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GREEN

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Lewis GREEN {M} = Esther\Easter KILGORE¹ {F}

Married ABT 1783, Washington, Russell Co, VA²

Lewis GREEN:

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To: LONGHUNTERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Lewis Green

Interested in info concerning Lewis Green, who accompanied Boone to KY on at least one trip. Green was an early or perhaps the first settler on that stretch of the Cumberland River near the present Bell Co./Harlan Co. line, where he established a tannery. Also need info concerning his or his wife's relationship to Cherokee or Melungeons, as referred to by Dr. N.B. Kennedy in his Melungeon book. Related to Nathaniel Green? Also need info on Lewis's Rev. War service.
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:26:14 EST From: RolMir@aol.com
To: LONGHUNTERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: More Lewis Green, Jr. info

Following is a roster of men stationed at Fort Moore in 1777 found on the following Webpage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~varussel/other/forts.html
Go there for a very interesting explanation of the Frontier Forts.
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Moore's Fort was the largest and most widely known of the Clinch chain of forts.

No description has been left of the size or shape of Moore's Fort, but we know it had two gates, a front and back one, with the front gate opening toward the spring which one may still see by visiting the spot. This was the fort that sheltered Daniel Boone and his family after their return to the Clinch in 1773, when Boone's son and others were killed by the Indians on Wallen's Creek in his first command at a Kentucky settlement. By petition of the people of Blackmore's Fort, Daniel Boone was placed in command of Moore's and Blackmore's Forts in 1774 as a Captain of militia and continued in command of them until he went to Kentucky in the spring of 1775 to found Boonesboro. While living on the Clinch, a son was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone, whose name was William, and who died soon after birth and lies in an unmarked grave in the old Moore's Fort Cemetery on the brow of a hill overlooking the fort and Clinch River.

We learn from the pension statement of James Fraley that Moore's Fort must have been large - perhaps the largest fort on the frontier. He says that there was continuously some 20 families in the fort, with 20 or 25 men out on patrol as Indian spies. Considering the large size of pioneer families, plus the militia assigned to protect the fort it surely must have sheltered from one hundred fifty to two hundred people, and it would have taken a large stockade to quarter and shelter this number of people.

Moore's Fort was attacked many times by Indians, and many settlers and militiamen were killed in and around the fort.

LIST OF TROOPS AT MOORE'S FORT JUNE 30, 1777
1. Patrick Porter, Sergeant
2. Lewis Green, Jr.
3. Robert Kilgore
4. James Alley
5. Charles Kilgore
6. Samuel Alley
7. Samuel Porter
8. Zachariah Green
9. John Alley
10. Alexander Montgomery, Sr.
11. Alexander Montgomery, Jr.
12. Andrew Cowan
13. Frederick Friley
14. John Kinkead
15. John Barksdale
16. James Ozburn (Osborne)
17. Thomas Osburne
18. Nehemiah Noe
(Draper Mss I XX 20 and I XX 24)Roland Miracle
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 07:14:48 -0800 From: "Robert Green"
To: "Longhunters" Subject: Lewis J. Green Jr.

LEWIS J. GREEN JR.; b. 5 May 1751 at Fort Blackmore, VA, who was posted at Moore's Fort under the command of Daniel Boone 30 June 1777, had a son, ELIJAH GREEN, b. 3 Oct 1786 in Bell County, Kentucky and married Sarah Hendricksen whose family may have been from North Carolina. I am looking for any and all records that would prove that this ELIJAH GREEN was the son of LEWIS J. GREEN JR.

Also looking for any proof of connection between Lewis J. GREEN SR. b abt 1724 in Orange Co. VA. to Robert GREEN, b. 1695, an Englishman who emigrated from Ireland with his uncle, WILLIAM DUFF, a Quaker, to Virginia, and settled in King George County about the year 1710. [GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES ON CULPEPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA; Raleigh Travers Green; page 61.

Also, I am happy to do look-ups in above mentioned resource.
Bob Green, Placerville, CA
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:54:47 EST From: RolMir@aol.com
To: LONGHUNTERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Lewis Green, Jr

This article is from the May 24, 1962 Middlesboro (KY) Daily News. It was written by J. Emerson Miller.
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Frontiersman Green Of Bell County Walked with Boone
By J. Emerson Miller

The raw material of the history of Bell County's "first families" waits to be hunted out. Little of it has been preserved. Few of the early settlers took the trouble to preserve letters or other family papers or other personal memorabilia. Many were destroyed by fire or flood, many were destroyed as worthless or lost, occasionally they were deposited for safekeeping in some secure place and forgotten.

Most of the older family Bibles, containing records dating from early in the last century, have disappeared. Pioneer families hewing homes out of the wilderness, fighting Indians, and producing food and homespun clothing for a family often of patriarchal sizes, had little leisure for anything else. This fact renders genealogical study of any of the families who first ventured across the mountains extremely difficult.

Hard Times Told
The area of which Bell County is a part was largely settled by yeoman farmers and small planters from the "back country" of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas who had been rendered almost destitute by hard times following the American Revolution. They liked the solitude of the hills and the congenial climate. They were mountain people by choice and there they would not be hampered by poverty, for nature had provided everything. And they didn't like to be crowded. They saw they could settle here up the creeks and hollows away from the mainstreams of travel and not be crowded.

By the end of 1810 there were 932 families within the present boundaries of Knox, Harlan, Whitley and Bell Counties (KY); 35 of these were of German or Swiss extraction, people whose forbearers had come over to Pennsylvania from the German Palatinate early in the century.

Probably three-fourths of the newcomers were members of long established in Virginia, the other fourth being mostly from North Carolina and Pennsylvania in that order.

Received Land
Among the early settlers were men who had received land warrants in part payment of their service in the Continental army, in Indian uprisings, or in defense of the frontier. Some had fought under Gen. Isaac Shelby and Col. Arthur Campbell at Cowpens and old leaders, and had followed them and established home in this vicinity.

Without attempting to fix responsibility for this neglect the fact that many of these
"over-mountain men", whose heroism in the darkest days of the Revolution crushed the British and hastened our independence, lie unhonored in unknown and unmarked graves.

Lewis Green, Jr., ancestor of many Bell County folk has the distinction of being the only Revolutionary patriot who had just homage paid in memory. The Mountain Trail Chapter, Daughter of the American Revolution, years ago erected a marker on the Harlan road near the site of his grave and that of his wife, reciting his military history.

Enlisted in 1777
Pension records show that he enlisted in the spring of 1775 at Blackeman's Fort on Clinch River, Russell, then Washington County, and served throughout the war a total of 7 years in companies under Gen. Isaac Shelby and his father, Gen. Evan Shelby and as a scout, guarding the frontier from the Indians. He was a partner of Daniel Boone in 1775 on an expedition to the interior of Kentucky, and went with another party as far as Harrod's Fort.

Endowed with all of the rugged virtues which the rough life of the frontier fostered, Lewis Green seems to have borne a "charmed life." He had many brushes with the Indians, had countless individual fights, had many hairbreadth escapes, was never captured, never scalped.

Coming to Kentucky from his home in Russell County, Va., after the close of the war, he acquired large tracts of land along the Cumberland River in what is now Bell and Harlan Counties, and established what is thought to have been the first tannery west of the Appalachians.

Cumberland Ford, a few miles distant, was a favorite spot for the early trappers and hunters for drying deerskins. Deer came there in great numbers for pasturage and to lick the salt at nearby salt licks and were easily killed.

Buffalo Disappear
The rush of settlers after Kentucky became a state meant the early disappearance of the buffalo and the deer, basis of the Indian economy, but it seems likely that Lewis Green did a thriving business tanning deerskins while buckskin was in common use. That was the era of the famous Kentucky hunting skirt fastened with buckskin tongs. Belts, breeches and moccasins were all of deerskin.

The destruction of many of the record books, including the early marriages of Washington and Russell County, which was formed from Washington in 1787, unquestionably prevents us from knowing many of the facts essential for a complete and correct account of the Green family lineage. There is a persistent tradition in one branch of the family that Lewis Green the Bell County settler, belonged to the Culpepper, Virginia, set of Greens, one of whom was Willis Green, first clerk of Lincoln County, KY., of which Bell was originally a part.

The fact that members of the Green family of Southwestern Virginia were hunters, surveyors, Indian fighters and explorers has led others to conclude that the Greens and Paynes were neighbors of the Boones in Pennsylvania prior to the appearance of the latter group in the Shenandoah.

Born in 1710
Lewis Green, Sr., was born in 1710 and there are indications that he married about 1740, although the name of his wife has not been discovered, unless she can be identified as the person of the given name, Elizabeth, who appears in the records of Washington County in 1797 as "old and infirm" and gave power of attorney to "my son-in-law Moses Foley." She died about 1803, intestate. Appraisal of her estate was presented to the court by Zachariah Green. Moses Foley migrated to Knox County, KY sometime after 1810, performed many marriages in the county as minister or justice of the peace. The Foley family has been prominent in Bell and Whitley Counties for generations.

The Greens settled in Washington County, VA in 1773 when it was still part of Botetourte County, and deeds reveal land conveyances with members of the Kilgore family formerly of Caswell County, North Carolina.

Lineage Traced
The lineage of the Kilgore Family members of which moved from Chester County, PA to Orange County, NC, about 1740, has been traced back in a direct line to 1347 Scotland. They owned large tracts of land in Caswell County, as did Lewis, Burwell, James and Zachariah Green, suggesting that the Greens may have been sons or grandsons of Lewis Burwell Green, head of a prominent Gloucester County, Virginia, family who was living in 1720.

Unfortunately, the Gloucester County records were destroyed by fire, making verification of this relationship impossible. Nor is there any recorded evidence that might establish the Greens of Gloucester County or Caswell County as kin of the Southwest Virginia family.

Lewis Green, Sr., of Washington County made his will January 9, 1784; it was probated August 18, 1785. Unfortunately, it fails to call the children and heirs by name, simply referring to them as "all my children."

The testor died in October, 1784, while removing with his daughter Sarah Payne, wife of Josiah Payne, and others, to Nashboro (Nashville) Tennessee. He left the will with Benjamin Nicholson. It bequeathed a neger (?) to his son, Zachariah Green having previously provided for his other children.

Died on Trip
En route to Nashville, at a place called Blue Springs he took sick and died about three days thereafter. This much is gleaned from the record books of Davidoon **(Davidson?) County, Tennessee, (Liber L), in a deposition of Mary Payne, mother of Sarah, dated 6 April, 1785.

Zachariah Green, the son named in the will, was a surveyor and went with Daniel Boone on one of his first expeditions as far as the Ohio River. An account which he gave of a fight of his father with a bear is found in the Draper Papers owned by the University of Wisconsin.

Jesse, George, James and Zachariah Green patented land in Washington County and Russell County between 1781 and 1785. Apparently all were sons of Lewis, Sr., but the information which the deeds supply is disappointingly meagre.

James Green, probably eldest son of Lewis Green, Sr., was born about 1741 and according to tradition made the first settlement in the present territory of Scott County, VA about 1775. He was killed by the Indian outlaw, Bob Benge on Pound Mountain in Wise County in 1779, while hunting with Charles Kilgore and John McKinney.

James Green, Great Hunter
James Green was by common tradition a great hunter and a dead rifle shot, feared by the Indians. He married Jean Porter and left a posthumous son, James Green, Jr., Jean later married Rev. Robert (Robin) Kilgore, who built the historic old Fort House in Scott County, the scene of raids by Chief Benge and his Shawnee warriors. Benge, the terror of Southwestern Virginia, in 1794 was pursued and killed by a party formed near Pineville and commanded by Capt. Vincent Hobbs, ancestor of the Hobbs family of Bell County.

Lewis Green, Jr., brother of James, married Esther Kilgore, probably daughter of Robert Kilgore, Sr. They were the parents of ten children:
1. James Green, born 15 March 1783, married Nancy Arnett:
2. Elijah Green, born 1786, married Sarah Hendrickson:
3. Elisha Green, born about 1788, married 1813 Nancy Bingham:
4. Mary Rutha Green (Ruthy) born 1790, married Richard Wilson:
5. William Green, born about 1791, married Agnes McGeorge:
6. Sarah Green, born about 1793, married a Hendrickson:
7. Elizabeth Green, born about 1795, married a Stapleton: ### NOTE: here is the rub!
8. Esther (Easter) Green, born 1801, married Elijah Bingham:
9. Lewis Green, born 1804, married Tabitha Arnett:
10. Robert Green, born 1807, married Comfort Howard.

Years Spent Quietly
The later years of the old Revolutionary soldier were spent quietly and happily on his farm between Tanbark Hill and Calloway. There children grew up and married and there he lived until his death in 1835. Some descendants still reside in the same section on part of the old property. the puncheon of the log house said to be the first built on the Cumberland River is still preserved by members of the Green family.

Lewis Green and his wife Esther have several thousand descendants in Bell and adjoining counties.
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I hope this helps, let me know if I can help further,
Roland Miracle, a 4th g-grandson of Lewis Green, Jr.
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Name: Lewis GREEN , Jr. 1
Sex: M
Birth: 5 May 1751 in Dinwiddie, Augusta or Coulee Co., VA.
Death: 10 Jun 1835 in Harlan, Bell Co., KY
Military Service: 1776 Enlisted Spring of 1776, Russell Co, VA
Military Service: Private, Shelby's VA troops
Military Service: Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.31080, based on the military service of Lewis Green in that war
Military Service: Served as a scout and spy on the Indians
Military Service: Served as Private under Captain John Blackman, Colonel's Isaac and General Evan Shelby and other captains names not given, in the Va troops.
Military Service: Service consisted in duty at Blackman's and Duncan's Forts on Clinch River and in scouting and protecting the inhabitants of the frontier from Indians
Military Service: between 1782 - 1783 Discharged at the close of the war

Event: Pension 4 Nov 1822 Allowed pension on his application executed this date, while residing on Cumberland River, Harlan Co., KY

Event: Pension 10 Dec 1833 $40.00, Age 83

Event: Deed 22 Jul 1821 Lewis GREEN and Esther GREEN to Elijah GREEN - all of Harlan Co., Ky, for $600, land containing 72 acres, attested by Elijah Green, William Green & William Lewis

Event: Deed 1830 Harlan Co., KY - Lewis GREEN, Sr. to Lewis GREEN, Jr., land on Dry Branch of Tom's Creek, part of Survey of Edward West; patented in name of John West. Witness: Wm. Green, John McGeorge, Elijah Green and Lewis Green

Burial: In an area of Bell Co., KY known as Calloway at the bottom of Tanyard Hill. The markers are outside the Creech Graveyard

Burial: Old Meeting House Branch, Calloway, Bell Co., KY

Occupation: Owned a Tannery in Harlan Co., KY

Note:
Born in Augusta or Coulee Co., VA. Died 1835 in Harlan Co., Ky. Married Ester Kilgore in 1783. Fought in Revolutionary War

Kentucky Genealogies and History Records, Volume II, p. FF, States: "Records of Harlan County Kentucky deeds, Lewis Green, Sr., to Lewis Green, Jr., 1830 land on Dry Branch of Tom's Creek, part of Survey of Edward West; patented in name of John West. Witness: Wm. Green, John McGeorge, Elijah Green and Lewis Green."

Grave Marker in the foreground states: Lewis Green
PRIVATE VA LINE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1751 1836

This grave is located in an area of Bell Co., Kentucky, known as Calloway. It is at the bottom of Tanyard Hill. The markers are on the outside of the Creech Graveyard.

Newspaper Article from January 19, 1999:

Examination of birth places suggest Lewis Green, his wife Esther, and their first 6 children moved to Kentucky from Virginia (with a stop in Tennessee) about 1794.

"The following is quoted from "History & Families-Bell County, Kentucky", Turner Publishing Co., PO Box 3101, Paducah, KY 42002-3101, copyright 1994, Bell County History Book Committee. It was published identically in the 1976 article noted in the quote:

"Lewis Green, a Revolutionary War Veteran and a native of Virginia, was the first settler to ever visit and build on the Cumberland River. He located in the vicinity of what is now called Calloway, KY and built on the land that is now known as the old Parson's farm.

Lewis Green was born May 5, 1751 and died in 1836. He was buried at what was known at the Old Meeting House Branch, which is now Calloway. During reconstruction of US Route 119 in the vicinity of Calloway in Bell Co., his grave was relocated on land which belonged to John Matt Pursiful, just outside of a private cemetery know as the Newt Creech Cemetery. About 1783 he married Esther Kilgore, who was also a native of Virginia, and to this union 10 children were born.

Some descendants of Lewis Green as of 1976 were: Miss Mary Jane Green, one of the oldest know descendants, is 93 years of age and lives with her nephew, Dr. and Mrs. William R. Green; Paul Green, Oak St., Pineville, KY (now Lexington); Forester G. Percival, Fountain City, Knoxville, TN; Mrs. Stella R. Miller, Middlesboro, KY; Mrs. Pearl Harding, Calloway, KY; and Mrs. Fannie Tinsley, Pineville, KY. Submitted by Beulah Reed."

Article from 'Middlesboro Daily News", July 2, 1976 pertaining to Lewis Green's declaration for Revolutionary War pension:

"DECLARATION In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 - State of Kentucky, county of Harlan, on this 4th of November 1833,

personally appeared before the undersigned and acting Justice of the Peace for Harlan County, Lewis Green a resident of the Cumberland River; in the County of Harlan, and the State of Kentucky age 82 years the 5th of May last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to benefit of the promissory made by the act of Congress, June 7, 1832, that I enlisted in the spring of 1776, as well as I remember, in the county of Russell and state of Virginia on the Clinch River, about nine miles from the county seat, for and during the Revolutionary War, under John Blakeman, William Moore; Lieutenant Joseph Moore; brother of William Ensign, Isaac Shelby.

I was forted at Blakeman's Fort on the Clinch River. Afterwards I was forted at Duncan's Fort also, about ten miles higher up on the Clinch River.

Our constant business was to guard the frontier from the Indians. I can give no distinct history of my service for it was one continual employment from these forts to scout the surrounding country and spy out the hiding places of the Indians, and keep them from annoying the frontier settlement. I served seven years, and was discharged when the war was over, which was in 1783.

I have no record of my age as I have lost my discharge. I need a written discharge for my services in the Revolutionary War, signed by Shelby.

I never was in a general battle, but many of the times, when in the discharge of my duties as a spy in reconnoitering the surrounding country, that my fellow soldiers, when least expecting it, fell by my side.

I do not know of any soldiers by whom I could prove my service. If Congress had passed this law a few years earlier, I cuold have found witnesses a plenty, but now, if any with whom I served are living, it is unknown to me.

After my enlistment, I served under different captains, but I remember none other than Shelby.
I was living in Russell County, Virginia when I enlisted in the Revolutionary War.

I am known to Rev. James Hall, Jacob Salor, Parker Howard, William Howard, and many others who would testify to my character and veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolutinary War.

Sworn to and submitted the day and year aforesaid. (signed) Lewis Green

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When he came to Harlan Co., KY he surveyed 1000 acres and purchased this land for about 5 cents an acre, which was the cost of the survey. He owned the first tannery in this section. He had six sons and four daughters. The family did all the work at the tannery and when a load of skins were ready, they were piled on oxen sleds and taken to the settlements to trade. This trip was slow and it took several weeks to make the round trip.

Father: Lewis GREEN , Sr. b: 1710 in Prince George Co., VA (S5208) (S5213)
Mother: Elizabeth Sarah LAUDERDALE b: ABT. 1730 in Augusta Co., VA

Marriage 1 Esther KILGORE b: 1750 in Washington Co., VA
Married: 1782 in Bell Co. , KY

Children
James GREEN b: 15 Mar 1783 in Washington, VA
Elijah H. GREEN b: 3 Oct 1786 in Washington, Russell, VA
Elisha GREEN b: abt. 1788 in Washington, VA
Mary Ruth "Ruthy" GREEN b: 1790 in Washington, VA
William GREEN b: 1791 in Washington, VA
Sarah GREEN b: 1793 in Porter's Fort, Washington, Russell Cty., VA
Elizabeth GREEN b: 1795
Lewis GREEN III b: 1804 in Bell Co., KY
Robert M. GREEN b: 1806 in Bell Co. Ky
Esther GREEN b: 1801 in Davidson, TN

Sources:
Title: Lewis Green, Jr.
Note: Lewis Green, Jr.. Kentucky Genealogies and History Records, Volumne II, p. FF

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Here is some information from my files. (David Hoskins -
Lewis Green Jr. was a Revolutionary War Veteran from Virginia. He was one of the first settlers on the Cumberland River. He lived in what is now Calloway, Bell Co., Kentucky. He was buried at what used to be Old Meeting House Branch, now Calloway. During US119 construction in 1960 in the Calloway area, his grave was relocated on land which belonged to John Matt Pursiful, just outside of the private cemetary known as Newt Creek Cemetary. He had been in Kentucky with some of Daniel Boone's scouting parties, and returned there as a surveyor and acquired the property from the top of Pine Mountain to the Cumberland River. Tan Yard Hill was part of his property and got it's name from the tanning vats used in curing animal skins. He was an Indian spy and Scout.

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.bell&m=1077.1139.1141.1682.1685.1684.1692.1693.1698.1695.1700

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Description: This is the grave site of Lewis Green Jr. He was a soldier in the Rev. War. He was the father of Elizabeth who married James Howard. Lewis was born May 5,1751 in Va
He died in 1835 and is burried on the land that was his farm located between Tanbark Hill, and Calloway in Harlan Co Ky. Does anyone have a better view of this picture?
Death: DOD from DAR Patriot Index

Park says: dod: ca 1835 at: Calloway, Harlan Co, KY

Sue Terhune states:
Birth: 5 MAY 1751 in Culpepper Co, VA
Death: 10 JUN 1853 in Harlan Co, KY
Death : ABT. 1835 in Harlan Co, KY
1 Note:
---Source: Green Family GenForum, Steve Bingham, Feb 17, 1999
Lewis Green II married Esther Kilgore and settled on the Cumberland River near present Calloway, Bell Co., KY. His grave is now located just outside the fence of the Creech Family Cemetery in Calloway. It was relocated in the 1960's for the construction of new Hwy. 119. Lewis II's children and grandchildren married into the Wilder Family.

The connection to the Lauderdale Family was for many years unknown until a descendant of Zachariah Green (son of Lewis I) made the family bible records of Zach's son, Col. Lewis Green public. In these records is revealed the maternal ancestry of this Green Family.

---Source: Green Family GenForum, submitted by PARK, 24 April 1999
Lewis Jr. was a Revolutionary War Veteran from VA and was one of the first settlers on the Cumberland River. He lived in what is now Calloway, Bell Co., KY. He was buried at what used to be Old Meeting House Branch, now Calloway. During US 119 construction in 1960 in the Calloway area, his grave was relocated on land which belonged to John Matt Pursiful, just outside of the private cemetery known as Newt Creek Cemetery. He had been in KY with some of Daniel Boone's scouting parties and returned there as a surveyor and acquired property from the top of Pine Mountain to the Cumberland River. He was an Indian spy and Scout.

-- Source: http://genforum.genealogy.com/green/messages/6815.html - submitted by Tony L. Johnson ( tljstubby@msn.com)
Lewis Greens Sr. will was proved 1785 in Washington County Va. if that helps you, let me know as it would help me also as I spring from Elizabeth Green (daughter) who married Moses Foley Sr. Lewis Green Sr. born 1710 died 1784.

HI Tony,
I would be interested to know if you have the text of that will. It was my understanding that Lewis Green dictated an oral will to his son, Zachariah, in 1784 when he was near death on the road to Nashboro (now Nashville) Tennessee. This will was supposedly proven in Davidson Co., TN.

David Hoskins
http://users.ev1.net/~dhoskins Kentucky Kinfolk
Genealogies for Hoskins, Miracle, Green, Wilson, Arnett, and Thompson Families of SE Kentucky

Name: GREEN, Lewis Cemetery Location: Below Harlan Co line 18 mi W of Harlan, Bell Co KY 33 Reference: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.2, p. Serial: 9787; Volume: 5
Census Date: 1790
Census Place: Caswell Co, NC
Series: M637 Roll: 7 Page: 8
Surname GivenName Age Sex Race
GREEN LEWIS
Birthplace State County Location Year
NC CASWELL ST LUKES DIST TAX 1790

GREEN, LEWIS (1790 U.S. Census)
NORTH CAROLINA , CASWELL, ST LUKES DIST TAX
Series: M637 Roll: 7 Page: 8
Census Date: 1800
Census Place: Montgomery Co, NC
Series: M32 Roll: 33 Page: 472
Surname GivenName Age Sex Race
GREEN LEWIS
Birthplace State County Location Year
NC MONTGOMERY NO TWP LISTED 1800
Census Date: 1800
Census Place: Wake Co, NC
Series: M32 Roll: 32 Page: 776
Surname GivenName Age Sex Race GREEN LEWIS

Birthplace State County Location Year
NC WAKE NO TWP LISTED 1800
Census Date: 1810
Census Place: Franklin Co, NC
Series: M252 Roll: 40 Page: 157

Surname GivenName Age Sex Race
GREEN LEWIS
Birthplace State County Location Year
NC FRANKLIN NO TWP LISTED 1810
Census Date: 1820
Census Place: Rutherford Co, NC
Series: M33 Roll: 80 Page: 274

Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State County Location Year

GREEN LEWIS NC RUTHERFORD NO TWP LISTED 1820
Misc. event Type: Deed
Misc. event Date: 13 MAR 1823
Misc. event Place: KY
He was deeded 50 acres on 3-13-1823 on pg 562 of the Kentucky Warrants 1816-1873 the Counties of Kentucky.
Misc. event Type: Rev War
Misc. event Date: 1776
Misc. event Place: Russell Co, VA
Name: Lewis GREEN , Jr. 1
Sex: M
Birth: 5 May 1751 in Dinwiddie, Augusta or Coulee Co., VA.
Death: 10 Jun 1835 in Harlan, Bell Co., KY
Military Service: 1776 Enlisted Spring of 1776, Russell Co, VA
Military Service: Private, Shelby's VA troops
Military Service: Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.31080, based on the military service of Lewis Green in that war
Military Service: Served as a scout and spy on the Indians
Military Service: Served as Private under Captain John Blackman, Colonel's Isaac and General Evan Shelby and other captains names not given, in the Va troops.
Military Service: Service consisted in duty at Blackman's and Duncan's Forts on Clinch River and in scouting and protecting the inhabitants of the frontier from Indians
Military Service: between 1782 - 1783 Discharged at the close of the war

Event: Pension 4 Nov 1822 Allowed pension on his application executed this date, while residing on Cumberland River, Harlan Co., KY

Event: Pension 10 Dec 1833 $40.00, Age 83

Event: Deed 22 Jul 1821 Lewis GREEN and Esther GREEN to Elijah GREEN - all of Harlan Co., KY, for $600, land containing 72 acres, attested by Elijah Green, William Green & William Lewis

Event: Deed 1830 Harlan Co., KY - Lewis GREEN, Sr. to Lewis GREEN, Jr., land on Dry Branch of Tom's Creek, part of Survey of Edward West; patented in name of John West. Witness: Wm. Green, John McGeorge, Elijah Green and Lewis Green

Burial: In an area of Bell Co., KY known as Calloway at the bottom of Tanyard Hill. The markers are outside the Creech Graveyard

Burial: Old Meeting House Branch, Calloway, Bell Co., KY

Occupation: Owned a Tannery in Harlan Co., KY

Note: Born in Augusta or Coulee Co., VA. Died 1835 in Harlan Co., Ky. Married Ester Kilgore in 1783. Fought in Revolutionary War

Kentucky Genealogies and History Records, Volume II, p. FF, States: "Records of Harlan County Kentucky deeds, Lewis Green, Sr., to Lewis Green, Jr., 1830 land on Dry Branch of Tom's Creek, part of Survey of Edward West; patented in name of John West. Witness: Wm. Green, John McGeorge, Elijah Green and Lewis Green."

Grave Marker in the foreground states: Lewis Green
PRIVATE VA LINE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1751 1836

This grave is located in an area of Bell Co., Kentucky, known as Calloway. It is at the bottom of Tanyard Hill. The markers are on the outside of the Creech Graveyard.

Newspaper Article from January 19, 1999:

Examination of birth places suggest Lewis Green, his wife Esther, and their first 6 children moved to Kentucky from Virginia (with a stop in Tennessee) about 1794.

The following is quoted from "History & Families-Bell County, Kentucky", Turner Publishing Co., PO Box 3101, Paducah, KY 42002-3101, copyright 1994, Bell County History Book Committee. It was published identically in the 1976 article noted in the quote:

"Lewis Green, a Revolutionary War Veteran and a native of Virginia, was the first settler to ever visit and build on the Cumberland River. He located in the vicinity of what is now called Calloway, KY and built on the land that is now known as the old Parson's farm.

"Lewis Green was born May 5, 1751 and died in 1836. He was buried at what was known at the Old Meeting House Branch, which is now Calloway. During reconstruction of US Route 119 in the vicinity of Calloway in Bell Co., his grave was relocated on land which belonged to John Matt Pursiful, just outside of a private cemetery know as the Newt Creech Cemetery. About 1783 he married Esther Kilgore, who was also a native of Virginia, and to this union 10 children were born.

"Some descendants of Lewis Green as of 1976 were: Miss Mary Jane Green, one of the oldest known descendants, is 93 years of age and lives with her nephew, Dr. and Mrs. William R. Green; Paul Green, Oak St., Pineville, KY (now Lexington); Forester G. Percival, Fountain City, Knoxville, TN; Mrs. Stella R. Miller, Middlesboro, KY; Mrs. Pearl Harding, Calloway, KY; and Mrs. Fannie Tinsley, Pineville, KY. Submitted by Beulah Reed."

Article from 'Middlesboro Daily News", July 2, 1976 pertaining to Lewis Green's declaration for Revolutionary War pension:

"DECLARATION In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 - State of Kentucky, county of Harlan, on this 4th of November 1833, personally appeared before the undersigned and acting Justice of the Peace for Harlan County, Lewis Green a resident of the Cumberland River; in the County of Harlan, and the State of Kentucky age 82 years the 5th of May last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to benefit of the promissory made by the act of Congress, June 7, 1832, that I enlisted in the spring of 1776, as well as I remember, in the county of Russell and state of Virginia on the Clinch River, about nine miles from the county seat, for and during the Revolutionary War, under John Blakeman, William Moore; Lieutenant Joseph Moore; brother of William Ensign, Isaac Shelby.

"I was forted at Blakeman's Fort on the Clinch River. Afterwards I was forted at Duncan's Fort also, about ten miles higher up on the Clinch River.

"Our constant business was to guard the frontier from the Indians. I can give no distinct history of my service for it was one continual employment from these forts to scout the surrounding country and spy out the hiding places of the Indians, and keep them from annoying the frontier settlement. I served seven years, and was discharged when the war was over, which was in 1783.

"I have no record of my age as I have lost my discharge. I need a written discharge for my services in the Revolutionary War, signed by Shelby.

"I never was in a general battle, but many of the times, when in the discharge of my duties as a spy in reconnoitering the surrounding country, that my fellow soldiers, when least expecting it, fell by my side.

"I do not know of any soldiers by whom I could prove my service. If Congress had passed this law a few years earlier, I cuold have found witnesses a plenty, but now, if any with whom I served are living, it is unknown to me.

"After my enlistment, I served under different captains, but I remember none other than Shelby.
I was living in Russell County, Virginia when I enlisted in the Revolutionary War.

"I am known to Rev. James Hall, Jacob Salor, Parker Howard, William Howard, and many others who would testify to my character and veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolutinary War.....................................

Sworn to and submitted the day and year aforesaid. (signed) Lewis Green"

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When he came to Harlan Co., KY he surveyed 1000 acres and purchased this land for about 5 cents an acre, which was the cost of the survey. He owned the first tannery in this section. He had six sons and four daughters. The family did all the work at the tannery and when a load of skins were ready, they were piled on oxen sleds and taken to the settlements to trade. This trip was slow and it took several weeks to make the round trip.

Father: Lewis GREEN , Sr. b: 1710 in Prince George Co., VA (S5208) (S5213)
Mother: Elizabeth Sarah LAUDERDALE b: ABT. 1730 in Augusta Co., VA

Marriage 1 Esther KILGORE b: 1750 in Washington Co., VA
Married: 1782 in Bell Co. , KY

Children
James GREEN b: 15 Mar 1783 in Washington, VA
Elijah H. GREEN b: 3 Oct 1786 in Washington, Russell, VA
Elisha GREEN b: abt. 1788 in Washington, VA
Mary Ruth "Ruthy" GREEN b: 1790 in Washington, VA
William GREEN b: 1791 in Washington, VA
Sarah GREEN b: 1793 in Porter's Fort, Washington, Russell Cty., VA
Elizabeth GREEN b: 1795
Esther GREEN b: 1801 in Davidson, TN
Lewis GREEN III b: 1804 in Bell Co., KY
Robert M. GREEN b: 1806 in Bell Co. KY

Sources:
Title: Lewis Green, Jr.
Note: Lewis Green, Jr.. Kentucky Genealogies and History Records, Volume II, p. FF

Esther\Easter KILGORE:

Children

Elizabeth GREEN⁵ {F} = Joseph STAPLETON {M} > Family

Married BEF 1798

Elizabeth GREEN:

⁶

⁷

Author:

Barbara Howard

Date:

Classification:

In Reply to:

Lewis Green & Esther Kilgore

by:

Laurie Levy

James HOWARD

⁸

Family

Married BEF 1799, Harlan Co, KY⁹

James HOWARD:

¹⁰

¹¹

Sally Howard

Seley (Cielia)

Howard

James Howard

John Howard

Matilda Howard

Thomas Howard

Moses Howard

James Howard

Cornelius Howard

Letty Howard

Thomas Howard

Salley Howard

James Howard

John Howard

William Howard

Susannah Howard

Sealy Howard

William Howard

Benjamin Howard

Stephen Arnett

Ben Howard

Polly Howard

Sealy Howard

Ben Howard

William Howard

James Howard

THOMAS HOWARD

STEPHEN ARNETT

James Howard

1820 Floyd County Ky Census Record

HOWARD listings

Howard, James

1
Warrant ID

Veteran Name

Assignee

Acres

Years

Rank

Unit

Branch

Date

Authorized

No [identified] patents in Kentucky

Note

James GREEN {M} = Nancy ARNETT {F} > Family

Married BEF 1812, Russell Co, KY

James GREEN:

Nancy ARNETT:

Elisha GREEN {M} = Nancy BINGHAM {F} > Family

Married 1 June 1813, Knox Co, KY

Elisha GREEN:

Nancy BINGHAM:

Elijah H GREEN¹² {M} = Sarah HENDRICKSON {F} > Family

Elijah H GREEN:

Sarah HENDRICKSON:

Mary Rutha GREEN {F} = Richard D WILSON {M} > Family

Married 15 December 1806, Knox Co, KY

Mary Rutha GREEN:

Richard D WILSON:

William GREEN {M} = Nancy Agnes MCGEORGE {F} > Family

Married BEF 1819

William GREEN:

Nancy Agnes MCGEORGE:

Sarah GREEN {F} = John HENDRICKSON {M} > Family

Married BEF 1815

Sarah GREEN:

John HENDRICKSON:

William K BINGHAM

Family

Married 15 November 1815, Knott Co, KY

William K BINGHAM:

Esther GREEN {F} = Elijah BINGHAM {M} > Family

Married BEF 1819, Bell Co, KY

Esther GREEN:

Elijah BINGHAM:

Lewis GREEN {M} = Letty ARNETT¹³ {F} > Family

Married 26 January 1826, Harlan Co, KY¹⁴

Lewis GREEN:

Letty ARNETT:

Robert GREEN {M}

Born 1808
Died BEF 1880

Family

Marriage: Lewis married Esther KILGORE daughter of Robert KILGORE Sr. and Winifred CLAYTON about 1780 in Washington Co, VA. Esther was born about 1762 in Washington, Russell Co Virginia. She died about 1825 in Callaway, Harlan County, Kentucky. She was buried in Kirby Cemetery, Callaway, Bell County, Kentucky.

Sources

1 : "David Hoskins, http://users.ev1.net/~dhoskins (His website)"
2 : "David Hoskins, http://users.ev1.net/~dhoskins (His website)"
2a: "Hoskins, David, compiler, ""; ancestral file number(s), A"
3 : "RolMir@aol.com, Post to LONGHUNTER List @ rootsweb.com - 10"
4 : "Sue Terhune (http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/)"; Page Information in Death note.
4a: "park492@aol.com (http://worldgenealogy.tripod.com/)"
5 : "Sue Terhune (http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/)"
6 : "Salyer, Elisabeth L. W., The Salyer Family: Genealogy & Reco"; Page P. A75
7 : "Wilson, Karen (http://genforum.genealogy.com/green/messages/"
7a: "Breathitt Co Vital Records 1852-1860"; Secondary evidence
8 : "Floyd Co., KY, Book of Deeds"; Page Book D, p. 434
8a: "Salyer, Elisabeth L. W., The Salyer Family: Genealogy & Reco"; Page Beginning on p. A67.
9 : "Magoffin Co. KY Historical Society, The Howards of Eastern K"; Page Vol 1 - P. 154
10 : "Salyer, Elisabeth L. W., The Salyer Family: Genealogy & Reco"; Page Beginning on p. A67.
10a: "Magoffin Co. KY Historical Society, The Howards of Eastern K"; Page Vol 1 - p. 154
11 : "Magoffin Co. KY Historical Society, The Howards of Eastern K"; Page Vol 1 - P.154
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13 : "David Hoskins, http://users.ev1.net/~dhoskins (His website)"
14 : "David Hoskins, http://users.ev1.net/~dhoskins (His website)"

Superscripted numbers are references to source citations at the bottom of this page.
{M} = Male; {F} = Female.

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