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  1. Jackie Johnson Causey

    I love these Biographies, very interested in early Alabama.

    1. Alabama Pioneers

      Thanks, Jackie. I’m glad you enjoy them.

  2. First cotton gin established before Alabama became a state - Alabama Pioneers

    […] the first cotton gin, in the region now Alabama, was erected by Lyons and Bennett of Georgia, for Abram Mordecai, a Jew and an Indian trader, at Weatherford’s race track on the Alabama river. The materials […]

  3. Here are some stories about Alabama people you never learned in History class - Alabama Pioneers

    […] of Mount Megs, where they carried on a small commerce. All these traders had Indian wives except Mordecai, whose faithful spouse was Indian considerably darkened with the blood of […]

  4. This story will make you appreciate the bravery of Alabama settlers - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Indian in his feelings, and, when he had been in the nation five years, it was with difficulty that Mordecai could separate him from his Indian playmates, and carry him to Seagrove. That gentleman sent him to […]

  5. Charles Outlaw

    this is the slave trader who did business with the outlaw family in washington, montgomery, and emanuel counties in ga. this man was a slave trader who traded creek indians and mulatto slaves to the white settlers.

  6. Biography: Abram Mordecai Revolutionary War soldier born 1755 | Alabama Pioneers | "The Kitten That Roars"

    […] Source: Biography: Abram Mordecai Revolutionary War soldier born 1755 | Alabama Pioneers […]

  7. Abraham Mordecai lost his ear and almost his life in early Montgomery County, Alabama | Alabama Pioneers

    […] Abraham Mordecai was an early settler who lived his last days in Dudleyville, Alabama in a log cabin.Below is a sketch of him written by Alabama Historian, Albert J. Pickett, in 1847. […]

  8. Warren Jordan

    I am a little disoriented with places in this story. Line Creek flowed south from the Tallapoosa River into Macon Co., not Chambers Co. Autousee was on the north side of the Tallapoosa across from Shorter on the south side. Calebe Creek ran south through Macon Co. The Federal Road was south of the Tallapoosa and ran through Macon Co. and into Montgomery Co. until Millies Creek where it turned south. Autossee and Shorter were close but on opposite sides of the river.

  9. Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British? – Alabama Pioneers

    […] Abram Mordecai, an intelligent Jew, who dwelt fifty years in the Creek nation, set up the first commercial cotton gin at Coosada Bluff near Montgomery. He believed that the Indians were originally of his people, and he asserted that in their Green Corn Dances he had heard them often utter in grateful tones the word yavoyaha! yavoyuho! He was always informed by the Indians that this meant Jehovah, or the Great Spirit, and that they were then returning thanks for the abundant harvest with which they were blessed. […]