Jonathan was born in 1746 to Increase Greene Phebe Matteson in Warwick, Rhode Island. He died young.
The Greenes of Rhode Island, with historical records of English ancestry, 1534-1902, by General George Sears Greene, page 135, 1903 [1]
159. INCREASE^4 GREENE (John^3, James^2, John^1) was born April 12, 1717, in Coventry, R. I. He removed to New York State, but the date of removal is not given. He was a farmer at Berlin, Rensselaer County, N. Y., where he died in 1810. He married (i), April 28, 1743, Phebe, daughter of Francis Matteson of West Greenwich, R. I. (Friends' Meeting Record), and (2), January 17, 1750, Ruth, widow of William Greene, and daughter of John Greene (of Kingstown and West Greenwich, not of Warwick Greenes) and his first wife, Mary Aylesworth, who was on the maternal side a great-granddaughter of Rev. Chad Brown of Providence and of Rev. Obadiah Holmes of Newport.
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