Born in Malden, Mass, June 17, 1746, the 4th in descent from James Green, freeman of the Colony, and a settler of that town in 1617.
Graduated at Harvard College, 1765, Surgeon in the army of the Revolution, 1775 and 1776 and in the ship of War Ranger, Capt. John Paul Jones, 1777 and 1778.
Member of the Convention for the adoption of the Constitution of the U.S.
Deacon of the Cong. Church in Dover from 1790.
Humble and devout, sincere and upright, benevolent, faithful and consistent, his life was an illustration of the Christian Patriot.
With intellect unclouded, and a Faith which had sustained him through long infirmity, he died July 25, 1847, at the age of 101 years, at the end of the 2nd century from the first settlement of the family in this country and the oldest Graduate of HARVARD COLLEGE.
On the day which completed his century, he said: thank God that I am able to contemplate Him as my Father in Heaven. Through Jesus Christ, his Mediator, I have hope in his mercy and a perfect trust in his paternal goodness.
Born in Malden, Mass, June 17, 1746, the 4th in descent from James Green, freeman of the Colony, and a settler of that town in 1617.
Graduated at Harvard College, 1765, Surgeon in the army of the Revolution, 1775 and 1776 and in the ship of War Ranger, Capt. John Paul Jones, 1777 and 1778.
Member of the Convention for the adoption of the Constitution of the U.S.
Deacon of the Cong. Church in Dover from 1790.
Humble and devout, sincere and upright, benevolent, faithful and consistent, his life was an illustration of the Christian Patriot.
With intellect unclouded, and a Faith which had sustained him through long infirmity, he died July 25, 1847, at the age of 101 years, at the end of the 2nd century from the first settlement of the family in this country and the oldest Graduate of HARVARD COLLEGE.
On the day which completed his century, he said: thank God that I am able to contemplate Him as my Father in Heaven. Through Jesus Christ, his Mediator, I have hope in his mercy and a perfect trust in his paternal goodness.
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ae 101 yrs
Gravesite Details
b. Malden, Mass, grad Harvard 1765, Surgeon on the Ranger under John Paul Jones
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Records on Ancestry
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Geneanet Community Trees Index
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A Record of the Services of the Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men of Kittery and Eliot, Maine (Indexed)
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Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889
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Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915
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The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-1927
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