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• FamilySearch ID: LRN6-D5N
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 91747217
• Group: Immigrant Ancestors

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Æ 62 Years, 3 Months, 21 Days - Lost at sea during the Phips Expedition against Port Royal during the Indian Wars while on active duty.
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Captain Stephen Greenleaf, Sr. was the son of Captain Edmund Jr. and Sarah (Moore) Greenleaf. He was baptized on September 29, 1628 at St Margaret's Church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. He arrived in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts aboard the MARY and JOHN in 1634 at age 6.

In 1670 he was appointed an Ensign in the Colonial Militia of Newbury. He was a representative to the Massachusetts General Court in 1676 to 1686. He was raised to the rank of Lieutenant in 1685. In 1686 he was raised to the rank of Captain of the Newbury Militia and went to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to fight in the disastrous Phips Expedition against Port Royal in the Indian Wars. Captain Greenleaf, along with nine other men, were wrecked in a vessel during the siege of Port Royal, and all hands were drowned. It is not known whether their bodies were ever recovered. There are no records that would indicate that they were recovered.

He married (1) Elizabeth Coffin on November 13, 1651 in Newbury, Essez, Massachusetts with whom he had 10 children. He married (2) Mrs. Esther Weare Sweet on March 31, 1679 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. There were no children from this marriage.

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Died:
Lost at sea during the Phips Expedition against Port Royal in the Indian Wars in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Stephen married Elizabeth Coffin on 13 Nov 1651 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Tristram Coffin, Sr. and Dionis Stevens) was born on 13 Nov 1634 in Brixton, Devonshire, England; died on 19 Nov 1678 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts; was buried after 19 Nov 1678 in First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His birth and death is officially listed as Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.

Captain Stephen and Elizabeth Lowell Gerrish Greenleaf were the parents of 10 children.

Bio by: Bonnie Maskery

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Stephen married Elizabeth Gerrish on 23 Oct 1676 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Captain William Gerrish and Joanna Lowell) was born on 20 Sep 1654 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 5 Aug 1712 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; was buried after 5 Aug 1712 in First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 53279092

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He was the eldest son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Gerrish) Greenleaf. He graduated from Harvard College in 1699. Daniel married Elizabeth Gooking November 18, 1701. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Yarmouth, Massachusetts in 1708. In 1727 he resigned and moved to Boston where he opened an apothecary's shop.

And on Saturday night died here, in the 85th Year of his Age, after a long and painful indisposition, the Rev. Mr. DANIEL GREENLEAF, formerly a Minister at Yarmouth, in the County of Barnstable. (Providence Gazette (Providence, Rhode Island) September 3, 1763, p. 4)

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Daniel married Elizabeth Gookin on 18 Nov 1701 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Captain Samuel Gookin and Mary Larkin) was born on 11 Nov 1681 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 17 Nov 1762 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; was buried after 17 Nov 1762 in Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZGY-QFK
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Son of Daniel and Elizabeth Greenleaf.

Married Mrs. Silence (Nichols) Marsh, Jun. 9, 1726, Boston MA.

Dr. Daniel Greenleaf for a number of years a practicing physician at Hingham, Massachusetts, removed with his family to Boston in 1732.
(Title: Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family
Abbrev: Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family
Author: James Edward Greenleaf
Publication: Frank Wood, Printer, Boston, Massachusetts, 1896, Page: 89)

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Daniel married Silence Nichols on 9 Jun 1726 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Silence (daughter of Israel Winslow Nichols and Mary Sumner) was born on 4 Jul 1702 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died on 3 May 1762 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 3 May 1762 in Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: MKWD-YTM
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 80565557
• Group: Veteran or Patriot of Revolutionary War

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The Honorable William Greenleaf was the Sheriff of Suffolk County from Oct. 31, 1775 to Dec. 14, 1780.

As sheriff he proclaimed the Declaration of Independence from the Old State House in 1776.
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William was the youngest son of Daniel Greenleaf and Elizabeth Gooking. He married Mary Brown in Boston, Massachusetts on June 3, 1747, and they had fifteen children.
1. Mary, b. 1747, d. ????
2. Elizabeth, b. 1749/50, d. 1841, m.1. Samuel Elliot, m.2. Edward Pope
3. Mary, b. 1752, d. 1835, m.Daniel Bell
4. Susannah 'Sukey', b. 1754, d. 1832, m. Duncan Ingraham, Jr.
5. Priscilla, b. 1755, d. 1826, m. John Appleton
6. Sarah, b. 1757, d. 1838, m.1. Dr. Nathaniel Walker Appleton, m.2. Joseph Haven
7. William (1), b. 1758, d. 1759
8. William (2), b. 1760, d. ????
9. Margaret, b. 1761, d. 1836, m. the Honorable Thomas Dawes
10. Daniel, b. 1762, d. 1853, m. Elizabeth Greenleaf
11. John, b. 1763, d. ????
12. James, b. 1765, d. 1843
13. Rebecca, b. 1766, d. 1847, m. Noah Webster, Jr.
14. Robert, b. 1768, d. 1816, m. Hannah Arnold
15. Anna Nancy, b. 1772, d. 1843, m. William Cranch, Esq. (most of her VR uses Nancy)

The Provincial Congress appointed him Sheriff of Suffolk during the Revolutionary War.

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William married Mary Brown on 3 Jun 1747 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Robert Brown and Priscilla Johnson) was born on 15 Mar 1728/29 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died on 1 Dec 1807 in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts; was buried after 1 Dec 1807 in Acushnet Cemetery, Acushnet, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]