Or, Subtitled: Fortunes Rising, Fortunes Falling, as Sands Shift
9. James Hamilton Green, the ninth child of John Green and Jane Kerr, was born in or about 1806 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. Or so I conclude: federal censuses have conflicting data about his year of birth. The 1850 and 1870 censuses have him born in 1806, the 1860 census in 1808, and the 1880 federal mortality schedule in 1810.[1] The lists of John Green and Jane Kerr’s children stated in their estate records, as well as in the estate records of James’s brother John Ewing Green, all place the children’s names in the same order, which is clearly their order of birth. These lists consistently place James between John Ewing and Jane Caroline Green. John E. Green was born 6 November 1803 and Jane Caroline was born 10 October 1808. Unless James was a twin of Jane Caroline — and I’ve seen no record suggesting this — it seems to me that the 1806 year of birth indicated by the 1850 and 1870 federal censuses is correct.
Begats and Bequeathals 