. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . ish main. Colonel WilliamArnold was the proprietor of the Bunch of Grapes, theold inn that stood upon the site of the Updike House. Many of the colonial merchants of Kent County, incommon with those of other trade centres in RhodeIsland, became interested in privateering, and spentlarge sums of money in building and equipping thoseirregular cruisers that were the terror of British ship-ping during the War for Independence. BenjaminGreene Fry, in a geneological record of the Fry family,tells of a privateering a
. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . ish main. Colonel WilliamArnold was the proprietor of the Bunch of Grapes, theold inn that stood upon the site of the Updike House. Many of the colonial merchants of Kent County, incommon with those of other trade centres in RhodeIsland, became interested in privateering, and spentlarge sums of money in building and equipping thoseirregular cruisers that were the terror of British ship-ping during the War for Independence. BenjaminGreene Fry, in a geneological record of the Fry family,tells of a privateering ancestor of his, who fitted out alittle schooner of fifty tons, and with it captured a largeEnglish vessel loaded with dry-goods. The Englishcaptain actually shed tears, and remarked, had he been 2>Z^ Narragansett Bay captured by a respectable force he could have borne it with more fortitude, but to be captured by a d d old squaw in a hog-trough was more than he couldendure. One of the more notable men of this place at a laterday was the historian George Washington Greene, ^t%r. ^.. T THE WINDMILL HOUSE, ONCE THE RESIDENCE OF PROFESSOR GEO. W. GREENE who was born in East Greenwich in 1811, and diedhere seventy-two years later. He was a grandson ofGeneral Nathaniel Greene, and has been widely knownas the author of a biography of his distinguished an-cestor. For many years his works on general historymade his name a familiar one to a generation of stu-dents whose children are now more familiar with John East Greenwich and Wickford ciZ7 Fiske and his contemporaries. In 1872 Mr. Greenewas appointed non-resident Professor of American His-tory at Cornell University. During the prime of hislife he numbered among his friends most of the fore-most literary people of the day. Longfellow was his intimate, and an evidence of theirfriendship is still to be seen in the odd octagonal towerattached to the house that was Professor Greenes home,on Division Street. That tower was originally a w
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