Tag: Blount Co. Tennessee

Children of George Birdwell (bef. 1725 – 1781) by Wife Mary (3): William, James, Joshua, Mary, and Jane

February 10, 2025

Or, Subtitled: “Four instruments of writing purporting to be relinquishments of a tract of land in Davidson County” With this posting, I’m finishing my series of postings about the children of George Birdwell (bef. 1725 – 1781) of Augusta and Botetourt Counties, Virginia, and Sullivan County, North Carolina (later Tennessee). My initial posting in this … More Children of George Birdwell (bef. 1725 – 1781) by Wife Mary (3): William, James, Joshua, Mary, and Jane

Children of George Birdwell (bef. 1725 – 1781) by Wife Mary (1): George, Elizabeth, and Benjamin

January 25, 2025

Or, Subtitled, “They traveled mostly by keel boat down the Ohio River. Thence into Missouri like all other pioneers by covered wagon” This posting continues a discussion I began in a previous one in which I discussed the children of George Birdwell (bef. 1725 – 1781) by his first wife, whose name is not known. As … More Children of George Birdwell (bef. 1725 – 1781) by Wife Mary (1): George, Elizabeth, and Benjamin

Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Mary Calhoun Green (1797-1827) and Husband Robert Wilson Woods

November 13, 2023

Or, Subtitled: “Some marriagable [sic] young man or widower may ask, is there any pretty girls, old maids or widows there? Answer. some as nice as you ever saw” 5. Mary Calhoun Green, who was the fifth child of John Green and Jane Kerr and was named for her maternal grandmother Mary Calhoun Kerr, was … More Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Mary Calhoun Green (1797-1827) and Husband Robert Wilson Woods