William Green (former slave)

When Mr. Hamilton's daughter Henrietta married some years later, Green became a part of her dowry and was given to her husband, Dr. Solomon Jenkings.

Green found the doctor to be a very mean-spirited man when compared to Mr. Hamilton and openly opposed him on some occasions.

One day the doctor ordered Green to retrieve a box from the local jail and to bring it back to him in a wheelbarrow.

He and two other slaves decided they would make their way to Philadelphia by crossing the countryside and catching a boat along the Delaware River.

The night they departed they paddled across a small river and started heading north towards a friend who could help them to the boat known only as "Aunt Sarah".

To their dismay, Green and his companions missed the boat but were told that they could catch it if they ran another five miles up the river.

His narrative gives no information as to whom he married and what job he was holding down but he did state he was doing well and had been, "... blessed with four fine children."

"[4] In the 1880 U.S. Census, the three are living at 589 Baltic Street in Brooklyn with William working at "cleaning & repairing furniture.