Richard, Before Coventry was incorporated it was part of Warwick. I would check in Warwick if you have exhausted Coventry. Alice M. Honey-Freelance Writer E-mail: www.alicehoney@prodigy.net Tel: 914-357-8656 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Young" <rgyoung@home.com> To: <RIKENT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 9:24 PM Subject: Re: Fw: John Greene > Hi Betty, > > I have not forgotten about you. I have a new back brace and have having a > lot of problems with it. I still have more information to send you. > > The Coventry Town Library called me with the only information it had on > "Maroon Swamp". They believe that it could be in the Mapleroot area, which > makes sense as your Greene's are buried in the Mapleroot Cemetery. > > What is more interesting is one of the pages they gave me from the 1885 > Census. > > On page 17, Kent County-Coventry. > > "Kent County was taken from Providence County and incorporated with its > present limits June 15, 1750. It extends from Narragansett Bay on the east > to the Connecticut line on the west. It has four towns: Coventry, East > Greenwhich, West Greenwich and Warwick." > > This to me means that anything prior to June 15, 1750 would in fact be in > the Providence records. > > It did seem strange to me that there was only a handful of people born in > Coventry and that several family members where recorded on each page. Could > be that the founders of Coventry government each recorded they families as > they knew it. It would be interesting to check the Providence records. > > Also since Coventry was not founded until 1750 then anyone born, died or was > married here was actually born, died or married in Providence. > > "Is there a book by Gen. George W. Greene?" I think they have a copy of it > at the East Greenwich Library. > > Dick Young > > "Betty G. Tripp" wrote: > > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Betty G. Tripp <trippworks@juno.com> > > To: > > Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 15:41:23 -0400 > > Subject: John Greene > > Message-ID: <20000507.154124.-163913.9.trippworks@juno.com> > > > > Hi to the East > > Down in the South here it is heating up. > > In the Rhode Island His. Soc. Coll. V. 12 p. 25 is a section about John > > Greene who married Abigail Wardwell. There is mention of letters to Gen. > > George W. Greene, compiler of the Warwick Greene Genealogy that there was > > a letter from a descendant of John stating that after for some reason > > John had changed his name from John Clarke to John Greene. > > In the Providence Gazette for Oct. 15, 1797, Ushal Greene stated that his > > father was a veteran in the Army of Citizen Cromwell of protecting > > memory, and brought to America a sword with which his father had fought > > in 11 battles. > > Does anyone know about this or could shed further light on the name > > change or about fighting for Cromwell. Is there a book by Gen. George W. > > Greene? If so, is it still available?--Betty > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > > ============================== > > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >