- 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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- 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.
source: Mississippi History comprising sketches...
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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.
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1758 - 1813 (54 years)
