Greene, Catharine Ray (d. 1794)
Greene, Catharine Ray (d. 1794)
American letter writer. Died 1794 in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Met Benjamin Franklin in early twenties and began lifelong correspondence with him and his sister Jane Franklin Mecom; letters published as Benjamin Franklin and Catharine Ray Greene: Their Correspondence 1755–1790 (1949).
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