The Genealogist


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Browne-Brown Ancestral Lines


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Thomas Browne (ca. 1628-1693) was probably born in England and emigrated to New England. He and his wife, Mary Newhall lived in Lynn and Groton, Massachusetts. His son, Thomas (1654-1723), married Hannah Collins in 1677 in Lynn. Hannah and Thomas later moved to Stonington, Connecticut. Their descendants lived in Connecticut, New York, Minnesota, and elsewhere.




The Banisters of Rhode Island in the American Revolution


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When Thomas Banister fought for the British during the American Revolution, his farm and business were confiscated. He was exiled in far-off Nova Scotia, before he returned to a secluded life on Long Island. His older brother, John Banister married with a child, swore allegiance to the United Colonies, then witnessed the destruction of his Newport lands by the British Army. Convinced British laws supported remuneration, John left for England, where he sought justice for four years. His wife, Christian Stelle Banister, managed the family property and raised their son while the state threatened confiscation and the French Army lived in Newport. Tracing the lives of three young Americans during the Revolution, this study of the Banister family of Rhode Island contributes to an understanding of the war's effects on the lives of ordinary people.







The Greenes of Rhode Island


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This work embraces the ancestors & descendants of John Greene, surgeon (1590-1659) who married Joanne Tattershall in 1619 and immigrated from Salisbury, County Wilts, England to Boston Massachusetts in 1635. He settled in Warwick Rhode Island. He married three times due to the unexpected death of his 1st and 2nd wife. He had a long and active political life, holding office almost continuously throughout his life. Descendants primarily lived in the eastern United States.







Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island


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"Thomas Cooke alias Butcher was probably the child baptized 13 April 1600 in the parish church of St. Mary, Netherbury, Dorsetshire, England, as Thomas Bowcher. He died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island in the spring of 1677, probably just before 21 May, when his inventory was taken as Thomas Cooke. (See pages 1 through 5 for a discussion of the alias.) He is known to have had two wives named Mary, but it is not known whether the first Mary was his first wife, married in England and thus the mother of his first three children"--(p. 13). Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and elsewhere. Includes a little on ancestry and genealogical data in England and elsewhere.