James Green (bef. 1748 - 1811)

Born before 1748 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, British Colonial America

Husband of Ann (Throckmorton) Green — married before 1774 in Freehold, Monmouth, NJ

Died 14 Sep 1811 after age 63 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States

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James Green is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A047012.

Captain James Green was Prisoner of War during American Revolution.

Biography

According to F. Grimes Sitherwood, James Green may have been a seafaring man prior to the Revolutionary War. He definitely was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and afterwards, rising to the rank of Brigadier General. Hw was interred at Christ Church, Shrewsbury, (NJ?)

GREEN, JAMES

Ancestor #: A047012

Service: NEW JERSEY

Rank(s): CAPTAIN

Birth: ANTE 1748 SHREWSBURY NEW JERSEY

Death: 9-14-1811 SHREWSBURY NEW JERSEY

Service Description: 1) 3RD REGT, MONMOUTH CO, MILITIA

RESIDENCE: 1) City: SHREWSBURY - State: NEW JERSEY

SPOUSE: 1) ANN X

Child son: JAMES GREEN, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] CAROLINE MATILDA

On March 30, 1780, the Black Brigade captured Captain James Green and Ensign John Morris.[5] In the same raid, Colonel Tye and his men looted and burned the home of John Russell, a Patriot known for his raids on Staten Island.[5] Shortly thereafter, Tye and his men killed Russell and wounded his young son.[5]

Beginning in June 1780, Tye led more attacks in Monmouth County. His forces attacked and killed Joseph Murray in his home in retaliation for Murray's vigilante executions of loyalists.[4] He also raided Captain Barnes Smock, a leader of Patriot militia in Monmouth County. Tye captured 12 of Smock's supporters and destroyed his artillery.[2] In one noteworthy raid on June 22, 1780, Tye and his men captured James Mott, the second major in the Monmouth's militia regiment; James Johnson, a captain in the Hunterdon militia, and 6 other militia men.[5] On September 1, 1780, Tye led a small group of African Americans and Queen's Rangers to Colt's Neck, New Jersey, with the aim of raiding the home of Captain Joshua Huddy. Known for his swift execution of captured Loyalists, Huddy was an important target for Tye and his band. Tye briefly captured Huddy, but in a surprise attack, a party of Patriots helped Huddy escape.[4] Huddy and a female servant had managed to resist Tye's band for two hours before the Loyalists set fire to the house.[2] The Patriots injured Tye in the fight, firing a musket ball through his wrist.[1]^[1]

Sources

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A047012

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tye

• Sitherwood, Frances Grimes, "Throckmorton Family History being the Record of the Throckmortons in the United States of America with Cognate Branches", Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Co. Bloomington, Illinois (1929)