Died at the residence of his daughter Mrs. Benjamin F. Thompson at Hempstead, Long Island.

A Revolutionary War soldier who served three years and was wounded on three occasions, the last at White Marsh, Pennsylvania, the last putting him out of action for the remainder of the war. He served under both Washington and Greene.

Served three years in the Revolutionary War (from Jan 1776 to Jan 1779); during which time he was engaged in three severe battles: Throgg's Point, White Plains, and White Marsh (northwest of Philadelphia). He was wounded at the Battle of White Marsh on Dec 7, 1777, a musket ball entering his left shoulder fracturing the scapula and clavicle.

Admitted to Dartmouth College in 1782 under the pastoral charge of Rev Sylvanus Ripley. Due to his failing health, he left Dartmouth and studied privately under Rev Dr Huntington and Rev Dr Green; he self-qualified and on 1 January 1785, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Morris county NJ. (Although he never graduated at Dartmouth College, he was conferred an honorary Baccalaureate in 1800.) He was an itinerant minister, traveling through New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. In May 1786 accepted the call from Fourth Church in Southold, ordained by the Morris County Presbytery on 28 June 1787, dimissed on 9 Sep 1797 and installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Brookhaven (Setauket) on 27 Sept 1797.

m1 Sarah Fleet (11 May 1767-16 Apr 1849) m 28 June 1786
Children:
- Lewis Fleet Greene (2 June 1787-20 Feb 1853) m Charity Woodhull
- Sally Fleet Greene (7 Sept 1788-) m Capt Charles Jayne
- Samuel White Greene (27 Nov 1789-10 Oct 1790)
- Samuel White Greene (22 Apr 1790-)

m2 Abigail Howard (3 July 1765-16 Apr 1849)
Children:
- Mary Howard Greene (5 Oct 1794-) m Dr Benjamin Franklin Thompson
- Herman Dagget Greene (31 May 1796-23 Oct 1827) m Harriet Maria Carpenter
- Abigail White Greene (20 Dec 1798-16 Oct 1855)
- William Howard Greene (23 Nov 1800-14 Aug 1828)
- Susan Howard Greene (15 Nov 1803-18 Feb 1826) m John Gilbert Fleet

Source:
- Record of My Life and of the Greene Family by Rev Zachariah Greene (1851) in Genealogies of Long Island Families By Charles Jolly Werner, Benjamin Franklin Thompson (1919)
- Eulogoy on the Life and Character of Rev. Zachariah Greene, compiled by John Ordronaux (1859)
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Below provided by Sheron Smith-Savage

Greene, Zachariah--The son of Samuel and Jane Greene, was born Jan. 11, 1760, in Stafford, Conn. His grand-parents by his mother's side, were from Ireland, his mother was descended from Peregrine White, who was the first white child born in New England. When the revolutionary struggles began he joined the army, and was present on the Dorchester Heights, at the landing of the British at Throgg's Neck, at the battle of White Plains, N. Y., and in Nov. 1777, he was wounded by a musket ball in the shoulder, at the battle of White Marsh, Pa., which disabled him from further duty. On his recovery, he entered upon a course of liberal education, and in 1782, entered Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N. H. In the winter of 1782-3 there was a general awakening on the subject of religion, when he with about 50 others united with the Church under Rev. Sylvanus Ripley. His health failing, he did not remain in college to graduate, but having his thoughts turned towards the ministry, he studied Theology privately under Rev. Dr. Huntingdon, of Coventry, Conn., and subsequently with Rev. Dr. Green, of Hanover, N. J., the father of Rev. Ashbel Green, D.D., LL.D. He was licensed to preach by the Morris Presbytery, (a kind of Independent Presbytery) January 1, 1785, and by the same Presbytery ordained and installed over the Church in Cutchogue, Long Island, N. Y., June 28th, 1787. From the time of his being licensed and his installation, he preached as an itinerant missionary in N. York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. On June 28th, 1786, he married Miss Sarah Fleet of Huntingdon, Long Island, N. Y., she died in 1791, leaving four children. On Sept. 14, 1793, he married Miss Abigail Howard of Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., she died in 1849, in her 84th year, by his second wife he had five children. He remained in his first charge 10 years, when he was called to Setauket, Long Island, and was installed by the Suffolk County Presbytery, Sep. 27, 1797; here he remained until his death, as pastor for sixty-one years. The Rev. James S. Evans was installed junior pastor of Setauket Church, March 19, 1850.

On the death of his wife in 1849, he removed to Hempstead, L. I., N. Y., and resided with his daughter, Mrs. Benjamin F. Thompson. Here he died after a brief illness, on Monday, June 20, 1858, in the evening, aged 98 years, 5 months, and 10 days. His disease was a general breaking down of his system, though he retained his faculties to the last, calm, resigned, and even cheerful, his affairs all arranged, the text for his funeral sermon selected, no doubt or fear troubled him. The degree of A. B, was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College in 1800, and his name enrolled among its Alumni in 1858. He was the first President of the Old Suffolk Co. Bible Society, organized in 1815.

—Published in Joseph M. Wilson, The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrances of the Church, for 1860, Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson, 1860, pp. 71-72.