Just found this reference to an early 1700s Greene (Elizabeth Greene). Hopefully someone can use it.... Laura Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia Volume 3 Biographies Grace, Isaac Henry Gould, Samuel, a member of the Mormon Battalion, was born Aug. 15, 1778, in Litchfield county, Connecticut, the son of Jacob Gould and ELIZABETH GREEN. He was an early convert to "Mormonism" and left his first family for the gospel's sake. Having gathered with the Saints to Nauvoo, Illinois, he, together with his co-religionists, was expelled from his home in that city and started for the West. On his arrival on the Missouri river he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, together with his oldest son, John, and started for California, but after traveling as far as Santa Fe, New Mexico, he was sent with the sick detachment of the Battalion to Pueblo, where he spent the winter of 1846-1847, assisting in taking care of the sick. He arrived in the Valley in the summer of 1847. Brother Gould is supposed to have been the oldest man who enlisted in the Mormon Battalion. He was a member of Parley P. Pratt's party which explored Southern California during the winter of 1849-1850. His wife, Sally, bore him seven children, namely, John, Reuben, Sylvester, James, Maria, Harriet and Jane. In 1851 (Jan. 1st) he married Fanny Ward Lester, who bore him four children, namely, Jacob B., Samuel L., Susannah W. and Emily J. S. Later he married Cynthia Wright who bore him one child. He moved with his family to Southern Utah in 1861 and afterwards made a trip to Michigan to visit his first family, being gone about a year. After residing in Utah's "Dixie" five or six years, he located at Parowan, where he had formerly lived, and there he died Dec. 30, 1869. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- Laura Greene lgg@interaccess.com lggreene@earthlink.net or redhed44@aol.com Carlsbad, California =================================================== Researching: Green(e) (RI>NY), Daves (NC>Illinois), DuBois (NY) Fay (Mass>NY), Riley (NY), Johnson (RI) Hardenbergh (NY), Holden (RI>Mass >NY), Mitchell (?>TX & KS) Putman (NY), Wands (NY), =================================================== FTM Homepage: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/r/e/Laura-G-Greene/ Noel's Greene Database: http://al7fl.abts.net/green-page/green.htm Noel's Putman/Putnam Database: http://al7fl.abts.net/putman/putman.htm ===================================================