John Greenaway
Millwright, of Dorchester, whose family is supposed to have come on the Mary and John in 1630. Father of Mary Greenaway, who married Thomas Millett, and of Ursula, whom his deed of gift of 1650 calls "obedient, loving, dutifull and faithfull" to her aged father and mother.
Family
- Parents
- Spouse
- Mary Greenawaycompiledprobable
2 children
Pedigree
Notes
Millwright, of Dorchester. He was among the 108 who asked to be made freemen on 19 Oct 1630, and took the oath on 18 May 1631 (NEHGR 32:55). On 2 Jan 1636/7 he was one of twenty men Dorchester chose “to arrange the affairs of the plantation”. The same meeting ordered that “Good. Greenway shall haue all the vpland one the pine necke for his great lott” (town records, quoted in NEHGR 32:55). His wife Mary and four of their daughters (Ann Pierce, Mary Millett, Katharine Daniel and Susanna Wales) signed Dorchester petitions of about 1648 in favour of “a noted midwife, Alice Tilley” (NEHGR 32:55).
His deed of gift of 1650 names “Thomas & mary Millett my sonne in Lawe & daughter,” and says his daughter Ursula “hath alwayes ben an obedient, loving, dutifull and faithfull daughter and servant vnto her aged father & mother” (NEHGR 32:55-56). It gave Ursula “all my said dwelling howse out howse Barne garden & orchards, conteynning five acres”, lying between George Weekes and Richard Leeds, with meadow in the Calves Pasture and near the creek called the Old Harbor.
His wife Mary died 23 Jan 1658/9. His own death is not recorded; NEHGR thinks he “did not long survive” the 1650 deeds.
Daughters per NEHGR: Ann (Pierce), Ursula (Batten), Mary (Millett), Katharine (Daniel), Elizabeth Allen (“probably the wife of John Allen”) and Susanna Wales.
NEHGR says only that “it is supposed” the family came on the Mary and John in 1630. Mollie Pfeiffer’s “of Stains” has not been found; online trees say Mildenhall, Wiltshire (unverified).
Open questions
- His English origin and arrival: check the Great Migration sketch.
Mollie's typescript
Mollie says he and his wife Mary came in the Mary and John in 1630 and that he was first on the list of those who asked to be made freemen that October (it is only supposed that they came on that ship).
John and Mary came on the "Mary and John" which arrived in Nastakket, now Hull, May 30, 1630, and John was one of the 108 persons who, Oct. 19th, desired to be made freeman
p. 172 →He was one of twenty men chosen in 1637 to order the affairs of Dorchester, was granted the upland on the Pine Neck, and left six daughters.
John Greenaway was one of the 20 men chosen by the town of Dorchester Jan. 2, 1637, to arrange the affairs of the plantation. ... John and Mary Greenaway left six daughters
p. 173 →
Checked against the records
- PossibleThe Greenaways, of Stains, came on the Mary and John in 1630
The parentage is proven: John Greenaway's deed of gift of 1650 names "Thomas & mary Millett my sonne in Lawe & daughter" (NEHGR 32:56). That the Greenaways came on the Mary and John is only "supposed" (NEHGR), and "Stains" has not been found.
Read it in the book, p. 172 →