Maureen, Alabama is land was laid out by latitude and longitude instead of using the "white oak tree" etc. such as found with land in the older states. So you really need an East/West coordinate to locate exact sites of townships. One item which may or may not help you, is that a group of residents from Wayne County, NC led by a Mr. Whitfield (name eludes me at this moment - prominent family, and he was a CSA officer) moved from NC to southern Alabama during the mid-1800s. The Whitfield mansion still exists and Birmingham library has a book on Whitfield which may help.. Given there were Sassers in Wayne Co., it is possible that some moved with the Whitfields as my Bunn/Burn from Wayne Co did. To the Sasser Group: I know very little about my Sassers, the information I have having been collected on the "fringe" of my other research. Since becoming a part of this group, I have had a couple of Emails directed to my Sassers, (WTJ Grantham and his wife Emily Sasser my gg grandparents and Olin Crawford Sasser, the granson of my ggg grandfather, Lazarus Crawford). Please bear with me.. my other hobby, gardening has gotten in the way of my genealogical research (my garden was filmed by public television yesterday) I will try to organize my information and put it out as as soon as possible. Cornelia Burns Holland related lines include Crawford, Grantham, Sasser, Coor, Croom, Bunn/Burn, Taylor, from Wayne/Johnston Co. NC area. mid 1700s to early 1800s.