Fones Greene

Male 1691 - 1758  (67 years)

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  • Name Fones Greene  [1] 
    Birth 23 Mar 1690/91  Warwick. Kent Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 29 Jul 1758  [2] 
    Burial Historical Cemetery 66, Surgeon Greene Lot, West Shore Rd., Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I02512  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Capt. James Greene, Jr.,   b. 1 Jun 1659   d. 12 Mar 1711/12, Warwick, Kent Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Mother Mary Fones,   b. 1668   d. 20 Mar 1721/22, Warwick, Kent Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Marriage 25 Jan 1689/90  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Family ID F01445  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Dinah Battey,   b. 12 May 1691   d. 21 Mar 1710/11, Narragansett Bay, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 19 years) 
    Marriage 15 Mar 1710/11  Warwick, Kent Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F08449  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family 2 Rebecca Tibbetts,   b. Between 1694 and 1695   d. 18 Feb 1765 (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 5 Feb 1712/13  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Capt. James Greene,   b. 2 Dec 1713, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Sep 1802, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
     2. Dinah Greene,   b. 24 Dec 1715, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1765 (Age 49 years)
     3. Job Greene,   b. 8 Aug 1717, Kent County, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Esquire Thomas Greene,   b. 22 Nov 1719, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Aug 1813, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years)
     5. Mary Greene,   b. 18 Mar 1722/23
     6. Fones Greene,   b. 29 Jul 1727, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Sep 1753, Surinam, South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years)
    Family ID F00774  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • His gravestone reads: "4th gen, Fones Greene, son of Capt. James Greene, died July 29, 1758, aged 67 years." This would make his birth year c1691.

      Fones Greene married first to Dinah Battey, who drowned a few days after their marriage in 1711. She was sailing across the Bay from Newport to Jamestown.

      Fones's uncle Samuel Fones married Ann Tibbetts, aunt of his second wife Rebecca.

      For a brief bio, see "Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts" by J.H. Beers & Co, p 1304.

      Fones resided in the house which he inherited, built by his father c1687, in the Buttonwoods/Nausauket area of Warwick, RI, bordering on Greenwich Bay. A second house was built in its place in 1715, and is still standing today, in 2008. A large part of the Greene estate was sold in 1868 to the Buttonwoods Association, which developed the area with homes and a campground on the shore.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012512] Cherry Bamberg Fletcher, The Diary of Capt. Samuel Tillinghast of Warwick, RI, 1757-1766, (Greenville, RI: RI Genealogical Society, 2000), 144.

    2. [S012398] RI Cemetery Database.

    3. [S013707] William Richard Cutter, New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, 547.

    4. [S012574] Warwick City Records.

    5. [S012435] Genealogies of RI Families, Vol. II, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989), 671, 180.