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Joseph Green

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Joseph Green Veteran

Birth
Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
12 Jun 1835 (aged 80)
Sodus, Wayne County, New York, USA
Burial
Sodus, Wayne County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 43.2351568, Longitude: -77.0621671
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Joseph Green was twenty-one years old when the Revolutionary war broke out. He was one of the forty men who marched to the Plymouth County Court House and compelled the Royal Court to disperse. He served through the war, was in several prominent battles, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. Joseph Green settled in East Windsor, Mass., afterwards moved to Williamstown to educate his children. He passed his last years in Sodus with his son, Hon. Byram Green, and died June 12, 1835, aged eighty-one. He was buried in the old village cemetery. Though entitled to a pension under the law of 1830-'31, he declined to apply. He was a Captain in the army, and served under General Stark.

Title Military history of Wayne county, N.Y.: The county in the civil war
Author Lewis H. Clark
Publisher Lewis H. Clark, Hulett & Gaylord

GREEN
Joseph, June 12, 1835, 81y
Mehetable, wife, Dec. 15, 1823, 66y

Joseph Green was twenty-one years old when the Revolutionary war broke out. He was one of the forty men who marched to the Plymouth County Court House and compelled the Royal Court to disperse. He served through the war, was in several prominent battles, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. Joseph Green settled in East Windsor, Mass., afterwards moved to Williamstown to educate his children. He passed his last years in Sodus with his son, Hon. Byram Green, and died June 12, 1835, aged eighty-one. He was buried in the old village cemetery. Though entitled to a pension under the law of 1830-'31, he declined to apply. He was a Captain in the army, and served under General Stark.

Title Military history of Wayne county, N.Y.: The county in the civil war
Author Lewis H. Clark
Publisher Lewis H. Clark, Hulett & Gaylord

GREEN
Joseph, June 12, 1835, 81y
Mehetable, wife, Dec. 15, 1823, 66y

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Continental Line
Revolutionary War



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  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45348030/joseph-green: accessed ), memorial page for Joseph Green (28 Oct 1754–12 Jun 1835), Find a Grave Memorial ID 45348030, citing Old Mill Street Cemetery, Sodus, Wayne County, New York, USA; Maintained by yorkies1 (contributor 47126442).