Or, Subtitled: “Claiming, by virtue of occupation, habitation, and cultivation, a tract of land lying wwithin the late neutral territory”

As my previous posting about Samuel Kerr Green indicates when it wraps up discussion of the period in the early 1830s that Samuel spent working as an overseer on the plantation of James Hopkins in New Orleans, by 1835 Samuel had settled in Natchitoches Parish some 250 miles northwest of New Orleans. On 1 October 1835, Samuel purchased from Dr. John Sibley 640 acres of land in Natchitoches Parish.[1] The conveyance record states that both Samuel K. Green and John Sibley were residents of Natchitoches Parish, and that Samuel was purchasing land Sibley had acquired by Rio Hondo claim #124. The tract was fifteen miles west of the town of Natchitoches near the village of Adayes on the road from Natchitoches to the Sabine River. The price of the land was $3,750, of which Samuel paid $1,550 at the purchase. Both John Sibley and Samuel K. Green signed the conveyance, with witnesses Robert S. Chadsey and William Ferguson.