Ancestry of
Julia (Ward) Howe

Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Benjamin Greene

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Julia (Ward) Howe — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 42 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Greene 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Barton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jan 1665/1666 
  • Birth Location:
  • Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Feb 1757 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susannah Holden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Jan 1689/1690 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Susanna Greene

  Catharine Greene (Ahnentafel No:21 )

• Sources for Benjamin Greene

  • ¹ Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914, Birth record for daughter Susanna Green.
  • ² Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950, Death record for spouse Susannah Green.
  • ³ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Vol. 1, p. 5, Birth record for Benjamin Greene.
  • ⁴ Greene, Major-General George Sears and Mrs. Louise Brownell Clarke, The Greenes of Rhode Island, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1903), 67, 91.
  • ⁵ Putnam, Eben, The Holden Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Richard and Justinian Holden and of Randall Holden, Volume 1, Cambridge: Press of The Murray Printing Company (1923), 381-382.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 215.