Enlisted in 1776, was discharged and re-enlisted, and would serve a total of five years with Capt. Nathan Pierce under Col. Seth Warner, with Capt. Baldwin Company of Rangers and Capt. Daniel Brown, Massachusetts Company, and finally with Capt. Hitchcock Company, Colonel Sprout, Massachusetts Regiment.  His 1832 Revolutionary War Pension Declaration provides a substantial narrative of his service years, including a march to Fort Ticonderoga, a march to Fort Constitution located on the east side of the Hudson River, participation in the Battle of Bennington and Battle of Saratoga where British General Burgoyne surrendered his entire army, and finally, a march to the State of New Jersey to a place the Indians called ‘Toteawa Falls’, known today as the Great Falls of the Passaic River in the City of Patterson, New Jersey.  Green and his wife, Sarah, had several children, all born in New York.  Their daughter, Diana, married Solomon Thompson.  In Green’s pension declaration, Solomon states he knew Green for a number of years while living in Virgil, New York.  Virgil was part of the Central New York Military Tract, two million acres of land set aside to compensate soldiers of the American Revolution.  Lots were drawn and assigned to settlers.  It may be that Green acquired land as part of this process.  At some point, John moved to Harris Township, Ottawa County, and lived with daughter, Diana, until their deaths on the ‘Thompson Farm’.