Marta: The following is taken from a book written by Judge Thomas Jones Taylor (1819-1894), A HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY AND INCIDENTALLY OF NORTH ALABAMA 1732-1840. The Cherokees ceded all their territory north of the Tennessee River in this State(Ala), to the United States, and in 1819 it was formed into Jackson County, having its boundary on the old Madison line to Flint River, which was the line between the two counties down to the Tennessee. In the year 1821 Decatur County was created out of part of Jackson County. This county was very irregular in form, extending from the Tennessee line to the Tennessee river, over forty miles in length and with a breadth of about five miles on the State line, being in some places not more than three miles wide and at its greatest extent not more than twenty-five miles. The county site was at Woodville, but as soon as the State was able to calculate the area of this many-sided county it was ascretained that it did not have the constitutional area in square miles, and it was abolished by the Legislature of 1823-4 and the present line between Madison and Jackson established. This line was to begin where the Indian reservation or the twelve mile square line intersects Paint Rock river, thence it run northwest with the reservation line to the range line on east side of range two east, which it followed to the main ridge between the waters of Flint and Paint Rock, and then followed the dividing ridge between these streams to the dividing line. I hope the above will help you. Bob