Tag: James Hopkins

Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): The Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Years, 1835-1848 (2)

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Promissory note of Samuel K. Green to Ezekiel C. Green, James K. Huey vs. Samuel K. Green, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 9th District Court case #932

Or, Subtitled: “Maj. Samuel K. Green, an old veteran in the cause gave a splendid ball in the evening”

So with the previous posting, we’ve gotten Samuel Kerr Green from New Orleans to Natchitoches Parish in northwest Louisiana by October 1835, when he bought 640 acres there from Dr. John Sibley. As the conveyance record for that land sale states, Samuel was already living in Natchitoches Parish by 1 October 1835 when he purchased the land.[1] I do not have precise information for the exact time frame in which Samuel worked at his last overseeing job in south Louisiana on James Hopkins’ plantation, but Hopkins’ testimony in the Ezekiel S. Green vs. Samuel K. Green case Samuel’s son Ezekiel filed in Pointe Coupee Parish against his father in March 1856 suggests it was in the early 1830s.[2] And the testimony of Joseph Biddle Wilkinson and his wife Catherine Andrews Wilkinson in the same case states that Samuel worked in 1829-1830 for George Bradish and William Martin Johnson in Plaquemines Parish. So Samuel’s work for Hopkins in New Orleans occurred in the first part of the 1830s and at some point before October 1835, he left New Orleans for Natchitoches Parish.

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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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Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910) (1)

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Opening Page of Complaint of Ezekiel S. Green in Ezekiel S. Green vs. Samuel K. Green, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 9th District Court, file #1525

Or, Subtitled: “The motion came with ill grace from the one presumed to be the father”

In a number of previous postings, I’ve sketched some parts of the life of Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – after 1900), father of Mary Ann Green Lindsey (1861-1942) and son of Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) and Eliza Jane Smith (1790/1800 – 1843). In this posting, I’ll begin creating a more systematic account of Ezekiel’s life than I’ve previously provided, and will point to previous discussions of portions of his life that I’ve already discussed in detail.

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