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The Greene family was a prominent political and military family in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Pages in category "Greene family of Rhode Island" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Forge Farm is an historic farm in Warwick, Rhode Island.Established in the mid-17th century by the Greene family, it is one of the oldest farms in Rhode Island.It was the birthplace of General Nathanael Greene, a prominent American general in the American Revolutionary War.
John Greene Sr. (9 February 1597 – 7 January 1659) [1] was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence, and a co-founder of the town of Warwick in the colony, sailing from England with his family in 1635.
From a prominent Rhode Island family, Greene was the son of United States Senator and Rhode Island Attorney General Ray Greene and his wife Mary M. Flagg. Greene was also the grandson of the second governor of the state, William Greene, Jr. who served for several years during the American Revolutionary War, and the great grandson of William Greene, Sr. who served 11 one-year terms as a ...
After the Plate 7 saga, Gov. Lincoln Almond swore to take the politics out of license plates and started a lottery system in 1995. But, while that was very popular with Rhode Islanders, it didn ...
This category contains a listing of all articles and subcategories that have articles relating to families of persons from the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Subcategories This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total.
Greene was born in Salisbury, England, and baptized at St. Thomas' Church on 15 August 1620. [2] He was the son of John Greene Sr. (1558–1659) and Joan (née Tattersall) Greene (1598–1643), and sailed to New England with his parents in 1635 aboard the ship James. [3]
The Green–Bowen House is a historic house at 100 Mill Wheel Road in Warwick, Rhode Island, United States. It is a late-date stone-ender house, built c. 1715, and is the oldest surviving house of the locally historically prominent Greene family. It stands on land purchased by John Greene from local Native Americans in 1642, and was probably ...