Katharine Greene Amory

Katharine Greene Amory (Nov. 22, 1731–April 22, 1777) was an 18th-century Bostonian known for the journal she kept during the American Revolution. It is valued by historians for its record of daily life and for its window onto the viewpoint of a Loyalist woman. Early years Katharine Greene was born in Boston in 1731, the oldest daughter of silversmith Rufus Greene and Katherine (Stanbridge) Greene. Career In 1756, she married John Amory (1728–1803), a Boston merchant. They had 10 children, 6 sons and 4 daughters. One of their daughters, Rebecca, married lawyer John Lowell, while another married philanthropist John McClean, after whom McLean Hospital is named. Both Amory and her husband were Loyalists, so with the American Revolution under way in May 1775, they moved to London, leaving their children with members of his family. She died in London in 1777 and John returned to America, though he was prevented from going back to Boston by the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778.