Greene County GaArchives Biographies.....Greene, Nathaniel 1740 - June 19, 1786
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     NATHANIEL GREENE

General Nathaniel Greene, a distinguished hero of our
Revolution, was born at Warwick, Rhode-Island, in 1740.
His parents were French or Quakers.  In August, 1776, he
was appointed Major General of the army, and
distinguished himself at the battles of Trenton,
Princeton, and Germantown.  After the defeat of Gen.
Gates, at Camden, in August, 1780, he was appointed to
the chief command of the military forces in the Southern
States. -  He commanded at the battle of Guilford, C. H.,
and gained a victory at the Eutaw Springs, which actually
put an end to the war in the South.  For seven months he
was in the field without taking off his clothes for a
single night. -

Our Legislature presented him with 24,000 acres of land,
to which he removed in 1785, and settled on the land, 14
miles from Savannah.  The place is called Mulberry Grove.
Having ridden out for some time in a hot day, he was
smitten with what is called a "stroke of the sun," and
died in a day or two, 19th June, 1786, in his 47th year.

Ref:  Sherwood, Adiel, A GAZETTER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, 1837, Printed by P. Force, Washington City, p.
281.

Lawton B. Evans in his book, FIRST LESSONS IN GEORGIA
HISTORY,  states that some of the people of Savannah who
had adhered to the British cause left their homes at the
end of the war and went to England to live.  Their
property was then confiscated and given to others.  In
this way a handsome home of one of the loyalists was
given to Major James Jackson.  At the same time two
plantations were bought by the legislature, one of which
was presented to General Greene and the other to General
Wayne, both of whom became citizens of Georgia.

A sad incident of the year 1786 was the death of General
Nathanael Greene.  At the close of the war he had come to
Georgia to live at a beautiful home fourteen miles above
Savannah called "Mulberry Grove," an estate granted to
him by the legislature.  While at work on his farm he was
overcome by the heat of the sun, and died in a few days. 
His body was brought down the river on a barge and met by
a large procession of people.  He was buried with
military honors and mourned by the whole nation.  A few
months before his death the legislature had ordered the
county of Washington to be divided and a new county
organized, named Greene, and a town laid out named
Greensboro.

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