Samuel Green (1615 - 1702)

Born 1615 in England

Husband of Jane (Bainbridge) Green — married 16 Apr 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Husband of Sarah (Clark) Green — married 23 Feb 1662 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 1 Jan 1702 at about age 87 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Samuel Green immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Capt. Samuel /Green/was born 06 MAR 1618 in England, son of Bartholomew Green and Elizabeth Unknown. , He emigrated with parents and Gov. Winthrop in 1630^[1] [Winthrop connection has not been proved.] He was a proprietor in Cambridge from 1634 and was appointed doorkeeper of the General Court/House of Deputies 30 MAR 1644 ^[2] He was Clerk and Printer at Harvard College, 1649-1690. He was Capt of the Militia for 30 yrs. and long-time town clerk. He had 8 children by his first wife and 11 by his second.^[3] He married Jane Banbridge 16 APR 1640, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Colony. He married 2nd Sarah Clark(e) 23 Feb 1662 ,Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Colony.^[4] One of his most famous imprints was the Eliot Indian Bible,^[5] He passed away 01 JAN 1701/02, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Colony, ^[6]

Family

Wife: Jane Bainbridge

Child: Elizabeth Green

Child: Sarah Green

Child: Lydia Green

Child: Lydia Green

Child: Samuel Green

Child: Joseph Green

Child: Deborah Green

Notes

InfoPlease Encyclopedia on-line edition:

Green, Samuel, 1615? 1702, early American printer. He established himself at Cambridge, Mass., in 1649, using a press owned by Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard. Green succeeded Stephen Daye, who established the first printing plant in the colonies. The press that was sent to the colony in 1654 by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England was given to Green. He used it to produce his most famous imprints, John Eliot's Indian tracts and the Indian Bible. His imprints number nearly 300, among them editions of the Bay Psalm Book and The Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes. Green continued in business until 1692, and was succeeded by his son Bartholomew Green (1666?1732), printer and publisher of the Boston News-Letter (1704?07 and 1711?32).

The first printing press in English America was brought to the colonies in the spring of 1638 by the widow of Rev. Josse Glover. She married Harvard college president Henry Dunster.

In 1649 the press was turned over to Samuel Green in his position as clerk to the college. He was without any printing experience. Despite this handicap, Samuel operated the only printing office in the English Colonies until 1655.

Since Samuel issued the Platform Of Church Discipline from the Cambridge Press in 1649, the family tradition of printing has been followed through six generations

• Samuel Green had 16 children. 22 of his descendants (including 3 sons) and his wife's brother became printers and newspaper publishers. He married 1st-Jane Banbury, daughter of Guy and Justice Banbury and 2nd-Sarah Clark, daughter of Jonas Clark on 23 Feb 1662 in Cambridge MA. He died 1 Jan 1702^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ The American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking...by W W Pasko, published by H Lockwood, 1894, p245
2. ↑ Charles Henry Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts. Boston, 1900, p199 naming wife Jane and dob of 6 children link
3. ↑ The American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking...by WWPasko, published by H Lockwood, 1894, p245 wives and children not named link
4. ↑ U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line at Ancestry.com] Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. p322
5. ↑ Wikipedia link
6. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, transcription NEHGS database, pg102, 01 JAN 1701 Death Date and marked as uncertain.
7. ↑ . from The Green Family-Early CT Newspaper Publishers @ CT State Library site.

• Ancestry.com. Epitaphs from the old burying-ground in Cambridge [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Harris, William Thaddeus,. Epitaphs from the old burying-ground in Cambridge : with notes. Cambridge: J. Owen, 1989.

• Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).

• Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.

• Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

• Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography; Volume: Vol. II

• Bowen's Boston News-Letter and City Record (Abel Bowen, Boston, May 20, 1826) Vol. 1

• Page 259:"Mr Hale, in speaking of the first printing press in North America, says it was brought to Cambridge in 1638, and afterwards became the property of the College. In 1656 there were two presses at Cambridge, one imported in 1638, which then belonged to the College, and the other the property of the of the society for propagating the gospel among the Indians. Afterwards in 1670, after the first edition of Eliot's Indian bible was printed, the last mentioned press was given to the college. They remained the property of the college, under the direction of Mr Green, who was printer to the college for fifty years, and a great number of works were printed on them."

• Drake, Francis. Dictionary of American Biography (Houghton, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1879) Page 382

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54839152/samuel-green : accessed 27 May 2022), memorial page for Samuel Green (1615–1 Jan 1702), Find a Grave Memorial ID 54839152 NOTE: no headstone, source Anderson

• [1] The Green Family: Early Connecticut Newspaper Publishers NOTE: No information on Samuel Green seen

• Littlefield, George Emery. The Early Massachusetts Press, 1638-1711 (Boston, Massachusetts, Club of Odd Volumes, 1907) Vol. 1, Page 197

• New England Historical Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vitals to 1850

• Probate Records 1648--1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts); Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County); Probate Place: Middlesex, Massachusetts