History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

The various families of Greens descended from
Thomas Green, who settled in ilaldeu about tlie
year 1651. He early owned a farm of sixty-
three acres at the Highlands, which was exempted
when the commons were divided, according to a
vote passed in town-meeting May 18, 1694-, " that
Samuel Green [son of Thomas] shall Injoy his
hous and v' land v' staud:^ on and ^u nuich land
mitted freeman in 1631, and settled in Maiden
about the year 1650. His son. Lieutenant Phin-
eas tJpham, took a prominent part in King Philip's
AYar, being severely wounded at tlie battle of Nar-
ragansett Fort, December 19, 1675, from the effects
of which wound he died the year follow-ing. Phin-
eas, the grandson of Lieutenant Upham, was the
first to come to Melrose, and settled on Upham
Hill, where there are still living several families
of descendants on the old homesteads, on one of
which, that of George Upham, is still seen the old-
fashioned well-sweep with its " iron-bound bucket."
The Barretts are descendants of James Barrett,
who settled in Charlestown in 1635, and who after-
wards came to Maiden, where his son James was
born in 1644. His son, Deacon Jonathan Barrett,
rame to Melrose about the year 1705, and built iiis
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about It as y' Commite shall se cause to lay to It " ;
and the records, in referring to lot number Gi, say
" part east against Eedduig Ehode and part on y^
west of y^ Greens farm." Portions of this same
farm are in the possession of the descendants of
Thomas Green to-day.
The Upham