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GREENLEAF GENEALOGY |
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By Donald Greenleaf c. 1970 and Jill Blakeman, December 1989 |
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JOHN GREENLEAF |
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(b) 1574 (d) date unknown (w) Margaret (added by PVCB 12/09)
Born in Parish of St. Mary's LaTour, Ipswich England. The first Greenleaf we have a record of. Family of French Huguenot stock with name of 'Feuillevert' which means Greenleaf in French. |
Misc notes by PVCB 12/2009: Various accounts online show Captain Edmund Greenleaf being born in 1574; not John, his father.
www.amazon.com/Genealogy-Greenleaf-Family-Heritage-Classic/dp/1556132271#reader_1556132271: Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family (Heritage C…by James Edward Greenleaf (1896) says 1600 |
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See also: http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/htm/greenleaf.htm |
EDMUND GREENLEAF |
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ENOCH GREENLEAF (b) circa 1625 (d) circa 1685 |
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(b) circa 1600 (d) 1671 – Boston, MA Born in Parish of Brixham County of Devonshire, England. (m) Sara Dole – England (m) Widow Hill (d) not known – survived husband
Came to America in 1635 to Newbury, MA. A silk dyer and tavern keeper. His name appears on monument at Newbury among list of the 70 first settlers in 1635. Had 3 sons and 4 daughters. Moved to Boston circa 1650. Will recorded 2/12/1671 in Boston Probate Records in Vol for 1669-1670 p. 112 |
http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?bid=11801&iid=dvm_GenMono001216-00109-0
http://dpsinfo.com/tree/greenleaf.html
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ENOCH GREENLEAF |
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JUDITH GREENLEAF (b) circa 1628 England (d) 12/15/1705 Newbury, Ma. 1. (m) Henry Southerby (4 children) (d) 1652 2. (m) Tristram Coffin, Jr. 3/2/1652 (11 children) (d) circa 1685 Malden, MA Daughter married Hellon Daughter married Winslow |
ENOCH GREENLEAF
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(b) circa 1625 – York, England (d) circa 1685 – Malden, MA
Lived in York, England. Silk dyer under reign of Charles I. Was a Lieut. under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard Cromwell. Date of coming to America unknown. Autograph appears in Memorial History of Boston Vol. II XXXV |
STEPHEN GREENLEAF (b) 1630 England (d) 12/1/1690 shipwrecked off Cape Breton in Indian Wars? 1. (m) Elizabeth Coffin 1651 – daughte (text missing: ? r of ?) Tristram Coffin, Jr. Nantucket (d) 11/19/1678 2. (m) Mrs. Esther Sweet 3/1679 (d) 1/16/1718 Newbury, MA |
ELIZABETH GREENLEAF |
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ENOCH GREENLEAF |
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WILLIAM GREENLEAF (b) 1693 - Boston (d) unknown |
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(b) 1647 - England (d) 1705 - Boston, MA Came to America circa 1670 and settled in Malden, MA. 1. (w) Berthia Woodman of Boston (m) 10/20/1675 (d) circa 1678 2 children – died infancy 2. (w) Catherine Truesdale – 1679 (b) 1655 (d) 8/1712 Cambridge, MA 8 children – six died in infancy |
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WILLIAM GREENLEAF |
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JOSEPH GREENLEAF (b) 1720 (d) 1810 – Malden, MA
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(b) 2/5/1693 Boston (d) unknown 1. (w) Mary Shattuck – 6/10/1714 (d) 8/18/1732 – Boston 11 children – 2 died infancy 2. (m) Ruth Ruggles 1733 3 more children – 2 died infancy
A printer in Boston. Name appears as one of “Boston Committee” on letter to Colony's Agent in England to tell Parliament their complaints about tariffs. Letter signed Dec. 29, 1769 by William Greenleaf and seven others. |
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JOSEPH GREENLEAF |
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Catherine Greenleaf Abigail Greenleaf William Greenleaf (b) 1716 May Greenleaf Elizabeth Greenleaf Susanna Greenleaf Enoch Greenleaf
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THOMAS GREENLEAF |
(b) 11/10/1720 – Boston, MA (d) 1810 – Maiden, MA (m) 1749 – Abigail Payne
Married Abigail Payne, sister of Robert Treat Payne who signed the Declaration of Independence. Writer of “Massachusetts Spy” beginning July 1770 denouncing the Governor and Lt. Governor, who was Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and signed the Declaration of Independence. Member of “Boston Committee of Correspondence” which was responsible for the 'Boston Tea Party' on December 16, 1773 and probably took part in it. Was dismissed from the Office of the Justice of the Peace by the Royal Governor because of revolutionary writings. Became a printer. |
Enoch Greenleaf |
Elizabeth Greenleaf |
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THOMAS GREENLEAF |
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Catherine Greenleaf (b) 1794 (d) 1876 - Flushing, NY
Abigail Elise Greenleaf (b) 1796 (d) 1882 – Philadelphia (m) Rev. Preserved Smith
Mary Greenleaf (b) 1757 (m) Rev. Nathaniel Hewins
Eunice Payne Greenleaf (b) 8/7/1762 (m) William Prentiss 7/15/1790 |
JOSEPH GREENLEAF (b) 1792 (d) 1871
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(b) 7/17/1755 Maiden, MA (d) 9/14/1798 New York City from typhus epidemic (m) 1791 Ann Quakenboss (called Nancy) at First Presbyterian Church, NYC. (b) 9/5/1767 (d) 1845 Carlisle, PA
Moved to New York circa 1786. Publisher and Editor of the “Greenleaf's Daily Advertiser” a NYC Daily newspaper. I believe the 1st Daily in NYC. Capt. Lieut in Col. Thomas Craft's Reg't of Artillery at Dorchester Heights, Boston, MA against Gen'l Howe on 3/4/1776. Moved to NYC in late 1800's. A Printer, Publisher, Bookbinder, importer and Bookseller at 54 Wall Street. Active in reorganization of NY Society Library, the oldest in NYC. Paid $100 for perpetual membership. Donald Greenleaf has certificate dated 1793 and uses Library without charge. Death from yellow fever epidemic announced in 'Greenleaf's Daily Advertiser'. We have copy of it dtd 1798. Deed, dated 1811, to Ann Greenleaf for pew in First Presbyterian church was then on Wall Street at present location of the Bankers Trust Company. |
Anna Greenleaf (b) 1798 (d) 1882 Philadelphi [missing text … . . . . . . . . . . . …] New |
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JOSEPH GREENLEAF |
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Daughter Died infancy
Emmaline Matilda Greenleaf (b) 10/04/1830 Middletown, Conn (d) 07/17/1917 NYC
Joseph Greenleaf (b) 11/09/1838 NYC (d) circa 1896 Grad Columbia 1860 - then Princeton Theological Sem.. Pastor Congregational Church New Canaan, Conn 1871-1886. (m) 1863 Mary Hays Rich Daughter Annie died New Canaan 1883. |
THOMAS GREENLEAF (b) 7/30/1826 (d) 1/21/1908
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(b) 8/13/1792 NYC (d) 6/06/1871 NYC (m) 6/04/1818 Emmaline Matilda Riley (b) 1/15/1796 NYC (d) 6/02/1846 NYC
Treasurer of Sailors' Snug Harbor (old Seaman's House on Staten Island) from 1837-1871. This Corp. still owns great amount of land in the Washington Square area in New York City.
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Anna Greenleaf (b) 9/17/1828 NYC (d) 12/23/1921 Florence, Italy (h) George Washington Thorp (m) 1/05/1853 NYC (b) 4/21/1825 (d) 5/24/1872 on sea to England |
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THOMAS GREENLEAF |
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Katherine Nash (b) 07/21/1852 (m) Howard Duffield 05/24/1877
7 children, see: 1881 BlakemanLouisH_EleanoreGreenleafs_ancestry.jpg George(78-78),Howard(79-84),Eleanor(80), Stuart(83),Douglass(84),Winifred(87)
Emeline Matilda (b) 07/10/1854 (d) 1872
(Added by PVCB 12/09) |
ELEANOR LEAL GREENLEAF |
(b) 7/30/1826 NYC (d) 1/21/1908 Plainfield, NJ (m) 1849 Eleanor Leal (b) 2/9/1819 Kortright, NY (near Delhi, NY) (d) 10/22/1908 Plainfield, NJ
Assistant Treasurer of Sailors Snug Harbor 1869 until death of father. Then Controller from 1871 until his own death. |
James Leal Greenleaf (b) 1857 – Kortright, NY (d) 1933 – Stanford, Conn (m) 06/04/1889 Bertha Potts (b) 1867 NYC (d) 1911 Norfolk, VA child Donald Leal Greenleaf (who 1st compiled this genealogy) (b) 1890 Somerville, NJ (d) (see below)
Instructor and Professor Civil Engr Columbia School Mines 1889-1894. Landscape Architect 1894 to death. Pres. Amer Soc Landscape Architects (missing text??) around Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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ELEANOR LEAL GREENLEAF
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(Added by Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman 12/2009) Name: Donald Greenleaf Birth: 5(4?) June 1890 Death: Oct 1973 - Hightstown, Mercer Cty, New Jersey
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9407EFDA113FE233A25753C2A9639C946796D6CF 1917 engagement … Miss Harriet Lee Van Zile, to Donald Leal Greenleaf od NY and Ashland, Ky. … only son of James Leal Greenleaf, a noted landscape architect and formerly a member of the Faculty of Columbia University. … Williams College in 1912, and from the Columbia School of Mines as Civil Engineer in 1915, and as a member of the Delta Psi fraternity.
Published by the American Society of Civil Engineers http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedings46amer/proceedings46amer_djvu.txt Greenleaf, Donald Leal. With Coke Dept., Wisconsin Steel Co., So. Chicago (Res. 5463 Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL Nov. 25, 1919
Who's who in engineering, Volume 1 By John William Leonard, 1922 children: James V. Z., Phyllis |
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THOMAS GREENLEAF BLAKEMAN (b) 10/23/1887 Orange, NJ (d) 05/28/1953 Pocasset, MA |
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(b) 8/20/1862 Lemon, Pa. (d) 11/22/1929 “Sandy Knowe” Gloucester, Va. 1. (h) LOUIS HENRY BLAKEMAN of NYC (m) 10/04/1881 Orange, NJ (d) circa 1896 Stockbridge, MA 2. (h) Stephen Campbell Wolcott (m) circa 1904 (b) 03/21/1876 (d) 06/09/1934 Gloucester, VA |
Frederick Tomlison (Tomlinson?) Blakeman (b) 07/25(28?)/1883 Orange, NJ (d) unknown Mt. Kisco, NY (m) Beatrice Talbot Peterson 12/28/1905 Brooklyn, NY (b) 07/06/1883 England
Frederic B. Blakeman's namesake
Major Flying Corps WW I Lieut Col Military Intelligence WW II
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THOMAS GREENLEAF BLAKEMAN |
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THOMAS LEDYARD BIAKENAN (b) 1909 Melville, Montana (m) 1934 Virginia Downie Davidson
Children: Virginia Leal Blakeman (b) 1937 Beatrice Bruce (b) 1940 Phillips Van Cleve (b) 1943 Hannah Hall (b) 1947
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(b) 10/23/1887 Orange, NJ (d) 05/28/1953 Pocasset, MA 1. (m) Phyllis Van Cleve 3/11/1909 Melville, Montana (b) 1/01/1891 Melville, Montana
Children: T. Ledyard (b) 1909 Leal Blakeman (b) circa 1912 (d) Gloucester, VA 1916 2. (w) Emily Chamberlain Dimock (m) 03/21/1924 Mt. Kisco, NY (b) 10/20/1899 Wilmington, DE 3. (w) Marion Hayes (b) 10/06/1896 Hinsdale? Ill (d) 1/06/1986 N. Truro, MA (m) 12/07/1931 Brooklyn, NY
Cadet, Flying Corps WW I
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FREDERICK BIRDSEY BLAKEMAN (b) 08/07/1934 Worcester, Mass 1. (m) 12/27/1958 Virginia Sherwood “Jill” Rankin St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada (b) 04/04/1934 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada (d) 07/25/2000 Fairfax, VA 2. (m) 05/29/2004 Nancy Penfield Hill Bluemont, Virginia (b) 02/09/1936
Children: (see Blakeman genealogy)
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