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

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U.S. Congress, American State Papers: Documents of the Congress of the United States in Relation to the Public Lands from the First Session of the Eighteenth to the Second Session of the Nineteenth Congress, Inclusive: Commencing December 1, 1823, and Ending March 3, 1827, vol. 4 (D.C.: Cornelius Wendell, 1859), p. 114

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 New Orleans, by 1835 Samuel had settled in Natchitoches Parish some 250 miles northwest of New Orleans. On 1 October 1835, Samuel purchased from Dr. John Sibley 640 acres of land in Natchitoches Parish.[1] The conveyance record states that both Samuel K. Green and John Sibley were residents of Natchitoches Parish, and that Samuel was purchasing land Sibley had acquired by Rio Hondo claim #124. The tract was fifteen miles west of the town of Natchitoches near the village of Adayes on the road from Natchitoches to the Sabine River. The price of the land was $3,750, of which Samuel paid $1,550 at the purchase. Both John Sibley and Samuel K. Green signed the conveyance, with witnesses Robert S. Chadsey and William Ferguson.

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Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): Arkansas Territory Records, 1821-1833, and Brief Sojourn in Arkansas, 1821-2

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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas (Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis: Goodspeed, 1890), pp. 646-7

Or, Subtitled: “Civilization had at last come to Arkansas. So overjoyed were the inhabitants that the community celebrated the first publication of the Arkansas Gazette with a barrel of whiskey”

As I ended the previous posting, I told you that, having brought the story of Samuel Kerr Green up to 1830, when he ended his employment as an overseer at the Magnolia plantation of George Bradish and William Martin Johnson in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, I’d provide information about indicators that at some point between 1825 and 1829, Samuel may have been in Arkansas Territory. As I’ve told his story in the posting I’ve just linked and in the posting preceding that, Samuel arrived in south Louisiana by 1822 and began working as an overseer on the Pointe Celeste plantation of Joseph Biddle and Catherine Andrews Wilkinson in Plaquemines Parish. I’ve also told pieces of this s story in several previous other postings (see here, here, here, here, here, and here).

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Children of Mary Brooks (d. 1787, Frederick County, Virginia) — Susanna Brooks Haynes and James Brooks

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Copy of will of James Brooks filed in Peter Peters and Wife vs. Admrs. of James Brooks, Frederick County, Virginia, Chancery Court 1831-007

Or, Subtitled: Old and week in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory

In a long series of postings of which this is the final one, I’ve been following the children named in the 9 July 1786 will of Mary Brooks of Frederick County, Virginia (and see also here), and have tracked the descendants of those children for a generation or two.[1] As we’ve seen, Mary’s will names the following children:

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