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Capt. Edmund Greenleaf

Male Abt 1586 - 1671  (~ 85 years)


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  • Name Edmund Greenleaf  [1
    Prefix Capt. 
    Birth Abt 1586  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death 24 Mar 1671  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I21720  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of XYZ
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2024 

    Family Sarah More,   b. Bef 13 Dec 1588   d. 18 Jan 1662, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 73 years) 
    Marriage 2 Jul 1611  Langford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
    +1. Judith Greenleaf,   b. 2 Sep 1625, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1705, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +2. Capt. Stephen Greenleaf,   b. Bef 10 Aug 1628   d. 1 Dec 1690, off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 62 years)
    Family ID F12810  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Apr 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Patricia Law Hatcher (citation details below) showed in 2018 that none of the extant claims about the baptism, parents, and general origin of Edmund Greenleaf can be regarded as proven, save that he probably came from Suffolk or Essex where the Greenleaf name is common.

  • Sources 
    1. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.

    2. [S3217] Patricia Law Hatcher, "Corrections, Deletions, and Additions to the Origin of the Greenleaf Family in England." The American Genealogist 90:254, Oct 2018.

    3. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938.