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State of Service: RI
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Lt. Job Greene – born Aug 18, 1717 in Coventry (Warwick), Rhode Island; died Mar 29, 1798, age81 in Coventry, Rhode Island; buried in the Job Greene Lot (Historical Cemetery #CY183) Coventry, RI; married Mercy Greene (his 3rd cousin) 30 May 1745 in Coventry, Rhode Island.
Job was a first cousin of the famous General Nathaniel Greene and a member of the prominent Greene family of Rhode Island. All males in the colonies were required to serve in the militia from age 16 to 60 and so he was 59 years old when he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Col. Joseph Stanton’s Rhode Island State Regiment from 1776–1778 in Capt. Malachi Hammett’s company. He was prominent in military affairs during the Revolutionary War period and in 1779 he was chosen 2nd Lt. in Capt. Samuel Wall’s Alarm Company for the Town of Coventry. He stayed in Rhode Island in defense of the state from British attack.
He was a farmer and he owned and resided at the Fones Greene farm in Coventry, Rhode Island. The house which he built was occupied by his descendants for about 150 years. He and his wife, Mercy, are both buried on the old farm nearly opposite the old house. They had eleven children.
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