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Thomas Green II

Birth	:	9 Dec 1702 Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death	:	10 Feb 1753 Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial	:	Swan Hill Cemetery, Swan Hill, Swan Hill Rural City, Australia
Coordinate	:	-35.3547210, 143.5542290
Inscription	:	Here lies __ Thomas Green who departed this life Feb y 10th Anno Dom 1753 in the 51st year of his age. PSAL XC 12 So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto Wisdom
Description	:	Thomas Green Jr. was the son of Thomas Green Sr. and Hannah Vinton Green. Thomas Green Sr. was born abt 1665 in Malden, Middlesex, MA and married Hannah Vinton 10 May 1698 in Malden, Middlesex, MA. Thomas Green Jr. married a distant cousin, Mary Green of Stoneham, MA at Reading, Middlesex, MA on May 18th, 1727. Mary was the daughter of Daniel Green and Mary Bucknam (Buckman) Green of Stoneham, MA. Father: GREEN, Thomas of Reading. SOURCE: [10] List of Revolutionary Soldiers, Reading, Middlesex Co., MA Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Massachusetts Pages 693-695. (V) Captain Thomas (4), eldest son and... Read More	Thomas Green Jr. was the son of Thomas Green Sr. and Hannah Vinton Green. Thomas Green Sr. was born abt 1665 in Malden, Middlesex, MA and married Hannah Vinton 10 May 1698 in Malden, Middlesex, MA. Thomas Green Jr. married a distant cousin, Mary Green of Stoneham, MA at Reading, Middlesex, MA on May 18th, 1727. Mary was the daughter of Daniel Green and Mary Bucknam (Buckman) Green of Stoneham, MA. Father: GREEN, Thomas of Reading. SOURCE: [10] List of Revolutionary Soldiers, Reading, Middlesex Co., MA Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Massachusetts Pages 693-695. (V) Captain Thomas (4), eldest son and second child of Thomas (3) and Mary (Green) Green, was born in 1731, and died in 1810, aged seventy-nine. He was a miller and was called Captain Green. He married, in 1754, Lydia. daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Swain. His children were: Lydia. Mary, Thomas, Jeremiah, Hannah and Judith. (VI) Thomas (5), son of Captain Thomas (4) and Lydia (Swain) Green, was born in Reading in 1759. There he married in 1781, Mehitabel Pratt, and had children born to him in the early part of the nineteenth century he removed to Albany, in Oxford county, of the district (now state) of Maine. After residing here a short time he removed to Shelburne, New Hampshire, and located on a large tract of land on the east side of the Androscoggin river. It was a wilderness, but by industry and hard labor he made a productive farm and a comfortable home, and at the time of his death he could have bought half of the town. He died March. 1835. His wife was Mehitabel Pratt; they had five children: Thomas, Edward, George, Jonas and Eunice. (VII) Thomas (6), eldest son of Thomas (5) and Mehitabel (Pratt) Green, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, in 1783. and when but a lad went with his parents to Maine, and later to New Hampshire. He remained with his parents until about the time he attained his majority, and then built a small saw mill on Millbrook, in Shelburne. This mill could not cut the amount of lumber necessary to satisfy Mr. Green, and he engaged in cultivating a farm on the west side of the river, where the village of Shelburne now stands. After a time he went up into the wilderness township of Errol, where he built a camp and began the construction of a mill which was burned before it was completed, and with it eight hundred dollars in money which he had taken there. This was all the money he had, and being in no condition to carry out his plans there, he returned to his Shelburne farm which he cultivated the following eight years with energy and economy. With his savings he then bought a tract of timber land from which he cut the timber in two years, and after burning it, made from the ashes thus obtained a large quantity of "black salts," potash and pearlash. About 18- he opened the first store in the town of Shelburne. and did a large business furnishing supplies to lumbermen and contractors in a considerable area in Maine and New Hampshire. In 1826 he removed to the unorganized town of Maynesborough, now Berlin, and located at the head of the falls where the mills of the Berlin Mills Company are now. After he had raised the frame for a large mill and nearly completed a dam, and while fine crops were standing on his farm in Shelburne, the terrible flood of August, 1826, destroyed all. These misfortunes which would have crushed most men, seemed only to stimulate Mr. Green to renewed efforts. Rendered poor by this calamity, he returned again to his farm where he had always been able to make enough to engage in other ventures, and after working a year he accumulated sufficient money to begin again. Returning to Berlin, he got out a large quantity of logs and the frame for another mill. In 1827 he bought the mill privilege and land at Berlin Falls, and there built a house to which he removed his family. He then built a saw mill provided with an upright saw and a grist mill of one run of stones, and carried on business on that site until 1851. About 1835 he removed the grist mill up the river, and enlarged it to three runs of stones and also built a residence. March 16, 1835, he sold his saw mill property to Barker Burbank, Dearborn Lavy, and John Chandler. In connection with his grist mill he sold flour, feed and grain, and kept a stock of groceries for sale at his house. February I, 1853, he disposed of this mill and property to a Mr. Gower, but occupied the house until after the death of his wife, in March, 1853. He then bought a farm in Guildhall, Essex county, Vermont, near the "Lancaster Toll-Bridge," where he lived a few years and then changed his residence to a place where he bought about a mile from Lancaster village, and there he died in July, 1874, aged ninetyone. He was a Methodist in religious belief, and a Democrat in politics. His education was limited, but he had an amazing amount of energy and did much to develop the region where he lived. He married first, Lydia Fairbanks Evans, born 1778, died in March, 1853. She was the daughter of Simeon and Eunice (Hayden) Evans. Her father was a native of Foxborough, Massachusetts, and was a pioneer of Shelburne. Mr. Green married second, Cynthia Stanley, born 1801, died 1884. She was the daughter of Lieutenant Dennis and Sally (Bishop) Stanley. His children, all by the first wife, were: Alpha, Amos, Daniel, Edmund, Aaron and Lydia. Alpha married Clovis Lowe, and resided in Randolph, New Hampshire. Amos was a prominent business man of Berlin. Daniel is mentioned below. Edmund lived in Stark. Aaron lived in Berlin till his death, December 26, 1874. Lydia married Paul Perkins, and lived in Lancaster. (VIII) Daniel, third child and second son of Thomas (6) and Lydia Fairbanks (Evans) Green, was born in Shelburne, December 19, 1808, and died January 6, 1892, aged eighty-four years. His education was limited to a few years schooling, and at an early age he engaged in the activities of life. In 1829-he was then twenty-one-he, with his brother Amos acquired a mill privilege adjoining the saw mill of their father, and erected a clapboard mill and shingle machine, which the operated until April, 1835, when it was burned, and they sold their privilege on both sides of the river to Burbank, Lavy & Chandler. In 1843 Daniel Green built a mill containing a clapboard, a shingle, and a sapping machine on the Ammonoosuc, in Berlin, on lot 21, range 3, and carried it on until 1849, when the mill was destroyed by fire, and with it one thousand acres of the best timber he had. This loss served only to stimulate his courage and arouse his energies, and very soon he built a mill at the foot of Cranberry Meadow containing machinery for making boards, shingles, clapboards, piano wood, and a lathe for turning iron, which cost him ten thousand dollars. At this time he owned about five thousand or six thousand acres of timber land, mostly pine and spruce. August 5, 1859, Mr- Green was compelled to foreclose a mortgage on the large mill of Gower & Wilson which was valued at eleven thousand dollars, became its owner, and began business at once, employing men to get out large quantities of spruce and pine, which were then manufactured. The greater part was a fine quality of pine, and made into doors, blinds, and sash material. September 4, 1862, this mill with a large amount of manufactured lumber was destroyed by fire, with but seven thousand dollars insurance on the property. June 3, 1869, the mill at Cranberry Meadow was burned, withe two hundred thousand feet of fine pine lumber, entailing a loss of ten thousand dollars. Both mills were rebuilt; the one at the foot of the meadow was swept away by a flood before its completion, and the one on the Gower site was burned in the winter of 188283. During his business career Mr. Green owned all the water power along the Androscoggin at Berlin. The original survey of this section was very faulty, and any purchaser of land was liable to conflicting claims of title; and Mr. Green who owned so many different tracts of land did not escape without much litigation over lines and boundaries. Mr. Green began the cultivation of cranberries in 1874, and at great expense prepared a fine cranberry meadow of sixty acres, which experienced raisers of the fruit valued at one hundred thousand dollars, but owing to the change in seasons it later came to have very little value, as the fruit did not mature early enough to escape frost. In 1876 he first visited Florida, and paid five thousand dollars for an orange grove at Boardman, in Marion county. His plantation there afterward came to contain three hundred and fifty acres, on which there was an orange grove of four thousand trees. During the later years of his life Mr. Green passed his winters in Florida, looking after his estate. Besides mill privileges, Mr. Green owned a large amount of other description of real estate in Berlin, among which were two stores which he rented, and many tenements and dwellings. He laid out and sold more building lots in Berlin Falls than any other person. The house which he and his son Sullivan D. occupied was built by his brother Amos, in 1831. In 1886, A. H. Gerrish and Mr. Green constructed an aqueduct which supplies about one hundred families in Berlin Falls and numerous business houses with water. Mr. Green, like his father, was a man of great energy and industry, a tireless worker whose sound judgment coupled to sterling characteristics of head and heart made him a successful man and principal factor in the growth and development of Berlin in its earlier years. For sixty years he was a conspicuous figure in the town, and in spite of losses by tire and flood, accumulated a handsome property, which in his last years he enjoyed in a life of leisure. In politics he was a Democrat, and being, as he was, a successful man in his private affairs, he was placed by his townsmen in official positions of responsibility and trust. He was town clerk several years, county commissioner three years, 1855-8, selectman for many years, and representative in the general court six years. He was active in the counsels of his party and seldom failed of being a delegate to county, senatorial and state conventions. Mr. Green was a believer in the Universalist faith and gave of his means to the support of the church of his choice. He followed the dictates of conscience in his daily vocations, and tried to do right because it is right. He was kind and sociable by nature, and quiet, unassuming and affable in his manners. For many years he was a member of North Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Lancaster.

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Thomas Green II's memorial is located at: Swan Hill Cemetery, Swan Hill, Swan Hill Rural City, Australia.
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Thomas Green II death on 10 Feb 1753 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Latitude: -35.3547210
Longitude: 143.5542290

Family Members:

Parent

Thomas Green I

(1669 - 1725)

Spouse

Siblings

Benjamin Green

(1718 - 1806)

Children

(1735 - 1805)

(1740 - 1830)

(1742 - 1833)

(1743 - 1744)

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