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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 12 Apr 1759 Leicester / Worcester / MA Death: 11 Apr 1832 Marietta / Washington / OH
Qualifying Service Description:
Private in Capt Seth Washburn's Company, Col Ward's MA Regt
Additional References:
1835 Roster of Pensioners
Spouse: Eliza Greene Children: Members Who Share This Ancestor
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*This means that the NSSAR has no applications for this Patriot on file.
Instead the information provided is best effort, and from volunteers who have either researched grave sites, service records, or something similar. There is no documentation available at NSSAR HQ to order.
photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR
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Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn
GREEN, JOHN, (Washington County, Ohio) [39.41998 -81.45187]
John Green was born April 12, 1759 at Leicester, Massachusetts, a son of John Green and Ruth Matteson Green. He enlisted in the Massachusetts Line on July 13, 1775 Descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the Continental Army for the term of 6 months, agreeable to resolve on June 5,1780; age, 21 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 8 in.; complexion, light; engaged for town of Leicester; marched to camp July 1780, under command of Captain Frothingham of the artillery; also, list of men raised for the 6 months service and returned by Brigadier General Paterson as having passed muster in a return dated Camp Totoway, Oct. 25, 1780; residence, Lancaster, Leicester, a Private in Captain Seth Washburn's Company, Colonel Jonathan Ward's Regiment; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted July 13, 1775; service, 19 days; also, company return dated Oct 8, 1775. Leicester. Matross. Captain Joseph Balch's 2nd Company, Colonel Thomas Craft's Artillery Regiment; service from February 1, 1777 to May 8, 1777, being 3 months 7 days. He married Eliza Greene; Children: None. He applied for a pension April 16, 1818 as a resident of Washington County, Ohio, Ref# S42756. He received an annual allowance of $96.00. He died at 73 years of age April 11, 1832 at Marietta, Ohio and was buried at Mound Cemetery at 5th and Scammel Streets, Marietta, Ohio 45750. Cemetery Notes: The Mound Cemetery was established in 1801 by the citizens of Marietta, Ohio, to preserve an Ohio Hopewell burial mound dating from 100 BC to 500 AD, and provide for settler burials. After the Revolutionary War, the area along the Ohio River and Marietta attracted many veterans rewarded with land grants. General Rufus Putnam donated land for the cemetery. The cemetery is thought to have the largest number of Revolutionary War officer burials, among other important Ohio River pioneer settlers and Northwest Territory politicians. Burials continue to today despite the limited space. Memorial Inscription: "A soldier from his youth, first in the cause that freed our country from a tyrant's laws, and then through manhood to his latest breath, in the best cause which triumphs over death." There is a grave marker given by the Marietta Chapter with a Revolutionary War marker. The marker was replaced in 1920. He has a Veterans Administration headstone and SAR marker. Further information: Marietta Chapter: Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pg. SAR. 1993. Also SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Company: Buffalo, New York, 1998. On 1835 Roster of Pensioners. Mrs. Orville Dailey, The Official Roster of Soldiers of The American Revolution Buried In The State of Ohio. Virgil White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Volume 2, (Waynesboro, Tennessee: National Historical Publishing Company, 1900), pg. 1422. Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 6 (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1896), pg. 813, 814. Pension Roll of 1835, Volume IV, Mid-Western States, Genealogical Publishing Company Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994, pg. 223.
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