This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/990.1 Message Board Post: The Eastern 1/3 from north to south in what now is the state of Alabama, used to be the Mississippi Territory, Allen Yates got land in what today is Choctaw County Alabama.The Choctaw Nation was then all of Mississippi and part of Alabama.The Mississippi Choctaws are now in Philadelpha Mississippi, in Neshoba County. June Yates