PATRON + William Weatherford had a plantation in Lowndes County, Alabama
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David Stevens ~ thought you & Kim would be interested in this.
[…] to its union with the Tombeckbee. At one of these residences on the east bank was born, about 1780, William Weatherford, whom the settlers in after years had cause to […]
Good article!
These articles are so poorly written they are hard to follow. Were Alibamo Indians alligned with the Creek Indians? If not, how were Creeks defeated in Alibamo territory?
These questions are never addressed.
The Choctaw Nation of Indians would Treaty for the land “East of the Tombigbee River (then the only River is the very limited Miss Territory recently in 1819-1820 called Alabama).
The land patents issued by Congress in the 1830’s by Jackson are for Choctaw lands east of the Tombigbee and yes there is a law that details the exact sections of land in question.
Chief Darby Weaver
The Tribal Leader
The fact that the land was east of the Tombigbee came out in the Treaty of 1825.
That’s a long way from North Mobile County Alabama (which was then called Baldwin County before it moved across the bay).
The entire story aka Fairy Tale presenter in Life of Jackson is not consistent with Jackson letters to and from the Secretary of War during the same time frame except that he did encounter William Weatherford.
The story is just a story. It is a down right shame Pickett did not reference Congressional Records before “He wrote his own history of Alabama and incidentally Mississippi too”.
Sad sad…
Alabama has been misled to this day as a result.
Darby Weaver Picketts book continues to be the best book ever written on Alabama history. It has flaws and few footnotes, but a great and important book. I recommend it to all beginners in Alabama history.
Frankly Alabama Pioneers is weak
My Kelley ancestors pioneered Lowndes County