General Notes: Abbev.
estates have an estate for Robert Green (box 39, bundle 831). There is an
undated inventory by Benjamin Terry, Samuel Young, and John Trimble, which
contains a note on John Green for $67 (rec. in Inventory Bk. 1, p. 489, on
7 July 1805). Various receipts were recorded in ibid. on the same date.
These include payments in 1805-7 to a Wm. and John Caldwell. Estate sale
was 20 June 1805, with Catherine Green, evidently the widow, the chief
buyer. Members of the Hamilton family also appear as buyers. On 7 June
1805, Catherine gave bond with Francis Young, John Calhoun, and Andrew
Hamilton to administer, all signing.
This may be the Robert Green
who had a survey for 200 acres on Deep Creek, a branch of the Seemkaw, in
Abbev. on 24 May 1784 (Abbev. Plat Bk. 1, p. 26). On 24 Sept. 1785, RG had
174 acres on the Savannah surveyed (Plat Bk. 2, p. 124).
In 1787,
Robert Green bought from John Green (m. Jane Kerr), who was evidently his
brother, the 1766 tract on Long Cane patented by the older John Green of
Abbeville Co.--see file of John the younger.
This Robert and
Catherine Green also seem to appear in the 1798 Abbev. estate record of
George Livingston (Box 53, Pack 1264). Will is dated May 14, 1798, in 96th
Dist. Rec. Jun 11 1798. Exrs: Catherine Green, S/L Robert Green. Wit: Saml
Green, Saml. Patterson, Jonathan Wood. Wife Jane Leviston. Dtrs: Catherine
Green. gr/son. George Leviston Green. Inv. made Jul 9, 1798 by Francis
Carlile, Benjamin Terry, Thomas Ramsay.
This Robert Green seems to
have had some connection to the Hamilton and Kerr families of Abbeville
Co., SC. The will of Archibald Hamilton of Abbeville Co., 31 August 1793,
pr. 10 November 1795 in Abbeville Co., was wit. by Robert and John Green.
Legatees were sister Margaret Burney, brother John Hamilton, Mary Kerr
(spelled Kars) my (page torn), Margaret Benson cousin, Mary Karman my
cousin, Jennet Sawer and Ann Garner my cousins, Agness Hamilton, my
brother's daughter, Joseph Kars my cousin, Saml Kars my sister's son,
Andrew Hamilton, son of my brother Joseph.
Executors: nephew Andrew
Hamilton, friend Samuel Green, both of Abbeville Co, SC and Mary Kars her
daughter Margaret Benson of Roan Co, NC.
Mary Kars and Margaret
Benson, special trustees for sister Margret Binney.
Witnesses:
Francis Cummins N.D.M., Robert Green, and John Green.
Note that
this will links Robert, John, and Samuel Green to the John Green who was a
Revolutionary soldier, and who named Archibald Hamilton to receive his pay
indent.
On an 1836 equity case for Major Andrew Hamilton, see his
file.
According to Waddell's ANNALS OF EARLY AUGUSTA CO., VA, an
Archibald Hamilton m. Frances Calhoun and came to this country from
Ireland. Their son Andrew, b. 1741, moved in 1765 to the Long Cane
settlement in Abbeville Co., settling near Andrew Pickens (p.
91).
The George Livingston Green mentioned in the 1798 will of
George Livingston went to Jefferson Co., AL, in 1817 or thereabouts with
wife Jane Magill.
On 20 Jan. 2001, Billie Patterson
(billieanddan@yahoo.com) posted to the Abbeville discussion group at
Rootsweb.com re: the preceding Robert Green. She notes that he was from
Old Tryon Co., NC, and had a land grant from the crown at the place where
the Battle of Cowpens was fought. She also indicates he was of Irish
descent.
On 28 Feb. 2006, John Greene (jjgreene46@bellsouth.net)
responded, stating that Robert is his ancestor. On 10 May 2006, John
Greene posted to the discussion, stating that Robert Green m. Catherine
Livingston and had a brother John, along with sons George Livingston and
Robert Harvey Green. He also states that Robert and John were
blacksmiths.
John Greene indicates that the father of of George and
Robert was Robert Green. and their mother was Catharine, daughter of
George Livingston and Jane Wilson. John Green notes that Robert was a
blacksmith and planter in the Abbeville area.
John Greene has sent
me a 1787 deed in which John Green of Abbeville Co. sells to Robert Green,
John Greene's ancestor, the land patented in 1766 by John Green the elder
on Long Cane. A transcription of that deed is in the file of John Green
the younger (m. Jane Kerr). This deed proves that the older John died
before 1787, that the younger John inherited his land, and that there is a
close relationship between the younger John and Robert. John Greene he
believes that John Green (m. Jane Kerr) is a brother to his Robert.
According to John Greene, he has found in two places a story
describing the founder of this Green family in America to be Robert
Stirling Green.
The following is an excerpt from an Oct. 2006
email I sent to John Greene outlining my reasons for thinking there is
possibly a connection between my Green line and his:
"Here are
among the details that have led me to think that there is some close
connection between your Robert Green and my John Green with wife Jane
Kerr: the inventory of your Robert's estate (Abbev. Estates, box 39,
bundle 831) contains a note on John Green for $67 (rec. in Inventory Bk.
1, p. 489, on 7 July 1805). Because of the duplication of the name John in
Abbeville Green families, this could either be the older John who was a
blacksmith in Abbeville Co., or the younger. I deduce that the older John
and the Benjamin who shows up in the Long Canes settlement in the
mid-1760s with him were probably born by about 1745. I do not have a death
date for either, by the way, or an estate record.
I also find in
the estate of Robert Green many names associated with my Greens and their
kinship network. On 7 June 1805, the widow Catherine Livingston Green gave
bond with Francis Young, John Calhoun, and Andrew Hamilton to administer,
all signing. The John Calhoun here has to be a close relative of my Jane
Kerr (m. John Green). John was a relatively common name in several
branches of the Calhoun family of Long Canes in Abbeville, but most common
in Jane's branch (that is, in the branch of her mother Mary Calhoun Kerr).
Mary had a brother John Ewing Colhoun who had died by 1805, but who named
a son John. Mary and John's brother Ezekiel also named a son
John.
The Hamilton connection is also of interest, since John
Green, the blacksmith, and possible father of John Green who m. Jane Kerr,
authorized Archibald Hamilton to receive his Revolutionary pay
indent.
At your Robert Green's estate sale on 20 June 1805, members
of the Hamilton family appear as buyers, and, of course, Andrew Hamilton
was an administrator of Robert's estate.
The will of Archibald
Hamilton of Abbeville Co., 31 August 1793, pr. 10 November 1795 in
Abbeville Co., was wit. by Robert and John Green. Legatees included Mary
Kars, his relative (page torn at the point that he identifies the
relationship), Joseph Kars his cousin, Saml Kars his sister's son, and
Andrew Hamilton, son of my brother Joseph.
Executors were nephew
Andrew Hamilton, friend Samuel Green, both of Abbeville Co, SC, and Mary
Kars her daughter Margaret Benson of Roan Co, NC.
Witnesses
included Robert and John Green.
I haven't sorted out all the
relationships in that Hamilton will, but the Kars mentioned in it are
relatives of Jane Kerr who married John Green (Kars = Kerr). The
connection to Roan Co., NC (later TN) is also very interesting, since I
have information on a Green Co. in Pittsylvania Co., VA, who married a
Keesee family there, and who had relatives in Roan Co., TN. Members of
this family later came down to St. Clair Co., AL. My John Green and Jane
Kerr had a daughter Jane Caroline Green who married Thomas Keesee in
Tuscaloosa Co., AL, and a son George Sidney Green who married Mary Ann
Clardy, daughter of Benjamin Clardy and Agnes Keesee. These Keesees are
closely related to the ones in Pittsylvania Co., VA, who married Greens,
had ties to Roan Co., TN, and came into the same part of AL as both of our
Greens did.
I'm also very interested in several other names that
show up in your Robert Green's estate. The inventory (undated) of the
estate was taken by John Trimble, among others.
On 1 Oct. 1767, SC
Memorials recorded a memorial for John Green (this is the blacksmith) for
300 acres in Granville Co., SC (later Abbeville) on nw fork of Long Cane
bordered on e by John and Walter Trimble, on ne by Saml. Kerr and Hugh
Herron and ne by John Boles. Survey 7 July 1767, granted 28 Aug. Signed by
John and Andrew Pickens (SC Memorials 9, 333).
This tract is
precisely where one of Ezekiel Calhoun's two tracts in Long Cane was
located. The plat places John Green beside the same Saml. Kerr whose
daughter Jane married John Green (b. 1768). The Revolutionary pay indent
of Benjamin Green, who came to the Long Canes settlement when John Green
the blacksmith came there, was received by Moses Green. I have much more
on the connection of the Trimbles to our Greens but don't want to
overwhelm you now with too many details.
Finally, your Robert
Green's estate paid Wm. and John Caldwell. This is a family much
intermarried with my Calhouns; as you know, John C. Calhoun,
vice-president, was John Caldwell Calhoun.
The other indicator of a
close relationship between our Greens is that they moved to AL at
precisely the same time and settled in contiguous counties. "
Note
that I do not have proof positive that Robert Green is brother to the John
Green who married Jane Kerr, but it seems very likely that this is the
case, for reasons cited above.
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