Draft:Thomas Greene (Rhode Island judge)

Thomas Greene (17__ – YEAR) was a justice of the Colonial Rhode Island Supreme Court from August 1763 to May 1765, and again from June 1769 to June 1770.[1]

Two members of the Mumford family "were appointed by the State Legislature in 1775-1776 — with Thomas Greene — an auditing committee to pass on various claims against the Colony, and were empowered to go to Philadelphia to arrange for payment of a claim by the Colony against the Continental Congress".[2]

Of Warwick.[3]

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Thomas Greene, "of Stone Castle," son of Richard and great-great-grandson of "John Greene, surgeon," the original settler, was born October 11, 1729. He owned the old stone garrison house, in which his ancestors had lived for three generations, but himself occupied a cottage on the opposite side of the road. He was a landholder and shipmaster, trading in the Mediterranean and the West Indies. Thomas Greene married, first, in 1762, Mary Low, of Old Warwick, and, second, January 21, 1768, Sarah, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Barton) Wickes, a member of the Society of Friends. Mr. Greene died November 14, 1813, having had eleven. children. (The Greenes of Rhode Island, pp. 237, 238.) 788 "The present Judge Thomas Wickes Greene."[4]

References

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  1. ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
  2. ^ James Gregory Mumford, Mumford Memoirs: Being the Story of the New England Mumfords (1900), p. 70.
  3. ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 60.
  4. ^ Wilkins Updike, A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Part 2 (1907), p. 402.



Category:Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court


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