Deed of gift of John Greeneaway of Dorchester, millwright

Printed with a genealogical note in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32:55-56. Names “Thomas & mary Millett my sonne in Lawe & daughter”. Says that his daughter Ursula “hath alwayes ben an obedient, loving, dutifull and faithfull daughter and servant vnto her aged father & mother.”

The note gives his wife Mary’s death as Jan. 23, 1658/9, Mary (Greenaway) Millett’s birth as 1606, Thomas Millett’s church membership (1636) and freemanship (May 17, 1637), and the daughters Ann (Pierce), Ursula (Batten), Mary (Millett), Katharine (Daniel), Elizabeth Allen (“probably the wife of John Allen”) and Susanna Wales. It says only that “it is supposed” the family came on the Mary and John in 1630.

The deed 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. The note adds that John was among the 108 who asked to be made freemen on 19 Oct 1630 and took the oath on 18 May 1631; that on 2 Jan 1636/7 he was one of twenty men Dorchester chose “to arrange the affairs of the plantation”, and the same meeting ordered that “Good. Greenway shall haue all the vpland one the pine necke for his great lott” (quoting the town records); that 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”; and that he “did not long survive” the 1650 deeds.