The Greene Family Crest
A descendant of the Greenes of greene's Norton, county Northampton, England, John Greene, came over from Salisbury, county Wilts, to Boston, in 1635. His ancestry is traced back to Robert Greene of Gillingham (1545). Sir Bernard Burke states that this John Greene was a companion of Roger Williams, and a party to the Providence purchase from the Indians. A family tombstone, in the King's Chapel Burial Ground, Boston, shows the same devices; as does also the bookplate of Gardiner Greene (born 1753), who married a sister of Lord Lyndhurst. The crest A is that found on the tombstone. The family uses more generally the crest B.
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- Family
- Greene
- Motto
Nec timeo, nec sperno.
I neither fear nor despise.- Blazon
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A Buck's Head, Erased, Or.
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America Hereldica