According to Goodspeed, Thomas Crawford was on the first Grand Jury in 1819. And that John L. Pettit was county court judge in 1826-7. Based on these, I'd say the year of arrival should have been 1802, not 1822. Goodspeed says John Calloway was probably the first settlement other than miners and he settled on Saline creek as early as 1799. William Dillon and John Mathews came from SC a year or two later. "In 1806 Elijah O'Bannon came from Virginia, and located two miles west of St. Michael, where, in 1818, he built the first brick house in the county. Among other early settlers may be mentioned the Colliers, Pettitts, and Friars from Kentucky, the Watts and Anthonys from Virginia, and the Whiteners and Mousers. The last two families located in the south part of the county, the Mousers on the creek which bears their name." My gggg(+/-) gp Capt. Henry Whitener settled along Caster River about 1803. He helped lay out St. Michaels or Fredericktown. Yes that typo should read 18_0_2. It would be easier for a typesetter to mistake a handwritten 0 for an 8 than mistake a 2 for an 8. That's what my xerox of that page from Douglass now reads. Gerald J.

Besides there were quite a number of land holders in Madison County with Spanish land grants that would have been some time before 1803, such as the Benjamin Pettits survey #847. Likely these were 1790s or earlier. Gerald J.