Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ppointed by mandamus, Greenrefused to serve, and sent his resignation to General Gage. Yet the tendenciesof Mr. Green were so decidedly loyal, that he was included in the act of banish-ment, of 1778. He had been absent from Boston about three years already, andhe never returned to his native country. He died in London, on the 11th ofDecember, 1780, at the age of seventy-four years. Mr. Greens poetry wasgenerally humorous. He wrote a burlesque on a
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . ppointed by mandamus, Greenrefused to serve, and sent his resignation to General Gage. Yet the tendenciesof Mr. Green were so decidedly loyal, that he was included in the act of banish-ment, of 1778. He had been absent from Boston about three years already, andhe never returned to his native country. He died in London, on the 11th ofDecember, 1780, at the age of seventy-four years. Mr. Greens poetry wasgenerally humorous. He wrote a burlesque on a psalm written by his fellowwit, Doctor Byles. Also a burlesque on the Free Masons, and a Lamentationon Mr. Old Tenor (paper money), which gained him great applause. He wasa member of a club of sentimentalists, who published several pamphlets; and heattacked the administration of Governor Belcher, exposed its anti-republicantendencies, and ridiculed the chief magistrate by putting his speeches into Green was a Loyalist of the milder stamp, and was governed by a pureheart and clear head in his choice of government. JAMES JACKSON. 131. ^^Zy JAMES JACKSON. WHEN the British army was about to leave Savannah, in July, 1*782, GeneralWayne, then in command in Georgia, chose an accomplished young man^f twenty-five, whose valor was the theme for praise in the Southern armj^, toreceive the keys of the city from a committee of British officers. That youngofficer was Major James Jackson, a native of Devonshire, England, where hewas born on the 21st of September, 1757. He came to America, with his father,in 1772, and studied law in Savannah. He loved his adopted country, and in1776, shouldered his musket, and was active in repelling an invading force thatmenaced Savannah. In 1778, he was appointed brigade major of the Georgiamilitia, and was wounded in a skirmish on the Ogeechee, in which GeneralScriven was killed. At the close of that year he participated in the unsuccess-ful defen
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