• Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A046827
• Service: VIRGINIA Rank: PRIVATE
• Birth: 4-26-1755 SUSSEX CO NEW JERSEY
• Death: 9-28-1833 LICKING CO OHIO
• Pension Number: *S4302
• Service Source: *S4302
• Service Description: 1) CAPT SAMUEL COX, COL SUMMERS, MAJ WEST

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4 graves side by side: are Benjamin Green, Sen., Catharine (wife or Ben Green, Sen.,), Benjamin Green, Jr., and Sophia Green. David Dunavan has a picture of Benjamin (Senior) head stone from 1928. Benjamin's tombstone in Beard-Green Cemetery reads:

"Benjamin Green, Sen., Died Sept. 28, 1833 Aged 78 y. 5 m. and 2 days. His body consigned to the cold tomb concealed from mortal sight, the happy spirit has gained its home at God's right hand in the sweet world of light."

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According to his Rev. War pension application, #7961, Benjamin Green was born in 1755 in Sussex Co., NJ.

Soldier in Revolutionary War, enlisted from Loudon Co., VA, in 1777 and served three enlistments as a Private with the VA troops under Capt. Samuel Cox and Col. Summers. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and was pensioned for six months, discharged in October 1781.

See Hill , N. N., Jr. (1881), History of Licking County, Ohio, pp. 492-497 for a biographical sketch. A. A. Graham & Co. Publishers.

Also, History of the Michael Beem Family, by Nelson Beem.

DAR Magazine, Oct. 1916

Smuckers, Isaac. 1872. Licking County Ohio Pioneers. Clark & King, Newark Ohio.

From 1782 to 1787 Benjamin Green paid taxes in Loudon Co., VA. After Allegany Co., MD was surveyed in 1788 he seems to have moved to the land there that he received as a military grant for his services in the Revolutionary War. In the spring of 1799, Green & his son-in-law Richard Pitzer left Allegheny Co. Md., and lived one year at Marietta, Ohio. In spring of 1800 they moved their families to the junction of the North & South forks of Licking River, and settled on Shawnee Run, then moved on to Hog Run, in Licking Co., OH.

Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20807315