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John Green Sr. (1790 - 1882)

John Green Sr.
Born in Abbeville, South Carolina, USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 5 Oct 1815 in Jackson, Georgia, USAmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 92 in Burnt Corn, Monroe, Alabama, USAmap
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Contents

Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: John Robert Green Sr.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Name: Jonathan /Green/[13]
Name: John /Greene/[14]
Name: John /Green/[15]

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using John Robert Green Sr..

Birth

Birth:
Date: 08 MAR 1790
Place: Abbeville, South Carolina, USA[16][17][18][19][20]
Birth:
Date: ABT 1789
Place: Abbeville, South Carolina, USA[21][22]

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 08 MAR 1790

Death

Death: Burnt Corn is an unicorporated area on the border (and crosses over into) Conecuh County
Date: 07 JUL 1882
Place: Burnt Corn, Monroe, Alabama, USA[23][24][25][26]

Residence

Residence: Beat 3
Date: 24 JUN 1880
Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama, USA[27][28]
Residence:
Date: AUG 1870
Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama, USA[29]
Residence:
Date: 08 JUL 1826
Place: Burnt Corn, Monroe, Alabama, USA[30]
Residence:
Date: 05 NOV 1850
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[31]
Residence:
Date: 18 JUL 1860
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[32]
Residence:
Date: 02 JUL 1860
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[33]
Residence:
Date: 1830
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[34]
Residence:
Date: ABT 1816
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA
Residence:
Date: 1850
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[35]

Event

Event: Corporal, Capt. Wilson McKinney's Co. of the Georgia Militia
Type: Military
Date: BET 13 AUG 1813 AND 04 MAR 1814
Place: Jackson, Georgia, USA
Note: #N1489
Event:
Type: Land Grant
Date: 01 OCT 1835
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[36][37]
Event:
Type: Land Grant
Date: 28 JUL 1838
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[38]
Event:
Type: Land Grant
Date: 01 JUL 1841
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[39]
Event:
Type: Land Grant
Date: 10 APR 1851
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[40]
Event:
Type: Land Grant
Date: 01 SEP 1858
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA[41]

Title

Title: Esquire[42]

Religion

Religion: Orignally a Methodist who converted to Christian Universalism
Place: Conecuh, Alabama, USA

Occupation

Occupation: An attorney and a farmer, he established a school and was a teacher as well as serving in the State legislature
Occupation: Alabama State Representative
Note: #N1488

DNA

DNA Y-DNA Haplogroup I1

Burial

Burial: John Green Cemetery, abt. 16 mi. NE of Evergreen (abt. 100 yds up a hill on the right side of the highway coming from Evergreen enclosed in a 4 ft. iron fence.)
Date: JUL 1882
Place: Evergreen, Conecuh, Alabama, USA[43][44]

Note

Note: #N1392
Note: #N1487

Marriage

Husband: John Robert Green
Wife: Nancy Betts Jones
Child: John Robert Green
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Marriage:
Date: 05 OCT 1815
Place: Jackson, Georgia, USA
Note: #N1325[45]

Sources

  • Source: S197 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R2
  • Repository: R2 Name: www.ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
  • Source: S200 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009; Repository: #R2
  • Source: S206 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009; Repository: #R2
  • Source: S207 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1870 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009; Repository: #R2
  • Source: S215 Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010; Repository: #R2 NOTETenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
  • Source: S237 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1830 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010; Repository: #R2
  • Source: S412 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010; Repository: #R2 NOTEUnited States of America, Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860
  • Source: S467 Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited; Repository: #R3
  • Repository: R3 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
  • Source: S509 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; Repository: #R2
  • Source: S542 Title: "Upcountry South Carolina Green Families", Marcia McClure, Upcountry South Carolina Green Families NOTE"Upcountry South Carolina Green Families". Marcia McClure. Upcountry South Carolina Green Families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~greengarden/index.htm.
  • Source: S565 Title: Franklin, Lisa R., "Bethany Baptist Church Minutes" NOTEFranklin, Lisa R.. "Bethany Baptist Church Minutes". Database. Burnt Corn, Alabama. http://www.burntcorn.com/htmlfiles/bethanybaptistminutes.html : 15 Jan 2000. CONT CONT As transcribed by Lisa R. Franklin RN, BSN January 15, 2000 from microfilm: AL Microtext roll #10: Bethany Baptist Church, Burnt Corn, Monroe County, AL 1821-1856 located at the Allen County Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN
  • Source: S566 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data - United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of L; Repository: #R3
  • Source: S747 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Alabama State Census, 1820-1866 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry.com World Archives Project contributors.Original data - Alabama State Census, 1820, 1850, 1855 and 1866. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department; Repository: #R3
  • Source: S765 Title: Web: RootsWeb Cemetery Index, 1800-2010 Publication: Name: Web: RootsWeb Cemetery Index, 1800-2010 [database on-line]. RootsWeb.; Repository: #R3

Notes

Note N1392A great deal of thanks goes to Marcia McClure who did a great deal of the research on these Green lines.
Ancestry DNA match with user geauxlsu_1
Note N1487
From "The Trumpet and the Universalist magazine" April 4, 1835
taken from "The Southern Evangelist"
The Cause of the South
Extract of a Letter from Br. H. F. Sterns
Belville, Conecuh Co., Ala. March 1, 1835
Brother Andrews: As it relates to my tour in this vicinity, I will, wit h cheerfulness acquiesce with your proposals; but taking into considera tion the size of your paper, you will excuse my brevity.
I left Montgomery, as you well know, on the 16th ult, on the Dover, a v ery splendid boat, with fine accommodations, a gentlemanly Captain, and a s ocial company of passengers, some of whom enjoyed themselves with "Jack 's Primer," as is usual "to kill time," which the eternal variegated sc enery of Southern rivers renders mortally tedious. But the afternoon, e vening, and succeeding day passed away, and we arrived at Claiborne, wh ere Left the boat and tarried until the next day at noon. I there got o n board a THING they call the Southern Mail Stage, a queer concern to b e sure, and after riding for nearly six hours over a space of a country w hich is well calculated to hold the world together, and a road well ado pted to the country, I arrived at the plantation of Squire Boney, in th e neighborhood of Burnt Corn. Being somewhat fatigued, I tarried for th e night,and shared the hospitality of this gentleman, whom I found to b e intelligent, and sharing a good degree of wealth. Through his poli teness I was conveyed to the plantation of John Green, Esq. where I arr ived on Friday the 18th. This gentleman, I can say in justice, is the f ather of the blessed doctrine of Universalism in this section of the St ate of Alabama. He is allowed to be, even by those who who oppose his s entiments, a man of unimpeachable character, a worthy citizen, and a ki nd obliging neighbor. He was once a Methodist, but a more intelligent a nd well-instructed Universalist, and one who has experienced more buffe ting, I have seldom found in all my travels. But these things are fast d ying away, and the pleasurable gratification which he now enjoys, excee ds all expectations. You may be surprised when I tell you, that upo n my arrival in this, to a passing observer wild wilderness, i found th at our venerable father Ballou had been here before me, with his unansw erable arguments in favor of Universalism [By way of his books.]
on Saturday, the 14th, after making an appointment for the following Su nday, Mr. Green accompanied me to this place, a distance of eight miles , where I had the extreme pleasure of meeting some few friends, and in t he evening returned to a Mr. Jones, an elderly and very worthy man, who h as recently embraced the faith of Abraham, and left that of Methodism i n the back ground. On Sunday, I repaired to the Meeting House, built of l ongs, in the pine woods, where I found a very respectable number of per sons assembled, though it was a very rainy day, and withal cold. i addr essed them from the subject, "God is Love", after reading to them the c hapter in which it is found, and some really thought, as I have since b een told by them, that I had an Universalist Bible,and they were not sa tisfied until they found it in their own. The people paid strict attent ion, and not a few were evidentially surprised to find that "God is Lov e" and that his JUSTICE would be executed, the sinner punished, and all b e holy and happy.
The week following i spent in visiting several neighborhoods, and on Su nday morning I visited Sparta to fulfill my engagement. The day proved t o be very fine, though it had some appearance of being wet, in the morn ing, which probably kept some away, but several observed that they seld om if ever had seen that number before at meeting in that village. I st ood in the seat of justice, in the capacity of a pleader for mankind, t o believe that they had a kind Father, who would do them no injustice, b ut would remember their sins and iniquities no more. The excitement, I h ave since learned, was considerable, and probably the next time I go th ere I shall occupy the Methodist Meeting House. I returned to Belville t he same evening, where I have been since. *****
This day, Sunday, the first of March, I preached under the broad canopy o f heaven, to a numerous and attentive audience, surrounded by three or f our Methodist preachers, who I previously understood, were to reply, bu t from some cause, they did not do it. Next Sabbath, the Lord will, I s hall preach at Monroeville.
Belville was founded around 1818, by the Brothers Bell.
Conecuh County was formed in 1818; previously it was Indian territory.
Brother Andrews was Rev. L.F.W. Andrews, the editor then of the Souther n Evangelist.
Brother Henry Franklin Sterns (also Stearns) was born in Province of On tario in 1805 ordained in September 1833 in Vermont. By July to Septemb er 1834, he was settled in New Hampshire. While histories of Conecuh co unty state that he was in Alabama in 1830 teaching, Universalist public ations suggest that he moved sometime between September of 1834 and Feb ruary 1835. He began to practice law around 1835. In December of 1835, h e replaced Rev. Andrews as the minister of the Universalist Church in M ontgomery Alabama. Around 1837 he became a Judge in Conecuh County. In 1 856 he went to Texas on business, returning, he did not make it home, d ying in Claiborn Alabama in 1857.
Squire Boney
Burnt Corn, Alabama - on the old Federal Road
John Green born in SC, moved to Georgia as a child, became a lawyer and p racticed in Burnt Corn, as well as being the first teacher in the count y.
Father Ballou -
Mr. Jones
"faith of Abraham" - not Judaism, but apparently Universalism. Ive seen t his term in the 1880s as well
Sparta, Alabama
Monroeville, Alabama - county seat of Monroe County
_______________________
Note N1488Green was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1825 and a delegate to the state constitutional conventions of 1861 (also known as t he Secession Convention) and 1875.
"Although Conecuh County voted the militant Southern Democratic ticket of Breckenridge and Lane in 1860, it cast 399 votes for John Green, unionist, to represent it in the Alabama Secession Convention, as against 372 for Wilson Ashley, separatist. 10 But! as the state joined the concourse of sovereignties striking for Southern independence, it may reasonably be supposed that the Escambia section turned out its ratio of men in grey. Some of them, indeed, we shall meet in Brewton."
The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, Nos. 01, 02, 03, & 04, 1949.
Note N1489John volunteered in Jackson Co, GA and served from 8/13/1813 to 3/4/1814 as a corporal in Capt. Wilson McKinney's Company of the Georgia Militia.
  1. Source: #S215 Page: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: 9; Family History Film: 1254009; Page: 48B; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 0099. Data: Text: Record for Nancy Green
  2. Source: #S207 Page: Database online. Year: 1870; Census Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for John Green
  3. Source: #S206 Page: Database online. Year: 1850; Census Place: , Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: M432_3; Page: 369A; Image: . Data: Text: Record for John Green
  4. Source: #S412 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  5. Source: #S197 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  6. Source: #S467 Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: 9; Family History Film: 1254009; Page: 48B; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 0099. Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1790 CONT Birth place: South Carolina Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama, United States
  7. Source: #S509 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  8. Source: #S542 Page: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marciamcclure&id=I17530 Data: Text: ID: I17530 Name: John GREEN Given Name: John CONT Surname: GREEN COT Sex: M _UID: 694A5C697CB1DD11ADFB00B0D0F8AB379553 Change Date: 29 Jan 2011 Note: From "The Trumpet and the Universalist magazine" April 4, 1835 taken from "The Southern Evangelist" The Cause of the South Extract of a Letter from Br. H. F. Sterns CONT Belville, Conecuh Co., Ala. March 1, 1835 CONT Brother Andrews: As it relates to my tour in this vicinity, I will, with cheerfulness acquiesce with your proposals; but taking into consideration the size of your paper, you will excuse my brevity. I left Montgomery, as you well know, on the 16th ult, on the Dover, a very splendid boat, with fine accommodations, a gentlemanly Captain, and a social company of passengers, some of whom enjoyed themselves with "Jack's Primer," as is usual "to kill time," which the eternal variegated scenery of Southern rivers renders mortally tedious. But the afternoon, evening, and succeeding day passed away, and we arrived at Claiborne, where Left the boat and tarried until the next day at noon. I there got on board a THING they call the Southern Mail Stage, a queer concern to be sure, and after riding for nearly six hours over a space of a country which is well calculated to hold the world together, and a road well adopted to the country, I arrived at the plantation of Squire Boney, in the neighborhood of Burnt Corn. Being somewhat fatigued, I tarried for the night,and shared the hospitality of this gentleman, whom I found to be intelligent, and sharing a good degree of wealth. Through his politeness I was conveyed to the plantation of John Green, Esq. where I arrived on Friday the 18th. This gentleman, I can say in justice, is the father of the blessed doctrine of Universalism in this section of the State of Alabama. He is allowed to be, even by those who who oppose his sentiments, a man of unimpeachable character, a worthy citizen, and a kind obliging neighbor. He was once a Methodist, but a more intelligent and well-instructed Universalist, and one who has experienced more buffeting, I have seldom found in all my travels. But these things are fast dying away, and the pleasurable gratification which he now enjoys, exceeds all expectations. You may be surprised when I tell you, that upon my arrival in this, to a passing observer wild wilderness, i found that our venerable father Ballou had been here before me, with his unanswerable arguments in favor of Universalism [By way of his books.] on Saturday, the 14th, after making an appointment for the following Sunday, Mr. Green accompanied me to this place, a distance of eight miles, where I had the extreme pleasure of meeting some few friends, and in the evening returned to a Mr. Jones, an elderly and very worthy man, who has recently embraced the faith of Abraham, and left that of Methodism in the back ground. On Sunday, I repaired to the Meeting House, built of longs, in the pine woods, where I found a very respectable number of persons assembled, though it was a very rainy day, and withal cold. i addressed them from the subject, "God is Love", after reading to them the chapter in which it is found, and some really thought, as I have since been told by them, that I had an Universalist Bible,and they were not satisfied until they found it in their own. The people paid strict attention, and not a few were evidentially surprised to find that "God is Love" and that his JUSTICE would be executed, the sinner punished, and all be holy and happy. CONT The week following i spent in visiting several neighborhoods, and on Sunday morning I visited Sparta to fulfill my engagement. The day proved to be very fine, though it had some appearance of being wet, in the morning, which probably kept some away, but several observed that they seldom if ever had seen that number before at meeting in that village. I stood in the seat of justice, in the capacity of a pleader for mankind, to believe that they had a kind Father, who would do them no injustice, but would remember their sins and iniquities no more. The excitement, I have since learned, was considerable, and probably the next time I go there I shall occupy the Methodist Meeting House. I returned to Belville the same evening, where I have been since. ***** This day, Sunday, the first of March, I preached under the broad canopy of heaven, to a numerous and attentive audience, surrounded by three or four Methodist preachers, who I previously understood, were to reply, but from some cause, they did not do it. Next Sabbath, the Lord will, I shall preach at Monroeville. Belville was founded around 1818, by the Brothers Bell. CONT Conecuh County was formed in 1818; previously it was Indian territory. CONT Brother Andrews was Rev. L.F.W. Andrews, the editor then of the Southern Evangelist. CONT Brother Henry Franklin Sterns (also Stearns) was born in Province of Ontario in 1805 ordained in September 1833 in Vermont. By July to September 1834, he was settled in New Hampshire. While histories of Conecuh county state that he was in Alabama in 1830 teaching, Universalist publications suggest that he moved sometime between September of 1834 and February 1835. He began to practice law around 1835. In December of 1835, he replaced Rev. Andrews as the minister of the Universalist Church in Montgomery Alabama. Around 1837 he became a Judge in Conecuh County. In 1856 he went to Texas on business, returning, he did not make it home, dying in Claiborn Alabama in 1857. CONT Squire Boney CONT Burnt Corn, Alabama - on the old Federal Road CONT John Green born in SC, moved to Georgia as a child, became a lawyer and practiced in Burnt Corn, as well as being the first teacher in the county. Father Ballou - Mr. Jones CONT "faith of Abraham" - not Judaism, but apparently Universalism. Ive seen this term in the 1880s as well CONT Sparta, Alabama Monroeville, Alabama - county seat of Monroe County CONT _______________________ Birth: 8 MAR 1790 in Abbeville Co, SC Death: 7 JUL 1882 in Burnt Corn, AL CONT Occupation: attorney, a farmer, he established a school and taught CONT Occupation: Alabama State Representative Note: Green was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1825 and a delegate to the state constitutional conventions of 1861 (also known as the Secession Convention) and 1875. "Although Conecuh County voted the militant Southern Democratic ticket of Breckenridge and Lane in 1860, it cast 399 CONT votes for John Green, unionist, to represent it in the Alabama Secession Convention, as against 372 for Wilson Ashley, separatist. 10 But! as the state joined the concourse of sovereignties striking for Southern independence, it may reasonably be supposed CONT that the Escambia section turned out its ratio of men in grey. Some of them, indeed, we shall meet in Brewton." The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, Nos. 01, 02, 03, & 04, 1949. Religion: a Universalist by faith Conecuh Co, AL Event: Military 13 AUG 1813 Note: John volunteered in Jackson Co, GA and served from 8/13/1813 to 3/4/1814 as a corporal in Capt Wilson McKinney's Company of the Georgia Militia. Father: John GREEN b: ABT 1760 Mother: Jane BICKERSTAFF b: BET 1760 AND 1770 Marriage 1 Nancy Betts JONES b: 8 MAR 1800 in Delaware CONT Married: 5 OCT 1815 in Jackson Co, GA Children Juliana GREEN b: 25 SEP 1816 in Jackson Co, GA Christopher Wren GREEN b: 3 FEB 1818 in Conecuh Co, AL Matilda GREEN b: 26 MAY 1819 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL CONT Thomas Jefferson GREEN b: 30 DEC 1820 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL Alexander Hamilton GREEN b: 13 SEP 1822 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL CONT Caroline GREEN b: 26 JAN 1826 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL CONT John GREEN b: 4 APR 1827 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL William M GREEN b: 20 FEB 1829 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL CONT Mary Ann GREEN b: 2 APR 1831 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL Julia A GREEN b: 9 NOV 1832 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL Frances GREEN b: 15 SEP 1834 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL Jane GREEN b: 20 JUN 1838 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL CONT Martha GREEN b: 24 OCT 1842 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL CONT Sophronia GREEN b: 8 JUL 1846 in Burnt Corn, Conecuh Co, AL
  9. Source: #S542 Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~greengarden/pages/conecuh%20john.htm Data: Text: (NOTE: See site link for media files and proper formatting of the below text. This site also provides convincing proof that this Jon Green's father was also John Green and not a William Green as has often been noted by the researchers.) "Conecuh" John Green CONT March 8, 1790 Abbeville Co, SC - July 7, 1882 Conecuh Co, AL Abbeville/Pendleton Greens Son Thomas Jefferson Green's Family CONT Grandson Alexander Hamilton Green CSA Bio John Green Cemetery Restoration Association John was an amazing man whose life spanned the presidencies of George Washington to Grover Cleveland. He was largely selt-taught, but achieved much in his lifetime. John was an Alabama pioneer, served as an attorney, was a successful farmer, established a school and taught, plus he was a state representative during some of this country's most trying times. He was an honorable man and a well respected citizen of his community. Biography - History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography CONT (This piece lists his father as William in error) Biography - History of Conecuh County, Alabama (John is listed in the credits for this book. I believe this CONT bio comes from his own statements. He is listed as John Greene, but he spelled his name Green.) T John's War of 1812 Index Sheet - John served in the 1st Regiment of the Georgia Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Samuel Groves. John and Nancy Jones Green circa 1830's. .....John Green as a member of the first Constitutional Convention after the Civil War. John Green courtesy of the Alabama Archives This is a book in the possession of Jeff Harrison. He believes that it was John's book. "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte one of the greatest and most magnanimous man in the world, June the 8th 1848. JAG" From "The Trumpet and the Universalist magazine" April 4, 1835 taken from "The Southern Evangelist" The Cause of the South Extract of a Letter from Br. H. F. Sterns Belville, Conecuh Co., Ala. March 1, 1835 Brother Andrews: As it relates to my tour in this vicinity, I will, with cheerfulness acquiesce with your proposals; but taking into consideration the size of your paper, you will excuse my brevity. I left Montgomery, as you well know, on the 16th ult, on the Dover, a very splendid boat, with fine accommodations, a gentlemanly Captain, and a social company of passengers, some of whom enjoyed themselves with "Jack's Primer," as is usual "to kill time," which the eternal variegated scenery of Southern rivers renders mortally tedious. But the afternoon, evening, and succeeding day passed away, and we arrived at Claiborne, where Left the boat and tarried until the next day at noon. I there got on board a THING they call the Southern Mail Stage, a queer concern to be sure, and after riding for nearly six hours over a space of a country which is well calculated to hold the world together, and a road well adopted to the country, I arrived at the plantation of Squire Boney, in the neighborhood of Burnt Corn. Being somewhat fatigued, I tarried for the night,and shared the hospitality of this gentleman, whom I found to be intelligent, and sharing a good degree of wealth. Through his politeness I was conveyed to the plantation of John Green, Esq. where I arrived on Friday the 18th. This gentleman, I can say in justice, is the father of the blessed doctrine of Universalism in this section of the State of Alabama. He is allowed to be, even by those who who oppose his sentiments, a man of unimpeachable character, a worthy citizen, and a kind obliging neighbor. He was once a Methodist, but a more intelligent and well-instructed Universalist, and one who has experienced more buffeting, I have seldom found in all my travels. But these things are fast dying away, and the pleasurable gratification which he now enjoys, exceeds all expectations. You may be surprised when I tell you, that upon my arrival in this, to a passing observer wild wilderness, i found that our venerable father Ballou had been here before me, with his unanswerable arguments in favor of Universalism [By way of his books.] on Saturday, the 14th, after making an appointment for the following Sunday, Mr. Green accompanied me to this place, a distance of eight miles, where I had the extreme pleasure of meeting some few friends, and in the evening returned to a Mr. Jones, an elderly and very worthy man, who has recently embraced the faith of Abraham, and left that of Methodism in the back ground. On Sunday, I repaired to the Meeting House, built of longs, in the pine woods, where I found a very respectable number of persons assembled, though it was a very rainy day, and withal cold. i addressed them from the subject, "God is Love", after reading to them the chapter in which it is found, and some really thought, as I have since been told by them, that I had an Universalist Bible,and they were not satisfied until they found it in their own. The people paid strict attention, and not a few were evidentially surprised to find that "God is Love" and that his JUSTICE would be executed, the sinner punished, and all be holy and happy. CONT The week following i spent in visiting several neighborhoods, and on Sunday morning I visited Sparta to fulfill my engagement. The day proved to be very fine, though it had some appearance of being wet, in the morning, which probably kept some away, but several observed that they seldom if ever had seen that number before at meeting in that village. I stood in the seat of justice, in the capacity of a pleader for mankind, to believe that they had a kind Father, who would do them no injustice, but would remember their sins and iniquities no more. The excitement, I have since learned, was considerable, and probably the next time I go there I shall occupy the Methodist Meeting House. I returned to Belville the same evening, where I have been since. ***** This day, Sunday, the first of March, I preached under the broad canopy of heaven, to a numerous and attentive audience, surrounded by three or four Methodist preachers, who I previously understood, were to reply, but from some cause, they did not do it. Next Sabbath, the Lord will, I shall preach at Monroeville. Belville was founded around 1818, by the Brothers Bell. Conecuh County was formed in 1818; previously it was Indian territory. Brother Andrews was Rev. L.F.W. Andrews, the editor then of the Southern Evangelist. Brother Henry Franklin Sterns (also Stearns) was born in Province of Ontario in 1805 ordained in September 1833 in Vermont. By July to September 1834, he was settled in New Hampshire. While histories of Conecuh county state that he was in Alabama in 1830 teaching, Universalist publications suggest that he moved sometime between September of 1834 and February 1835. He began to practice law around 1835. In December of 1835, he replaced Rev. Andrews as the minister of the Universalist Church in Montgomery Alabama. Around 1837 he became a Judge in Conecuh County. In 1856 he went to Texas on business, returning, he did not make it home, dying in Claiborn Alabama in 1857. Squire Boney Burnt Corn, Alabama - on the old Federal Road CONT John Green born in SC, moved to Georgia as a child, became a lawyer and practiced in Burnt Corn, as well as being the first teacher in the county. Father Ballou - Mr. Jones "faith of Abraham" - not Judaism, but apparently Universalism. Ive seen this term in the 1880s as well Sparta, Alabama CONT Monroeville, Alabama - county seat of Monroe County, ..................... The above signatures come from the inventory of the estate of John Huston August 10, 1793. CONT (Abbeville Co, SC, Estate Box 46, file 1059) This and the one below are the signature of John's father, John Green (c1760 - 1807). This signature comes from an Abbeville, SC deed between John Green and Robert Green, his brother, 1787. John sold Robert 200 of their father's original 300 acre grant from 1766.
  10. Source: #S566 Data: Text: Residence date: Residence place: United States
  11. Source: #S747 Data: Text: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Conecuh, Alabama
  12. Source: #S765
  13. Source: #S200 Page: Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: , Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: ; Page: 1065; Image: 515. Data: Text: Record for Jno Green
  14. Source: #S237 Page: Database online. Year: 1830; Census Place: , Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: ; Page: . Data: Text: Record for John Greene
  15. Source: #S565 Page: Bethany Baptist Church Minutes Burnt Corn, Monroe County, Alabama 1821-1827 Data: Text: At a conference held on Saturday before the second Lord's day in July 1826 Brother Travis Moderator. 1st on motion of brother Travis it was agreed that a house should be built for worship on the lands of John and Joseph George near the former residence of Mr. Herrin if the land can be had gratis. 2nd The Brethren Longmire, Lee, Salter, Riley and John Green Esquire was appointed a committee to locate the spot for the house and superintend the building and the brethren Longmire and Salter was to see the Mr. Georges to know if the land can be had and Brother Longmire to draw a subscription. 3rd Received brother John Boman by baptism
  16. Source: #S215 Page: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: 9; Family History Film: 1254009; Page: 48B; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 0099. Data: Text: Record for Nancy Green
  17. Source: #S207 Page: Database online. Year: 1870; Census Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for John Green
  18. Source: #S200 Page: Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: , Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: ; Page: 1065; Image: 515. Data: Text: Record for Jno Green
  19. Source: #S197 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  20. Source: #S467 Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: 9; Family History Film: 1254009; Page: 48B; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 0099. Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1790 Birth place: South Carolina Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama, United States
  21. Source: #S206 Page: Database online. Year: 1850; Census Place: , Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: M432_3; Page: 369A; Image: . Data: Text: Record for John Green
  22. Source: #S509 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  23. Source: #S197 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  24. Source: #S509 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  25. Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 01 January 2022), memorial page for John Green (8 Mar 1790–7 Jul 1882), Find A Grave: Memorial #25483768, citing John Green Cemetery, Conecuh County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Indigo Falls (contributor 46887827) .
  26. Source: #S765
  27. Source: #S215 Page: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: 9; Family History Film: 1254009; Page: 48B; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 0099. Data: Text: Record for Nancy Green
  28. Source: #S197 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  29. Source: #S207 Page: Database online. Year: 1870; Census Place: Mill, Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Record for John Green
  30. Source: #S565 Page: Bethany Baptist Church Minutes Burnt Corn, Monroe County, Alabama 1821-1827 Data: Text: At a conference held on Saturday before the second Lord's day in July 1826 Brother Travis Moderator. CONT CONT 1st on motion of brother Travis it was agreed that a house should be built for worship on the lands of John and Joseph George near the former residence of Mr. Herrin if the land can be had gratis. CONT CONT 2nd The Brethren Longmire, Lee, Salter, Riley and John Green Esquire was appointed a committee to locate the spot for the house and superintend the building and the brethren Longmire and Salter was to see the Mr. Georges to know if the land can be had and Brother Longmire to draw a subscription. CONT CONT 3rd Received brother John Boman by baptism
  31. Source: #S206 Page: Database online. Year: 1850; Census Place: , Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: M432_3; Page: 369A; Image: . Data: Text: Record for John Green
  32. Source: #S412 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  33. Source: #S200 Page: Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: , Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: ; Page: 1065; Image: 515. Data: Text: Record for Jno Green
  34. Source: #S237 Page: Database online. Year: 1830; Census Place: , Conecuh, Alabama; Roll: ; Page: . Data: Text: Record for John Greene
  35. Source: #S747 Data: Text: Residence date: 1850 CONT Residence place: Conecuh, Alabama
  36. Source: #S566 Data: Text: Residence date: CONT Residence place: United States
  37. Source: #S566 Data: Text: Residence date: CONT Residence place: United States
  38. Source: #S566 Data: Text: Residence date: CONT Residence place: United States
  39. Source: #S566 Data: Text: Residence date: CONT Residence place: United States
  40. Source: #S566 Data: Text: Residence date: CONT Residence place: United States
  41. Source: #S566 Data: Text: Residence date: CONT Residence place: United States
  42. Source: #S565 Page: Bethany Baptist Church Minutes Burnt Corn, Monroe County, Alabama 1821-1827 Data: Text: At a conference held on Saturday before the second Lord's day in July 1826 Brother Travis Moderator. CONT CONT 1st on motion of brother Travis it was agreed that a house should be built for worship on the lands of John and Joseph George near the former residence of Mr. Herrin if the land can be had gratis. CONT CONT 2nd The Brethren Longmire, Lee, Salter, Riley and John Green Esquire was appointed a committee to locate the spot for the house and superintend the building and the brethren Longmire and Salter was to see the Mr. Georges to know if the land can be had and Brother Longmire to draw a subscription. CONT CONT 3rd Received brother John Boman by baptism
  43. Source: #S509 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green
  44. Source: #S765
  45. Source: #S197 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Green

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Thank you to Lenny Zimmermann for creating WikiTree profile Green-7892 through the import of Zimmermann_Family_2013-07-23.ged on Jul 23, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Lenny and others.






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