On September 20th, 2025, Compatriots from Harris Ferry as well as Washingtonburg gathered at Dauphin Cemetery to honor the legacy of Patriot Timothy Green.  With phenomenal weather to accompany the day, a dozen men gathered together on land with many Patriots interred nearby.  Harris Ferry Chapter President Lemon organized the event, led the Color Guard, and provided the day’s prayers.  Washingtonburg members also assisted with the Color Guard for the ceremony.  Alongside Col. Green’s tombstone is his original Revolutionary War grave marker and now his new SAR Patriot Grave Marker.  This marker was funded by a grant from Pennsylvania Skill.

The ceremony was followed by lunch at the nearby Dauphin-Middle Paxton Community Park.  Jonathan Miller, “The Hometown Historian,” was the guest speaker and presented on the life of Timothy Green.  In the past, Jon has presented on the Hanover Resolves, which were headed by Green and expressed Hanover Township’s grievances prior the Revolution in 1774.   In honor of the 250th Anniversary of America, it was made clear that with the 250th Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence next year, Timothy Green had advocated for these same rights before pen met paper in Philadelphia.  His ideas and fame were that important, he was on a subcommittee in 1776 to represent Hanover Township regarding the Declaration.  The gathering was also for the celebration of Constitution Day, which was an original idea of the SAR around the turn of the century.

Harris Ferry Compatriots included Jacob Lemon, John Boyarksi, Gary Coburn, Curtis Aumiller, and Alan Weist.  Washingtonburg Compatriots included Dale Leppard, Raymond Mowery, Steve Troutman, Dennis Dyckman, and Ray Scarazzo.  Color Guard included Lemon, Leppard, Mowery, Troutman, and Dyckman.  Thank you to all that attended and participated!

The event program can be accessed here as well as the dictation the was read by President Lemon.

Patriot Biography for Timothy Green

Timothy Green was born around the year 1735 in what is now Hanover Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. His parents were among many Scots-Irish that boarded several vessels in 1717 and 1718 headed to America. His father, Robert Green, was one of the first elders of the “Monoday Church” in Hanover. Much else about Timothy Green’s upbringing is unknown. During his life, he married three times and fathered eight children. Green was known as a very dignified man.

He first makes historical records during the Pontiac War, as he already achieved the status of Captain, stationed in Hanover Township. Shortly thereafter, Governor Hamilton sent orders for Green to reinforce Fort Augusta against the Native Americans along the Susquehanna. In the summer of 1763, as Captain of the Provincial Forces, he was stationed at Fort Hunter. That following winter, Green’s Paxtang Rangers were involved with the Conestoga Affair, the brutal massacre of captured Natives. In July 1764, the native battles came to a halt.

Ten years of British tyranny on the colonies followed, with Timothy Green siding with the colonies. On 04 June 1774, he presided over the Hanover Resolves, which stated that the British were oppressive and the colonies deserved the rights and justices of free men. He and many others met in Lancaster to issues handbills in conjunction with the Continental Congress. The following year, he organized the Hanover Rifle Battalion. Many of these men would meet in Lancaster on 04 July 1776 to vote and organize the Pennsylvania troops, with fifty of his Flying Camp Company in town, armed, and ready to march. John Harris would later make note that all the men of Paxtang and Hanover Townships were off to war, leaving the area defenseless. Green’s men became hired militia, protecting against Native attacks or serving guard duty on captured British prisoners.

When the Revolution concluded, Green retired to his farm on Manada Creek. After that, very little is heard from him other than a few sparse mentions in records at the Old Hanover Church. He does appear more later as he presided over the courts as senior justice for Dauphin County.

Colonel Timothy Green would pass away on 27 February 1812. He is buried in Dauphin Cemetery with his son Innis and near other Revolutionary War Patriots.

Source: “Col. Timothy Green: The Army of the Revolution,” William H. Egle, 1874.