Griffin Greene served as a commissary, paymaster, and quartermaster to the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was subsequently a pioneer to the Ohio Country, helping establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory.
Griffin Greene was born in Warwick, Rhode Island on February 20, 1749. He married Sarah Greene of the same town, sister of Christopher Greene. They had four children, Richard, Philip, Griffin, and Susan.
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