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Ezra Green
1746–1847
Remembered for a vivid Revolutionary War diary, this New Hampshire physician served as surgeon aboard John Paul Jones’s Ranger and later lived to the remarkable age of 100. His firsthand notes offer a close, human view of life at sea during the American Revolution.
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Born in 1746 and dying in 1847, Ezra Green was an American physician whose name is most often linked to his wartime diary. That journal, later published as Diary of Ezra Green, M.D., records his service from November 1777 to September 1778 and preserves a firsthand account of the Revolution from the perspective of a naval surgeon.
Green served aboard the Continental ship-of-war Ranger under John Paul Jones. The diary is valued not just for military detail, but for its immediacy: it shows the daily pressures, illnesses, routines, and dangers faced by the men serving at sea.
He also became notable for his extraordinary longevity. One edition of his diary includes a portrait captioned "Ezra Green, When 100 years old," underscoring how long he lived after the events he described. For readers interested in eyewitness history, his writing stands as a rare and personal window into the Revolutionary era.