Keziah Burr Howell

Keziah married Stephen Cregg Forman, Jr. (nephew of Joseph) on 25 Aug 1825 in Coles Creek, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. Stephen (son of Stephen Forman, Sr. and (Mrs. Stephen) Forman, son of Joseph Forman and Amelia Gale) was born on 02 Sep 1802 in Monmouth, New Jersey; died in 1836 in Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Charles H. Forman was born in 1826 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi; died after 1840.
2. Mary Jane Forman was born in 1828 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi; died in 1903.
3. Evelyn Forman was born about 1830 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi; died after 1850.
4. Martha H. Forman was born in 1832 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi; died after 1840.
5. Richard Brent Forman was born on 19 Feb 1833 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi; died after 1840.
6. Stephen Burr Forman was born on 04 May 1835 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi; died on 15 Aug 1896 in Natchez, Adams Co, Mississippi.

Charles married Mary "Patty" Green on 15 Apr 1804 in Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. Mary (daughter of Rep MS Congress Thomas Marston Green, Jr. Esq. and Martha Kirkland) was born on 17 Mar 1787 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died in 1815 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana (prob). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Howell was born in Newark, Delaware. He was a lawyer and soldier of the early United States Army. He served as captain and later major of the 2nd New Jersey Regiment from 1775 to 1779. He was offered the role of judge advocate of the army, but turned down the appointment to practice law. He was clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1778 to June 3, 1793. He succeeded Thomas Henderson as Governor and served until 1801. Replaced as Governor by Joseph Bloomfield, Howell died the following year. He was the grandfather of Varina Howell, the second wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Howell died in Trenton, New Jersey on April 28, 1802, and was buried in that city's Friends Burying Ground.[1] Howell Township in Monmouth County is named in his honor.
(Wikipedia)

Richard married Keziah Burr about 1774. Keziah was born on 19 Nov 1758 in Burlington Co, New Jersey; died on 09 Aug 1835 in Trenton, Mercer Co, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter Joseph Burr and Mary Mulen; granddaughter of John Burr and Keziah Wright

Other Events and Attributes:

• Possessions: Abt 1790, Coles Creek, Natchez, Mississippi; 348 acres
• Residence: Bef 1791, Springfield Plantation, Fayette, Mississippi
• Possessions: 27 Oct 1795, Cole's Creek, Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi

Notes:

Green, Thomas Marston, the third child of Col. Thomas Green and his wife Martha Wills, was born in James City county, Virginia Feb 26, 1758. (See Col. thomas Green). The land records show that he was granted 800 acres on Fairchild's creek in 1789, also owned in 1805 over 3,000 acres by purchase, largely on Cole's Creek. He was a member of the first general assembly of the territory, and was electd a delegate to congress by the legisltue in Ma 1802, to succeed Narsworth Hunter, deceased, and served from December 6, 1802 to Mar 3, 1803.
His wife, Martha, described as the unfailing "friend of the wretched and unhappy," died November 16, 1805. His death occurred February 7, 1813.
Andrew Jackson was married to Rachel Robards at the home of Thomas M. Green, near the mth of Cole's Creek, i 1791, by Col. Thomas Green, who, according to Sparks' Memories, acted as a justice of the peace by authority of the Georgia legislatu. He may also have been an alcalde, as Georgia had replealed the Bourbon county act. "That there was anything disreputable attached to the lady's name is very improbable," says Sparks, "for she was more than fifteen months in the house of (Thomas M.) Green who was a man of wealth, and remarkable for his pride and fastidiousness in selecting his friends or acquaintances." Two of the Green brothers married nices of Mrs. Jackson who was a Donaldson. Sparks himself married the youngest daughter of Abner Green, territorial treasurer of Mississippi.

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History of Port Gibson Mississippi

Among early things of interest is that Andrew Jackson was so delighted with the homes of Abner and Tom Green when he visited them at Gayosa's summer home and at Springfield in the 1780?s, that he acquired a tract of land where Bayou Pierre emptied into the Mississippi River and there built a cabin, trading post and race track. (This was a Spanish land Grant.) After he and Rachel were married at Tom Green's Springfield, they spent their honeymoon of two or three months here (1791)

Encyclopedia of Mississippi history:
During the time of the Spanish occupation of Ntchez, district, "Thomas M. Green and Abner Green were young men at the time, though both were men of family. To both of them Jackson, at different times, sold negroes, and the writer now has bills of sale for negroes sold to Abner Green, in the handwriting of Jackson, bearing his signature, written, as it always was, in large and bold characters, extending quite half across the sheet."

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W.H. Sparks - Memories of 50 Years

The friends formed in this section of country by Jackson were devoted to him through life, and when in after life he sent (for it is not true that he brought) his future wife to Mississippi, it was to the house of Thomas M. Green, then residing near the mouth of Cowles Creek, and only a few miles from Bruinsburgh.

Whatever the circumstances of the separation, or the cause for it, between Mrs. Jackson and her first husband,
I am ignorant; I know that Jackson vas much censured in the neighborhood of his home. At the time of her coming to Green's, the civil authority was a disputed one; most of the people acknowledging the Spanish. A suit was instituted for a divorce, and awarded by a Spanish tribunal. There was probably little ceremony or strictness of legal proceeding in the matter, as all government and law was equivocal, and of but little force just at that time in the country. It was after this that Jackson came and married her, in the house of Thomas M. Green.

That there was anything disreputable attached to the lady's name is very improbable; for she was more than fifteen months in the house of Green, who was a man of wealth, and remarkable for his pride and fastidiousness in selecting his friends or acquaintances. He was the first Territorial representative of Mississippi in Congress?was at the head of society socially, and certainly would never have permitted a lady of equivocal character to the privileges of a guest in his house, or to the association of his daughters, then young. During the time she was awaiting this divorce, she was at times an inmate of the family of Abner
Green, of Second Creek, where she was always gladly received, and he and his family were even more particular as to the character and position of those they admitted to their intimacy, if possible, than Thomas B. Green. This intimacy was increased by the marriage of two of the Green brothers to nieces of Mrs. Jackson.


Possessions:
Natchez Records 1767-1805 by May Wilson McBee
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William Ferguson to Thos Marston Green, 348 acres on Cole's Creek, b. by lands of John Smith, James Cole, Ben Stanley, and Benj. Roberts, for $350. ...no preview available for this page

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1790. William Ferguson to Thomas Marston Green, 348 arpents b. by John Smith, James Cole, Benj. Stampley, Benj. Roberts, for $350 paid. Wit: Eben Rees. ...no preview available for this page
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Residence:
In August of 1791, Andrew Jackson and Rachel were married at the Green Family Springfield Plantation. The marriage ceremony was performed by Thomas Green Sr., while Thomas Jr. served as a witness. Andrew and Rachel would later find out that Rachel's divorced was not finalized, at the time of the wedding

Possessions:
Natchez Court Records:
page 579 Thomas M. Green, an actual settler in this territory, 27 Oct 1795 claims 350 acres on Cole's Creek in sd county, by virtue of a warrant from British... no preview available

Thomas married Martha Kirkland on 15 Jan 1780 in Coles Creek Settlement, Natchez, Mississippi. Martha was born on 15 Feb 1760 in Fairfield Co, South Carolina; died on 15 Nov 1805 in Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi; was buried in Springfield Cem, near Greenville, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
MARRIAGES AND DEATHS FROM MISS. NEWSPAPERS by Wiltshire, Vol. II, pg 111:
November 26, 1805: Died near Greenville, on Friday, the 15th, Martha Green, the wife of Thomas M. Green, Esq. (As found in MISSISSIPPI MESSENGER, Natchez, Miss., Published by Timothy and Samuel Terrell).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1766, North Carolina and Georgia
• Possessions: 24 Jun 1768, Province of West Florida; (another Thos) 500 Acres
• Death: 1769, Pensacola, Province of West Florida; (another Thos)
• Occupation: 1769, Pensacola, Province of West Florida; (another Thos) Tavern keeper
• Residence: 12 May 1769, Pensacola, Province of West Florida; (another Thos) signed petition
• Possessions: 01 Sep 1782, Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi
• Politics: Between 1783 and 1785, New Orleans, Louisiana; arrested
• Possessions: 1785, "Gayosa" estate, Natchez, Mississippi; grant, "Gayosa" devised

Notes:

assumed sibling relationship to James and Rudolphus


Colonel Thomas M. Green, he of Revolutionary fame, lived in James City County, Virginia, where he was born and married, until in or about 1766, when he removed to North Carolina, and Georgia, remaining there until hostilities broke out between Great Britain and the Colonies; that he then went back to Virginia for service in the war, and there enlisted and served in the war as soldier, with the rank of colonel, and later returned, after the Revolutionary war was over, to the Georgia section, and thereafter for a time, before permanently becoming established, may have lived or had his headquarters in Natchez, Mississippi; that about 1783, he became involved in the altercation to be mentioned with the Spanish authorities, was arrested and taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, but was released, and that in or before 1785, he became finally settled on his vast estate, the homestead of which was known as "Gayosa," in what is now Jefferson County, Mississippi. These conclusions are supported by cogent circumstances. The result of a close investigation which we procured to be made in the Congressional Library, Washington, District of Columbia, is that the arrest and incarceration in New Orleans must have taken place between 1783 and 1785. The grant for the estate, including "Gayosa," is understood to have been in 1785, at any rate preceding a will made that year, now held as an heirloom, whereby he devised "Gayosa," to his youngest son Everard, and made therein no mention of his wife, Martha Wills, which indicates that she had already died, and that hence the perilous journey to New Orleans on the occasion of his arrest, which cost her life, had previously occurred. "Gayosa" was named for the Spanish Governor before whom he was taken when arrested.
'The Cabells and Their Kin, p. 306.(147)

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Couple these circumstances with the certain evidence that
he, Colonel Green, did remove from Virginia before the
War of the Revolution, which as is known was being waged
between 1776 and 1781, and that he was a soldier, holding
the rank of Colonel, in that war, and the probable evidence,
that his soldier service was under enlistment in Virginia,
we are drawn almost irresistibly to the deductions
announced.

Since writing the above, we have been favored with an
apparently very ancient sketch of the Green genealogy,
dated August 28, 1867, by W. Holmes, a descendant of
J, Remsen Holmes, who married Augusta, daughter of Thomas M. Green, the Congressman (vide, supra). It tends to confirm the views we have expressed concerning the abodes of Colonel Thomas Green, the officer in the Continental Army, before and after the Revolution; for it is there stated that Colonel Green's children whose nativity was after 1765 and before 1774, namely, Henry Marston, Elias and Filmer Wills were born in North Carolina, and that the previous births of his children were in James City County, Virginia, and the subsequent ones, that is, of Abraham, September 28, 1774, and of Everard, April 15, 1776, were in Georgia (Sketch, p. 2).

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In Force's "American Archives," 5th Series, page 595,
proceedings of July, 1776, referring as we understand to
Thomas Marston Green, husband of Martha Wills, it is
said:
"Colonel Green, representing that only fifty (50) of his
Flying Camp Company are now in this town, armed, accoutred and ready to march, and that a number of the drafts of some of the companies of his Battalion have not yet joined them, requests the sentiments of this Committee whether those who are (ready) shall march for the camp under his command, and what method shall be taken to oblige the other drafts to follow."

The social eminence and political prominence and influence of the Green family are well attested by the historical excerpts to follow.

In Lowry and McCardle's "History of Mississippi,"
Chapter VI, page 155, it is said:

"The Committee elected was Colonel Thomas M. Green*
Daniel Burnett, Justus King, Dr. John Shaw, Anthony

*He was a son of Col. Thomas Marston Green, senior,
the Revolutionary ancestor.

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The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 149

Hoggett, James Stewart, Chester Ashley, and Abner
Green* and these were all representative men, gentlemen
of character and education, who founded large families,
made fortunes, and their descendants to-day may be found
in large numbers in Mississippi and Louisiana."

In chapter VIII, page i86, it is stated:

"In December, 1802, the Legislature was again in session. It enacted a number of laws, established Jefferson College, and elected Colonel Thomas Marston Green a delegate in Congress in place of Honorable N. Hunter, who died at the Capital during the session."

Mrs. Clifton R. (Katherine Charlotte Green) Breckenridge. National Number 146, and Mrs. John Cox (Evie Green) Inge, National Number 66217, were accepted as members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, by descent from their great great grandfather, Thomas Marston Green (husband of Martha Wills), as a soldier with the rank of colonel in the War of the Revolution; and in the former's application, in stating his Revolutionary services, the applicant quotes as follows from J. F. H. Claiborne's "Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State," Vol. i, pp. 96, 228:

"Thomas Marston Green, an accomplished gentleman and most useful citizen, was the son of Colonel Thomas Green, the head of a numerous family and influential connection. He (Colonel Thomas Green) was a Virginian and an officer of the Continental Army. Removed to Georgia and was associated with General George Rodgers Clarke and General Elisha Clarke of Georgia, in their schemes of attacks on the Spaniards. Colonel Green, with a large party of friends, went to the Holston River, built boats and descended the Tennessee to its mouth, expecting there to find General George Rodgers Clarke, and his party, but not finding them and being unable to ascend the Ohio with their boats, they continued on to Natchez. Colonel Thomas Green (the father of the delegate) had an interview with the Spanish Governor, as agent for the State of Georgia, and claimed the entire district for that State. He was a bold, determined and persistent man. The Spanish authorities, finding that he was likely to excite a tumult, had him arrested and sent to New Orleans. His devoted wife soon followed and from exposure and anxiety died shortly after her arrival. This touched the heart of the
*He was also a son of Col. Thomas Marston Green, senior, tlif,' Revolutionary ancestor.

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Spanish Governor and Colonel Green was released. The
family settled on the waters of Cole's Creek, in Jefferson
County.

"Colonel Cato West and General Thomas Hinds were his sons-in-law, and by intermarriages it constituted one of the largest connections in the district. Colonel Thomas Green was a man of indomitable resolution. He made the overland journey to Georgia, and was mainly instrumental in getting the Legislature to pass the act asserting the jurisdiction of Georgia over the Natchez district, and organizing it into a county named Bourbon, in 1785.

"His son, Thomas M. Green, was the second delegate to Congress. His son, Abner Green, married a daughter of
Colonel Hutchins.
"Thomas Marston Green (the son just mentioned) was
a warm friend of General Jackson's. It was to his house
General Jackson sent his future wife (Mrs. Robards)
while her divorce was being obtained, and she remained
there fifteen months, and was married to Jackson in his
house."

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Green, Col. Thomas: At the time George Rogers Clark was extending the domain of Virginia to the Mississippi river along the Ohio, during the Revolution, Thomas Green and his two sons, and son-in-law, Cato West, Virginians, who had lived for several years in Georgia, set out with the Harrisons and other families, to join the Kentucky settlements. They followed the usual route, over the mountains to the Holston river, where they built boats, and went down the Tennessee to the Ohio. Being able to ascend that river, it is said by Clairborne (p 96) they changed their plans. The Georgia-Virginians came down the river and secured grants of land from the Spanish government in what is now Jefferson county, then under the jurisdiction of the commandant at Natchez. Green was granted a hundred acres near Natchez Sept 1 1782. He appears to have been given authority as commissioner of Georgia to demand of the governor of Louisiana the surrender of the region north of the 31st parallel. He made such a demand upon the govenor and upon the first plausible pretext, says Wailes, he was arrested and imprisoned at New Orleans. His land, slaves and property were confiscated (Amer State Pp. I 559). His wife followed him to New Orelans and died there, and after that Col. Green was released.

June 6, 1784 he executed before Gov Philip Trevino a power of attorney to care for his property, to "his loving sons," Thomas Marston Green, Cato West, and Abner Green, affixing his private seal. He returned to Geeorgia through the Creek country, and secured the passage of an act of the legislature of that Sate, early in 1785, creating the county of Bourbon in Natchez district.

The land office records show that in 1785 he sold 2,000 acres of land on Bayou Sara to John Ellis. In 1785 he was granted 800 arpents on Bayou Sarah, which he sold to John Ellis.

After the arrival of Ellicott he proposed to organize a force to drive out the Spanish, and for that reason the governor made an attempt to arrest him, which caused much excitement. He was a member of the Hutchins committee of safety. Ellicott, in the cource of his criticisms on those associated with Hutchins, says that he always found Green, though a captain in the militia under the Spanish Government, a republican and a friend of the United States. Governor Sargeant tendered him an appointment in the organization of the territory, but he refused it. In 1802 he was appointed by Gov Claiborne treasurer of Jefferon County. From the beginning of the territory he contested with the United States the ownership of the property known as Villa Grayoso, north of Natchez, and finally the property was awarded to the family. Col. Green's sister married the father of Gen. Green Clay, and became the grandmother of the famous Cassius M. Clay.

As has been noted, Cato West was one of the sons-in-law of Col. Green. Abner Green married a daughter of Anthony Hutchins. Thus a power connection was formed, that "at one period, largely controlled the territory." Col. Green died in 1805.

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The Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805 by May Wilson McBee
p 433

p.3 June 6 1784, Thomas Green, of District, appoints my loving sons Thoma Marston Green, Cato West, and Abner Green, my true and lawful attorneys to ask, demand and recover, etc., all debts due me in this country. ... as I might or could do were I personally present, etc. Signed, Wit: Eldergill, Joseph Stanley, John Smith.

6 May 1790 Thos. Green of the Dist. do make a free gift and donation to Henry Green, Filmer Wells Green, Abraham Green and Everard Green, my four sons, of 17 slaves (named) with 50 cows, little and great, 6 oxen, 30 horses and mares, small and great, about 100 hogs and 100 arpents of land on Cole's Creek, b. by lands of John Smith and Bingaman, which said land I give to my son Everard solely,and other property to be divided between my four sons as by dded of gift hereto annexed 13 Jany, 1785.
Signed Thos. Green. // Deed attached: State of Georgia. Thos. Green, now of this State to my beloved sons, Henry Green, Filmer Wells Green, Abraham Green, and Everard Green, the following slaves and all the rest of my property now at the Natchez on the River Mississippi, (names slaves), equally divided into lots, giving preference to the eldest according to the ages. Savannah, Ga, 13 Feb 1785. Wit:
N. Long, Wm. Call. Thos. Green.


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(probably this Thomas Green, taking his brother's children into his guardianship. In the will William basically cut off Amey as soon as she remarried - which she did almost immediately.

At a court in July 1748, a Thomas Green Jr. (likely the son of Elizabeth Marston Green by process of elimination) petitioned to become the guardian of the MINOR children - and was still their guardian even as late as October 1749 - although some had married by this time.
(posted on Green-L - by Robert T. Green)



Possessions:
BRITISH LAND GRANTS
1767-1771

REFERENCE to the Land surveyed on the RIVER MISSISSIPPI since the establishment of the Civile Government in the Province of WEST FLORIDA
Thomas Green 500 acres 24th date of Certificate: June 1768
Gov who granted the Warrant of Survey: Lieut Governor Browne

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Death:
DEATHS IN PENSACOLA
1768-1770

An exact Register of Burials of the Inhavitants of the Town and Garrison of Pensacola commenceing the 26th of June 1768 to the 10th of June 1770.
1769
July 24 Thomas Green Tavern keeper Drowned

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Residence:
THE PROVINCE OF WEST FLORIDA
TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

Most humbley sheweth,

That your Petitioners with Hearts deeply impressed with the most perfect Loyalty and Affection, for Your majestys Royal Person and Government and gratefully sensible of you benevolent intentions to promote the welfare happiness and prosperity of all your faithful Subjects however remote beg leave to supplicate Your majesty to hear the Complaints and redress the Grievances of the Inhavitants of this Province.

Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to appoint John Eliot Esquire our Governor, he arrived on the first day of April last, to the great Joy and satisfaction of all Inhabitants, who under the Government of a Gentleman of his amiable Character and disposition, promised themselves every happiness: But alas! while we were forming the most agreeable expectations of our future success, it pleased Almighty God on the second Instant to balst all our fond hopes by his sudden death: a Blow which we sincerely lament as the most fatal which at this Time could have befallen us.

That by the Death of Mr Eliot, the Govenment of this Province, hath again devolved upon Montfort Browne Esquire, the Lieutenant Governor, from whose past conduct we Justly dread the most unhappy consepuences in his future Administration.

That your Petitioners do most humbly concieve, that they are bound by their duty and Loyalty to your Sacred Majesty, and their regard to the settlement and prosperity of this Province, to lay before you their objections to the Administration of the Lieutenant Governor, which are of such a nature, as perhaps never were before transmitted to Your Majesty or any of your Royal Predecessors from any part of your Dominions.

The Lieutenant Governor during his late Administration, contrived to secrete and imbezzle a considrable part of the Contingent Money allowed by Your Majesty for the support of this your Infant Colony; and in order to impose therein on Your Majesty's Ministers, hath transmitted to them a number of false Vouchers, for the disbursement of Moneis which he never paid, and for pretended Services which never were performed.

Several Accusations of this nature Were laid before Your Majestys' Council of this Province, which your Petitioners have reason to beleive were fully proved.

That during the former Administration of the Lieutenant Governor, ? by virtue of that high and Honorable Authority vested in him as Chancellor, passed several Iniquitous Decrees to the great detriment and loss of several of Your majestys Subjects in this Province.

Wherefore under the most grateful sense of Your Majestys Paternal care and regard for your Peaple, so often manifested in the exercis of your Royal Authority, and firmly relying on your Justice and Wisdom. We most humbley beseech Your Majesty, to take our unhappy state into your Royal consideration, and grant to your Petitioners your Royal consideration, and grant to your Petitioners under their present Circumstances, such relief as to Your Majestys Wisdom and goodness shall appear most proper, and expedient for the encouragement and Protection of this Colony.

Pensacola 12th May 1769


Joseph Smith
William Marshall
Thomas Green

David Doig
Wm Barrow
George Gauld

Arthur Gordon
James Ross
Jams Michell

Thomas Berwick
John Cowan
John Ames

John Hannay
John Stokes
John Anderson

Joseph Rukey
Israel Boardman
Jer Terry

Ben Ward
V S Comyn
John Southwell

Richard Carpenter
Jno Falconer
David Ross

Walter Hood
Wm Williams
J Ritson

William Garden
Alex Gorv
Richd Carr
Willm Cox

David Taitt
Charles Clarke
William Reid

John Murray
Fisher Tench
William Jackson

Timothy Wallington
Jams Southwell
James Aird

William Miller
James Amoss
T Hardy

William Southall
Thomas Rawlinson Hyam
Crowley Borrowe

Thomas Underwood
William Watson
Caleb Carpenter

Geo Tassie
William Aird
Charles Flutton
Patrick Morgan

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Possessions:
Green, Col. Thomas: At the time George Rogers Clark was extending the domain of Virginia to the Mississippi river along the Ohio, during the Revolution, Thomas Green and his two sons, and son-in-law, Cato West, Virginians, who had lived for several years in Georgia, set out with the Harrisons and other families, to join the Kentucky settlements. They followed the usual route, over the mountains to the Holston river, where they built boats, and went down the Tennessee to the Ohio. Being able to ascend that river, it is said by Clairborne (p 96) they changed their plans. The Georgia-Virginians came down the river and
secured grants of land from the Spanish government in what is now Jefferson county, then under the jurisdiction of the commandant at Natchez. Green was granted a hundred acres near Natchez Sept 1 1782. He appears to have been given authority as commissioner of Georgia to demand of the governor of Louisiana the surrender of the region north of the 31st parallel. He made such a demand upon the govenor and upon the first plausible pretext, says Wailes, he was arrested and imprisoned at New Orleans. His land, slaves and property were confiscated (Amer State Pp. I 559). His wife followed him to New Orealns and died there, and after that Col. Green was released.

June 6, 1784 he executed before Gov Philip Trevino a power of attorney to care for his property, to "his loving sons," Thomas Marston Green, Cato West, and Abner Green, affixing his private seal. He returned to Georgia through the Creek country, and secured the passage of an act of the legislature of that Sate, early in 1785, creating the county of Bourbon in Natchez district.

The land office records show that in 1785 he sold 2,000 acres of land on Bayou Sara to John Ellis. In 1785 he was granted 800 arpents on Bayou Sarah, which he sold to John Ellis.

After the arrival of Ellicott he proposed to organize a force to drive out the Spanish, and for that reason the governor made an attempt to arrest him, which caused much excitement. He was a member of the Hutchins committee of safety. Ellicott, in the cource of his criticisms on those associated with Hutchins, says that he always found Green, though a captain in the militia under the Spanish Government, a republican and a friend of the United States. Governor Sargeant tendered him an appointment in the organization of the territory, but he refused it. In 1802 he was appointed by Gov Claiborne treasurer of Jefferon County. From the beginning of the territory he contested with the United States the ownership of the property known as Villa Grayoso, north of Natchez, and finally the property was awarded to the family. Col. Green's sister married the father of Gen. Green Clay, and became the grandmother of the famous Cassius M. Clay.

As has been noted, Cato West was one of the sons-in-law of Col. Green. Abner Green married a daughter of Anthony Hutchins. Thus a power connection was formed, that "at one period, largely controlled the territory." Col. Green died in 1805.




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Possessions:
The grant for the estate, including "Gayosa," is understood to have been in 1785, at any rate preceding a will made that year, now held as an heirloom, whereby he devised "Gayosa," to his youngest son Everard, and made therein no mention of hs wife, Martha Wills, which indicates that she had already died, and that hence the perilous journey to New Orleans on the occasion of his arrest, which cost her life, had previously occurred. "Gayosa" was named for the Spanish Governor before whom he was taken when arrested.
'The Cabells and Their Kin, p. 306.(147)

Thomas married Martha Wills about 1754 in James City Co, Virginia. Martha (daughter of Filmer Wills and Ann Harwood) was born in 1734 in of, James City Co, Virginia; died before 1784 in New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

she was the eldest daughter of Filmer Wills and his wife, Ann Harwood. Major William Harwood, the father of Ann Harwood, was a member of the House of Burgesses from Warwick County, Virginia, year 1714/ and for many years Justice of the same County; he died June 2, 1737.
George Ewing book

Died:
The grant for the estate, including "Gayosa," is understood to have been in 1785, at any rate preceding a will made that year, now held as an heirloom, whereby he devised "Gayosa," to his youngest son Everard, and made therein no mention of his wife, Martha Wills, which indicates that she had already died, and that hence the perilous journey to New Orleans on the occasion of his arrest, which cost her life, had previously occurred. "Gayosa" was named for the Spanish Governor before whom he was taken when arrested.
'The Cabells and Their Kin, p. 306.(147)