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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.
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 ...
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.
On February 11, 1773, Arnold was married to Patience Greene (1754–1809), a daughter of Patience (née Cooke) Greene and Samuel Greene (grandson of John Greene Jr.). As her parents had died, Patience was raised, and married, in the Warwick house of her uncle, William Greene , the Governor of the colony of Rhode Island. [ 4 ]
Nathanael Greene Homestead, Anthony, Coventry Town, Rhode Island, built in 1770, photograph between about 1930 and 1945, Tichnor Brothers collection, Boston Public Library. Beginning in 1772, Catharine was courted by Nathanael Greene, a fellow Rhode Islander, who was 12 years and six months her senior. [d] He was a merchant and a foundry worker ...
Mary Anne Greene was born in Warwick, Rhode Island, June 14, 1857, the daughter of John Waterman Aborn Greene and Mary Frances (Low) Greene. [3] She was a lineal descendant of Roger Williams, [4] and was of the ninth generation of the Rhode Island family founded by Dr. John Greene, son of Richard Greene, of Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, Dorset, England.
Windmill Cottage is a historic house and former windmill at 144 Division Street in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. It was the home of George Washington Greene, a former American consul to Rome and historian. It was purchased for Greene by his friend, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.