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Julia (Ward) Howe

Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

William Greene

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Julia (Ward) Howe — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 20 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Greene 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Gorton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Mar 1695 
  • Birth Location:
  • Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Feb 1758 
  • Death Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Catharine Greene
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Dec 1719 
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  • Child:

  William Greene Jr. (Ahnentafel No:10 )

  • Notes: 

  • Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• Sources for William Greene

  • ¹ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 09, New York: James T. White and Company (1907), 396.
  • ² Putnam, Eben, The Holden Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Richard and Justinian Holden and of Randall Holden, Volume 1, Cambridge: Press of The Murray Printing Company (1923), 382.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 215.
  • ⁴ Roelker, William Greene, Benjamin Franklin and Catharine Ray Greene: Their Correspondence 1755-1790, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society (1949), 30.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "William Greene (colonial governor)", (accessed 12/02/2014).