JIM; DICK; NUSSLOCH; LIST-ET'AL; RE-EARLY ALABAMA TERRITORY-[Tuscaloosa Areas]; We are also trying to track our people into these areas-[PRE-STATE HOOD]: Of All the below Sur Names, We have found only one (1)-PASS PORT-(dtd.1817)-"FROM GEORGIA TO ALABAMA TERR."- In the Name of *HINTON*- A *JESSE HINTON* and Family of "JOCO/WAKE/RALIEGH, NC"!! What we know thus far is that our- *HINTON*/ *MONTGOMERY*/ *BROWN*/ *CLEMENTS*/ and *FOSTERS*-[Of "FOSTERS SETTLEMENT/ FOSTERS CROSSING STORE"-ON THE BLACK WARRIOR RIVER]- Were ALL in the areas before "JANUARY---(1823)"---Tuscaloosa County Marriage of- *REV. JOHN HINTON*-(b.JOCO,NC-circa- 1790-1843)-and *EASTER (MONTGOMERY)*-(b.GA-circa- 1795-1870)"!!---[A CHARLES/JAMES MONTGOMERY-Witnessed the wedding-"Brother-In Law"]?? Unable to Verify, But some sources say that they were Married at the *OLD SARDIS CHURCH*, [over in the S.E.part of Tuscaloosa County, on/near the "BEAR CREEK/ BEAR CREEK ROAD"], Before the move over to the "FOSTERS SETTLEMENT"??? Many Sources say that these families migrated across the "Carolinas, Thru Georgia to the Tuscaloosa areas"??? We have Read the above "PASS PORT", and it mentioned this *JESSE HINTON", amongst others-[names are forgotten; Our People probably were in this Wagon-Train Party]! (1)- What was the Policy on "Issuing these Passports", was the Named Person, Necessarily the Head of the Family, Head of the Wagon-Train, Their Representive, etc?? (2)- We have NOT found any Pass Ports for other members of the above families, Even though this-"*JAMES MONTGOMERY*, and Our' *JOHN E. BROWN* were Listed as an Original MEMBERS of the *OLD SARDIS CHURCH* in (1819)"!!!!!!!!! (3)- Anyone have any Intel on the "first Settlers" in the *FOSTERS SETTLEMENT*, Besides the FOSTERS?? (4)- Anyone have Anything on "Any---Pre-Statehood Settlers", We have read about-[Squatters]-"Who came to the areas and set up shop With-Out Authority, some were Removed by the ARMY, and some were NOT??? Any Intel is greatly appreciated Thanks & GOD BLESS SEMPER FI BA- In NORTH GA!! Still looking for the Community/ District of-*HUGHS*-(Tuscaloosa County},during this time Period!!! -----Original Message----- From: altuscal-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:altuscal-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nussloch Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:37 AM To: altuscal@rootsweb.com; albibb@rootsweb.com Cc: almarion@rootsweb.com; alfayette@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALTUSCAL] "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 ALTUSCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message