Tag: Natchitoches

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.