Life of Nathanael Greene

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I was born and grew up in the midst of men and women who had known my grandfather as a public and a private man, and seen him in all the various relations Of life. In my seventeenth year I became the inmate of the house of one of his dearest friends, General Lafayette. Among all who had known him I found but one Opinion both of his greatness and his goodness, of the vigor and depth of his mind, of the warmth and purity of his heart.