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? ?m. by 1786 ?Natchez Dist. b. 1763? NC or SC d. after Oct 1, 1793 ?Natchez Dist. |
?Sophia b. 1786? d. after Oct 1, 1793 |
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In May 1782,
13 families
arrived in Natchez District from the Cumberland settlement in Washington Co. NC
(later Nashville TN) and were recorded by Spanish authorities on Jul 6. They
included Thomas Green Sr. and wife Martha, in a
party of 11 individuals and 32 slaves under the entry "Thomas Green, wife and
children" and the son Thomas Green Jr. and his wife in a
separate party of 3 individuals and 11 slaves under the entry "Thomas Marston
Green, wife and son". |
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On May 17, 1782, having just arrived in Natchez,
Thomas Green Sr. sold a "negro man" brought by
his family, named James, "aged 12 (born 1769?), native of Carolina", to widow
Anne McIntosh for "the sum of $280" and
$720 to be paid Dec 1 1782 in return for 500 arpents of land on St. Catherine's
Creek and bounded on one side by land of
John Smith, the father of
David Smith whose family had also just
arrived in Natchez [McBee, Natchez Court Records, Book A, p. 13]. |
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On May 16, 1782 the head of another of the families that just arrived in Natchez,
Thomas Ethridge, said in a
deposition to
the Natchez District Commandant,
Carlos de Grand-Pré,
that many of the "slaves brought by Thomas Green" and
by the Smith families were "stolen" [Farrell Family History website]. |
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On Jun 5, 1784 Abner Green, the eldest son of
Thomas Green Sr., sold to Richard Harrison
two of his older slaves, "a negro man, aged 50, and a negro woman, same age",
the woman likely being Molly. The next day, Jun 6,
Thomas Green appointed his sons,
"Thomas Marston Green,
Cato West [son-in-law],
and Abner Green, my true and lawful attornies..." [McBee, p. 135]. On Sep 18, 1784, the same Richard Harrison sold a woman, "Molly, aged 40, native of Va." (born 1744?), for $400 to Estevan Minor [McBee, Book A, p. 16]. |
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By Oct 31, 1789, Melling Woolley sold to Samuel Murphy a negro boy "James",
aged 12 (born 1777?), "for $480 Mexican silver" just before he sold
"400 arpents on the Miss. River, 3 leagues from the Fort" [McBee, Book B, p. 71]. |
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In Nov 1792, Don Carlos de Grand-Pré
sold to John Smith, "Capt. of the Militia and
Alcaide of Villa Gayosa", sold another slave "James, aged 16 to 17" (born 1775/6?),
native of VA, and two others, Joseph and Philip,"nat. of Guinea" for
$1200 Mexican money with terms [McBee, Book C, p. 93]. |
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Manuel Gayoso de Lemos succeeded
Charles de Grand-Pré in early 1792 and
changed the name of the mansion built by his predecessor to Concord to
reflect a new age of cooperation with all Natchez residents.
Postcard
showing the mansion before it burned down in 1901. |
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According to the 1792 Spanish Census for the Natchez District, son Abner Green
owned 2200 arpents (1 arpent = .84 acre) of land in the Second and Sandy Creek
section, now in parts of Adams and Franklin Co. MS. Living there were 6 white
persons and 13 slaves; There were three Green households owning land in the Villa Gayoso section, which became parts of Jefferson and Franklin Counties: "Tomas [Thomas] Masten Green" owned 1668 arpents with 8 white persons and 13 slaves; son Abraham owned 3500 arpents with 2 whites and 6 slaves; and son Henry owned 1800 arpents with 2 Whites and 4 slaves. Also a "Jese" Green and a Nathan Green lived in the same section but had no land. A John Green owned 400 arpents in Bayou Sara (Wilkinson Co. MS). [Adams Co. Miss. Gen. & Hist. Network]. |
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1895 Map
of Natchez showed the likely routes of the Second and Sandy Creeks in 1792. [Ancestral Trackers, website. |
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Map of
the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799. |
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When Jacob Leaphart, the current master of another of Green's former slaves,
Molly, died in 1793,
"Molly" presented a
petition to the Natchez court
for her freedom because she had worked to pay off some of her master's
debts and on his death bed he told others, including
William Barland that he intended to give her
her freedom, at her "advanced age, being near 70 years old" [McBee, Book E, p.
169-70]. |
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On Sep 30, 1793, on orders of acting commander Don Pedro Favrot, Antonio
Soler went to the plantation of "Jacob Cobun" to arrest him and his son Samuel,
and take inventory which included "negro man, James, aged 30 (born 1763?),
negro woman, abt. same age, negro girl Sophia, aged 7." Soler left the
plantation and everything found there "in charge of Samuel Gibson" on Oct 1
[McBee, Book E, p. 187]. |
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In the 1792 Natchez District Census, the three slaves inventoried in 1793,
were counted in the household of "Jacobo Cobbun" and one other white on 800
arpents of land in Bayou Pierre, where his son "Samuel Cobbun" also had land
and a slave and where Samuel Gibson had a larger plantation and more whites and
slaves. Jacob Cobun may have been an older brother of Esther Cobun (1769-1814),
who was then the wife of Richard King
(1760-1815). |
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SOURCES: Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "1792 Census for Natchez District (under Spanish Government control)", 2009, 1792 Census. American State Papers, Documents, ... of the Congress of the Unitied States, ... 1789-1809, vol. 1, Gales and Seaton, Washington DC, 1832, register A, p. 868, register B, p. 895. Elliott, Jack D. Jr., The Fort of Natchez and the Colonial Origins of Mississippi, rev. 2013 of article in Journal of Miss. Hist., 1990. Farrell Family History, website. "Franklin County, MS 1810 Census", abstract from Gillis book, rootsweb website. Marriages of Early Natchez Settlers, New Orleans Genesis Vol. 6 no.21, Jan 1967, p 84. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, Book A, p. 13, Book B, p. 71, Book C, p. 93, Book E, p. 187. "Natchez District 1792 Spanish Census Index", in USGenWeb, Early Southwest Miss. Territory, Census Index. Rowland, Dunbar, "1816 Census for Franklin Co. Miss.", taken from The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Centennial Edition, 1917, rootsweb website. | ||||