Hi Nancy! It's me, Garron. How ya been? Long time no hear. Just saying hi, but I have seen a lot of Bunch people up around the NY area I think it was. Do you want me to send you Bunch links or info if I run into them? I haven't uncovered any new Lewis info, I've been looking for Jackson people lately. I can plot out big wall-size diagrams now of family trees and decendency charts and even big poster-size portraits if you want them. I'm selling them, so let me know if you or anyone you know might want something like that. Talk at ya later. Garron Woodruff -----Original Message----- From: Tenc@aol.com <Tenc@aol.com> To: TNGRAING-L@rootsweb.com <TNGRAING-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 3:35 AM Subject: [TNGRAING-L] Re: "free land" in Alabama >I saw Doris Reece's reference to folks who moved to "free land" in Alabama in >the 1830's. Several branches of my Hopson family moved to Lauderdale Co >Alabama were listed in later census as boatman, and one as a "hunter". I >looked at the microfilm of the Lauderdale Co 1850 census, where young Harrod >Hopson was listed as a "hunter". The census taker had written "pine, oak and >poplar. Game abound such as deer and turkey." Harrod's brother William is >listed as a boatman. His census page says "good land but narrow bottoms; >subject to overflow." These references were not to my particular relatives >but were at the bottom of the regular census page. I've never seen anything >like it before. > >Can anyone tell me about this free land in Alabama? We all know that the >chief reason that our pioneer ancestors moved on from where they were born >was always free or cheap land. > >Nancy Cassada Nelson - researching Hopson, Bunch, Wells, Walker, Lewis > >