- With his father, surgeon John Greene, purchased land from Indian Chief Miontonomi in 1642 and called it "Greene's Hold" alias Occupasituxet
- Built a corn mill with three others in Warwick, RI, 1651
- General Record keeper for the town, 1652-54
- Commissioner 1652-63
- Deputy for Newport to the RI General Court 1679-1690
- General Solicitor in 1655
- Attorney General in 1657-1660
- Warden, 1658
- Commissioned Captain 1664
- Agent to the king in England to discuss the RI Charter, 1670
- Governor's Council 1683
- Major of the Main 1683-96
- Agent for RI to the King of England 1685-87
- Sent a letter of congratulations to the throne (William & Mary) 1690
- Deputy Governor of RI 1690-1700
"Five generations of Greenes owned the estate until 1782, when John Brown (1736-1803, a wealthy, powerful Providence merchant and co-founder of Brown University, bought it. the farm was then worked by tenant farmers, and the Brown family used it as a country retreat. Brown's grandson, Governor John Brown Francis (1791-1864), returned to the property, where he and his descendants remain today."
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Screen capture of the site of Greene Hold from 2014 Google Maps. Major John Greene is buried in Spring Greene Burial Ground, the family plot on the homestead. |
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