As a previous posting has noted, when John and Jane Kerr Green sold their 1,345 acres in Pendleton District to Thomas Gates on 4 May 1818, as they made their move to Alabama, Gates then resold that land to John and Jane’s neighbors the Lawrences. In the “Lawrence Family Papers” at Clemson University Library’s Special … More John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting
After my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I have added another new piece of information to a previous posting about John Green (1768-1837). This new information is from biographical information about John Green’s Pendleton District neighbor Benjamin Lawrence that I found in the Lawrence Family Papers at Clemson’s archives. … More John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting
In a posting I just uploaded, I told readers of this blog that I recently found the original plat for John Green’s survey of 838 acres on the Keowee River in Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1793. That plat is in the Lawrence Family Papers in Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (box 1, … More John Green and Wife Jane Kerr: New Information Added to Previous Postings (2)
As my previous posting states, I recently made a research trip to Clemson University in South Carolina and spent a day in the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson’s Library, where the archival staff could not have been more courteous and helpful. I found a large amount of very valuable information and documents that I … More John Green and Wife Jane Kerr: New Information Added to Previous Postings (1)
Or, subtitled: “Times is harder here I expect than you have any Idea of” 3. Benjamin S. Green, the third child and second son of John Green and Jane Kerr,was born in 1794 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. The 1860 federal mortality schedule for Grimes County, Texas, lists B.S. Green next to his brother S.K. … More Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Benjamin S. Green
Or, Subtitled: “He left Pendleton for the Alabama a week before John E. got up and expects to return in about two months” 1800-1810 As my last posting tells you as it examines Pendleton District, South Carolina, records for John Green from the 1790 federal census, which suggests that he and wife Jane were living … More John Green (1768-1837): Pendleton District, South Carolina Records, 1800-1818
Or, Subtitled: “Tell her I have got 5 guns all sure fire and when danger is approaching myself and jane will Each of us shoulder a few of them and march up the hill as a Reinforcement” John Green’s Birth and Marriage John Green was born 21 January 1768. This date is recorded on his … More John Green (1768-1837): Pendleton District, South Carolina Records to 1799
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 