Name origin: The family is of Huguenot origin, the name being translated from the French word Feuillvert. the family located at Ipswich, County of Suffolk, Eng.
m.in England, Margaret ______
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b.s/o John Greenleaf
bapt. Jan. 2, 1573/74 in St. Mary's la Tour, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
d.March 24, 1670/71 Boston, MA
m.(1)July 2, 1611 Langford, Essex, England; Sarah Moore
b.1588 d/o Enoch and Cathering Moore
d.1663
m.(2)aft.1663 New England; Sarah Jurdaine Hill widow of William Hill; she married (1)bef.1662 Wilson; (2)bef.1663 Hills
b.d/o Ignatius Jurdaine
d.1671 Boston
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NOTE: Edmund was a silk-dyer by trade. He came to New England in 1634 aboard the Mary and John. He brought with him a cane that bears the initials "J.G." on a silver band near the handle.
From Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: EDMUND, dyer, son of John, bapt. parish of St. Mary;s La Tour, Ipswich, County of Suffolk, Eng., 1574. Settled at Newbury, Mass., 1639, removed to Boston, Mass., 1650.
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