Benjamin Green Sr. and Jr.: New Information Added to Previous Postings

Patrick Calhoun’s survey book, 1784-1792, in “John C. Calhoun Papers,” Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, mss 2oo

Here’s more new information I’ve now added to some previous postings following my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library: previously, I have made a number of postings about a Benjamin Green who appears in records of the Long Cane settlement in Granville County, South Carolina (later Abbeville County) by June 1768. As my previous postings focusing on this Benjamin stated, I suspect he may have been the father of John Green (1768-1837), who married Jane Kerr, daughter of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun. I also stated in these same postings that I thought it was likely Benjamin Green was father of a younger Benjamin Green, who, as with John Green, worked for John Ewing Colhoun, uncle of Jane Kerr Green. John Green and wife Jane Kerr managed John E. Colhoun’s Keowee Heights plantation as it got underway, and the younger Benjamin Green tutored John E. Colhoun’s children and also assisted in reporting to John business affairs on both his lowcountry and upcountry plantations.


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