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owner. He made his home in Mattapoisett,
where he died Oct. 8, 1854. He served in the
Legislature. He married Dec. 10, 1807, Abby
Phillips, who died May 10, 1815. He married
(second) July 11, 1819, Harriet Wing, who
seventy years. Reference is made to some of
the descendants of the late Chester Washington
Greene,
died March 9, 1851. His children were: Lemuel,
born March 28, 1809; James, March 25,
at one time postmaster of Fall River
and long engaged there, associated with his
son, in the insurance and real estate business,
the son being the present Hon. William Stedman
Greene, whose long honorable business and
public career places him in the forefront of the
city's prominent men and useful citizens. He
is now and has been for some years past a
member of the House of Representatives of the
United States Congress from the Thirteenth
1811; and Horatio G., March 23, 1813 (married
April 21, 1844, Martha Bumpus, and died
in Hebron, Maine, Nov. 1, 1881).
(V) Lemuel LeBaron, son of John Allen,
born in the town of Eochester, now the town
of Mattapoisett, March 28, 1809, attended
school in his native town, where he grew to
manhood, and where he made his home all his
life. He learned the trade of carpenter and
joiner, and worked as a journeyman in Mattapoisett
and New Bedford. Later he became
engaged in the mercantile business, forming a
partnership with Abner Harlow, binder the
name of Harlow & LeBaron, and they successfully
conducted a general store, for years a
local center, in Mattapoisett village. After the
death of Mr. Harlow Mr. LeBaron continued
the business alone. He was a man of ability
and sound business sense, kindly and sympathetic,
fond of a good horse and his flower
garden. He was largely interested in real estate,
and was the owner of large tracts of
woodland and other property in Rochester and
Mattapoisett. In 1867 he represented his town
in the State Legislature. His political allegiance
was given first to the Whig party, and
later to the Republican. He was always active
in town affairs, although he seldom held office.
He was one of the main supporters of the Congregational
Church. His death occurred Jan.
14, 1892.
On Sept. 12, 1836, Mr. LeBaron married
Lydia Holmes, daughter of Josiah and Betsey
(Clark) Holmes (See Holmes family history
elsewhere in this work). She died Jan. 31,
1894. They had one district.
There follows in chronological order and
somewhat in detail from the first American ancestor
the Greene lineage
child, Harriet Wing
LeBaron, born at Mattapoisett Nov. 12, 1837;
educated in the public schools and academy of
Mattapoisett and at Kents Hill, Maine. She
is now the widow of Elisha Loring Dexter,
and makes her home at the LeBaron homestead
on North street, Mattapoisett, with her
son.
and family history of
the Fall River branch of Greenes alluded to.
(I) John Greene, an English surgeon, son
of Richard and Mary (Hooker) Greene, grandson
of Richard Greene and great-grandson of
Robert Greene, was born on his father's estate
at Bowridge Hill, in the Parish of Gillingham,
Dorsetshire, England, about 1590. His
forefathers had been residents of Bowridge Hill
for nearly an hundred years before him, and
Robert Greene it seems probable was descended
from a younger branch of the powerful and
wealthy family of Greenes of Northamptonshire.
This Surgeon John Greene had early
removed to Sarum (Salisbury), the county
town 'of Wiltshire, whene, at St. Thomas'
church, Nov. 4, 1619, he was married to
Joanne Tattershall, who was the mother of
all his children, seven in number, and all of
whom were baptized at St. Thomas' church.
Mr. Greene here lived and followed his
profession
for sixteen years, when, in 1635, with his
wife and six children, he sailed in the ship
"James" for New England and arrived in Boston
June 3d of that year. He first settled in
Salem, where he was associated with Roger
Williams and where he purchased or built a
house, but soon after Mr. Williams's flight from
Salem (1636) he sold it, joined Williams at
Providence and secured his home lot, No. 15,
on the main street. Surgeon Greene was one
of the eleven men baptized by Roger Williams
and one of the twelve original members
of the first Baptist church on the continent, or-
R. I. He was the first
GREENE (Fall River family). While
the family bearing this name at Fall River
with which it is the purpose of this article to
deal is not an old one there it is one of the
most ancient and honored in the nearby Commonwealth
of Rhode Island, and one representative
of Pall River's best citizenship for nearly
ganized at Providence,
professional medical man in Providence Plantations.
Mrs. Joanne Greene died soon after
the family's removal to Rhode Island and Surgeon
Greene married (second) Alice Daniels,
a widow, and in 1642-43 they removed to
Warwick, R. I. After thg death of his wife
Alice he married (third) in London, England,
about 1644, Phillipa, who returned with him