Dee, I've found quite a bit of evidence of the migration of networks of interrelated families from Abbeville-Pendleton Dist., SC, around 1820. My Green family (John Green and Jane Kerr), who moved from Abbeville to Pendleton by 1790, moved to Bibb Co., AL, in 1818. In the Andrew Pickens Papers and the John Ewing Colhoun Papers at the South Caroliniana library in Columbia, I have found letters indicating that Andrew Pickens, first cousin of John Green's wife Jane Kerr (son of her aunt Rebecca Calhoun and husband Gen. Andrew Pickens) also moved to AL around this same time. A 23 Aug. 1819 letter of Andrew Pickens to Capt. Wm. Noble of Abbeville in the Andrew Pickens papers says that Pickens was in Monticello, Jasper Co., GA, returning from "the Alabama" where he had left Jhis brother Joseph, who was intending to go to Tuscaloosa. This letter interests me since the early records of Bibb Co. are filed in Tuscaloosa Co. It suggests to me that these cousins of Jane Kerr Green migrated to AL from SC at the same time as did the John Green family. In addition, a 21 April 1819 letter of Floride Bonneau Colhoun to her son James Edward, in the John Ewing Colhoun collection, mentions that Col. Pickens was to go to "the Alabama" for 2 months. Floride's husband John Ewing Colhoun was a brother to Jane Kerr Green's mother Mary Calhoun Kerr. From all I can gather, a primary motivating factor in this migration was that new lands opened up after the native Americans in AL were defeated and the state opened to settlement in 1816. In addition, the invention of the cotton gin allowed cotton grown in upland areas to be more easily processed. With the new lands opening and the expansion of the cotton kingdom, families were eager to move west and try their luck at making a fortune in the growing edge of the Cotton Kingdom.