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In May 1782,
13 families
arrived in Natchez from the Cumberland settlement in Washington Co. NC and
were recorded by Spanish authorities on Jul 6, including
Thomas Green Sr. and wife Martha, in a party of 11
individuals under the entry "Thomas Green, wife and children". They brought 32
slaves. Son Thomas Jr. and his wife arrived in a
separate party of 3 individuals under the entry "Thomas Marston Green, wife and
son". They brought 11 slaves. |
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Map of
the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799. |
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On Jun 5, 1784 Abner Green, eldest son of Molly's master,
Thomas Green Sr., sold to Richard Harrison,
a negro man, aged 50, and a negro woman, same age,
for $490. In Sep 1784 Harrison sold a woman, "Molly, aged 40, native of Va.", to
Estevan Minor [McBee, Book A, p. 195]. |
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On Jul 9, 1787, Estevan Minor sold "Molly, aged 50, native of Va." to
Jacob Leaphart for $400. When Jacob Leaphart died in 1793, "Molly" petitioned
the 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 A, p. 42]. |
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Gayoso succeeded
Grand-Pré in 1792 and
changed the name of the mansion built by his predecessor to Concord.
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 from the Ancestral Trackers
website, shows the likely routes of the Second and Sandy Creeks in 1792. |
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When Molly's master Jacob Leaphart 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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Jefferson Co. was created from Adams Co. in 1799
(see present day map).
In 1802 Claiborne Co. was formed just north of Jefferson Co.
(see present day map
for location). |
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SOURCES: 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. Claiborne Co. MS, "1810 Tax Roll Details", trans. by Lee Kohler, website. Elliott, Jack D. Jr., The Fort of Natchez and the Colonial Origins of Mississippi, rev. 2013 of article in Journal of Miss. Hist., 1990. "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. 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. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, pp. 78, 366, Book A, p. 1-3, 34, 450, 541, Book B, p. 401, Book F, p. 235, Book G, pp. 303-4. MS Dept. of Archives & History (MDAH), Jackson MS, microfilm, roll #5618, vol.1, pp. 105-8. "Natchez District 1792 Spanish Census Index", in USGenWeb, Early Southwest Miss. Territory, Census Index. | ||||