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Notes on a Benjamin Green (abt. 1766 – after 1805) Who May Be a Brother of John Green (1768-1837)

William D. Lindsey3 Comments
Signature of Benjamin Green in 24 February 1802 letter to John Ewing Colhoun, in “John Ewing Colhoun Papers, 1774-1961,” Wilson Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, collection no. 130; the letter is available digitally at the website for this collection

Or, Subtitled: News of the selling of Tom Paine — a horse — and of rice plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry

In my previous posting, I told you that a Benjamin Green who begins appearing in Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina, records by the late 1780s and early 1790s and who is designated in almost all of these records as Benjamin Green Jr. can be proven to have been a son of the older Benjamin Green discussed in the posting I’ve just linked. I also strongly suspect Benjamin Jr. is a brother of the John Green (1768-1837) whose ancestry I’m trying to figure out.

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John Green (1768-1837): Some Notes on His Yet-to-Be Proven Ancestry

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South Carolina Colonial Plat Bk. 9, p. 293

Or, Subtitled: Making Lemonade with No Lemons — Trying to Do Genealogy in Absence of Records You Need

Beginning with this linked posting in early September 2023, I’ve been tracking a Green family line from my earliest proven ancestor in this line, John Green, who was born 21 January 1768 in Granville (later Abbeville) County, South Carolina, and who died 18 March 1837 in Bibb County, Alabama. I’ve followed this family from John Green through his children by wife Jane Kerr, up to George Sidney Green, their last child, whose family I discussed in my last two postings. Prior to that time, I had also made a number of postings focusing specifically on John and Jane’s son Samuel Kerr Green, my 3-g-grandfather, and Samuel’s son Ezekiel Samuel Green, my 2-g-grandfather.

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Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Joscelin B. Green (1800-1853)

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1853 Store Account of Bernhard and Davidson, Bibb County, Alabama, in loose-papers estate file of Joscelin B. Green, Bibb County, Alabama, loose-papers estate file box 7, folder 27

Or, Subtitled: “2 Blk Bonnets, 3½ Yds Blk Calico, 2 Blk Lace Mantillas, 2 Pr Ladies Shoes, 1 Yd Blk Crepe, 2 Pr Blk Kid Gloves”

6. Joscelin B. Green, the sixth child of John Green and Jane Kerr, was born in 1800 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. This year of birth is indicated by the 1850 federal census, on which Joscelin is enumerated in Bibb County, Alabama, with his family and is listed as a farmer born in South Carolina, aged 50.[1]

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Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Benjamin S. Green

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Tombstone of Benjamin S. Green and family, photo by A. Nobody — see Find a Grave memorial page of Benjamin S. Green, Hegar, Waller County, Texas, created by A. Nobody, maintained by Annette Stone-Kerr

Or, subtitled: “Times is harder here I expect than you have any Idea of”

3. Benjamin S. Green, the third child and second son of John Green and Jane Kerr,was born in 1794 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. The 1860 federal mortality schedule for Grimes County, Texas, lists B.S. Green next to his brother S.K. Green, stating that B.S. Green died of “Disias of the hart” in April 1860 in Grimes County, after an illness of 21 days.[1] The mortality schedule states that B.S. Green was aged 66 at the time of death and was born in South Carolina. This gives Benjamin S. Green a birth year of 1794. The mortality schedule listings show that at the very end of his life, Benjamin’s brother Samuel had either gone to live with his brother in Texas, having lost his lawsuit in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, against his son Ezekiel, or was visiting Benjamin in Texas at the time of his death. Samuel died in Grimes County in March 1860 of pneumonia, and his brother the following month.

1860 federal mortality schedule, Grimes County, Texas, p. 5,
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Jane Kerr (1768-1855), Wife of John Green of Pendleton District, South Carolina, and Bibb County, Alabama

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Portrait of Jane Kerr Green made about 1850 at the Green house, Bibb County, Alabama, in possession of a descendant in Virginia

Or, Subtitled: “In Memory of Jane Green born in Abbeville District S.C. Oct. 8th 1768. Departed this life Nov. 2nd 1855”

As a previous posting has indicated, the tombstone of Jane Kerr Green, wife of John Green, which formerly marked her grave in the family cemetery on the Green plantation near Woodstock in Bibb County, Alabama, but is now in Tannehill Historical State Park in Tuscaloosa County, states that Jane was born 8 October 1768 in Abbeville District, South Carolina, and that she died 2 November 1855.[1] The posting I’ve just linked contains a photo of the tombstone and transcribes its inscription, which reads,

In Memory of Jane Green born in Abbeville District S.C. Oct. 8th 1768. Departed this life Nov. 2nd 1855

As the linked posting also explains, at the time John Green and Jane Kerr were born in 1768 in what would become Abbeville County or District in 1785, this area, then called Granville County, would shortly after their births become Ninety-Six District until Abbeville District/County was created.

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John Green (1768-1837): Pendleton District, South Carolina Records, 1800-1818

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Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk. O, pp. 136-8

Or, Subtitled: “He left Pendleton for the Alabama a week before John E. got up and expects to return in about two months”

1800-1810

As my last posting tells you as it examines Pendleton District, South Carolina, records for John Green from the 1790 federal census, which suggests that he and wife Jane were living on and managing the Keowee Heights plantation of her uncle John Ewing Colhoun, to 21 December 1798, when he had a plat for 500 acres east of the Keowee in addition to the 838 acres he acquired in 1793, there were a number of men named John Green living in Pendleton District or found in its records in the 1790s. The 1800 federal census for Pendleton District presents us with yet another challenge of sorting John Greens.

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John Green (1768-1837): Pendleton District, South Carolina Records to 1799

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Tombstone of John Green, Tannehill Historical State Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, my photo

Or, Subtitled: “Tell her I have got 5 guns all sure fire and when danger is approaching myself and jane will Each of us shoulder a few of them and march up the hill as a Reinforcement”

John Green’s Birth and Marriage

John Green was born 21 January 1768. This date is recorded on his tombstone, whose inscription reads,[1]

Sacred to the memory of JOHN GREEN, ESQ., who was born January 21st 1768, and departed this life March 18th 1837, aged 69 years 1 month & 28 days.

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Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) — The South Carolina and Tennessee Years

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“For Sale or Freight to New Orleans,” National Banner and Nashville Whig (5 November 1816), p. 3, col. 3

Or, Subtitled: “Young Men on the Make” in Early Nashville

Samuel Kerr Green, father of Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910), was born in 1790 in Pendleton District (later Anderson County), South Carolina. As previous postings have noted (and here), Samuel is enumerated on the 1850 federal census in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, along with his wife Elvira Birdwell Green, their children Albert and Cornelia, and Elvira’s siblings Clinton, Camilla, and Mary Ann.[1] The census gives Samuel’s age as 60 and his birthplace as South Carolina.

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