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Ruth <I>Green</I> Whittier

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Ruth Green Whittier

Birth
England
Death
1710 (aged 83–84)
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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The story below says her last name was Rolfe, but that is the maiden name of her husband's mother. Almost every legitimate record shows her last name as Green. It is even Green on some of her kid's records and marriage records. Their stone looks a little more recent than when they died, but even that has Green on it.

FROM THE BOOK BY FREDERICK P WELLS, THE HISTORY OF NEWBURY VERMONT ,
AND HENRY WHITCHER,S HISTORY,
THE FOLLOWING
THOMAS BORN 1622 MILLCHILL, WILTSHIRE, ENG CAME TO AMERICA ON THE SHIP CONFIDENCE,
WHICH SAILED FROM NORTH HAMPTON APRIL 24, 1638.
THEY SETTLED FIRST IN SALISBURY MASS, AFTERWARDS LIVED A SHORT TIME IN NEWBURY VT,
WHERE IN 1646 HE MARRIED THE WIDOW RUTH GREEN, A SISTER OF HENRY ROLFE,
WITH WHOM HE HAD COME FROM ENGLAND WITH.
ABOUT 10 YEARS LATER HE REM TO HAVERHILL MASS,
WHERE HE LIVED ON WHAT HAS SINCE BEEN CALLED THE WHITTIER HOMESTEAD,
UNTIL HIS DEATH ON NOV 28, 1696.
The story below says her last name was Rolfe, but that is the maiden name of her husband's mother. Almost every legitimate record shows her last name as Green. It is even Green on some of her kid's records and marriage records. Their stone looks a little more recent than when they died, but even that has Green on it.

FROM THE BOOK BY FREDERICK P WELLS, THE HISTORY OF NEWBURY VERMONT ,
AND HENRY WHITCHER,S HISTORY,
THE FOLLOWING
THOMAS BORN 1622 MILLCHILL, WILTSHIRE, ENG CAME TO AMERICA ON THE SHIP CONFIDENCE,
WHICH SAILED FROM NORTH HAMPTON APRIL 24, 1638.
THEY SETTLED FIRST IN SALISBURY MASS, AFTERWARDS LIVED A SHORT TIME IN NEWBURY VT,
WHERE IN 1646 HE MARRIED THE WIDOW RUTH GREEN, A SISTER OF HENRY ROLFE,
WITH WHOM HE HAD COME FROM ENGLAND WITH.
ABOUT 10 YEARS LATER HE REM TO HAVERHILL MASS,
WHERE HE LIVED ON WHAT HAS SINCE BEEN CALLED THE WHITTIER HOMESTEAD,
UNTIL HIS DEATH ON NOV 28, 1696.


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