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Deborah Greene (Ward)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, Colonial America
Death: April 26, 1835 (76)
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
Place of Burial: 42 Old Forge Road, East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, 02818, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Governor Samuel Ward and Anne Ward
Wife of Commander Christopher Kitt Greene
Mother of Anne Maxwell; Catherine Greene; Christopher Greene; Celia Clarke; Emily Greene and 5 others
Sister of Catherine Greene and Lt. Colonel Samuel Ward, Jr.

Managed by: Martin Smith
Last Updated:

About Deborah Greene

Deborah Greene (Ward)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17938071/deborah-greene

Greene was born in Newport, Rhode Island to the Hon. Samuel and Hannah (Ray) Ward. She was one of eleven children born to Samuel Ward, the governor of Rhode Island from 1762 to 1763 and from 1765 to 1767. She became the second wife of Christopher Greene (1748-1830), a merchant and iron manufacturer, on May 12, 1782, after the death of his first first, Catharine Ward Greene, Deborah's sister. Deborah and Christopher had eight children: Christopher (1783-1815), Celia (1786-1829), Emily (1787-1814), Nathanael (1789-1847), Richard W. (1792-1875), Samuel W. (1794-1872), John W. (1795-1820), and Elihue (1802-1878).

Bibliography: Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island with Historical Records of English Ancestry, New York, 1903, pp. 211-212 and 333-3

Info Ref.: < http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss457.htm >'

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Deborah Greene's Timeline

1758
October 12, 1758
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, Colonial America
1776
April 1, 1776
Potowomut, Kent County, Rhode Island, America
1780
October 3, 1780
Potowomut, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
1783
December 8, 1783
Potowomut, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
1786
January 10, 1786
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
1787
October 12, 1787
Potowomut, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
1789
October 9, 1789
1792
January 21, 1792
Potowomut, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
1794
January 28, 1794
Potowomut, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
1795
December 8, 1795
Potowomut, Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States