A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland

lect, followed in 1663 by an issue of the entire Bible in that tongue, a task
tedious and honorable alike to the translator and to the printer. His sons
and their sons continued to print in various towns of the New England col-
onies for several generations, and nearly two hundred years after he had
taken over Daye's press in Cambridge, the sixth generation of his family
was still engaged in printing and publishing in Maryland.

Jonas Green was the fifth son of Deacon Timothy Green, who was a grand-
son of Samuel Green the printer of Cambridge. His mother was Mary Flint.
Jonas was baptized in Cotton Mather's Church in Boston on December
28, 1712. He served an apprenticeship with his father in New London,
whither the Deacon had removed in 1714, and afterwards worked for a term
of years with his brother, of the firm of Kneeland & Green of Boston.
Whether at the expiration of his articles the young journeyman attempted
to establish himself independently in Boston is not clear, but one infers
that this was his intention from the fact that in 1735 his name appeared
alone on the imprint of a book intended for the use of the students at
Cambridge. A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue, Being an Essay to bring the
Hebrew Grammar into English,... by Judah Monis, was an excellently, and,
it is said by authorities in that language, a correctly printed volume of one
hundred pages. The imprint of this, the first Hebrew grammar to be printed
in America, reads, "Boston, N. E. Printed by Jonas Green, and are to be
sold by the Author at his House in Cambridge. MDCCXXXV." It must
have been soon after the printing of this, his only recorded Boston publica-
tion, that Jonas Green proceeded to Philadelphia, where he found employ-
ment with both Franklin and Bradford. "Mr. Jonas Green of Philadelphia,
Printer," was among the subscribers to Thomas Prince's Chronological His-
tory of New England, a work which issued from the press of Kneeland &
Green in Boston in 1736, from which circumstance it may be inferred that
Jonas had been living in Philadelphia for two years at the least when he
removed thence to Annapolis in 1738. He married, April 25, 1738, in Christ
Church, Philadelphia, Anne Catherine Hoof, who was born in Holland and
was brought to America in her early childhood. Jonas and Anne Catharine
Green had six sons and eight daughters¹ but eight of their children died in

¹Isaiah Thomas says that there were six sons and eight daughters, and the register of St. Anne's Parish re-
cords the baptism of the following fourteen children: John b. 18 October 1738, died infancy; Rebecca b. aa Sep-
tember 1740, married 2 December 1757 to Mr. John Clapham; Jonas b. 12 February 1741, died in infancy;
Catherine b. 4 November 1743, died in infancy; her godfather was Samuel Soumaien, the silversmith; Marie b.
7 January 1744/5* died in infancy; Mary b, 9 January 1745/6; William b. 21 December 1746, "being named Wil-
lian after the Duke of Cumberland only;" Anne Catharine b. 19 January 1748, died October 5; Frederick b. 20
January 1750, "just as the Guns were Firing on account of the Birth of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales;"
one of his sponsors was the celebrated Dr. Alexander Hamilton of Annapolis, author of Hamilton's Itinerarium;
Deborah b. 19 January 1752, died October 9; her godmother was Mrs. Susanna Soumaien; Elizabeth b. 10 No-

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