When I proposed these “educated guesses” about the relationship between the older Benjamin Green who was in the Long Cane settlement by June 1768 and John Green and the younger Benjamin Green, I had no documentary proof of any of the connections I was proposing. I now have that proof in the case of the two Benjamin Greens: I can now say definitively that they were father and son.

In the John C. Calhoun papers in the Clemson Archives, I found a little survey book that John C. Calhoun’s father Patrick Calhoun kept from 1784 to 1792. As a previous posting noted, on 11 October 1784, Patrick Calhoun surveyed adjoining tracts of land in Ninety-Six District for Benjamin Green Sr. and Jr. When Patrick recorded notes about those surveys in his little survey book – the entries are one following the other – he provided a valuable piece of information not found in other official records of these two surveys: he stated that the 192 acres he surveyed for Benjamin Green Jr. adjoined the tract he had just surveyed for “his father,” i.e., Benjamin Green Sr. This document proves that the younger Benjamin Green, who was the tutor for John Ewing Colhoun’s children up to John E. Colhoun’s death in 1802 and who was, I am persuaded, a brother of John Green (who married Jane Kerr), was son of the older Benjamin Green.

I have now added digital images of these notes from Patrick Calhoun’s survey book – see the head of the posting – to the following two previous postings:

“John Green (1768-1837): Some Notes on His Yet-to-Be Proven Ancestry,” and

“Notes on a Benjamin Green (abt. 1766 – after 1805) Who May Be a Brother of John Green (1768-1837).”