Jonas Green, his Family and his Associates

particularly those of the Maryland Gazette, supply the following list of names
under which the business of the house was conducted:¹

April 16, 1767, to January 7, 1768, Anne Catherine Green.

(In the colophon of the Maryland Gazette for January 28, 1768, and al-
ways thereafter, the name appeared "Anne Catharine Green.")

January 7, 1768, to August 23, 1770, Anne Catharine Green and William
Green. (William Green died in August 1770.)

August 23, 1770, to January 2, 1772, Anne Catharine Green.

January 2, 1772, to March 30, 1775, Anne Catharine Green & Son. (This
was Frederick Green.)

March 30, 1775, to December 25, 1777, Frederick Green. (Mrs. Green
died March 23, 1775.)

The Maryland Gazette suspended publication from December 25, 1777,
to April 30, 1779, but resumed on the latter date and continued under Fred-
erick & Samuel Green to January 6, 1811. In this year the two brothers
died and Jonas Green, the son of Samuel, assumed the publication and car-
ried it on until its final issue in the year 1839.

It is noteworthy that, whether from filial affection or from filial subjec-
tion it is not entirely clear, the several sons of the house always occupied
second place in the firm name, and further that it was Anne Catharine
Green and not "Anne Catharine Green and Son" who received the appoint-
ment of printer to the Province. The brief notice of Mrs. Green's death in
the Maryland Gazette of March 30, 1775, concluded with the assurance that
"she was of a mild and benevolent Disposition, and for conjugal Affection,
and parental Tenderness, an Example to her Sex," an encomium from which
one may conclude that it was by the grace of her affectionate disposition
that she maintained her ascendancy in the establishment. That she was
able to do this speaks well for the character of those sons, two of whom
were left to carry on the traditions of a family the history of which in its
many branches is the history of the first two hundred years of American
printing.

THE LAST OF THE GREENS IN MARYLAND PRINTING HISTORY

The activities of the sons, Frederick and Samuel, and of the grandson
Jonas, of Jonas and Anne Catharine Green, are so largely concerned with
periods into which this narrative does not enter that no attempt will be

¹ Brigham, C. S., Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. (Part III). In Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society, April 1915.

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