Or, Subtitled: “The great sugar-house was a wilderness of tubs and tanks and vats and filters, pumps, pipes, and machinery”

In the previous posting, I surveyed the life of Samuel Kerr Green from his birth in 1790 to John Green and Jane Kerr in Pendleton District, South Carolina, up to the point at which he left Nashville, Tennessee, in 1821 or 1822 and went to south Louisiana. As the posting shows, by 1816, he had left South Carolina for Nashville, where he and Nashville resident John Young formed a company to provide flat and keel boats for the Nashville-New Orleans trade. Young and Green then bought a share of Nashville’s first steamboat, the General Jackson, which sank at Harpeth Shoals on the Cumberland River on 30 May 1821. Before the boat sank, ship registration records in New Orleans show Samuel piloting the General Jackson as it was registered in New Orleans in 1820.