Ashbel Green (1762 - 1848)

Born 6 Jul 1762 in Hanover Township, Province of New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Christiana (Anderson) Green — married 16 Oct 1809 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 19 May 1848 at age 85 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Sergeant Ashbel Green served with Morris County Militia, New Jersey Militia during the American Revolution.

Ashbel Green is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A046805.

Ashbel Green is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-169695
Rank: Soldier

Ashbel Green, D.D. (July 6, 1762 – May 19, 1848) was an American Presbyterian minister and academic.

Born in Hanover Township, New Jersey, Green served as a sergeant of the New Jersey militia during the American Revolutionary War, and went on to study with Dr. John Witherspoon and graduate as valedictorian from Princeton University in 1783.[1] Green later became the third Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives from 1792 to 1800, the eighth (and highly unpopular, due to what many students saw as his heavy-handed leadership style) President of Princeton University, from 1812 to 1822, and the second President of the Bible Society at Philadelphia (now known as the Pennsylvania Bible Society) after having been one its founding members in 1808.[2]

He emancipated his family's slave Betsey Stockton in 1817, taught her and recommended her as a missionary to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, making her the first single female overseas missionary. He also published a periodical entitled the Christian Advocate.

Green married Elizabeth Stockton on November 3, 1785. They had three children: Robert Stockton Green (1787–1813), Jacob Green (1790–1841), and James Sproat Green (1792–1862), the latter of whom served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and was the father of Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895), Governor of New Jersey. After his first wife died in January 1807, he married Christina Anderson in October 1809. They had one child: Ashbel Green, Jr. (b. 1811)

Daughters of the American Revolution information: GREEN, ASHBEL Ancestor #: A046805 Service: NEW JERSEY Rank(s): SOLDIER Birth: 7-6-1762 HANOVER TWP NEW JERSEY Death: 5-19-1848 PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA CO PENNSYLVANIA Residence 1) City: HANOVER - State: NEW JERSEY Spouse(s): (1) ELIZABETH STOCKTON, (2) X ANDERSON,(3): X MC CULLOCH, Child a son: James S. GREEN his [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ISABELLA W. MCCULLOCH

Slaves

• Betsey Stockton (abt.1798-1865)

See: https://www.morven.org/betsey

See source: Escher, Constance K. She calls herself Betsey Stockton : the illustrated odyssey of a Princeton slave. United States: Resource Publications, 2022..

Summary

Merging scholarly research and biographical narrative, She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton reveals the true life of a freed and highly educated slave in the Antebellum North. Betsey Stockton's odyssey began in 1798 in Princeton, New Jersey, as "Bet," the child of a slave mother, who captured the heart of her owner and surrogate father Ashbel Green, President of Princeton University. Advanced lessons at Princeton Theological Seminary matched her with lifelong friends Rev. Charles S. Stewart and his pregnant bride Harriet, as the three endured an 158-day voyage as Presbyterian missionaries to the Sandwich Islands in 1823. Armchair sailors will savor Stockton's own pre-Moby Dick whaleship journal of her time at sea, a shipboard birth, and life at Lahaina, Maui, where Stockton is celebrated as founding the first school for non-royal Hawaiians. Back on US soil, Stockton became surrogate mother to the Stewarts' three children, sailed with missionaries on the Barge Canal to the Ojibwa Mission School, and later returned to her hometown, establishing a church and four schools which are the centers of a still-vibrant African American Historic District of Witherspoon-Jackson. Description 197 pages : maps, illustrated ; 24 cm.

Sources

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A046805
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KNJG-HC8
• Drake, Francis. Dictionary of American Biography (Houghton, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1879)

Page 378-9: "Green, Ashbel D.D. (U of Pa. 1792) LL.D. (U. of N.C. 1812) scholar and divine, b. Hanover, N.J., July 6, 1762; d. Phila. May 19, 1848. N.J. Coll. 1783. In early life he performed military duty, and was in imminent danger at the attack on Elizabethtown Point. Tutor in N.J. Coll. 1783-5; prof of math. and nat. philos. from 1785 to May, 1787, when he became assoc. pastor of the Second Presb. Church of Phila.; in 1790 he was a member of the Gen. Assembly; in the summer of 1791 he made a tour in N. England; from 1792 to 1800 he was chaplain to Congress; in 1809 he was one of the founders of the Phila. Bible Society, the first society of the kind formed the U.S. During the 25 years of his ministry, he was regarded as tho first pulpit orator connected with the Presb. church in the U.S. In 1812-22 he was pres. of N.J. Coll. He subsequently resided in Phila. conducting for 12 years the Christian Advocate and also, for 2-1/2 years, preaching to an African congregation. For a number of years he exercised a controlling influence over the affairs of the Presb. church; was influential in the organization the Home Missionary and other boards of church; and took an active and decided part the measures which led to the division of church in 1836-7. While pres. of the coll., he originated with a few others, the Theol. Sem. at Princeton, and at the time of his death, pres. of its board of directors. Pres. of trustees of the Jefferson Med. School of Phila.; member of tho Amer. Philos. Soc. He pub. a "Discourse delivered in the Coll. of N.J., with a History of the Coll.," 1822; "A History of Presbyterian Missions;" "Lectures the Shorter Catechism," 2 vols.; 11 original discourses, besides addresses, reports, &c.; An autobiography, commenced at the age of 82, pub. by Joseph H. Jones, N.Y., 1849 -Sprague."

• Wikipedia:Ashbel_Green

• "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZV3G-ST6Z : 16 September 2021), Rev'd Ashbel Green,

• "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q285-J6ZW : 22 July 2021), Ashbel Green and Christina Anderson, 16 Oct 1809; citing Marriage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.

• "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZJ4-6VS : 20 January 2020), Ashbel Green, 1815.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10656050/ashbel-green : accessed 31 December 2021), memorial page for Ashbel Green (6 Jul 1762–19 May 1848), Find a Grave Memorial ID 10656050, citing Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by Santita Ogren (contributor 49263382) .

See Also: Paged 135-5 The Forgotten Victory, The Battle for New Jersey - 1780 by Thomas Fleming, Reader`s Digest Press 1973. New York