Shadrack GREEN2,3
also known as Shaddrock GREEN1
12th Sep 17422 - 22nd Oct 18202
Life History
12th Sep 1742 |
Born in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland.1,2 (most likely) |
16th Jul 1747 |
Born in Baltimore County, Maryland.2 (less likely) |
1760 |
Birth of son Shadrack L GREEN in South Carolina.4,5,6 |
8th Jul 1787 |
Birth of daughter Temperance GREEN in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland.7,8 |
22nd Oct 1820 |
Died in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland.2 |
Notes
- Parentage of this Shadrack is somewhat uncertain, as with this whole line in the 1700s. Sources have them organized quite differently. The source cited here for Shaddrock (aka Shadrack) Green fits well in the generational sequence, and eases the problem other sources had with the long impossible time ranges. A problem in several of these persons is the matching of spouses, marriage dates, birth dates and dates of birth for the children.
It is possible this Shadrick had more than one wife. Some of the uncertainty is in different dates for what appears to be the same wife, reported as Rachel Smith, or Rachel with Unknown Last Name. Two birth dates range from 1750 to 1758 for Rachel's married to Shadrick Green (b 1747).
Our Shadrack Green born in 1760 seems to be a son of this Shadrick/Shadrack. But the birth date of 1747 for Shadrick is too close to 1760 for him to reasonably be the father. If he was born in 1747, he would be only 13 years old when Shadrack was born in 1760.
The dates of birth and death for Shadrick are convincingly exact. However, a more realistic date is provided by another source, which has very few details, and thus does not carry the sense of authority I would prefer. The person is listed there as Shaddrock Green with a birth date of 1730. The World Family Tree genealogy #3554 which reports this Shaddrock has no name or info on a wife of Shaddrock.
A daughter reported by this genealogy is also reported by one genealogy in the One World Tree collection that reports the Shadrick Green born in 1747. Dicey Green, born in 1770 according to WFT #3554 is born 1775 in OWT. Shadrack Green born 1760 is also reported as a child in OWT.
The birth date of 1730 would accommodate the age problem between these two generations. The inexact birth date of 1730 would not normally be a better alternative than the more exact date given in One World Tree. But the age spacing is more reasonable. The early birth in 1830, however, presents a problem related to the birth of the widely-reported father of Shadrack, Isaac Green, in 1721, and marriage to Rebecca in 1741.
World Family Tree Vol. 13, Pedigree #3554. reports only the year 1830 as Shadrack's birth date, which is only 11 years after most sources report the birth of his father Isaac Green. Other genealogies and indications make it more like 1847, with his brother Isaac born in Sept 1742. But Shadrack and Isaac's father Isaac in his will refers to Shadrack as his eldest son. If Shadrack's parents married in 1741 as reported, then it was Shadrack he and not his brother Isaac that was born in Sept 1742.
OWT reports Shadrick born in Baltimore, while WFT reports Shaddrock with no birth place. The birth place of the daughter Dicey they both report differs: OWT says Burke County, North Carolina, while WFT says Albemarle County, Virginia. These two counties are not to far apart considering the migratory nature of the culture at that time.
People were moving south from Pennsylvania or Maryland through Virginia into North Carolina, and in the same or next generation on west. Places and dates vary considerably on the known same person, so this could be the same individual.
There is likely more information that we are missing at this stage to make sense out of all these names and close bit different dates and wide range of geography. But there are a lot of Shadracks, Shaddrocks, Shadricks and similar Greens in several states. It is possible that one of these is a son of a related uncle or cousin. It is frustrating that most genealogies don't tell you where they got the information and why they have settled on a particular date, spelling of a name or particular place name as a birth place or death place.
One problem is that most of these Greens are reported only as secondary persons in another family's line, so only one child of one generation who married someone in a another family is reported by different ones. So there are bits of information missing.
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