The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Green, Jacob page 390 GREEN, Jacob, educator, was born at Malden, Mass., Jan. 22, 1721-22; son of Jacob and Dorothy (Lynde) Green; grandson of Lieut. Henry and Esther (Hasse) Green, and a descendant of Thomas and Elizabeth Green(e) who came to America about 1635. His father died in 1723 and his mother was subsequently married to John Barrett. About 1730 Jacob removed with his mother and stepfather to Killingly, Conn., where he remained until 1739, when he decided to enter college. He accordingly sold his patrimony and entered a preparatory school. He was graduated from Harvard in 1744 and taught school at Sutton, Mass., 1744-45. In the latter year he joined the Rev. George Whitefield, the evangelist, and accompanied him to Elizabeth-town, N.J., where he studied theology under the Rev. Aaron Burr. In November, 1746, he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Hanover, N.J., and to augment his small salary he studied and practised medicine. In 1774 he built a schoolhouse and established a Latin school. He was one of the first trustees of the College of New Jersey, 1748-64, and was vice-president of the institution, 1758-59, being acting president from the death of President Jonathan Edwards, March 22, 1758, to the installation of President Samuel Davies in November, 1758 In the spring of 1776, he published a tract entitled "Observations on the Reconciliation of Great Britain and the Colonies, in which are Exhibited Arguments for and against that [p.390] Measure, by a Friend of American Liberty." This pamphlet was widely circulated. In May, 1776, Mr. Green was elected a member of the Provincial congress of New Jersey, organized at Burlington, June 10, 1776. On June 24, he was made chairman of a committee appointed to prepare the constitution of New Jersey, which was adopted July 2, 1776, and remained the organic law of the state until 1844. Mr. Green wrote many articles on the currency under the pen-name of "Eumenes," and several of his suggestions were subsequently embodied in the laws passed by the Continental congress. He was married Oct. 19, 1757, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Pierson of Woodbridge, N.J., and granddaughter of the Rev. Abraham Pierson, first president of Yale college. The College of New Jersey conferred on him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1749. His published works are Sermons (1768); A Pamphlet on the Jewish Church (1768); and Sermons (1769). His son contributed his Autobiography to the Christian Advocate. He died in Hanover, N.J., May 24, 1796. Deloris Williams