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From: "Betty" <>
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Edmund Greenleaf (1573/74-1670/71) & Wives
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:19:41 -0400
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Hi Paul,

I'd just like to offer another FYI for the List this morning. Francis
MOORE is my ancestor through his daughter, Anna MOORE, who married James
KIDDER in Cambridge, MA (patriarch of KIDDER family). And, around the
time James and Anna KIDDER moved to Billerica in 1650's, Anna's uncle,
Golden MORE, moved to Billerica (across the street from each other).

There were two other MOORE men in 1630's Cambridge, MA, and I can't find
information on them, so do not know if they were related to Francis, Golden,
and Sarah ! (And another in Boston.)

Based on my informal research a couple of years ago, I believe Francis and
Sarah were 2 of several children of their father from his first wife, and
that Golden (and others?) were the children of their father and his second
wife (in England)..

Betty (near Lowell, MA)


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From: "Paul M. Noyes" <>
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Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 1:12 PM
Subject: RE: [MAESSEX] Edmund Greenleaf (1573/74-1670/71) & Wives


>I too originally had the wife of Edmund Greenleaf as Sarah Dole. This was
> based on the obit of Charles C. Beamon of Boston published in the NEHGR,
> vol. 38, p.100 (Jan 1884) which states that the wife of Edmund Greenleaf
> was
> Sarah Dole.
>
> James Edward Greenleaf's "Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family", 1896
> continued
> this claim and gives information on the Dole family.
>
> In 1968, Mrs. Dorothy Greenleaf Boynton of Elkhart, Indiana wrote an
> article
> for the January edition of the NEHGR, vol. 122, p. 28 titled "Sara, First
> Wife of Edmund Greenleaf (588-1663)". She first found in the Essex volumes
> of the Boyd Marriage Index an entry "Moor Sar and Edmund Greenleaf,
> Langford" (Women's Volume, p. 33, copy in Salt Lake City). The time, 1611,
> was about right, the names were right and seemed to explain the Cousin
> Thomas Moor, overseer of Edmund's will. Proof was found in the will of
> Samuel More of the Parish of Much Totham, co. Essex, dated 24 Dec 1615 and
> proved by his brother Francis More the 2nd of February following which
> includes:
> "Item 1 I give unto my sister Sara the wife of Edmund Grinleaf of Ipswich
> in
> the county of Suffolk a Bedsted [and] a flockbed one bolster two pillows."
>
> Reference to the parish registers of Malden, co. Essex, gives a few of the
> vital statistics of the family which dove-tail with existing wills. These
> establish the parents of Sara as Enoch and Catherine Moore, married in All
> Saint's Parish, 23 Nov 1585. Sara was baptized there 15 Dec 1588.
>
> --Paul Noyes--
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 11:39 AM
> To:
> Subject: [MAESSEX] Edmund Greenleaf (1573/74-1670/71) & Wives
>
> I have been following the recent GREENLEAF thread quite closely, and it
> has
> revived my interest in a line I have not worked on in many years. Most of
> the questions raised in the various postings seem to have been resolved,
> but
> I have a couple of new ones.
>
> Both Paul Noyes and Lynde Randall identify the first wife of Edmund
> GREENLEAF (and mother of Capt. Stephen GREENLEAF, 1628-1690) as Sara(h)
> MOOR/MOORE; chr. 13 Dec 1588 at Malden, Essex, England; m. [per Lynde] 2
> Jul
> 1611 at Langford, Essex, England; d. 18 Jan 1662/63 [Lynde says 1661/62]
> at
> Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. However, my notes (taken over 40 years
> ago
> at the FHL in Salt Lake City) identify her instead as Sarah DOLE, dau of
> William DOLE, b. abt 1577 at Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The record from
> which I copied these data cited the two GREENLEAF books mentioned by Paul
> in
> his postings. If my data are in error, I would be delighted to have them
> corrected. Comments, anyone?
>
> Also, Lynde makes note of the second marriage of Edmund GREENLEAF to Sarah
> JURDAINE WILSON HILLS. I have her as dau of Ignatious JURDAINE, b. abt
> 1578, d. 1671 at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. I have no marriage date,
> but I have her first two husbands as ______ WILSON and William HILL. I
> also
> have a third marriage for Edmund GREENLEAF, to Elizabeth LEEDS (no other
> info). Comments, anyone?
>
> I am most appreciative of the all generous help given by the highly
> knowledgeable subscribers to this list!
>
> Guy I. Colby IV
> Irving, TX
>
> ______________________________

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