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     Colonel John Greenleaf was born circa 1760.¹ He was the son of Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf and Elizabeth Chauncy.² Colonel John Greenleaf married firstly Elizabeth Coates on 2 November 1791 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.³ Colonel John Greenleaf died on 23 February 1829 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.³

     Hon. John Greenleaf married Sarah Smith.¹ Hon. John Greenleaf was born on 3 January 1692.¹ He was the son of John Greenleaf and Elizabeth Hills.¹ Hon. John Greenleaf died on 21 August 1760 at the age of 68.¹

     John Clement Greenleaf was the son of John Greenleaf.¹

     Jonathan Greenleaf was born on 15 July 1723 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Daniel Greenleaf and Sarah Moody.¹ Jonathan Greenleaf married Mary Presbury on 13 October 1744 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.² Jonathan Greenleaf died on 24 May 1807 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, at the age of 83.²

     Jonathan Greenleaf was born on 4 September 1785 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Moses Greenleaf and Lydia Parsons.¹ Jonathan was reared on a farm at New Gloucester, Maine, attended the common schools, studied theology with the Rev. Francis Brown, D.D., of North Yarmouth, Maine, and was licensed to preach by the Cumberland association at Saco, Maine, in September, 1814. He was ordained at Wells, Maine, March 8, 1815, by the York County association as pastor of the First Congregational church. In 1828 he was dismissed and removed to Boston, Mass., as pastor of the Mariners' church. He was corresponding secretary of the American Seamen's Friend society, New York city, 1833-41, and after supplying for a few months the vacant Congregational church at Lyndon, Vt., he established in 1843 the Wallabout Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, N.Y., and remained its pastor till his death. He was married Nov. 2, 1814, to Sarah Johnson of New Gloucester, Maine. The honorary degree of M.A. was conferred upon him by Bowdoin in 1824 and that of S.T.D. by the College of New Jersey in 1863. He is the author of Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of the State of Maine (1821); History of the Churches of New York (1846); Thoughts on Prayer (1847); A Sketch of Lyndon, Vt. (1852); Genealogy Of the Greenleaf Family (1854), and A Sketch of Wells, in Maine Historical Collections (1831). Jonathan Greenleaf married Sarah Johnson on 2 November 1814.¹ Jonathan Greenleaf died on 24 April 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 79.¹

     Judith Greenleaf was born on 2 September 1625.² She was the daughter of Edmund Greenleaf and Sarah Dole.¹ Judith Greenleaf was baptised on 29 September 1626 at St. Mary la Tour, Ipswich.³ She married firstly Henry Somerby.¹ Judith Greenleaf married secondly Tristram Coffin, son of Judge Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens, on 2 March 1652/53.^4,2 Judith Greenleaf died on 15 December 1705 at the age of 80.⁵

     Judith Greenleaf was born on 23 October 1673.^1,2 She was the daughter of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.¹ Judith Greenleaf died on 19 November 1678 at the age of 5.^1,2

     Judith Greenleaf married Richard Dummer on 6 June 1754 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹

     Lutie Belle Greenleaf was born in October 1867 in California.³ She married firstly Gilbert Tennant Sewall, son of Gilbert Tennant Sewall, on 27 March 1886 in California.⁴ Lutie Belle Greenleaf and Gilbert Tennant Sewall appear on the census of 1900 at Los Angeles, California, he is employed as a fruit packer.³ Lutie Belle Greenleaf married secondly Russell B. Wilson say 1918.² Lutie Belle Greenleaf died on 9 July 1922 in Los Angeles at the age of 54.²

     Lydia Greenleaf was christened on 24 July 1768 at Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf and Elizabeth Chauncy.¹

     Mary Greenleaf married Col. John Leverett, son of Knight Leverett and Abigail Butolph, in 1757.¹

     Mary Greenleaf was born on 6 December 1676 in Newbury, Massachusetts, (Greenleaf gives the year as 1671.)^2,3 She was the daughter of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.¹

     Mary Greenleaf was born on 1 November 1765 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.^2,3 She was the daughter of Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf and Elizabeth Chauncy.¹ Mary Greenleaf died on 3 July 1853 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, at the age of 87 unmarried.^2,4

     Mehitable Coates Greenleaf was born on 20 March 1790 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coates.

     Moses Greenleaf was born on 19 May 1755 in New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine.² He was the son of Jonathan Greenleaf and Mary Presbury.¹ Moses Greenleaf married Lydia Parsons on 17 September 1776 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.² Moses Greenleaf died on 18 December 1812 in New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, at the age of 57.²

     Moses Greenleaf was born on 17 October 1777 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Moses Greenleaf and Lydia Parsons.¹ Moses Greenleaf married Persis Poor, daughter of Deacon Ebenezer Poor, on 11 February 1805.¹ Moses Greenleaf died on 20 March 1834 in Williamsburg, Maine, at the age of 56.¹
He published Statistical View of the District of Maine (1816) and a Survey of the State of Maine with a map (1829).¹

     Olive Greenleaf was born circa 1786 in Maine.² She married Jotham Parsons, son of Josiah Parsons and Sarah Sewall.¹

     Rev. Patrick Henry Greenleaf was born on 11 July 1807.² He was the son of Hon. Simon Greenleaf and Hannah Kingman.¹ Rev. Patrick Henry Greenleaf married Margaret Laugton Johnson, daughter of William Pierce Johnson, in April 1829.² Rev. Patrick Henry Greenleaf died on 21 June 1869 in Kings, New York, at the age of 61.^2,3

     Samuel Greenleaf was born on 30 October 1665 in Newbury, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.¹ Samuel Greenleaf married Sarah Kent, daughter of John Kent Jr. and Sarah Woodman, possibly on 1 March 1686.² Samuel Greenleaf died on 6 August 1695 at the age of 29.²

     Sarah Greenleaf was born on 29 October 1655 in Newbury, Massachusetts.^1,2 She was the daughter of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.¹ Sarah Greenleaf married Richard Dole, son of Richard Dole and Hannah Rolfe, on 7 June 1677; they had nine children.² Sarah Greenleaf died on 1 September 1718 at the age of 62.³

     Sarah Greenleaf was born on 21 June 1763.^2,3 She was the daughter of Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf and Elizabeth Chauncy.¹ Lived to old age but is described as being fatuous from childhood.²

     Sarah Greenleaf married William Hilton, son of (unknown) Hilton.

     Sarah Parks Greenleaf was the daughter of John Greenleaf.¹

     Hon. Simon Greenleaf was born on 5 December 1783 in Newburyport (or 1785 see BDNA vol. 4 p. 410.)² He was the son of Moses Greenleaf and Lydia Parsons.³ He attended the Latin school in Newburyport and at the age of eighteen began the study of law with Ezekiel Whitman of New Gloucester, Maine. He was admitted to the bar in Cumberland county, Maine, in 1805, opened an office first in Standish, then in Gray, and in 1817 removed to Portland, Maine. In 1820 and 1821 he represented Portland in the Maine legislature and in August, 1820, became reporter of the supreme court under the act of the new state, passed June 24, 1820. His service in that position ended in July, 1832. He was Royal professor of law at Harvard, 1833-46; Dane professor of the same branch succeeding Judge Story, 1846-48; and professor emeritus, 1848-53. He was at one time president of the Massachusetts Bible society, and was a member of the Massachusetts historical society and the American philosophical society. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from Bowdoin in 1817 and that of LL.D. from Harvard in 1834, from Amherst in 1845, and from the University of Alabama in 1852. He is the author of: Origin and Principles of Freemasonry (1820); Full Collection of Cases, Overruled, Denied, Doubted or Limited in their Application (1821); Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine, 1820-31 (9 vols., 1822-35); Remarks on the Exclusion of Atheists as Winesses (1839); Treatise on the Law of Evidence (3 vols., 1842-53); Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence administered in Courts of Justice, with an Account of the Trial of Jesus (1846); and a discourse on the life and character of Joseph Story (1845). He also prepared and adapted to United States practice an enlarged edition of Digest of the Laws of England respecting Real Property by William Cruise (3 vols., 1849-50).⁴ Hon. Simon Greenleaf married Hannah Kingman, daughter of Captain Ezra Kingman and Susanna Whitman, on 18 September 1806.^2,3 Hon. Simon Greenleaf died on 6 October 1853 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 69.^3,5

     Stephen Greenleaf. A dyer by trade. He was born in 1628 in Ipswich.² He was baptised on 10 August 1628 at St. Mary's, England.³ He was the son of Edmund Greenleaf and Sarah Dole.¹ Stephen Greenleaf married firstly Elizabeth Coffin, daughter of Judge Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens, on 13 November 1651 in Newbury, Massachusetts, his sister-in-law.⁴ Stephen Greenleaf married secondly Esther Weare, daughter of Nathaniel Weare, on 31 March 1679.³ Stephen Greenleaf was drowned on 1 December 1690 off Cape Breton at the age of 62. He had been part of the disatrous expedition against Canada that year.^5,6

     Stephen Greenleaf was born on 15 October 1735.¹ He was the son of Dr. Daniel Greenleaf and Silence Nichols. Stephen Greenleaf married Eunice Fairbanks in 1758.²

     Col. Stephen Greenleaf. "A great Indian fighter".² He was born on 15 August 1652 in Newbury, Massachusetts.³ He was the son of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.¹ Col. Stephen Greenleaf married Elizabeth Gerrish, daughter of Capt. William Gerrish and Joanna Lowell, on 23 October 1676.⁴ A Eunice Fairbanks is also found recorded as his wife though his second wife was Mrs. Hannah Jordon of Kittery.^1,4

     Susanna Greenleaf was the daughter of Benjamin Greenleaf and Ann Hale.² Susanna Greenleaf married Timothy Greenleaf, son of John Greenleaf and Abigail (Unknown), on 26 May 1743 they had nine children.² Susanna Greenleaf died on 24 March 1771.³

     Susanna Greenleaf was the daughter of Stephen Greenleaf and Eunice Fairbanks.² Susanna Greenleaf married Dr. Simon Stevens.

     Thomas Greenleaf was born circa 1766 calculated from his age at death.¹ He married Elizabeth Coates on 13 June 1789 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.¹ Thomas Greenleaf died in 1791 or 1792 drowned at sea. His death being reported in the press in January 1793.^1,2