Or, Subtitled: An experiment in silk worm raising in Bibb County, Alabama
a. John Randolph Green was born 7 February 1844 at Woodstock, Bibb County, Alabama. John stated this date and place of birth on his report for the 1921 census of Alabama Confederate soldiers.[1] John’s reply to the questionnaire sent to former CSA soldiers in 1921 was written and signed by him. He gave his full name on the report as John Randolph Green.
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.
Or, Subtitled: “On the Elyton road, the [stagecoach] change, usually considered necessary every fifteen miles, is said to have occurred regularly near Woodstock at the old Green house, called Halfway House”
As the previous posting states, when Jane Kerr Green relinquished her dower rights to the 1,345 acres she and husband John Green sold in Pendleton District, South Carolina, on 4 May 1818 — Jane released dower on 28 October 1818 — it appears to me that John and Jane were making preparations for the immediate move of their family to Alabama. I think it’s likely that the family left for Alabama not long after Jane’s dower release. Since, as will be shown below, when John and his sons Benjamin and Joscelin had certificates for federal land in Bibb County, Alabama, in June 1823, with the certificates stating that the Green men were living in Tuscaloosa County, I think the Green family initially settled in Tuscaloosa County before moving to the contiguous county of Bibb, where they settled in the northwest corner of Bibb not far from the Tuscaloosa County line.
Begats and Bequeathals 