Catharine Littlefield Greene
(1755-1814)
BIRTH
February 17, 1755
PLACE
New Shoreham, Rhode Island
NAME
Catharine Littlefield
DEATH
August 2, 1814
PLACE
Cumberland Island, Georgia
FAMILY
MOTHER
Phebe Ray
(1733-1761)
HUSBAND
Nathanael Greene
(1742-1786)
CHILDREN
Martha Washington Greene Nightingale
(1777-1839)
CHILDREN
Cornelia Greene
(1778-1862)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Caty
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
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Catharine ("Caty") Littlefield Greene was an American patriot who traveled to her husband, Continental Army General Nathanael Greene's, encampments in the American Revolution. He was a merchant and a foundry worker. Catharine married Nathanael on July 20, 1774, becoming Catharine Littlefield Greene. She entertained and comforted the soldiers, officers, and officer's wives. During that time she had four children and a fifth after the end of the war.
EARLY LIFE
Catharine ("Caty") Littlefield was born on February 17, 1755, off the coast of Washington County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, on Block Island, where her mother's family were among the first settlers in the 1660s. She was born into an upper-class family; her father, John Littlefield, was a member of the Rhode Island legislature. Catharine was the second of five children born to John and Phebe (née Ray) Littlefield.
Beginning in 1772, Catharine was courted by Nathanael Greene, a fellow Rhode Islander, who was 12 years and six months her senior. He was a merchant and a foundry worker. Catharine married Nathanael on July 20, 1774, becoming Catharine Littlefield Greene.
She entertained and comforted the soldiers, officers, and officer's wives. During that time she had four children and a fifth after the end of the war. Greene followed her husband, regardless of cold weather or illness in the camps, notably spending the winter at Valley Forge.
CAREER
DEATH
Catharine ("Caty") Littlefield Greene was an American patriot who traveled to her husband, Continental Army General Nathanael Greene's, encampments in the American Revolution. Beginning in 1772, Catharine was courted by Nathanael Greene, a fellow Rhode Islander, who was 12 years and six months her senior. He was a merchant and a foundry worker. Catharine married Nathanael on July 20, 1774, becoming Catharine Littlefield Greene. She entertained and comforted the soldiers, officers, and officer's wives. During that time she had four children and a fifth after the end of the war. Greene died of malaria at the plantation on September 2, 1814, and she was buried there in the family cemetery. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
Greene-Miller Cemetery
Julia Street, St. Marys, Georgia, 31558, USA
GRAVE
MUSEUM
George Washington's Mount Vernon
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mount Vernon, VA 22121
PARK
Valley Forge National Historic Park
1400 N Outer Line Dr, King of Prussia, PA 19406
GRAVE
Greene-Miller Cemetery
Julia Street, St. Marys, Georgia, 31558, USA
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, biographical reference and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Caty: A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene — John F. Stegeman; Janet A. Stegeman. Find on Amazon
2. Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution — Gerald M. Carbone. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
3. Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution — Terry Golway. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
4. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence — Carol Berkin. [Collective biography] Find on Amazon
5. The Women of the American Revolution — Elizabeth F. Ellet. [Collective biography; nineteenth-century account] Find on Amazon
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