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     Anna Greenleaf was born on 3 June 1772.² She was the daughter of Hon. William Greenleaf and Mary Brown.^1,3 Anna Greenleaf married Hon. William Cranch, son of Richard Cranch and Mary Smith, on 6 April 1795.² Anna Greenleaf died on 16 September 1843 in Washington, District of Columbia, at the age of 71.²

     Benjamin Greenleaf was born on 25 September 1786 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Caleb Greenleaf and Susanna Emerson.¹ He graduated from Dartmouth in 1813, and was Preceptor of Bradford Academy from Dec. 12, 1814, to April 6, 1836. He represented Bradford in the state legislature in 1837-39, and in 1839 founded the Bradford teachers' seminary which he conducted until its discontinuance in 1848. He was a pioneer educator in the natural sciences by illustrated public lectures and in leading teachers to dispense with text-books in the recitation room. As an author he was widely known. He published a tract of eight pages entitled Rules of Syntax about 1825. He also worked off the mathematical calculations for a number of almanacs, notably for the Cherokee Mission. He published text-books on arithmetic, mental and written, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, and at the time of his death left in manuscript a System of Practical Surveying. His text-books began to issue from the press in 1835, and continued in new works and new editions almost to the time of his death. Some were translated into modern Greek and into Burmese.¹ Benjamin Greenleaf married Lucretia Kimball, daughter of Col. James Kimball, on 20 November 1821 They had nine children.^1,2 Benjamin Greenleaf died on 29 October 1864 in Bradford, Massachusetts, at the age of 78.¹

     Benjamin Greenleaf married Ann Hale.

     Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf was born on 19 March 1732 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He married firstly Elizabeth Chauncy, daughter of Rev. Dr. Charles Chauncy D.D. and Elizabeth Hirst, on 22 September 1757.^1,2 Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf married secondly Mrs. Lucy Derby on 22 January 1784 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts.^3,4 Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf died on 13 January 1799 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, at the age of 66.⁵

     Caleb Greenleaf was born on 16 August 1759 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Timothy Greenleaf and Susanna Greenleaf.¹ Caleb Greenleaf married Susanna Emerson, daughter of William Emerson and Abigail Pattee, on 13 December 1785.² Caleb Greenleaf died on 28 January 1836 at the age of 76.²

     Charles Chauncy Greenleaf was the son of John Greenleaf.¹

     Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf was born on 2 January 1838 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.¹ He was the son of Rev. Patrick Henry Greenleaf and Margaret Laugton Johnson.¹ He was taken by his parents to Charlestown, Mass., in 1842, and there attended the public schools, removing later to Madison, Ind., and to Cincinnati, Ohio. He was graduated from the Medical college of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1860, and was resident physician to the Good Samaritan hospital in Cincinnati until the breaking out of the civil war. On April 19, 1861, he was appointed assistant surgeon, 5th Ohio infantry, and served with his regiment on the field until July 19, 1861, when he became assistant surgeon, U.S.A., and was assigned to the staff of General Mansfield, commanding the defences of Washington. He was later transferred to the staff of General McClellan and served throughout the Peninsular campaign, receiving honorable mention from that general for services at Yorktown, and in the battles of Fair Oaks, Hanover Court House, Gaines's Mill and Savage's Station. He served at the battle of Antietam and as medical director of the base hospitals at Hagerstown and Harrisburg. In 1862-63 he was executive officer in charge of the Mower general hospital at Philadelphia. In 1863 he was appointed assistant medical director at Baltimore, and participated in the Gettysburg campaign. On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted captain and major for faithful and meritorious service during the war. He was then assigned to the staff of Gen. George H. Thomas and served as his attending surgeon until 1869, receiving the commission of captain, July 28, 1866. He was on frontier duty among the Nez Perces Indians in Idaho, 1869-74, and served in Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana, 1874-78. He was commissioned major, June 26, 1876, and from 1878 to 1882 was on frontier duty in Montana, afterward serving at the recruiting depot in Columbus, Ohio, and on the staff of General Terry at Chicago until ordered to Washington as the senior assistant to the surgeon-general. During his service in Washington he represented the army medical department as a delegate to the American medical association, to the American association for physical education, to the Association of military surgeons of the United States of which he was honorary president, to the International medical congress at Rome, Italy, and in investigating medico-military methods in the armies of Great Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland. He also organized and administered the Hospital corps, U.S. army, which was authorized by congress. He was promoted deputy surgeon-general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1891. and in 1893 was placed in charge of the medical supplies of the Pacific coast, being stationed at San Francisco. He was promoted assistant surgeon-general with the rank of colonel in 1896, and in the same year was also appointed honorary professor of military hygiene at the University of California. At the outbreak of the war between Spain and the United States, in April, 1898, he was appointed chief surgeon of the army in the field, and accompanied General Miles to Cuba and Porto Rico, taking part in those campaigns. In December, 1898, he was appointed medical inspector of the army in which capacity he served until October, 1899, when he was assigned as chief surgeon to the army in the Philippine Islands, with headquarters at Manila.¹

     Charlotte Kingman Greenleaf was the daughter of Hon. Simon Greenleaf and Hannah Kingman.¹ Charlotte Kingman Greenleaf married Samuel Fuller, son of Rev. Samuel Fuller and Ruth Pond, on 15 July 1830.¹

     Daniel Greenleaf was born on 24 December 1690 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of John Greenleaf and Elizabeth Hills.¹ Daniel Greenleaf married Sarah Moody on 17 November 1710.² Daniel Greenleaf died in January 1792 or February 1792 drowned on Newbury bar.²

     Daniel Greenleaf was born on 17 February 1657/58.^1,2 He was the son of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.¹ Daniel Greenleaf died on 5 December 1659 at the age of 1.²

     Daniel Greenleaf married Huldah Hopkins.

     Dr. Daniel Greenleaf was born on 7 November 1702 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Rev. Daniel Greenleaf and Elizabeth Gooking.¹ Dr. Daniel Greenleaf married Silence Nichols, daughter of Israel Nichols and Mary Sumner, on 18 July 1726.¹ Dr. Daniel Greenleaf. Surgeon at the siege of Louisburg in 1745.² He died on 18 July 1795 at the age of 92.¹

     Rev. Daniel Greenleaf was born on 10 February 1679/80 in Newbury.³ He was the son of Col. Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Gerrish.¹ Rev. Daniel Greenleaf married Elizabeth Gooking, daughter of Samuel Gooking and Mary (Unknown), on 18 November 1701.³ Rev. Daniel Greenleaf died on 26 August 1763 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 83.³

     Edmund Greenleaf was baptised on 2 January 1574 at Ipswich (ca. 1600 according to the Register.²) He was the son of John Greenleaf and Margaret (Unknown).³ Edmund Greenleaf married Sarah Dole in England.¹ Edmund Greenleaf came to Newbury, Massachusetts, circa 1635.¹ He married Sarah Jurdaine circa 1650 in Boston. Edmund Greenleaf died possibly on 24 March 1671 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 97.⁴

     Edmund Greenleaf was born on 10 May 1671 in Newbury, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.¹

     Elizabeth Greenleaf was born on 5 February 1660 in Newbury, Massachusetts.^2,3 She was the daughter of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.² Elizabeth Greenleaf married Colonel Thomas Noyes, son of Rev. James Noyes and Sarah Brown, on 24 September 1677.^3,4

     Elizabeth Greenleaf married Edmund Titcomb, son of Benaiah Titcomb and Sarah Brown.¹

     Elizabeth Greenleaf was born in 1678.¹ She was the daughter of Col. Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Gerrish.¹ Elizabeth Greenleaf married Henry Clark on 7 November 1695 in Newbury, Massachusetts.² Elizabeth Greenleaf died in 1724.¹

     Elizabeth Greenleaf was born on 1 November 1765 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf and Elizabeth Chauncy.¹ Elizabeth Greenleaf married Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons on 13 January 1780 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.³ Elizabeth Greenleaf died in 1829.⁴

     Elizabeth Coates Greenleaf was the daughter of John Greenleaf.¹

     Francis William Greenleaf was the son of John Greenleaf.¹

     Halbert Stevens Greenleaf was born on 12 April 1827 in Guilford, Vermont.¹ He was the son of Jeremiah Greenleaf and Elvira Eunice Stevens.¹ He was brought up on a farm and engaged in various occupations till 1859 when he became a member of the firm of Linus Yale, Jr., & Co., lockmakers in Philadelphia. He removed to Shelburne Falls, Mass., in 1861, and organized the Yale & Greenleaf Lock Co., of which he became business manager. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in Company E, 52d Massachusetts volunteers, and was commissioned captain September 12, and colonel Oct. 15, 1862. He participated in the battle of Indian Ridge, at Jackson Cross Roads, and in the assault on Port Hudson. June 14, 1863. At the expiration of his military service he was given command of the steamer Col. Benedict on the lower Mississippi till the end of the war, when he took charge of the salt works in Petite Anse Isle, St. Mary's Parish, La. In June, 1867, he removed to Rochester, N.Y., and became a lock manufacturer. He was a Democratic representative from the thirtieth New York district in the 48th and 52d congresses, 1883-85 and 1891-93. Halbert Stevens Greenleaf died on 25 August 1906 in Greece, Charlotte, New York, at the age of 79 being his summer home. He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York.

     Hannah 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 Hannah Greenleaf married Robert Boyd on 22 September 1807 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.⁴ Hannah Greenleaf died in 1845 s.n.p.²

     James Greenleaf was the son of Hon. Simon Greenleaf and Hannah Kingman.¹ James Greenleaf married Mary Longfellow, daughter of Hon. Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Wadsworth.¹

     Jane Greenleaf was born on 23 July 1768 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.^2,3 She was the daughter of Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf and Elizabeth Chauncy.¹

     Jeremiah Greenleaf was the son of Daniel Greenleaf and Huldah Hopkins.² Jeremiah Greenleaf married Elvira Eunice Stevens, daughter of Dr. Simon Stevens and Susanna Greenleaf.¹

     John Greenleaf was born on 21 June 1662 in Newbury, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin.¹ John Greenleaf married firstly Elizabeth Hills on 12 October 1685 Ten children.² John Greenleaf died on 24 May 1734 at the age of 71.³

     John Greenleaf. A ships' blacksmith.² He was born on 3 October 1688.² He was the son of Samuel Greenleaf and Sarah Kent.¹ John Greenleaf married Abigail (Unknown) seven children.^1,2 John Greenleaf died in 1778.²

     John Greenleaf was born on 22 June 1795 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Colonel John Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coates.¹

     John Greenleaf married Margaret (Unknown).¹