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 1574 - 1671 (97 years)
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| Name |
GREENLEAF Edmund |
| Prefix |
Capt. |
| Birth |
2 Jan 1573/4 |
Ipswich, Suffolk, England  [4, 5] |
Address:
St. Mary's le Tour Parish. |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
Aft 1 Dec 1613 |
Ipswich, Suffolk, England [6] |
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| Residence |
1650 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [7, 8, 9] |
| Will |
22 Dec 1668 [8, 9] |
- The Will of EDMUND GREENLEAF
"In the name of God, amen. The two-and-twentieth day of December, sixteen hundred sixty-eight, I, Edmund Greenleaf, being mindful of my own mortality and certainty of death, and uncertainty of the same, and being desirous to settle things in order, being now in good health and perfect memory, do make, appoint and ordain this to be my last wil and testament, in manner and form following: that is to say - first and principally, I give and bequeath my soul into the hands of my blessed Redeemer, the Lord Jesus, who hath died and gave himself for me, and his blood cleanseth from all sin, and through his righteousness I do only look for justification and salvation; and do commit my mortal body, after this life is ended, into the dust from whence it was taken, there to be preserved by the power and faithfulness of my Redeemer, Jesus Christ, unti the resurrection of the just, and then to be raised up by the same power to immortality and life, where I shall see him as I desire, through his grace and assistance, to live and die, and at last to be found of him in peace.
"Nextly, my will is, being according to God's will revealed in his word, that we must pay what we owe and live of the rest, unto whose rule the sons of men ought to frame their wills and actions; therefore, my mind and will is, that my debts shall be truly and justly paid to every man to whom I shall be indebted, by my executors hereafter named.
"And first I do revoke, renounce, frustrate and make void all wills by me formerly made; and I declare and appoint this to be my last will and testament.
"Imprimis - I give unto my son Stephen Greenleaf, and to my daughter Browne, widow, and to my daughter Coffin, to each of them twenty shillings apiece. Item - I give unto my granchild Elizabeth Hilton, ten pounds. Item - I give unto my grandchild Enoch Greenleaf, five pounds.
"Item - I give unto my grandchild Sarah Winslow, five pounds, if her father pay me the four pounds he oweth me.
"Item - I give unto my eldest son's son, James Greenleaf, twenty shillings; and after my funeral expenses, debts and legacies are discharged, I give and bequeath the rest of my estate unto my son Stepphen Greenleaf, and to my daughter Elizabeth Browne, and to my daughter Judith Coffin, equally to be divided amongst them and their children. And further, I desire and appoint my son Stephen Greeleaf and Tristam Coffin the exectors of this my will, to see it executed and affirmed as near as they can; and I further entreat my cousin Thomas Moon, mariner, to see the performance of this my will.
"In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the twenty-fifth day of December, 1668.
"Edmund Greenleaf" L.S.
"Signed, sealed, published, and
declared to be my last will
in the presence of us,
"George Ruggell"
"John Furniside"
The inventory of Mr. Greenleaf's estate, which was appended to the will, amounted to 131 pounds 5s. 9d.
The following paper is also recorded in the Probate Records, appended to the will, as, probably assigning the reason why the name of his second wife, who appears to have outlived him, was not mentioned:
"When I married my wife, I kept her grandchild, as I best remember, three years to schooling, diet and apparel; and William Hill, her son, had a bond of six pounds a year, where of I received no more than a barrel of pork of 300 pounds of that 600 pounds a year he was to pay me, and sent to her son Ignatius Hill, to the Barbadoes, in mackerel, cider, and bread and pease, as much as come to twenty pounds, and never received one penny of it. His aunt gave to the three brothers 50 pounds apiece - I know not whether they received it or no; but I have not received any part of it.
"Witness my hand, EDMUND GREENLEAF"
"Besides, when I married my wife, she brought me a silver bowl, a silver porringer, and a silver spoon. She lent or gave them to her son, James Hill, without my consent."
Proved February 12, 1671, and is recorded in the Probate Records in Boston, in the volume for 1669 to 1674, page 112.
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| Death |
24 Mar 1670/1 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [8, 9, 10] |
- (IN MEMORY OF
CAPTAIN
EDMUND GREENLEAF
BORN JAN. 2, 1574
DIED MAR. 24, 1671)
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| Burial |
Aft 24 Mar 1670/1 |
Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States [11] |
Address:
Burying Ground of the First Settlers |
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Capt. Edmund Greenleaf memorial gravestone
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| Will (proved) |
12 Apr 1671 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [8, 9] |
| Occupation |
Dyer [8] |
| _UID |
9B6E0D38EB9ED5118A064445535400007D1C |
| Notes |
- Came to New England before 1638 and settled at Newbury, Mass.; was freeman 13 Mar 1639 and the same year appointed Ensign of the Company at Newbury and permitted to keep a house of entertainment. In 1642 he was Lieutenant and was appointed "to end small business in Newberry;" in 1647 he was, at his own request, discharged from his military office, and later moved to Boston where his wife Sarah died 18 Jan 1663; he married secondly another Sarah, widow, first of ___ Wilson, second of William Hill of Fairfield, Conn. She died at Boston in 1671.
The will of Edmund Greenleaf, dated 1668 is on record at the Suffolk County Probate Office, but the original is not now to be found. The will mentions his "eldest son's son James Greenleaf." There is no other notice of this person, either child or adult.
NEHG Register: Edmund "is known to have come from Ipswich, Suffolk, England where the registers of St. Mary's at the Tower and St. Margaret's record the baptism of his children between 1613 and 1631." "all is speculation" concerning his ancestry. "in the Essex volumes of the Boyd Marriage Index an entry, 'Moor Sar and Edm Greenleaf Langford' (Women's Volume, p 33, copy in Salt Lake City). The time, 1611, was about right, the names are right and seemed to explain the Cousin Thomas Moor, the overseer of Edmund's will". In 122:29 is given the will of Samuel More dated 24 Dec 1615, where he mentioned his "my sister Sara wife of Edmund Grinleaf of Ipswich in the county of Suffolk". 38:299 [1884] gives his birth date "probably about 1590".
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| Person ID |
I5289 |
Noyes Family Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2015 |
| Family 1 |
MOOR\MOORE Sara(h), b. Bef 13 Dec 1588, Maldon, Essex, England d. 18 Jan 1662/3, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age > 74 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Jul 1611 |
Langford, Essex, England [12] |
- Edmund Greenleaf and Sara Moore were married in the Church of St. Giles in the parish of Langford, Essex, England, nearly a part of Maldon today. Their marriage record was found in the 1611 Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, with this entry:
"Edmund Greeneleaf and Sarah More were married the second of Julye."
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| Children |
| | 1. GREENLEAF John, b. Abt 1612 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. GREENLEAF Enoch, c. 1 Dec 1613, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 3 years) |
| | 3. GREENLEAF Samuel, c. 8 Jan 1615/6, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 1 years) |
| | 4. Lieut. GREENLEAF Enoch, Sr., c. 20 Mar 1617/8, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. GREENLEAF Sara, c. 26 Mar 1620/1, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. Abt 1655 (Age ~ 33 years) |
| | 6. GREENLEAF Elizabeth, c. 16 Jan 1621/2, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 7. GREENLEAF Nathaniel, c. 27 Jun 1624, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 9 years) |
| | 8. GREENLEAF Judith, b. 2 Sep 1625, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. 15 Dec 1705, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 80 years) |
| | 9. Capt. GREENLEAF Stephen, Sr., c. 10 Aug 1628, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. 31 Oct 1690, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age ~ 62 years) |
| | 10. GREENLEAF Daniel, c. 14 Aug 1631, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. 5 Dec 1654, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 23 years) |
| | 11. GREENLEAF John, b. CA 1632, Ipswich, Suffolk, England d. 16 Dec 1712, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 80 years) |
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| Family ID |
F4219 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
23 Feb 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - Address:
St. Mary's le Tour Parish. - 2 Jan 1573/4 - Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
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 | Marriage - 2 Jul 1611 - Langford, Essex, England |
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| Residence - Aft 1 Dec 1613 - Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
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| Sources |
- [S116] Book-Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, MA, P.183-187.
- [S47] CD-NEHG Register, 122:28-36 [1960].
- [S47] CD-NEHG Register, 38:300 "The Greenleaf Ancestry" by William S. Appleton.
- [S106] Internet Online Homepage, http://www.flash.net/~rcarlton/grnlf.htm.
- [S957] Book-Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, p.190, R929.2 G813.
- [S544] Correspondence-Internet-Sandi Goetze, 26 Dec 1998 5:11 pm.
- [S189] Book-Savage, Vol. 2, p.205.
- [S325] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, p.600.
- [S116] Book-Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, MA, p.183.
- [S86] Death-gravestone, Burying Ground of the First Settlers est. 1635.
- [S86] Death-gravestone, Burying Ground of the First Settlers; Newbury, MA.
- [S177] Periodical-The American Genealogist.
56:107 "Edmund Greenleaf & Sarah Moore, Further on The Marriage", by Roger D. Joslyn
- [S175] Book-Torrey; NE Marriages Prior to 1700, p.324.
- [S177] Periodical-The American Genealogist, 42:218.
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