Gardiner Greene

Gardiner Greene
portrait by John Neagle
Born	23 September 1753  Boston
Died	19 December 1832  (aged 79) Boston
Spouse(s)	Ann Reading, Elizabeth Hubbard, Elizabeth Copley
Children	11, including Benjamin Daniel Greene[1]

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.