One of the wonderful items I found in Clemson’s archives was the original plat issued to John Green (1768-1837) on 6 May 1793 for the 838 acres he had surveyed on the Keowee River in Pendleton District, South Carolina, on 1 January 1793. That survey is discussed in this previous posting. A digital image of the original plat is at the head of the posting, and I’ve also added it to the previous posting I have just linked.

The original plat for this tract of land issued to John Green on 6 May 1793 has survived and is now in the Lawrence Family Papers in Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (box 1, mss 114). As a previous posting shows, when John Green and wife Jane Kerr Green moved from South Carolina to Alabama in 1818, on 4 May 1818 they sold their home plantation of 1,345 acres on the east side of the Keowee in Pendleton District to Thomas Gates. Gates then later sold some of John and Jane Green’s land to their neighbor Benjamin Lawrence. The original patent evidently passed from John and Jane Green to Thomas Gates in 1818 and then later from Gates to Benjamin Lawrence, and was preserved by his descendants. Also in the Lawrence Family Papers at Clemson is Jane Kerr Green’s original renunciation of dower as she and John Green sold their land to Thomas Gates in 1818, which passed to Benjamin Lawrence by the same process of transmission. I’ll discuss that document in my next posting.