Tag: General James Wilkinson

Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): The Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Years, 1835-1848 (1)

August 14, 2023

Or, Subtitled: “Claiming, by virtue of occupation, habitation, and cultivation, a tract of land lying wwithin the late neutral territory” As my previous posting about Samuel Kerr Green indicates when it wraps up discussion of the period in the early 1830s that Samuel spent working as an overseer on the plantation of James Hopkins in … More Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): The Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Years, 1835-1848 (1)

Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) — The Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Years

July 17, 2023

Or, Subtitled: “The great sugar-house was a wilderness of tubs and tanks and vats and filters, pumps, pipes, and machinery” In the previous posting, I surveyed the life of Samuel Kerr Green from his birth in 1790 to John Green and Jane Kerr in Pendleton District, South Carolina, up to the point at which he … More Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) — The Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Years

“The Reputed Father of a Child … Will Not Be Permitted Afterwards to Bastardize Such Issue”: The Case of Ezekiel Samuel Green (and His Father Samuel Kerr Green) (2)

May 1, 2018

In my previous posting, I told you that I had long been sure that my 2-great-grandmother Camilla Birdwell Green (abt. 1834 – aft. 4 December 1865) died on 11 October 1862 in Avoyelles or Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, giving birth to my great-grandmother Mary Ann Green (1862-1942). Then, as I did a search of Texas … More “The Reputed Father of a Child … Will Not Be Permitted Afterwards to Bastardize Such Issue”: The Case of Ezekiel Samuel Green (and His Father Samuel Kerr Green) (2)