• 5th child of 5.7945

• BENJAMIN GREENE (probably of John1) was of North Kingstown and afterward of East Greenwich. Evidence seems to identify him as the son of John1of Kingstown, though it is not conclusive. If so, he was born, probably in Quidnesset (North Kingstown), about 1665; m. about 1684 Humility Coggeshall, 6th child of Joshua and Joan (West), of Newport and Portsmouth, who was born in Portsmouth Jan., 1671.
His name appears in the freeman's list of North Kingstown in 1696. In 1698-1703 he was deputy to the General Assembly; 1701-1704 member of the Town Council; 1702, ratemaker; 1703, appointed to lay out highways.
March 26, 1705, he sold land in Kingstown and soon removed to East Greenwich, where he died in the winter of 1718-19. His will, dated Jan. 7, 1719, was proved in East Greenwich March 5 following. In it he mentions his wife Humility, who survived him, and twelve children, of whom the three youngest were under eighteen.7945