William Greenough1,2,3,4,5

#2081, b. 1641, d. 6 August 1693

Spouse 1

Ruth Swift b. c 1645
Child

Spouse 2

Ruth Rainsford b. c 1640

BMDB

     William Greenough was born in 1641. He married Ruth Swift on 10 October 1660. William Greenough married Ruth Rainsford circa 1674 at Boston, Suffolk, Mass. William Greenough died on 6 August 1693; Per grave marker.6,5 He was buried on 8 August 1693 at Copps Hill Burying Ground Cemetery Boston, Suffolk, Mass.7

Other Events

     William Greenough became a Freeman at Boston, Suffolk, Mass on 19 May 1669.8 He became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts in 1675.9

Time Line

Birth1641
Marriage1660Ruth Swift
Birth of Son1668, Boston, Suffolk, MassLuke Greenough
Freeman1669, Boston, Suffolk, Mass8
Marriagec 1674, Boston, Suffolk, MassRuth Rainsford
Milit-Beg1675, Boston, Suffolk, Mass9
Death16936,5
Burial1693, Copps Hill Burying Ground Cemetery Boston, Suffolk, Mass7
ChartsDescendants of William Greenough

Flags

Member of AHAC
Patriarch
Freeman
F-A-G Memorial Found

Citations

  1. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 2:310.
  2. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 1:660.
  3. Martin E. Hollick, New Englanders in the 1600s (Boston: NEHGS, 2012), 102.
  4. Meredith B. Colket, Jr, Founders of Early American Families, 2nd rev. ed. (Cleveland: Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 2002), 140.
  5. John H. Sheppard, "Genealogy of the Greenough Family," NEHG Register 17 (1863):167.
  6. M. Halsey Thomas, The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, 2 vols. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1973), 1:312.
  7. Find A Grave Memorial.
  8. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, 5 vols. in 6 (Boston: The Legislature, 1853-1854), 4:2:584.
  9. Oliver Ayer Roberts, History of . . . the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888, 4 vols. (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1895), 1:2363 33.