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- PERCIVAL GREEN, born probably 1603; died Dec. 25, 1639, in Cambridge, Mass.; married Ellin (???). She was born about 1600; died May 27, 1682, aged 82, in Cambridge, Mass. She married secondly Thomas Fox, about 1650.
On the list of early emigrants who were to be transported (from London) to New England, "imbarqued in the Susan and Ellen, Edward Payne, Mr." Apr. 18, 1635, are the names of "A Husbiman, Percival Green 32, uxor Ellin Green 32," who came to this country with two servants. They were at Cambridge, in 1636, and were both members of the Church. He took the freeman's oath Mar. 3, 1635-6, his name being spelled in ?? text Passeville Greene. In the ?? Persevalle, and in the ?? In 1691 there was a law-suit between the grandchildren of Percival Green on the one side and Thomas Fox on the other to recover the old homestead which had belonged to the grandfather and that was then in the possession of Fox who succeeded in keeping it.
Percival Green is supposed to have been a brother of Bartholomew Green of printing fame, who settled at Cambridge, in 1633, and who now has many descendants in Connecticut.
Children:
2. John, b. June 1636.
Elizabeth, b. Apr. 1639; d. Feb. 14, 1713-4; m. John Hall, of Concord, June 2, 1656
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