Betty: One of David's grand daughters married an Aaron Smith in Marshall Co., AL. I have David I in Madison Co., AL, born about 1775 SC or VA He was in Fairfield Co., SC 1800, then in 1810 still there, then 1818 he bought land in Madison ., AL from the Jacob Derrick. I find a Wilson in a history of the Hurricaine Valley where they lived. I'll copy in. Maybe a clue here. !History: History of Hurricane Creek (publisher unknown) "Beautiful Hurricane Valley lies 8.5 miles northeast of Huntsville, Alabama. It is blessed with rich farm land, pastures, lakes and streams and mountains filled with wild life and game. Hurricane Valley got it's name from the frequent violent storms that swept through the valley. In the 1800's the settlers called all tornadoes and violent storms hurricanes, and the valley was plagued with these storms. Homes and churches were destroyed and lives were taken. The following history will take you back in time to yester-year, approximately 200 years ago, and will bring you up to modern day times. Records will tell the history of the land the old timers will tell you of their fondest memories. Hurricane Valley was once the home of the Cherokee Indians. Before the early 1800's there is no indication of indian villages, yet it was a place of resort for great hunting parties who came here in summer and autumn and as winter approached, returned to the neighborhood of Guntersville or of Tuscambia, laden with game. The Cherokee claimed the limit of their hunting grounds passed through the County and as they had no settlements nearer than those on the Tennessee River, the Hurrican Valley region had no tradition of any conflict between hostile tribes. The immense cane brakes in the river bottoms, the heavy forest, the rough mountains inhabitated by the wolves, bears, and panthers and large venemous snakes were not a suitable permanent abode for the red man. As settlers started coming into Alabama, a large number of Scotch emigrants came to the state on account of religious persecution and political dissension in the old country. Many men of this colony became Indian Traders and married Indian wives. Some became very influential men in their councils. Among these were the Wilson's and Mc Nutty's. Conalesky, an Indian Chief, when he became civilized, called himself John Challenge. The Challenge Reservation in Sharp's Cove was named after him and he lived on it for a long time. When the Creek War of 1812 broke out, the Creek tried very hard to persuade the Cherokee to join in a coalition against the white men. This was found to cause great confusion existing as to the attitude of the Indians. The Cherokee were too well acquainted with the power of the white men and when they found the Creeks would not allow them to remain neutral, they declared war against the Creeks and took part in Jackson's Campaign. As troops and emigrants poured into the territory, longing eyes were cast in the direction of the rich Indian lands lying all around the country. It was only by the exercise of close military supervision that intruders were kept out of the Indian Territory. At one raid, the troops were said to have burned 40 to 50 houses and destroyed crops of parties who continued to take the risk and settle on the wrong side of the Indian Lines. In 1817 Andrew Jackson made a treaty with the Cherokee that completed the succession of their territory north of the Tennessee to the United States. Alabama had become a state. On the New Purchase, many Indians elected to stay in the County while the majority of the Cherokee Indians went west. This great movement became part of what is known as "The Trail of Tears". By a treaty signed in 1818 that made the succession of the lands, now called New Madison, each Indian or Half-Breed who wished to remain within the limits of the ceded territory was allowed to retain one section of land, one mile in diameter, with a house as near the center of the tract as practicable. The indians who stayed agreed by treaty to stay on the reservations. There were four reservations in Madison County, three of these in Hurricane Valley. The three in Hurrican Valley were the Wilson, Mc Nutty and Challenge. The Wilson and Mc Nutty were on Hurricane Creek and Challenge in Sharp's Cove. As the years went by, the Indians gradually became dissatisfied. All of them on the reservations disposed of their lands by sale or relinquishment to the government and in 1836, joined their tribes in Arkansas and Oklahoma. One Hundred Fifteen years later, arrowheads were being found where the great Cherokee warrior had been hunting for food. Great grand parents and grand parents passed down exciting and spellbinding tales of the mighty indians and told with facinating wonder of their burial grounds. The Cherokee Indians will always be a very important part of the history of Hurrican Valley. In Hurricane Valley, once around a network of Indian Reservations and extending up the Valley as far as the soil was tillable, was congregated several colonies of adventurous settlersllllll who laid the foundation for our heritage. The long and narrow valley, including the covers formed by the mountain ridges, included as fertile a land as can be found in Northern Alabama. These lands were taken up in small tracts by a large body of settlers, some generations of whom still occupy these lands." This is where David Pockrus settled in 1818. ---------- > From: bettym <bettym@concentric.net> > To: Marion U. Pockrus <txphlp44@enol.com> > Subject: Re: [SCFAIRFI-L] Pockrus, David--1800 Census > Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 8:59 PM > > Marion U. Pockrus wrote: > > > > Looking for any records regarding David Pockrus who was in the 1800 census > > of Fairfield Co., SC. Have lots of material on decendants and related > > families. Where did he come from? Who is his wife Mary? Is her name > > Mary Magdelene as some decendant think? Can anyone tell me of where those > > that were in Fairfield Co. in that time frame came from? > > Newbie to this list. > > Helene Pockrus > > My Smiths came from Ireland. Do you have any Smith women in your line or > Men. Most men were Robert, William, James, David. Women Roseanna,Mary, > Sara, Frances, Elizabeth, Ferguson. I also had Willson in my line from > Fairfield. > Bettym