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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.
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 ...
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 General Nathanael Greene Homestead, also known as Spell Hall, is a historic house at 50 Taft Street in Coventry, Rhode Island. [3] It was the home of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene from 1770 to 1776, and was owned afterwards by his brother Jacob Greene and his wife Margaret. The house is owned and operated by the ...
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 ...
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]