Last updated: August 11, 2021
Person
Jack Green
Quick Facts
Significance:
Patriot of Color at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Place of Birth:
Reading, Massachusetts(?)
Date of Birth:
Circa 1742
The following is from the 2004 National Park Service study Patriots of Color researched and prepared by George Quintal:
Jack Green was born circa 1742.I
He enlisted on 30 May 1775 in the company of Capt. Samuel Sprague, in Col. Samuel Gerrish’s regiment. On 13 June 1775 he, with others at the Camp at Cambridge, took an oath required by Congress. His Colonel was cashiered because of behavior at the Battle scene and Lt. Col. Loammi Baldwin took over. Green was at ‘Camp at Chelsea’ in August 1775 and was still there on 2 October.II
A Jack Green, ‘servant to Capt. David Green,’ and undoubtedly the same man as the soldier above, filed intentions to marry in Stoneham on 12 April 1768 to Cloe, ‘servant to Dea. Joseph Green.’III No record has been found to confirm their actual marriage.
Footnotes:
- Birth date backwardly-computed, based on average age of marriage of 26 (per study of compiler).
- Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1896-1908) 6:809. Also 2-CD Family Tree MakerTM set “Military Records: Revolutionary War.”
- Vital Records to 1850. Births, Marriages and Deaths. Vols for most Massachusetts towns, Stoneham, Marriages (under “Negroes”).