Marvin: On 8 Jan 1815 forces under Major General Andrew Jackson defeated British forces in the Battle of New Orleans. In 1818 many of the troops who were with Jackson in New Orleans rejoined him in a successful campaign to capture Florida. Jackson served as military commissioner-governor of Florida from 10 March 1821 to 31 Dec 1821. In 1821 Jackson designated lands, in the Territory of Florida, east of the Suwannee River to be St Johns County and lands to the west to be Escambia County. East and West Florida would be designations that remained for a significant amount of time. If you have a map of Florida you will note that the Suwannee enters Florida near the same area that Interstate-75 enters the state. The Suwannee flows generally south to the Gulf of Mexico, meandering to the West and then back to the East until it enters the Gulf North of Cedar Key. In 1821 there was a Territorial census taken in Florida. There was a Jeremiah Pate enumerated in East Florida. This MAY have been Jeremiah Pate 1801-1885. Unfortunately there are no images of this census and nothing more than index information exists today. This puts Jeremiah a bit to the east of the counties in Florida which would later be contiguous to Geneva Co AL, however it does put a man named Jeremiah Pate in Florida, in the appropriate time period and in the approximate area. Joel . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin or Susan" <shwillms@knology.net> To: <PATE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:27 PM Subject: [PATE] Jeremiah Pate b. 1801 > Margaret, > > I am a little late responding to your post about Jeremiah Pate b. March 10, 1801 TN. I have quite a bit of information about that family. I don't have anything about him in Florida. He lived in about the same spot in AL but the counties kept changing on him. He died March 30, 1885 in Geneva Co. AL. > > Marvin Williams > >