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Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): The Years Working on James Hopkins’ Plantation in New Orleans, Early 1830s

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Oval portrait of James Hopkins, 1809, at Randolph Byrd’s “Randolph Byrd’s Ancestors” tree at Ancestry
Oil portrait of James Hopkins, courtesy of Stanhope Hopkins of Pass Christian Mississippi, at “Randolph Byrd Ancestors” at Ancestry

Two postings in the past, I brought the story of Samuel Kerr Green up to 1830, as I tracked Samuel after he left Nashville and his Nashville-New Orleans trading firm Young, Green and Co. in 1820 or 1821 and went to south Louisiana. When I wrote that posting, I had thought that Samuel went directly from Nashville to south Louisiana. But as the last posting indicates, I was wrong in thinking this. As I discovered when I began delving into a number of references I had found to Samuel K. Green in records of Arkansas Territory in the 1820s, Samuel first went to Arkansas Territory when he left Nashville in 1820 or 1821, settling in Arkansas County along the Arkansas River not far upriver from the oldest settlement in Arkansas, Arkansas Post, which was the territorial capital up to 1821 and had been experiencing an economic and demographic boom right before Samuel went there.

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Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): Arkansas Territory Records, 1821-1833, and Brief Sojourn in Arkansas, 1821-2

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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas (Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis: Goodspeed, 1890), pp. 646-7

Or, Subtitled: “Civilization had at last come to Arkansas. So overjoyed were the inhabitants that the community celebrated the first publication of the Arkansas Gazette with a barrel of whiskey”

As I ended the previous posting, I told you that, having brought the story of Samuel Kerr Green up to 1830, when he ended his employment as an overseer at the Magnolia plantation of George Bradish and William Martin Johnson in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, I’d provide information about indicators that at some point between 1825 and 1829, Samuel may have been in Arkansas Territory. As I’ve told his story in the posting I’ve just linked and in the posting preceding that, Samuel arrived in south Louisiana by 1822 and began working as an overseer on the Pointe Celeste plantation of Joseph Biddle and Catherine Andrews Wilkinson in Plaquemines Parish. I’ve also told pieces of this s story in several previous other postings (see here, here, here, here, here, and here).

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