Bartholomew, son of Samuel Green and Sarah Clark, was born on 26 Aug 1667 (October 26, 1667) in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
[1][2] Bartholomew, a printer, died 28 Dec 1732 in Boston, Massachusetts Colony.
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"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images,
citing Birth, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966,
FamilySearch Record: FCMB-RXT (accessed 31 March 2023)
FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L9QY-H3R9 Image number 00079,
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Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 16 November 2023), memorial page for Bartholomew Green II (26 Oct 1667–28 Dec 1732), Find A Grave: Memorial #20898940, citing Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; maintained by CMWJR (contributor 50059520), three headstone photos.
Birth: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, citing Birth, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966, FamilySearch Record: FCMB-RXT (accessed 31 March 2023) FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L9QY-H3R9 Image number 00079, Bartholmew Greene born on 26 Aug 1667, son of Samuel Greene & Sarah, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Page 51 "Bartholomew Green, the son of Samuel Green, was born at Cambridge, Oct. 12, 1666", "in 1690 married Mary Short, daughter of Clement Short, of Kittery, who was born about 1666."
Page 379: "Green, Bartholomew, the first newspaper printer in Amer., ... He was a son of Samuel Green, printer, and succeeded to his business. He first set up his press in Cambridge, afterward at Bostonq, where it was destroyed by fire, 16 Sept. 1690. In the winter of 1692-3 he resumed business in Boston. Apr. 24, 1704, he issued the first number of the Boston News-Letter, a publication continued by him during his life. He also pub. the Weekly News-Letter, which was afterwards combined with the other; and it was then styled the Boston Weekly News-Letter. His descendants were printers in Boston till the Revol. and in Ct. long afterwards."
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