1142. NATHANIEL6 GREENE (Richard5, John4, Thomas3, Thomas2, John1) was born at Potowomut, July 31, 1748. He was a physician. He married, August 10, 1769, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Mary (Salter) Quincy of Boston and great-great-great-granddaughter of Edmund Quincy, who came from Wigsthrope, Northamptonshire, England, with Rev. John Cotton in 1633, and who, it is said, was a lineal descendant of de Quincy, second Earl of Winchester, the same arms being borne by Edmund Quincy's immediate ancestors in England. Mrs. Greene died in May, 1779, according to a family record, but notice of her death was copied also from the Providence Gazette, June 2, 1781. After his wife's death, Dr. Greene removed to Georgia, and married the widow Stedman of South Carolina, who had two sons. She married (2) William Dennison of Providence, and had four children, William; Joseph, a lawyer; Catharine Lippitt; Elizabeth, married Rev. Richard M. Hodges, pastor at South Bridgewater. A family letter states that "Mary Quincy, sister of Mrs. Greene, married John Stedman and had sons John and Ebenezer."
