Henry Greene Esq.

     Henry Greene Esq. was born circa 1619 (deposed age 30 in 1652, age 40 in 1659, age 54 in 1673).^1,2 He married first Mary.³ He married second widow Mary Hussey Page, daughter of Capt. Christopher Hussey, on 10 March 1691/92.^3,1 He died on 5 August 1700 in Hampton, New Hampshire.¹
     
     Henry Greene (or Green), a councillor and judge, was born as early as 1620 in England. He was of Hampton within a few years after the first settlement of the town in 1638, for in May 1644 certain lands were granted to him in exchange for other lands then in his possession. He bought the house lot first granted to Arthur Clarke (on the Perry estate), and perhaps lived there for a time, but in 1653 he was living on the south side of Taylor's River. He was a millwright by trade and a mill owner, but he was also a prominent man in the town and province. He was twice chosen a commissioner to settle the Salisbury line, was selectman two years, assistant of the Inferior Court, a justice of the Court of Sessions, councillor from 1685 to 1689, and again from 1692 to 1698, and Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, 1697-8. At the council board and on the bench his influence was very great, while his sterling character won the respect of the people, so that important trusts were consigned to his hands. Being a justice during the Mason controversy, however, he then shared the unpopularity of the courts.^3,2