as we find that to have been his life's occupation. He must have been thrifty and able to accumulate sufficient money to purchase a farm and establish himself as a freeman, as he is recorded as having taken the freeman's oath, as provided in the laws of the colony. He married, December 15, 1664, Lydia, daughter of John Shepley, of Chelms- ford, settled upon a farm in that town and died there, June 21, 1721, aged about eighty- eight years. The five children of John, the immigrant, and Lydia (Shepley) Perham, were born on his farm in Chelmsford, Middle- sex county, Massachusetts, as follows: I. Mary, January 8, 1665. 2. John (q. v.). 3. Joseph, October 22, 1669. 4. Lydia, February 19, 1673. 5. Benoni, married, December 6, 1704, Sarah Robbins, of Cambridge. The Perham farm acquired by John Perham, the immigrant, has the peculiar historic interest of having been the home of one or more of his descendants of the name of Perham through nine generations, and is still, 1909, by right of unbroken successive ownership, "the Perham Farm." It has always been celebrated for its fertility and healthfulness and notable for its fine apple orchards, the products of which in both fruits and apple-cider have been standard articles of merchandise in the Boston market and the occasion of regular autumnal visits to the farm to see the fruit-burdened trees and witness the process of cider-making. It is probable that the name has become more fa- miliar to New Englanders through "Perham Farm Apples" and "Perham Farm Cider" than falls to the lot of farmers.
(II) John (2), eldest son and second child of John (I), immigrant, and Lydia (Shep- ley) Perham, of Chelmsford; Middlesex county, Massachusetts, was born in Chelms- ford, January 27, 1667, and died in Grafton,
Worcester county, Massachusetts, July 29, 1743. He removed from Chelmsford to Up- ton in 1728, was a soldier in the Indian wars. He lived in Grafton after 1738 and was a farmer and probably an innkeeper. He mar- ried, December 29, 1692, Lydia, daughter of Samuel Fletcher and granddaughter of Rob- ert Fletcher, the immigrant, who came to New England in 1630. The children of John (2) and Lydia ( Fletcher) Perham were born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, as follows: I. Lydia, October 25, 1693. 2. John, January 12, 1695, married Experience Powers. 3. Samuel, May 6, 1698. 4. Mary, December 24, 1700. 5. Sarah, October 16, 1703. 6. William, January 16, 1706, married Susanna Powers, November 10, 1730. 7. Benjamin (q. v.).
(III) Benjamin, youngest son of John (2) and Lydia ( Fletcher) Perham, was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, February 23, 1707, and died in Upton, Massachusetts, March 20, 1787. He was a hotelkeeper and a farmer; served as soldier in the Indian wars, as did his father, his position in the military company being an ensign, and he became known as Ensign Perham. He mar- ried Esther, born March 19, 1709, died De- cember 16, 1790, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Butterfield, of Chelmsford, in 1731. In his will dated July 14, 1770, he names his sons and daughters as follows: Benjamin, Lemuel (q. v.), Jacob, Esther Keys, Olive Tinney, Lydia Learned and Sybil Wood. Of these children, Benjamin Jr., born February 13, 1733, married Rachel Clemens and had five children born between 1757 and 1777.
(IV) Lemuel, second son of Benjamin and Esther (Butterfield) Perham, was born in Upton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, May 25, 1735, and died in Guilford, Vermont, De- cember 6, 1814. He was brought up on his father's farm and aided him in the harvest ; he became a prominent citizen of Upton, serving as selectman, constable and land-sur- veyor. He served in the early part of the revolutionary war, and was an innkeeper at West Upton for forty years, up to 1804, when he removed to a farm in Guilford, Vermont, where he died. He married, April 10, 1755, Mary, born July 28, 1735, daughter of Ben- jamin and Kezia Butterfield, of Westfield, Mas- sachusetts. He was with his mother, Esther, the sole executors of his father's will, made July 14, 1770. Children of Lemuel and Mary (Butterfield) Perham, were born in Upton, Massachusetts, as follows: 1. Joanna, April 10, 1757, died young. 2. Lemuel (q. v.). 3.
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Betty, May 23. 1764. 4. Joanna, March 3, 1770. 5. Molly, April 13, 1774. 6. Lovicy, March 17, 1777.
(V) Lemuel (2), eldest son and second child of Lemuel ( I) and Mary ( Butterfield) Perham, was born in Upton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, December 29, 1760, and died in Woodstock, Maine, March I, 1833. He was brought up in West Upton, Massachusetts, where his father was a town officer and innkeeper, and he removed to Paris, Oxford county, Maine, where he was an early settler and a farmer. He married, in May, 1780, Betsey, daughter of Elisha and Jane (Kingman) Gurney, of Worcester, Mas- sachusetts. Elisha Gurney removed from Worcester to Paris, Maine, in 1791, with his family. Lemuel Perham first lived on what was called the center lot, afterward moved to High street and about 1812 to Woodstock. The children of Lemuel (2) and Betsey ( Gur- ney) Perham were born in Paris, Oxford county, Maine, as follows: I. Patty. April 6, 1781, married Abiather Tuel, of Paris. 2. Jonathan, March 22, 1784, married Lucy Felt. 3. Betty. August 28, 1787, died young. 4. Lemuel, November 10, 1788, married Sally T. Chase. 5. Lovicy, February 20, 1794, mar- ried Cyprian Cole. 6. Joel (q. v.). 7. Aziel, July 4, 1805, married Elvira Bowker.
(VI) Joel, son of Lemuel (2) and Betsey (Gurney) Perham, was born in Paris Hill, Oxford county, Maine, March 31, 1797, and died in Woodstock, Maine, January 24, 1877. He was a farmer, merchant and large raiser of sheep, often caring for six hundred of these animals in his large barns through the long winters. He married Sophronia, born in Paris, Maine, April 1, 1801, died in Wood- stock, Maine, November 7, 1865, daughter of Rouse and Hannah (Carroll) Bisbee, grand- daughter of Calvin Bisbee and a descendant of Thomas Bisbee, who came from Europe to New England and landed in Scituate Harbor in 1634. The children of Joel and Sophronia ( Bisbee) Perham were born in Woodstock, Oxford county, Maine, as follows: 1. Sidney (q. v.). 2. Betsey G., March 13, 1821. 3. Kilborn, August 8, 1822. 4. Joel, May 8, 1826, merchant at Bryant Pond, Maine, 1854- 63; town clerk and treasurer of Woodstock 1856-57 ; justice of the peace 1852-70; United States commissioner of board of enrollment with the rank of lieutenant in United States army 1863-66; messenger in United States senate 1867; government inspector 1869; real estate dealer, Washington, District of Colum- bia, Auburn, Maine, Boston, Massachusetts,
and Chicago, Illinois, up to the time of his death in Boston. 5. Viania, April 10, 1832. 6. Cynthia, June 27, 1839.
(VII) Sidney, son of Joel and Sophronia ( Bisbee) Perham, was born in Woodstock, Oxford county, Maine, March 27, 1819. He was brought up on his father's farm and was a pupil in the public schools of Woodstock and at Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine, and engaged in teaching school during the winter months, working on the farm in the summer, as had been his custom from early boyhood. In 1837 he purchased of his father the old homestead farm in Woodstock and continued the business of farming, stock-raising and sheep-husbandry. Like his father, his flock of sheep numbered five hundred and were the especial pride of the neighborhood. He was made a member of the Maine board of agri- culture in 1853-54, being twice elected. He continued his agricultural pursuits even dur- ing his public duties up to 1886, when he made Washington his permanent home, but he still spent his summer vacations at Paris Hill, Maine. He became an active Democratic poli- tician soon after reaching his majority, and he was elected selectman of his native town in 1839 and continued in various town offices up to the time his public services interfered with his private duties. He was sent to the state legislature in 1854 and made speaker of that body on the opening of the session in 1855, the first instance in the history of the state when a person without legislative experi- ence was so honored. He voted for A. P. Morrill for governor in 1853, helped to found the Republican party in Maine in 1856, was presidential elector on the Fremont and Day- ton ticket in 1856, and in 1857 the Maine electors voted for the Republican candidate. He was an elector on the Harrison and Mor- ton ticket in 1888, when the Maine Republi- can electors were again chosen. He served his county as clerk of the supreme judicial court, 1858-62, and the second Maine district as representative in the thirty-eighth, thirty- ninth and fortieth congresses, 1863-69, his first election being by a majority of twenty- five hundred votes and he was re-elected by six thousand, five hundred votes.
He was made a member of the committee on pensions at the opening of the thirty-eighth congress, which was, owing to the close of the civil war, a very important house com- mittee, and he served on the committee throughout his three terms in congress. He was largely responsible for the increase of in- valid pensions ; for stated pensions for loss of
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limb and additional pensions to soldiers' widows having minor children to support. He was honored with the chairmanship of the committee during the entire thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. He was also active in in- fluencing national legislature and took a prominent part in the impeachment proceed- ings against President Johnson. He was elected governor of Maine for three successive terms, 1871-74, and his repeated re-elections are the highest compliment that could be paid a public servant, as it was the voice of the people of Maine who selected him to serve in the highest office in their gift, as an endorse- ment of his labor in behalf of prison reform, the establishment of free high schools and bi- ennial elections. He served as secretary of state of the state of Maine, appointed by Governor Dingley in the fall of 1875 to fill a vacancy, and he held the office until the legis- lature met in 1876 and elected S. J. Chadborne to the office. He next served as appraiser of the public store connected with the United States custom house in the port of Portland, Maine, 1877-85, receiving his appointment from President Hayes. In 1891 President Harrison appointed him a member of a com- mission to select a site on the coast of the United States, located on the Gulf of Mexico, suitable for the erection of a drydock for the use of the United States navy. His interest in education was manifested during his terms as governor, when he was instrumental in secur- ing for the state an Industrial School for Girls, and he was made the first president of the institution, serving for a period of twenty- seven years, 1872-99, and resigned in 1899. Governor Perham was also active in encourag- ing temperance associations, teacher's insti- tutes and educational conventions, before which gatherings he was a willing and effec- tive speaker. He served as president of the board of trustees of the Westbrook Seminary and Female College and gave to all the schools, under the direction of the Universalist denomination, his unqualified support. He helped to form the first temperance society in Woodstock and in 1857 he spoke in two hun- dred towns in Maine, urging the re-enactment of the repealed prohibition law. He became a worthy grand patriarch of the Grand Lodge, Order of the Sons of Temperance, of the state of Maine, and worthy grand templar of the Grand Lodge, Independent Order of Good Templars, of the state of Maine, and was often a representative in the national or- ganizations of both of these orders. His con- nection with the Universalist denomination
commenced when he was nineteen years of age and he served as president of the Uni- versalist state convention and of the national convention. He was a member of the board of trustees of the general convention of the church for twenty-seven years and often served as president of the board.
Governor Perham married, January 1, 1843, Almena Jane, daughter of Lazarus and Lucy (Cole) Hathaway, of Paris, Maine. They had four children, including Captain A. S. Per- ham. Almena Jane ( Hathaway) Perham died at her residence, 905 Westminster avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, June 5, 1902, and her husband, Governor Perham, died April 9, 1907. Both were buried at Bry- ant Pond, near the place of his birth, and near the Universalist church, which was built largely through his efforts.
The Danforths of Suffolk DANFORTH county, England, were of considerable repute in the county for many generations. At an early date the surname was very much varied, and the parish register at Framingham, county Suffolk, recorded it in many ways: Daneford, Darneforde, Darnford, Derneforth, Danford and Danforthe. One authority gives the ori- gin of the name "the ford of the Danes." There is no evidence that the Danforths were of the gentry, for though highly esteemed, they were sometimes recorded "yeomen." Cot- ton Mather wrote of Nicholas Danforth, the emigrant from Framingham, Suffolkshire, "he was a Gent of such Estate and Repute that it cost him a considerable sum to escape Knight- hood * * * and of such esteem in the church that he procured that famous Lecture- ship at Framingham where he had a fine Manour." This, however, seems not intended to convey an idea of great wealth, although his father's will shows him to have been in comfortable circumstances and owner of some property in England. Nicholas Danforth set- tled in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1636, but the records do not connect him with the Ipswich branch, yet it is not improbable that there was relationship and that County Suffolk was the common home.
(I) William, the emigrant ancestor, was on record in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1660, in the employ of William Pritchell, and may have arrived there several years earlier. In a deposition which he made in court in behalf of William Pritchall, September 29, 1663, he stated that he was twenty-two years of age,. therefore his birth date was 1640-41. In 1675.
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he removed to Byfield (or Newbury) and took the oath of allegiance 1678. In 1681 he was called to court "with his partner, William Longfellow, ancestor of the poet," for slaugh- tering animals belonging to others and fined the value of same. In 1688 his tax was abated, and the constable wrote the name Dan- forth, though he was previously known as Danford. William married (first) at Ips- wich, March 20, 1670, Hannah, daughter of pioneer Robert Kinsman, who was born at Ipswich about 1644. Her father left her by will, 1664, forty pounds. She died at New- bury, October 18, 1678, and he married ( sec- ond) Sarah, daughter of Francis and Ann Thurloe, who deeded them land January I. 1696. This land "William Danforth and wife Sarah sold in 1698." William's death occurred after March 27, 1721, when the sale of his wood-lot was recorded. Children by first marriage: William (?) and Mary, born September 19, 1673. By the second mar- riage : Richard, born in Newbury, January 31, 1679-80; John, December 8, 1681 ; Jona- than, May 18, 1685: Thomas, December 26, 1688, whose inventory showed that he owned land at Casco Bay, in Falmouth; Francis, March 16, 1691; Joseph, May 12, 1694, and "perhaps Rebecca.'
(II) John, third son of William and Sarah (Thurloe) Danforth, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts. December 8, 1681. The name of his first wife is unknown. He married (second) November 24. 1703, Doris White, a member of the Byfield church, in 1744. She died March 26, 1788, aged ninety or ninety-one. He died after two years of help- lessness, October 1, 1772, aged nearly ninety- two. Children: Nathaniel, born 1703-04; Thomas, about 1705: William, about 1708; Samuel, December 11, 1715; John. February 17, 1720 ; Oliver, baptized December 24, 1720; Moses; Sarah, married James Head; Mary, married James Gibson; Elizabeth.
(III) Nathaniel, eldest son of John and Doris (White) Danforth, was born in New- bury, 1703-04, was married in Boxford, Octo- ber 8, 1724. to Priscilla Wycom. He was baptized an "adult" in Rowley, Massachu- setts, December 3, 1727, and two of his chil- dren at the same time, and he probably re- sided there for a time. He removed to Con- toocook, New Hampshire, as shown by land transactions, and was styled in the deed "hus- bandman." He was one of the Contoocook soldiers who petitioned for protection from the Indians, March 21, 1755. He removed to Boscawen, New Hampshire, before 1766, it
is stated. Among the names of first settlers at Boscawen, which was "granted 1733 under the name of Contoocook," were those of William and Nathaniel Danforth and prob- ably Nathaniel (the son of William), moved to the part of the town then named Boscawen about 1766. Children of Nathaniel and Pris- cilla : Eunice and Nathaniel, baptized Decem- ber 3, 1727; Stephen, baptized October 5, 1729; John and Jonathan, born in Boxford (Georgetown) January 14, baptized February 3, and died February 14, 1744; Hepsibah, baptized February 22, 1746-47.
(IV) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Na- thaniel ( I) and Priscilla (Wycom) Dan- forth, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, where he was baptized on the same day with his father and sister Eunice, December 3, 1727. He went with his father to New Hamp- shire when young, and it is a family tradition that he and his brother Stephen were soldiers of the revolutionary war. The record of his marriage does not appear, nor can the name of his wife be learned at this writing, but there is conclusive evidence of the birth of a son bearing his name. The repetition of Na- thaniel for three generations has doubtless caused confusion, but the New Hampshire town records should be further consulted. It is testified by a daughter of Nathaniel of the fifth generation that her father. Dudley D., told her that "his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all named Nathaniel," and as this Nathaniel of the fourth genera- tion was the only one who went to New Hampshire, the record given is doubtless cor- rect.
(V) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) Danforth, was born in Concord, New Hamp- shire, November 5, 1768, and married his first wife there, name unknown. After her death he left his two children with her family in Concord, and went to the Kennebec river, Maine, and settled at China. About 1800 he married (second) Ann Doe, who was born in China, November 28, 1776. They removed to Bangor, and thence to Argyle, Maine, where he died January 27, 1861, and his wife died January 1I, 1854. Children by the first mar- riage: I. Rufus, born in Concord, New Hampshire, unmarried and blind. 2. Lucy. born in Concord, married Evans, of China, Maine. Children by second marriage : 3. Na- thaniel, married and died in Argyle, and had four children : Waldo, Matilda, Addie, and P. Dutton, who died in the civil war. 4. Sophia, married Thomas Roberts, of How- land, Maine, and had three sons: Thomas,
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Danforth and Mark. 5. Louisa, married John Lamb, of Argyle, and had Rufus and Na- thaniel. 6. Dudley D., October 26, 1807, liv- ing 1904, married, April 22, 1841, in Argyle, Maria R. Comstock, born April 2, 1823, died June 21, 1896, at Prescott, Wisconsin, where they removed from Argyle, October, 1854; they had seven children: Theodore R., born January 28, 1842, died August 30, 1881, at Hancock, Minnesota, married May, 1870, Fan- nie A. Ferris, of Illinois, and had two sons: Jesse and Charlie ; Charles W., May 29, 1843, enlisted in army at Prescott, Wisconsin, Au- gust 4, 1862, died January 13, 1863, Madison, Wisconsin ; Maria J., born January 13, 1845, married, December 30, 1865, Jack Wilson, of Prescott : Susan D., born June 18, 1852, died August 8, 1882, Hancock, Minnesota ; Matilda V., born Prescott, August 5, 1856, married, January 8, 1879, Frank W. Wilcox; Benja- min F., born September 18, 1859, married Mary P. Davidson, and had son Victor and one daughter, Lucy E., March 1I, 1862, Pres- cott, where she resided. 7. William Doe, August 6, 1812 (see below). 8. Susan, born at Argyle, married George Brown, and moved to Westfield, New Jersey. 9. Nancy, married Ezra Clarke. 10. Lucy, married Gideon Clarke. II. Debora, born in Argyle, married Edward Brown, and moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey.
(VI) William Doe, third son of Nathaniel (3) and Ann (Doe) Danforth, was born in Argyle, Maine, August 6, 1812, and married in Greenbush, Maine, Nancy Jane, daughter of Jeremiah and Betsey Abbott, of that place, who was born in Farmington, Maine, Jan- uary 16, 1815, and died in Carroll, Maine, November, 1880. He died there February 14, 1893. They had seven children : David W., born January 29, 1839 (see below) ; Abigail, born in Carroll, May 17, 1842, died Novem- ber 26, 1903, in Minnesota ; Betsy, born July, 1844, died in Carroll, March, 1864; Martha E., born in Carroll, July 5, 1846, living in Peabody, Massachusetts ; Charles W., born in Carroll, December 4, 1848; Frank E., born in Carroll, April 27, 1851 ; John A., born in Carroll, March 26, 1853. The last three re- side in Carroll.
(VII) David Worcester, eldest son of Wil- liam Doe and Nancy J. ( Abbott) Danforth, was born in Greenbush, Maine, January 29, 1839. He married, in Carroll, November 28, 1861, Jeannette M., daughter of Samuel and Rachel Peeples, who was born October 17, 1836, at Steep Creek, Nova Scotia, and died
at Peabody, Massachusetts, December 25, 1906, where they had removed in 1893, and where her husband now resides. He is en- gaged in real estate business, and is a con carpenter and builder. Children: 1. Waldo R., born February 23, 1863, died in Peabody, December 2, 1899, married, April 19, 1886, Bertha, daughter of Leonard and Vesta Stick- ney, born March 1, 1865, and had Mabel E., died in infancy ; Earnest L., died aged fifteen, and Roland E., born 1898. Waldo R. was a machinist and millwright of considerable skill. 2. Will T., born March 29, 1866, married, January 17, 1897, Lima B., daughter of Gard- ner and Henrietta Conforth, born March I, 1872. 3. Albion G., born February 26, 1868. 4. Harland A., August 8, 1872. 5. Ralph M., July 4, 1878. 6. Mattie, May 15, 1881, died August, 1882.
(VIII) Albion Gates (D. D. S.), third son of David W. and Jeannette ( Peeples) Dan- forth, was born in Carroll, Maine, February 26, 1868. He attended the public schools and Ricker Classical Institute at Houlton, Maine. In politics he is a Republican, and is a mem- ber of the following societies: Aroostook Valley Lodge, No. 88, I. O. O. F .; the local lodge, Knights of Pythias ; Caribou lodge, A. F. and A. M .; Garfield Royal Arch Chapter of Caribou. Dr. Danforth is a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College, class of 1905. He practiced dentistry in Caribou, Maine, for six years, until failing health compelled a two years' rest. He then removed to New York City, where he pursues his profession at 55 West Thirty-ninth street. He married (first) in Caribou, 1894, Gertrude M. Briggs, who died there October 28, 1895; and (second) in Carroll, Maine, Lulu R., daughter of John and Dina Brown, who was born in Carroll, and died May 25, 1908, in Tappan, New York, where the family resides. Children by first marriage: Gertrude Albion, born October 21, 1895 ; by second marriage: John Roscoe, born in New York City, July 8, 1905, and in- fant son, born May 19, 1908.
(VIII) Harland A. (M. D.), fourth son of David W. and Jeannette ( Peeples) Danforth, was born at Carroll, August 8, 1872, and mar- ried at Lynn, Massachusetts, May 16, 1907, Bessie May, daughter of George and Georgi- ana Pinkham, who was born at Lynn, Septem- ber 29, 1878. He graduated from Ricker Classical Institute, Houlton, Maine, class of 1896, and University of Vermont Medical School, class of 1904. Dr. Danforth followed his profession for some time at Lynn, Massa-
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chusetts, and then removed to Cliftondale, Massachusetts, where he has an extensive practice.
(VIII) Ralph M. (D. D. S.), fifth son of David W. and Jeannette ( Peeples) Danforth, was born at Carroll, Maine, July 4, 1878, and married in Littleton, North Carolina, May 30, 1907, Rosa, daughter of Samuel J. and Betty Veach, who was born at Warsaw, North Caro- lina, October 9, 1877. Dr. Danforth is a graduate of Philadelphia Medical College, class of 1904, and since that date has been practicing dentistry at Lynn, where he resides.
The Greenwoods of GREENWOOD Greenwood Lee, county York, England, have been located in that place since 1154. The name appears to have originated with Richard Greenwode, who was pursuant under Richard III, and was continued in that office for up- wards of ten years by Henry VII: He was also "Bailiff of Richmond Fee in the countie of Norffolke." The Myles Greenwood fam- ily of Greenwood, Yorkshire, England, were doubtless descended from this stock, and the progenitors of at least two and probably three of the American immigrants was Myles or Miles Greenwood, a weaver of Greenwood, Yorkshire, who was admitted as a citizen of Norwich, May 3, 1627, having come to that place when very young and apprenticed to Josiah Robbs, a worsted weaver. He was the son of Myles and Anna ( Scott) Greenwood, and was baptized in St. Peter's church, Sep- tember I, 1600, married Abigaill , and died in Norwich, England, in 1658, leaving a widow and several children. The coat-of-arms of the Greenwoods of Norwich is: "Argent, a fesse sable, between three spur-rowles in chief and three ducks in base, all of the sec- ond." This family arms is cut upon the tomb of Nathaniel and his brother Greenwood in the Copps Hill burial ground in Boston. Mun- sell's American Genealogy credits Miles Greenwood as the father of Nathaniel, Sam- uel and Thomas Greenwood, the distinctive heads of three New England families, and each of whom appear in Boston, Massachu- setts Bay Colony, about the middle of the seventeenth century. That Nathaniel and Samuel were his sons is left without doubt, but no other authority gives definite place to Thomas, and his name does not appear on the English register of the children of Miles Greenwood. That he was an Englishman and a near relation of the other two immigrants is a reasonable supposition.
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