MARRIAGES:
(1) England before 1630 Richard Beggarly (or Beckley); in a memorandum of 2 June 1636, Winthrop reports the Court's consideration of "the cause between Richard Beggarly and his wife, who had been here six years, and he in England," the Court deciding that there was not sufficient evidence for a divorce, but advancing her 20s. "till she might send into England for further proof;" on 27 March 1638 in Essex Quarterly Court "Mrs. Daniell" sued "Richard Beckly" in an action of debt, the court awarding the plaintiff 20s. damages and 4s. costs; in a journal entry dated 13 or 14 December 1638, Winthrop, describing events at Providence, reported on "one Greene (who hath married the wife of one Beggerly, whose husband is living, and no divorce, etc., but only it was said, that he had lived in adultery, and had confessed it)."

(2) Providence by 14 December 1638 John Greene. Following the death of Reverend Samuel Skelton in 1634, Alice Beggarly/Daniel had a controlling interest in his estate. In a letter to John Winthrop, probably written in 1635, Alice Daniel described her efforts to manage the cattle which had belonged to Skelton, and expressed her desire not to be responsible for Skelton's children. On 5 June 1638 the General Court ordered a division of a portion of Skelton's estate "with the consent of Mrs. Baggerly." On 8 August 1638 Hugh Peter described to John Winthrop "Mrs. Beggerly's, or rather Mr. Skelton's house, which is now falling to the ground." All of this implies some close relation between Samuel Skelton and Alice Beggarly. Although there is no direct evidence that "Mrs. Beggarly" and "Alice Daniel" were the same person, we find a parallelism in three areas, where both names are found: 1) the marriage to Richard Beggarly/Beckley; 2) the estate of Reverend Samuel Skelton; and 3) Providence. The association with the estate of Samuel Skelton is especially telling, for it would be difficult to believe that two women of high social status, Mrs. Beggarly and Mrs. Alice Daniel, would both be directly involved in the same degree in settling that estate.

Presumably Daniels is Alice's maiden name (or possibly the name of a husband prior to Richard Beggarly). She was obviously well-educated and of high social status, at least by New England standards. Further research in England, including examination of the English career of Samuel Skelton, should reveal more about this interesting woman.

In 1881 William B. Trask gathered all that was known about Alice, except for the items from the Providence town records. His suggestion that Alice's husband Richard Beggarly was the same as Richard Beckley of New Haven seems an unlikely guess.John Greene married (2) by 14 Dec 1638, Alice Beggarly. She died about 12 Jan 1643[/4]. (On 19 Jan 1643[/4], Benedict Arnold, in a postscript to a letter to John Winthrop, reported that "Mr. Green's wife is dead, about a week since.")

No children recorded of this marriage, Anderson's Great Migration Begins.

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From New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the ..., Volume 3 edited by William Richard Cutter

John Greene married (first) in Salisbury, England, November 4, 1619, Joan Tattersall; (second) Alice Daniels, widow, died 1643; (third) ,-- born 1601, died March 10, 1688.

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From http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/r/e/Phillip-L-Green/GENE5-0013.html

He married (1) Joanne Tattershawl November 04, 1619 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; Quality: 3.She was born 1598 in Gillingham Dorset England; 0, and died 1636 in Warwick, Rhode Island;.He married (2) Ailsce (Alice) Daniels 1638 in Providence, Rhode Island. She died 1643 in Warwick, Rhode Island. He married (3) Phillippa Noname 1644 in London, England.She was born Abt. 1600, and died March 11, 1686/87 in Warwick, Rhode Island.
He married (2) " Ailsce (Alice) Daniels. a widow" (recorded as proprietor of a home lot in Providence, 1637)(see below). They removed to Warwick, I642-3. At the time of the persecution of the Shawomet pioneers (October, 1643), when " forty mounted and, armed men, sent from Boston to arrest them, fired over their houses, the women and children fled to the woods. Fright and exposure caused the death of the (second) wife of John Greene. (It seems more-probable that this was the wife who was buried at Conimicut.) Samuel Gorton wrote of this attack of the Massachusetts troops: " Afflicting our wives and children, forcing them to betake themselves some into the woods among the Indians. suffering such hardships as occasioned the death of divers of them, as the wife of John Greene. as also the wife of Robert Potter."
Judge Staples, in Annals of Providence, mentions the fact that the second marriage of John Greene was not recorded, but he found evidence in Probate Records, where mention is made of the son of Alice Daniels as "John Greene's stepson" Evidence of this marriage is also given in the following item:

In the division of 52 House lots John Greene senior Had lot between Thomas James on the North and John Smith on the South, and he inherited the lot of Alice Daniels his second wife between Wm. Harris on the North and John Sweet on the South" (Rhode Island Colonial Records (Printed), vol. i.,p. 24) In files. City Clerk's office, Providence, is a book containing " A revised List of Lands and Meadows as they were originally lotted for the beginning of the Plantations of Providence in the Narragansett Bay in New England unto the [then] inhabitants of the said Plantations until anno I6--." First in order are the "home lots," beginning at the Mile-end Cove, south end of town, between Fox Point and Wickenden Streets, lots all bounded by Town (Main) Street on the west and by what is now Hope Street on the east. The name of Alice Daniels is found on this list.

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