Thanks Jim and Dick for the brief history of an era in AL history. My information is that 1818 was the year in which AL was separated from MS so MS could become a state, and AL could begin preparations for Statehood. Bibb was appointed Gov, and I believe he was a physician from GA who had become a senator, or worked for the then president (I have a deed by this pres, but forget his name: Monroe? then was Jackson). anyway, my Johh Hunt Logan came to AK 1818 with his uncle John Hunt... My ears pricked up when I noticed you mentioned Clements...and I hoped you might have further information. Nancy Clements married John Hunt, and after his death gave land for the first Presbyterian Church in Centreville, then Bibb County, AL Clements also surveyed the lots for Centreville for a Madamn Choteaux...wife of a dead French statesmen who had received a grant from Jackson during New Orleans battle. since families moved together, I thought info on Clements migh yield a clue. thanks, don logan John 1015 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nussloch" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:37 AM Subject: [ALBIBB] "HUGHES",Alabama & Black Warrior settlements > Hi Jim, > short answer to one of your questions: > Stewart, AL was apparently named after a son of Larkin W. Stewart. This > Larkin (not the one over in Fayette Co, AL) was supposed to be a brother > of > my Solomon Stewart. This Larkin is buried in Stokes Cemetery in > Greensboro > in Hale Co, AL. > > I don't have papers handy, but I want to say that the town was named for > perhaps John F.? Stewart, a son of Larkin. > > The Fosters had alliances with my larger environment of TN / AL Stewarts, > McConnells, Clements, but I don't remember how. Also, the Dodsons, I > believe. > > The 1818's were a murkey transition window, pretty much a ramping up of > the > formalization of the AL Territory into a state. Part of one story in my > larger Stewart family is that they came from TN to AL with Moore's, > McConnells, and others, and included at least other brothers of Larkin W. > and Solomon: Reuben and William. Rueben is in 1820 one of the first > buyers > of land from the Huntsville land office, buying land in Fayette Co. The > Moore's Bridge was, by another oral tradition, established by these Moores > as part of their 1818+ migration into the area. There's a small hole in > the > wall in Marion Co, called Glen Allen, which by some traditions, was > originally called Stewart's Gap. My Solomon's first land buys included > land > up there. > > The window of 1810-1818 is going to be the tell-all window, as that is > what > I call the Squat Window. This was effectively the beginning of the end of > Alabama Territory / Mississippi Territory. > > Another interesting source to consider is the Alabama Militia. > Unfortunately you have to go to ADAH in Montgomery to review. At least > that's what I had to do. You should be able to see Foster's in the > various > rosters and that will help isolate them to a county perhaps (i.e. military > regiment / appropriate county) > > Cheers, > > Dick Stewart > HD > =-==- > Dick, No I do not have a clue her I'm as lost as any one ? > Plantation. Do you have any info on Stewart Al. A small town south of > Fosters east of the river and west of hwy 69 Hall or Tus Co. ? > I have some old info that my 3rd g grandfather James Foster along with > Denis > Dent came to Tus Co. in 1818 and the info also says that the Fosters and > Bealle's owen a near 60 miles exstending in a hors shoe from above > Fosters > Ferry to stell's Bluff see map elsewhere in this book ? Heee don't have > the > book or the map and still do not know were Stell's bluff is at ? > Jim Foster > > Subject: [ALTUSCAL] Former township of "HUGHES",Alabama & Black Warrior > settlements > > >> Hi Jim, >> This scenario you're attempting to realize, it's interesting. >> >> My interest is perhaps the period 1810-1820, when folks were all over >> Alabama, legally and illegally. I recall (don't have docs handy) that >> the >> 1816 census showed "Monroe" county to be the majority of the >> Territory/(state), and my Solomon Stewart had signed, among many others, >> a >> resolution-like document forwarded to Washington DC by Mobile's Judge > Harry >> Toulmin. That coupled with a 1816 tax list, again with my Solomon on it, >> makes for a murkey geolocation for many of those folks. >> >> I've always thought that they were squatting on the Black Warrior River >> in >> one of two or three settlements, the locations of which I don't > understand. >> Do you think thisscenario is related to your scenario query? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dick Stewart >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >