NameMaj. Gen. Nathaniel GREENE157
Birth27 Jul 1742, Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island
Death19 Jul 1786, Mulberry Grove Plantation, Georgia
Spouses
Birth17 Dec 1753, Block Island, Washington Co., Rhode Island
Death2 Sep 1814, Cumberland Island, Dungeness Co., Georgia
Notes for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel GREENE
"The Greene Family and it's Branches"; by Lora S. La Mance; Mayflower Publishing Company, Floral Park, New York, 1904, p 52.
Gen. Nathaniel Greene, the greatest of the Warwick Greenes, was the great-great-grandson of Surgeon John. [Surgeon John, John,James, Jabez, Nathaniel, Gen. Nathaniel]
"Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island" by Benjamin Cowell, Boston 1850
At the head of Rhode Island officers stood Major General Nathaniel Greene. It is generally conceded, that in point of moral worth, and those talents so essential in a military commander, Gen. Greene stood second only to the commander-in-chief. Gen. Greene was first appointed a Brigadier in the "army of observation" of Rhode Island in May 1775; but early in the revolutionary contest, he was promoted to a higher rank. On the 9th of August 1776 he was promoted to the rank of Major General by Congress.
Nathaniel the Gen. was given land on the Savannah R. by grateful citizens of GA as he saved their city of Savannah from burning by the British.
They started a home on Cumberland Island off the shores of Ga, but he died before it was finished. The ruins are still seen by tourists who visit the island by ferry.
Notes for Catherine (Spouse 1)
Caty, as she was known by her friends, was attractive and vivacious and would give him six children. She was the niece of two future governors of Rhode Island and the daughter of the deputy to the General Assembly. During the war, she visited her husband as much as she could and was very popular with his associates.