Dorcas (Green) Barrett (1653 - 1682)

Born 1 May 1653 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Colony

Ancestors

Wife of James Barrett Jr. — married 11 Jan 1672 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Colony

Descendants

Died 1682 at about age 28 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Colony

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DORCAS GREENE WAS NOT THE WIFE OF JONATHAN EATON. THIS WAS LONG AGO DISPROVEN.

Biography

Dorcas daughter of Thomas Green and Elizabeth (Unknown) Green was born May 1, 1653-55. ^[1][2][3] She married James Barrett on Jan. 11, 1671 at Malden ^[4] They had 3 sons, James 1672-1740, John 1675-1741, Jonathan 1677-1749. She died in 1682.^[2]

[contrary information-more or less unsourced] Dorcas, Greene, born in 1651, seems to have had at least three, perhaps five husbands, James Barrett was the first. She passed away in 1694. ^[5]

Father: Thomas GREENE b: ABT 1599 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England Mother: Elizabeth Unknown

Sources

1. ↑ Savage
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Greene
3. ↑ Pope: p199
4. ↑ Marriages of Mass. recorded in the New England Registry, p 45
5. ↑ LDS FamilySearch User Submitted Trees.

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• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) Reprinted with "Genealogical Notes and Errata," excerpted from The New England Historical & Genealogical Register , Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139 AND A Genealogical Cross Index of the Four Volumes of the Genealogical Dictionary by O. P. Dexter, 1884. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1965, 1969, 1 977, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1998.
• Greene, Samuel S. A Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Thomas Green of Malden, Mass. (Boston: Henry W. Dutton & Son, Printers, 1858) Page 8
• Pope, Charles H. The Pioneers of Massachusetts (Charles H. Pope, Boston, MA, 221 Columbus Ave., 1900) Page 199
• New England Families profiles
• Statistics of Mass.
• Autobiography of Selah Hibbard Barrett Vol. 1, page 11
• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2008) (Subscription required.) First name given in sons birth record.
• Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850 (University Press, Cambridge, 1914) Page 237.

• Green, Dorcas, m. Jaes Barrett, 11 (11), 1671.