Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Green, Ezra

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GREEN, Ezra, physician, b. in Maiden, Mass., 17 June, 1746; d. in Dover, N. IL, 35 July, 1847. He was graduated at Harvard in 1765, and began the practice of medicine in 1768. In June, 1775, he joined the continental army as surgeon, was on the Canada expedition, and in the sloop-of-war " Ranger," under Paul Jones, in 1777. He remained in the service until 1781, when he resigned and engaged in trade. Dr. Green was a Federalist in polities, and a delegate to the New Hampshire constitutional convention of 1830.