The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . hode Island and Providence Plantations,Executive Chamber, Providence, R. I. Sir :—In 1113 telegram of March 4th, I announcedthe finding of the remains of Major-General NathanaelGreene in the Colonial Cemeterj in the City of Savan-nah, Georgia, by a committee appointed for that pur-pose by the Rhode Island State Society of Cincinnati,and I now have the honor to make a more detailedreport on this interesting subject. The Rhode Island State Society of Cincinnati wasorganized by the Rhode Island Continental Line ofthe Revolution, at Saratoga Barracks
The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . hode Island and Providence Plantations,Executive Chamber, Providence, R. I. Sir :—In 1113 telegram of March 4th, I announcedthe finding of the remains of Major-General NathanaelGreene in the Colonial Cemeterj in the City of Savan-nah, Georgia, by a committee appointed for that pur-pose by the Rhode Island State Society of Cincinnati,and I now have the honor to make a more detailedreport on this interesting subject. The Rhode Island State Society of Cincinnati wasorganized by the Rhode Island Continental Line ofthe Revolution, at Saratoga Barracks, on the Hudson,June 24th, 1783. At the subsequent meeting, held inthe Senate Chamber, State House, Providence, onDecember 23rd, 1783, Major-Genergi NathanaelGreene presided, and was re-elected, on every suc-ceeding fourth of July, president, until his decease,he having presided for the last time at Newport, July4th, 1785. On February 28th, 1814, this military society wasduly incorporated by the General Assembly under itsinstitution in Harry H. Shepard,Member of Committee of Rhode Island General Assembly ^ XATHANAEL GREENE. 29 Major-General Greene was born in Rhode Island onAugust 7th, 1742, and throughovit his life retainedhis citizenship in the State, and during the Revolu-tionary war was credited to the quota of Rhode Is-land in the Continental service. When he last de-parted, a few months before his decease, from Newportfor Savannah, Georgia, he still retained his residencein Newport, Rhode Island. By reason of his potential services to the State ofGeorgia in compelling its evacuation by the Britisharmy, the Legislature of that State gave him the con-fiscated estate of the former Tor}- L,ieutenant Gov-ernor Grahame. This property, known as MulberryGrove, is located about twelve miles below Savan-nah, on the Savannah river. Here General Greene died, suddenly, on June 19th,1786, of a congestive chill; and on the following dayhis remains were taken by boat to Savannah
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