208 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS 



been printed previously in "The Gallaudet Guide." Perhaps 

 it is not too much to say — and I can give Mr. Porter as 

 authority for the assertion — that through these two articles the 

 authorship of " Vox Oadis Snbjecta " became definitely known 

 to scholars who were studying this special branch of learning. 



As a boy, young Green received his education partly in 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, and partly at the Boston Latin School, 

 from which he was admitted into Harvard College during the 

 summer of 1756. His collegiate course there, however, was 

 but a partial one, as circumstances beyond his control com- 

 pelled him to leave Cambridge at the end of his Freshman 

 year, though he was allowed to take the degree of A.B. with 

 his class in 1760, a favor granted only under very exceptional 

 circumstances. The year before his entrance at college his 

 father had procured for him an ensign's commission in the 

 Fortieth Regiment, with the understanding that he should 

 have leave of absence from the army until he had completed 

 his four-year's course. In 1757, on account of the war with 

 France, orders came from the Commander-in-chief that all 

 officers, without regard to rank, should join their respective 

 commands. On the reception of this news, Green repaired 

 immediately to his regiment in Halifax, with the expectation 

 that his leave of absence would be renewed; but in this he 

 was mistaken. From his father, who was Secretary to Gen. 

 William Pepperrell, commander of the expedition against 

 Louisburg in 1745, he appears to have taken a fancy for mili- 

 tary life. He now made up his mind to join his lot with that 

 of the army; and in this branch of service he remained for 

 nine years, selling out his commission in 1766, at which time 

 he held the rank of lieutenant. During these early years of 

 his life he was stationed at different places in Nova Scotia 

 and Canada, and saw some active service in the West Indies. 



After leaving the army he took up mercantile pursuits in 

 his native town, but during the political troubles, then breed- 

 ing here, his sympathies were with the Crown, and in March, 

 1776, he left Boston on its evacuation by the British, and sailed 

 away with the fleet. For a while he lived in Halifax, and for 

 some time afterward in New York, until 1780, when he took 



