Reason Green is listed on a index to Military Rolls of the Republic of Texas, 1835 - 1845 as Military Company Commander.
After the War of Texas Independence, Reason established one of the very early sugar plantations in the Trinity River Valley. Reason was granted a league of land (4428 acres) on August 26, 1835 by the General Land Office of Texas. Reason and his brother, Benjamin, joined General Samuel Houston's Army during the War for Texas Independence. Reason was detailed to take the women and children across the Sabine into Louisiana "The Runaway Scrape". He missed the final Battle of San Jacinto. SOURCE: Green/Prewitt database.
Excerpt: "On April 18, the people fleeing from Anahuac offered Colonel Gray's party the food they were leaving and on the 20th, the diarist recorded that A. B. Hardin was among those who were waiting for a ferry across the Neches. The next day, Reason Green of Liberty agreed to pilot the group on its hastily built raft through alligator-infested swampland near Beaumont." SOURCE: Liberty, Liberty County and the Atascosita District by Miriam Part low, pg. 107.
After the War of Texas Independence, Reason established one of the very early sugar plantations in the Trinity River Valley. Reason was granted a league of land (4428 acres) on August 26, 1835 by the General Land Office of Texas. Reason and his brother, Benjamin, joined General Samuel Houston's Army during the War for Texas Independence. Reason was detailed to take the women and children across the Sabine into Louisiana "The Runaway Scrape". He missed the final Battle of San Jacinto. SOURCE: Green/Prewitt database.
Excerpt: "On April 18, the people fleeing from Anahuac offered Colonel Gray's party the food they were leaving and on the 20th, the diarist recorded that A. B. Hardin was among those who were waiting for a ferry across the Neches. The next day, Reason Green of Liberty agreed to pilot the group on its hastily built raft through alligator-infested swampland near Beaumont." SOURCE: Liberty, Liberty County and the Atascosita District by Miriam Part low, pg. 107.
Reason Green is listed on a index to Military Rolls of the Republic of Texas, 1835 - 1845 as Military Company Commander.
After the War of Texas Independence, Reason established one of the very early sugar plantations in the Trinity River Valley. Reason was granted a league of land (4428 acres) on August 26, 1835 by the General Land Office of Texas. Reason and his brother, Benjamin, joined General Samuel Houston's Army during the War for Texas Independence. Reason was detailed to take the women and children across the Sabine into Louisiana "The Runaway Scrape". He missed the final Battle of San Jacinto. SOURCE: Green/Prewitt database.
Excerpt: "On April 18, the people fleeing from Anahuac offered Colonel Gray's party the food they were leaving and on the 20th, the diarist recorded that A. B. Hardin was among those who were waiting for a ferry across the Neches. The next day, Reason Green of Liberty agreed to pilot the group on its hastily built raft through alligator-infested swampland near Beaumont." SOURCE: Liberty, Liberty County and the Atascosita District by Miriam Part low, pg. 107.
After the War of Texas Independence, Reason established one of the very early sugar plantations in the Trinity River Valley. Reason was granted a league of land (4428 acres) on August 26, 1835 by the General Land Office of Texas. Reason and his brother, Benjamin, joined General Samuel Houston's Army during the War for Texas Independence. Reason was detailed to take the women and children across the Sabine into Louisiana "The Runaway Scrape". He missed the final Battle of San Jacinto. SOURCE: Green/Prewitt database.
Excerpt: "On April 18, the people fleeing from Anahuac offered Colonel Gray's party the food they were leaving and on the 20th, the diarist recorded that A. B. Hardin was among those who were waiting for a ferry across the Neches. The next day, Reason Green of Liberty agreed to pilot the group on its hastily built raft through alligator-infested swampland near Beaumont." SOURCE: Liberty, Liberty County and the Atascosita District by Miriam Part low, pg. 107.
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Green, Reason PVT Continental Line Rev War
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Reason Green (male) was born in Natches, Mississippi.
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