SCREVEN - Washington  COUNTY, GA - COURT Affidavit of McKeen Green

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The following 3 page document was transcribed by Carole
Farr Drexel 2/6/2003, from documents contained in the
Pension File of McKeen Green at the vault of the Georgia
Archives. Concerns stolen negroes from his deceased
brother, John Green, in Halifax Parish, now Screven County,
Ga.  It was filed in Washington County, GA.


State of Georgia
Washington County


In Chambers, July 10, 1823

Present Nathaniel G. Rutherford, Charles Williamson and
Morgan Brown Esquire.  Justices of the Inferior Court in
and for the said County and State aforesaid.


Personally appeared before us, Mackeen Green, who being
duly sworn deposes and saith on oath that he was personally
acquainted with John Green late of Halifax Parish, now
Scriven County, in the State of Georgia, from the years
Seventeen Hundred and Seventy One, to the death of the said
John Green, which was about the year Eighteen Hundred and
Three, and that this deponent was well acquainted with two
certain negro men by the names of Poladore and Jack which
was the property of the said John Green and of the value of
Eighty pounds Sterling each, amounting to the sum of One
Hundred and Sixty Pounds sterling in the whole, at the time
they were missing, and generally believed stolen from the
said John Green in his life time, by the Creek Indians and
during the commencement of the revolutionary war or indian
hostilities, by the Creek nation, and that this deponent
also knew one John Randal, a half breed indian who was
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frequently about the house of the said John Green, and it
was generally believed, and such is the belief of this
'deponent', that the said John Randal did steal the said
negroes Poladore and Jack and that they were the first
property stolen from that quarter by the Indians or the
enemy.


And further this deponent well knows that Wm. H. Green, the
only son of said John Green and Susan Wittburger, are the
only heirs of the said John Green, late of Scriven County,
deceased, and that the said deponent has lived with said
John Green while in life and has known the said Wm. H.
Green and Susan Wittburger, late Susan Green, from their
infancy upward further this deponent saith not.


Sworn and subscribed to, this date first above written.


McKeen Green (his signature)


N. Greene Rutherford  J. I. Ct.W.C.
Charles Williamson  J. I. Ct. W. C.
M. Brown, J. I. Ct. W. C.
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the foregoing afcs presented to the Justices by
Wm. H. Greene (sic)
[his signature]
July 11, 1823
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