Background
Joseph Green was born, presumably in Boston, some time in 1706.
( The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W031799 Attributed to Green by Evans. Wegelin enters under both Green and Mather Byles. Boston : Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1766. 16p. ; 4°
https://www.amazon.com/eclogue-Jonathan-departed-salutis-humanae/dp/1140717235?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1140717235
(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
https://www.amazon.com/Entertainment-winters-evening-account-wonderful/dp/1113361654?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1113361654
Joseph Green was born, presumably in Boston, some time in 1706.
Joseph probably attended the South Grammar School. He graduated from Harvard in 1726.
In 1726 Joseph became a merchant and, for a time at least, a distiller. He was well known in Boston society, and by the marriages of his brothers and sisters connected with several prominent Boston families - Wheelwrights, Bulfinches, and others.
Green had a pew in the First Church and for a time served on its standing committee. His house was defaced by the patriots and, refusing the appointment, in 1775 he took refuge in London. He was named in the act of banishment passed in Massachusetts in 1778.
Known in his own day as a wit and poet he is interesting to-day as a layman in literature at a time when in Boston there were not many such. Some of his occasional verse, most of it satirical, is at least as good as that of any of his American contemporaries.
He died in London.
Green has been called "the foremost wit of his day. " He often exchanged parodies and satiric poems with another Boston wit, Mather Byles. A mock epitaph written on him early in his life is revealing: Green wrote much that cannot now be identified. He probably contributed to the New-England Weekly Journal and had a hand in satires against Governor Belcher. Other writings safely to be called his are: “The Poet’s Lamentation for the Loss of His Cat, which He Used to Call His Muse” a parody on a hymn by Mather Byles; Entertainment for a Winter’s Evening, The Grand Arcanum Detected; lines on a picture of John Checkley; a poem to a niece about a gift to him. Among the pieces more or less dubiously ascribed to Green are: The Dying Speech of Old Tenor, Mournful Lamentation for the Sad and Deplorable Death of Mr. Old Tenor, a Native of New England; An Eclogue Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Mayhew; “Epitaph on John Cole”; “Extempore on the Fourth Latin School Being Taken Down to Make Room for Enlarging the Chapel Church”.
( The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration...)
(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
As the Revolution approached he became a Loyalist, and did not sign the non-importation agreement of 1769.
In 1774, after some hesitation, he joined in an address from the merchants to Governor Hutchinson, protesting against the course of the patriots and against the “Solemn League and Covenant” suspending commercial intercourse with Great Britain. In the same year his appointment as a counsellor of the province testified to the government’s confidence in his loyalty.
He belonged to the Fire Club and to a French Club, the members of which met to talk in French.
Joseph married, probably after 1742, an unidentified Elizabeth, who outlived him; but no children, if any were born, were alive when he died.
