Lieutenant Colonel Greene was murdered in the meridian of life, being only forty-four years old. He married in 1758, Miss Anne Lippitt, a daughter of Mr. J. Lippitt, Esq., of Warwick, whom.he left a widow with three sons and four daughters. He was stout and strong in person, about five feet ten inches high, with a broad round chest ; his aspect manly and demeanor pleasing, enjoying always a high state of health, its bloom irradiated a counten-

» At the close of the Revolutionary war Col. De Lancey politely forwarded to General Thomas of Harrison the blood stained pocket books of Col. Green and Major Flagg. These interesting relics we regret to say (since the General's decease) have been destroyed.

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ance which significantly expressed the fortitude and mildness invariably displayed throughout his life."*

The following additional particulars concerning this melancholy afFiiir, are contained in a letter from the pay-master Thomas Hughes to a friend dated

Rhode Island Village, May 14, 1781.

Dear Sir. -- It is with pain I write you on a subject that is so nearly and closely connected to you as a parent ; I must my dear friend inform you of the nnhappy fate that befel your son.

This morning the enemy made an attack upon the lines, which was a complete surprise, and he fell a sacrifice to the cruel hand of tyranny in defending himself against the strokes struck by the light horsemen. He had his wrist