Tag: John Sibley

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 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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Mary Ann Green (1861-1942) and Husband Alexander Cobb Lindsey (1)

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Death certificate of Mary Ann Green Lindsey, Louisiana Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, Red River Parish #1620, 194

Or, Subtitled: A Family History Full of Twists, Turns, and Confusion

When I began Begats and Bequeathals back in January 2018, I stated that my goal here would be to share some 40+ years of research on my family lines, in the hope of providing accurate documentation to anyone who might be researching these families and looking for good documentation and not the junk genealogy too often found in various places. My initial posting also says that I wouldn’t be following any logical plan in choosing a particular family line to work on at any given time, but would be skipping from line to line.

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“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) (1)

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Louisiana Reports, Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, vol. 4
Louisiana Reports, Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, vol. 4, A.N. Ogden, reporter (New Orleans: Price Current, 1850), p. 39.

Here’s an experience I’ve had, oh, once or twice (including in my several decades of doing family history): I’m motoring along, absolutely certain I know where I’m headed, and all of a sudden, a signpost appears by the roadside telling me I’ve been on the wrong road all the time. When I was certain I knew where I was going — certain that I knew what I knew. . . . Continue reading ““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) (1)” →