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Patriot Summary
Levi Green (1758-1851) served in both the Massachusetts and New York militias as a private in Captain Baldwin's Company; Captain Newell's Company; and Captain Brown's Company, Colonel Simond's Regiment. During his service he also spent time as a ranger. Levi Green was born in Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island on June 6, 1758. He married Asenath Robinson and they had ten children. He came to West Bloomfield, Michigan in 1832. Levi Green died June 24, 1851, in West Bloomfield and is buried in the North Farmington Cemetery in Farmington Hills, Oakland County, Michigan. SAR Patriot Number P-169896 DAR Patriot Number A047193 Find-A-Grave Number 7497313From the History of Oakland County, Michigan by Thaddeus D. Seeley (1912)
Levi Green was born in Coventry, R. I., June 6, 1758, and died in West Bloomfield, Oakland county, Michigan, on the 21st of June, 1859. At the time of making application for a pension, September 28, 1832, he was a resident of Livonia, N. Y. He enlisted July 1, 1776, for eight and one half months under Captain Baldwin; 2nd enlistment July 1, 1777, one month, under Captain Newell; 3rd enlistment August, 1777, under Captain Brown, Colonel Simonds regiment, Massachusetts troops. He was engaged in the battle of Bennington. His grandson, Horace A. Green, has in his possession the original pension papers and a powder horn carved with his name which was carried through the war.
Levi Green’s wife was Asenath Robinson. Their son, Zephaniah Ripley Green, with whom the father lived, arrived in West Bloomfield in July, 1832. He is buried in the North Farmington cemetery. Many of his descendants are living in Oakland county.