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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.
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 ...
Born August 16, 1731, in Warwick in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, William Greene was the son of William Greene Sr. who had served for 11 one-year terms as the governor of the Rhode Island colony, and the great grandson of John Greene Jr. who had served for ten years as the deputy governor of the colony. [1]
William Greene Sr. (16 March 1695 – 23 January 1758) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was a clerk of the county court in Providence , deputy from Warwick , speaker of the Rhode Island Assembly, and then deputy governor from 1740 to 1743.
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.
George Sears Greene (May 6, 1801 – January 28, 1899) was a civil engineer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He was part of the Greene family of Rhode Island, which had a record of distinguished military service to the United States.
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 ...