In the fall of 1817 several families left Pendleton District, SC headed for the Black Warrior County and upon arriving at what is now Birmingham in the early spring of 1818, found land in the vicinity of Brown's Spring and Nabors' Spring (present day Ave E and 22nd Street, Birmingham.) In this group were some four or five families including John "Red" Brown, William Brooks, William Pullen and his sons-in-law, Joseph and Jesse Hickman. (Duffee, Sketches of Alabama, p. 25) Brown was active in politics in Jefferson and Tuscaloosa Counties in Alabama before moving on to Texas. John Brown may have been born in Pendleton District, according the the 1850 Census of Van Zandt County, TX. The Texas State Archives give his birthplace as York District in a notation of his service in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas and the State of Texas. John "Red" Brown and William Brooks are my ancestors. Does anyone know anything of them? Thanks, Bob Pfennig in New Braunfels, TX