The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . , however, is in the fact that May 27, 1742,did not fall on Tuesday, but on Thursday, if we reckon, aswe doubtless should do, in the old style, the new style notbeing adopted in this country till 1752. If we reckon in ac-cordance with the new style. May 27, 1742, fell on Sunday,which also does not agree with the record. Where, then, isthe error ? Is there a clerical or typographical error in thisparticular entry in the record ? Let us examine this point. This same genealogy gives the dates of several of thebirths of Gen. Greenes brothers with the
The remains of Major-General Nathanael Greene . , however, is in the fact that May 27, 1742,did not fall on Tuesday, but on Thursday, if we reckon, aswe doubtless should do, in the old style, the new style notbeing adopted in this country till 1752. If we reckon in ac-cordance with the new style. May 27, 1742, fell on Sunday,which also does not agree with the record. Where, then, isthe error ? Is there a clerical or typographical error in thisparticular entry in the record ? Let us examine this point. This same genealogy gives the dates of several of thebirths of Gen. Greenes brothers with the s^lme exactness,and also the date of the death of Gen. Greenes last entry is given in new style, which is specially signifi-cant as indicating that the previous entries were very prob-ably made in old style. This is all the more probable becausethe new style was not adopted in this country till 1752. Therecord is expressed in each case in the usual numerical cus-tom noted above It is well known that the reformed calendar, known as. NATHANAEL GREENE. 73 residence of Hon. William Greene, in the townof East Greenwich. This house is still stand-ing, and is owned by Hon. William G. Roelker,a descendant of its former owner.^ new style, was adopted in Great Britain and America on , 1752. Previous to that time the civil year began on theday of the Annunciation, or March 25. The historical year,however, began on Jan. i. If now we assume that the entriesmade in the Greene manuscripts refer to March as the firstmonth of the year, all apparent discrepancies are completelyharmonized. There is indeed no straining of facts in thisassumption, for at that time it was the general custom, bothin this country and England, to begin the civil year withMarch 25 and to consider March the first month of the year. If the record had given the name of the month instead ofits number, there would have been no room for being the record tells us that Nathanael Greene was born in1
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