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Jacob Green was a descendant of Thomas Green who came to New England about 1635, and the son of Jacob and Dorothy (Lynde) Green. He was born on February 2, 1722, in Malden, Massachusets.
When Jacob the younger was little more than a year old his father died, and when he was seven, his mother having married again, he was taken to live in Killingly, Connecticut.
After attempting to learn a trade under several masters, Green prepared for college and entered Harvard, from which he graduated in 1744. While a student he was greatly influenced religiously by the preaching of Whitefield and Gilbert Tennent. After his graduation he taught school in Sutton, Massachussets, and in 1745 he was licensed to preach.
In November 1746 Green was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian church, Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, a relationship which continued until his death. He performed his pastoral duties faithfully but also engaged in numerous other activities. For thirty years he ministered extensively to the physical welfare of the people. In 1774 he built a school-house and taught Latin to eight scholars. He also drafted wills and settled estates, carried on farming, and ran a grist-mill and distillery. In 1748 he became a trustee of the newly founded College of New Jersey, serving for sixteen years. For eight months (1758-1759) he acted as vice-president and was in charge of the institution. He took advanced ground on the question of slavery, and incurred the wrath of neighboring slaveholders. Before the War of Independence he outspokenly upheld the colonists' cause, and published in 1776 a pamphlet, Observations on the Reconciliation of Great Britain and the Colonies, by a Friend of American Liberty. During the war, proximity to the British lines exposed him to danger, but he refused to leave his home for safety. When the Continental paper money was issued he published in the New Jersey Journal (November-December 1779) "Letters on Our Paper Currency, " pointing out the inevitable effect of such an issue, and proposing a plan for the liquidation of this currency similar to that which was finally adopted. Green was a member of the Provincial Congress of 1776, and chairman of the committee to draft the constitution of the state. This instrument, reported after two days and adopted a week later, remained in force till 1844. In 1780 Green led a group of four ministers who, objecting to the control exercised over churches and ministers by presbyteries and the synod, withdrew from the Presbyterian Church and formed what soon was called the Associated Presbytery of Morris County. In their organization Presbyterian views regarding the ministry were combined with Congregational polity. The movement for the formation of "associated presbyteries" flourished during thirty years, chiefly in New York State, and then passed away. Besides the writings mentioned, he published sermons, and other pamphlets, including An Inquiry into the Constitution and Discipline of the Jewish Church (1768), and A Vision of Hell, and a Discovery of Some of the Consultations and Devices There in the Year 1767 (1776), which went through several editions. Green died in Hanover, New Jersey, on May 24, 1790.
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Green took advanced ground on the question of slavery and incurred the wrath of neighboring slaveholders. Before the War of Independence, he outspokenly upheld the colonists’ cause and published in 1776, a pamphlet, Observations on the Reconciliation of Great Britain and the Colonies, by a Friend of American Liberty.
Quotations: “If I somewhat increased my worldly estate, I also increased sorrow and incurred blame, in all things except the practice of physics. ”
Green married, in June 1747, Anna Strong of Brookhaven, Long Island (died 1756), and, in October 1757, Elizabeth Pierson of Woodbridge, New Jersey, granddaughter of Abraham Pierson, first president of Yale College.
One of his ten children was the distinguished clergyman Ashbel Green.
6 May 1689 - 19 July 1723
21 February 1723 - 29 July 1796
19 June 1716 - 22 April 1797
1725 - 25 November 1756
1726 - 3 August 1810
1749 - 14 July 1825
