Abner Green

[3] In 1787 he and his brother Thomas M. Green Jr. bought 11 slaves, some native to Jamaica and Africa, from Daniel Clark for $6,050.

At this farm the Old Gentleman has a very extensive stock of every kind; I saw near 300 calves the best garden I ever saw anywhere; George Bell the Barber came to stay with us.

After dinner, Mr. Green invited me to look at his garden, which was very spacious, and well stocked with useful vegetables, and understanding that I had been in the West Indian islands, he made me observe some ginger in a thriving state, and the cullaloo or Indian kail, also some very fine plants of Guinea grass, which he proposes propagating.

[9] According to one of his sons-in-law, Abner Green was one of the planters to whom future president Andrew Jackson sold slaves.

[10] In his will dictated in 1809, he arranged for the manumission of "Betito and his wife Bess" bequeathing them $700 as well as "cows + calves, three breeding sows, two good work creatures, one yoke of oxen, and one hundred pounds of bacon, fifty pounds of sugar and coffee, and twenty acres of land.