Evan Green and Isabella Slaymaker

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Husband Evan Green ¹

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           Born: 1778 - near Quakertown, Bucks Co, PA 1
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Wife Isabella Slaymaker ¹

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         Father: Hon. Amos Slaymaker (Abt 1750-1835) 2 3
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1 M Amos S. Green ⁴

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           Born: 1816 4
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2 F Cornelia Green ⁴

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         Spouse: Dr.  Spence (      -      ) 4

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3 M Benjamin Green ⁴

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4 M Henry Green ⁴

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5 M Jasper Green ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Evan Green

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He was born near Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatting business with his father, who lived in a small clearing of one or two acres. During the winter months he was sent to the common schools of the neighborhood. He was fond of books, and read them with great avidity. The family being Friends, he had access only to books written and published by the early Quakers. He committed to memory the few poetical works written by them. He came to Columbia, Lancaster County, in the year 1804 and commenced the manufacture of hats in a little shop on Front Street, and from there he removed it to Walnut Street. He was one of the foremost in every enterprise calculated to benefit his fellow-men and extend and foster the best interests of his adopted town, hence we find him organizing schools, libraries, erecting public buildings, and urging internal improvements.
He established a lumber-yard and leased ground from Samuel Bethel at the canal basin, where he conducted that business for fifteen years. In the year 1810 he erected three two-story brick houses on Front Street, above Locust, in one of which he lived.

He was a member of the Federal party while it existed, and afterwards joined the Whig party. He was opposed to Southern slavery, although rather conservative in his views. He did not belong to or encourage what came to be known as the "Underground Railroad," but he rendered valuable aid to the colored people and assisted a number of fugitive slaves in their efforts to obtain their freedom. Charlotte and her husband, Charles Green, were both fugitive slaves; the one was a domestic in his family, and the other his coachman. About the year 1832 the former was suddenly seized by her master while sweeping in front of the house, and carried to Lancaster before the judges, who remanded her back to slavery. Mr. Green did all in his power to save her. In that he failed, but he prevented two of her children from being carried and sold into slavery. Charles Green collected six hundred dollars, and went to Baltimore to buy his wife. When he arrived there he was seized and sold into slavery, and nothing more was ever heard from him. His wife was sold several times, and finally got to New Orleans, where she was hired out by her master as a yellow fever nurse. She finally purchased her own freedom, and married a Creole and became very rich.
Mr. Green was for many years a director in the Columbia Bank and Bridge Company, and held a number of minor trusts. He always declined to hold a political office of any kind.

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 587.

2 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 538.

3 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 765.

4 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 588.