Jacob Green papers, 1722-1790.

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Jacob Green papers, 1722-1790.

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This collection consists of a transcript of an autobiography, written by Jacob Green and edited by his son Ashbel for publication in The Christian Advocate. The autobiography covers Green's early life, his college experiences, and the years of his ministry until 1777. The final 13 years of his life are not included in the autobiography and are presumed lost. His son adds an addendum to the autobiography, where he writes of his father's experiences during the American Revolution, and also of the illness that took his father's life in 1790. The collection also consists of 10 letters written by Jacob Green for publication in The New Jersey Journal from November 6, 1779 through June 19, 1782.

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Green, Jacob, 1722-1790

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Reverend Jacob Green was born at Malden, Massachusetts, in 1722. He graduated from Harvard in 1744 and set out for Georgia with Reverend Whitefield. When they reached Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Green decided to remain there where he studied divinity under the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson; he became the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, in 1746. Despite being a member of the clergy, Rev. Green took an active role in political issues, throwing his suppor...

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Dickinson, Jonathan, 1688-1747

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Tennent, Gilbert, 1703-1764

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Whitefield, George, 1714-1770

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Green, Ashbel, 1762-1848

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Philadelphia clergyman. From the description of ALS : Princeton, to Robert L. Green, 1812 Dec. 31. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580962 Ashbel Green; prominent Presbyterian during Federal period; pastor, Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.); chaplain, U.S. Congress (1792-1800); Stated Clerk, General Assembly (1790-1803) and later Moderator (1824); President of Princeton University (1812-1822); a founder of Princeton Theological Seminary. ...

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Samuel Mather (1677-1746) was a member of a prominent Connecticut family. He was born in Branford, Connecticut in 1677; his parents were the Reverend Samuel and Hannah (Treat) Mather. When Samuel was four, his family moved to Windsor, Connecticut. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1698 and an A.M. in 1701. He began studying medicine in 1698 and by 1702 he was admitted "to be a Practitioner of Physick and Chyrurgy." He was quickly successful, and in 1710 was appointed a surgeon to...