The Greenes of Rhode Island, with historical records of English ...

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The Greene Family.
married, in Providence, February 27, 1782, Thomas Hughes, bom May 30,
1752, only son of Joseph and Mary Hughes. Thomas Hughes was 2d Lieu-
tenant, nth Continental Infantry, January i to December 31, 1776; ist
Lieutenant 2d Rhode Island Regiment (Colonel Israel Angell's), January i,
1777; Captain, June 23, 1777; transferred to ist Rhode Island, June i,
1 78 1, and served to the close of the Revolution with the rank of Captain
(see Heitman's Official Register of Officers of the Continental Army). He
served throughout the War of 181 2 with the rank of Major. The place of
his birth is not recorded, but family tradition states that the family was of
Scotch-Irish descent. In the Rhode Island Colonial Records (vol. x., pp.
412 and 413) he is mentioned as of Freetown, Mass., and he may have been
bom there. He died December 10, 182 1, at his home in Centreville, and
was btiried in the family burying ground of his brother-in-law. Colonel Job
Greene, on the adjoining farm. Major Hughes was one of the original mem-
bers of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati. He was a small, wiry,
energetic man, of refined tastes and fond of reading, with reddish hair and
blue eyes, and was a very efficient officer.
Some time after his death, his widow removed to North Scituate, R. I.,
with her unmarried daughter and several orjDhan granddaughters. She
died there August 8, 1844, and was buried beside her husband at Centre-
ville. She was the eldest child of Colonel Christopher Greene, the distin-
guished Revolutionary hero.
In 1896 the Greene family burying ground at "Beaver Dam," Centre-
ville, R. I., was abandoned, and the remains of Major Hughes, his wife
Welthian, and their maiden daughter, Sally, were removed to Greenwood
Cemetery, Phenix, R. I. A marker of the Sons of the American Revolution
has been placed by the Rhode Island Society at Major Hughes's grave.
The few surviving descendants of Major and Mrs. Thomas Hughes are the
widow and daughter of John Waterman Abom Greene, living in Providence,
and the son and daughter and one granddaughter of William Greene, son
of Jeremiah and Phebe (Hughes) Greene.
Mrs. John W. A. Greene of Providence has in her possession the Hughes
family Bible, with the family records and a few relics. This account, based
upon the records from the Hughes family Bible, is kindly contributed by
Miss M. A. Greene of Providence.
Children:
1410. Mary Hughes, born January 4, 1783, died June 9, 1818; married, about
1799, Burrows Aboni of Providence. Their children were: Gasherie
Brasher, bom May 3, 1800, died June 17, 1806; Mary Helen, bom August
12, 1802, died June 17, 1804; Henry Alexander, born August 12, 1804, died