. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . a very active and efficient participation in the Revo-lution on the part of the men of Kent. At their handsCaptain Wallace, of the British Navy, met with a mostdetermined resistance when he attempted to extend hisnotorious depredations into the neighbourhood of Cow-esett Bay. His effort to treat East Greenwich ashe had treated Bristol, Warren, and many another un-protected town was met by such opposition that hewas fain to retreat. The Guards erected a fort, whichthey called Fort Daniel, about half-way between
. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . a very active and efficient participation in the Revo-lution on the part of the men of Kent. At their handsCaptain Wallace, of the British Navy, met with a mostdetermined resistance when he attempted to extend hisnotorious depredations into the neighbourhood of Cow-esett Bay. His effort to treat East Greenwich ashe had treated Bristol, Warren, and many another un-protected town was met by such opposition that hewas fain to retreat. The Guards erected a fort, whichthey called Fort Daniel, about half-way between EastGreenwich and Chipinoxet, nearly opposite Long cannon from this fort were taken to West Pointafter the war. There is now nothing- left to mark thesite of this defence. The most celebrated of the sons of East Greenwichwas General Nathaniel Greene, who stood next toW^ashington in ability and authority during the Warfor Independence, and who enjoyed in so marked aa degree the confidence and affection of the Commander-in-chief. He was born at Pottowomut, not two miles. East Greenwich and Wickford 329 from the heart of East Greenwich, in the year 1742,and sprang, as so many fighting men of Rhode Islandhave done, from a Quaker family. He worked in hisyouth in the forge that his father owned, at Coventry,where the old Greene House is still preserved, though re-modelled out of all semblance to its former appearance,while of the forofe nothing is left. I think that the most interesting dwelling-house inKent County, and second to none in Rhode Island, isthe so-called Governor Greene House, that stands onthe Warwick side of Division Street, in East Green-wich, about half a mile east of the main street. Thehouse is a development from one built in 1684 or 1685by Samuel Gorton, Jr., the son of the Warwick Moses wholed the third exodus of exiles from Massachusetts to asettlement upon the shores of Narragansett. Upon theoriginal building of Gorton additions have been madeby succ
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