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Gardiner Greene
Gardiner Greene (1753–1832) was a cotton planter and merchant from Boston, Massachusetts who conducted business from his plantation, Greenfield, in Demerara (Guyana) in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Socially prominent in the town of Boston, he owned a house, greenhouse, and garden filled with fruit trees and peacocks on Cotton Hill, opposite Scollay Square. He was also the son-in-law of painter John Singleton Copley.
==Biography==
Greene was born in Boston, September 23, 1753, to Benjamin Greene and Mary Chandler.〔The Greene family in England and America. Boston: Priv. print, 1901.〕 He first travelled to Demerara in 1774. "He resided in Demarara for many years, and laid the foundation of a large fortune"〔Letters to Gardiner Greene. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 13 (June 1873); p.56+〕 shipping cotton, coffee, rum, and the like. Associates there included William Parkinson, a plantation owner in Mahaica.〔Letters from William Parkinson in Demerary to G. Greene in Boston, 1781-1795, in: Four old letters from Demerara. (Timehri ): the journal of the Royal agricultural and commercial society of British Guiana, Volume 8. 1894.〕
Around 1804 in Boston Greene and business associates William Tudor, Harrison Gray Otis and Jonathan Mason undertook the development of the South Boston Bridge, completed in 1805.〔Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff. A topographical and historical description of Boston, Part 1. Boston: Printed by request of the City Council, 1871; p.422.〕〔Whitehill. 1968; p.76+〕
Greene served as an official of the United States Bank and the Provident Institution for Savings.〔Boston Directory. 1823.〕〔Scudder. 1915; p.42.〕 He was a proprietor of the Boston Athenaeum,〔The Athenæum centenary. 1917; p. 128.〕 a member of the Boston Episcopal Charitable Society,〔Laws and regulations of the Boston Episcopal Charitable Society, instituted in the year 1724, and incorporated by the legislature of the commonwealth of Massachusetts in the month of February, 1784. Boston: H. Sprague, 1805.〕 and a supporter of the Boston Asylum for Indigent Boys.〔An account of the Boston Asylum for Indigent Boys, the act of incorporation, bye-laws, and the rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Managers. Boston: Nathaniel Willis, 1816.〕 In Boston, Greene's acquaintances included Kirk Boott (1755–1817) of Bowdoin Square.〔Emmet. 1997.〕
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