Ron Chernow Quote
Unfortunately, Greene’s personal finances were in no less disorderly a state than those of the country at large: he had accumulated such heavy debts guaranteeing contracts for the southern army that it gave him much pain and preyed heavily upon my spirits.38 He also revealed to Washington in August 1784 that for two months he had experienced a dangerous and disagree[able] pain in his chest, which sounds like heart disease.39 In June 1786, while at his estate near Savannah, Georgia, he was seized at the table with a violent pain in his eye and head, followed by his death a few days later.
Ron Chernow
Unfortunately, Greene’s personal finances were in no less disorderly a state than those of the country at large: he had accumulated such heavy debts guaranteeing contracts for the southern army that it gave him much pain and preyed heavily upon my spirits.38 He also revealed to Washington in August 1784 that for two months he had experienced a dangerous and disagree[able] pain in his chest, which sounds like heart disease.39 In June 1786, while at his estate near Savannah, Georgia, he was seized at the table with a violent pain in his eye and head, followed by his death a few days later.
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