Martha Washington Greene Nightingale
(1777-1839)
BIRTH
1777
PLACE
Warwick, Rhode Island
NAME
Martha Washington Greene
DEATH
1839
PLACE
Savannah, Georgia
FAMILY
MOTHER
Catharine Littlefield Greene
(1755-1814)
SISTER
Cornelia Greene
(1778-1862)
CHILDREN
Nathanael Greene
(1742-1786)
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Martha Washington Greene Nightingale (1777–1839) was the eldest daughter of General Nathanael Greene and Catharine Littlefield. She married John Nightingale and later Dr. Henry Turner. As a Greene heir she joined the family’s 1808 sale of Little Cumberland Island to John and Charles Floyd. Portrait miniatures made around her first marriage preserve her likeness: one by Edward Greene Malbone is at the Metropolitan Museum, and another attributed to him is at Telfair Museums.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Martha Washington Greene Nightingale’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Martha Washington Greene Nightingale is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Martha Washington Greene Nightingale died in 1839, in Savannah, Georgia. Martha Washington Greene Nightingale was the eldest daughter of General Nathanael Greene and Catharine Littlefield. She married John Nightingale and later Dr. Henry Turner. As a Greene heir she joined the family’s 1808 sale of Little Cumberland Island to John and Charles Floyd. Portrait miniatures made around her first marriage preserve her likeness: one by Edward Greene Malbone is at the Metropolitan Museum, and another attributed to him is at Telfair Museums. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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