This Mr. Green was the constant companion of the Governor on his journeys. He is apparently a worthy man and in point of knowledge far superior to the common caste of settlers in the neighborhood. His estate consists of three hundred acres, about forty of which are cleared of wood. Land newly cleared yields the first year twenty bushels of corn. The soil is good but not of the most excellent quality.
Laborers are scarce and are paid at the rate of six shillings a day.
John Green's wife, Mary, was licensed to practice medicine and surgery and it is said that she used to ride horseback through the forest on her errands of mercy. In the year 1799 John Green exchanged a lot he had been granted near London for a steam of water called the 'Outlet of Burlington Bay' and a part of the strand which divided said bay from Lake Ontario for the purpose of erecting a gristmill. And in 1801 he purchased Lot 9, West Flamborough from the Patentee, Angus McDonnell, the price being 100. Therefore one may assume that about this time John moved from Grimsby to Flamborough township. The history of this township states that the village of Greensville was named after this family and that John Green ended his days in a little white house on the south side of his grist mill on the creek, where Kerby's bridge now stands.