Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution Diary of Ezra Green, M.D. from November 1, 1777, to September 27, 1778 The New York Times & Arno Press Reprinted from a copy in The State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library Reprint Edition 1971 by Arno Press Inc. LC# 75-140867 ISBN 0-405-01190-3 Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution, Series III ISBN for complete set: 0-405-01187-3 Manufactured in the United States of America [Illustration: Ezra Green When 100 years old.] DIARY OF EZRA GREEN, M.D., SURGEON ON BOARD THE CONTINENTAL SHIP-OF-WAR "RANGER," UNDER JOHN PAUL JONES, FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1777, TO SEPTEMBER 27, 1778. BORN IN 1746; DIED IN 1847. WITH HISTORICAL NOTES AND A BIOGRAPHY, BY COMMO. GEO. HENRY PREBLE, U.S.N., AND WALTER C. GREEN. Reprinted, with Additions, from the HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER for January and April, 1875. BOSTON: _FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION_. 1875. DAVID CLAPP & SON, PRINTERS, 334 Washington Street. Transcriber's Note: Printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained. A caret (^) indicates that the following character is printed as superscript. PREFATORY NOTE. A few words may be necessary in respect to the Diary of my father, Dr. Ezra Green, which I am quite sure he never suspected would appear in print before the public eye. When quite a lad I was, out of curiosity, rummaging over an upper chamber closet, where in promiscuous order were odd volumes,--school books, speeches, sermons, &c.,--when this unpretentious pamphlet turned up in marbled paper-cover. All the particulars of it I had heard my father frequently recount, and hence did not at that early age appreciate its value, and so I gave it to my cousin James D. Green, who, after preserving it with scrupulous care for more than sixty years, has deposited it in the library of the New-England Historic, Genealogical Society, together with important authentic remarks relative to his and my father's progenitors. There this Diary came under the eye of Commodore George Henry Preble, who requested my permission for its publication in the HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, together with such facts as he might gather of my father's public life during five years service as surgeon in the army and navy during the American revolution. To this request I gave my willing assent, promising as a sequel thereto a memoir of his private life. WALTER C. GREEN. _Boston, Nov. 16, 1874._ BIOGRAPHY OF DR. EZRA GREEN. I. HIS PUBLIC CAREER. By Commodore GEO. HENRY PREBLE, U.S.N.