Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. II [NOOK Book]

Prior to 1800, many colonists loyal to the throne of Britain immigrated to north and south Alabama to escape involvement in the Revolutionary War but with the defeat of the Creek Indians, land in Alabama became open to new settlers seeking an opportunity. Settlers came from Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina to Alabama Land had to be surveyed before it could be sold, but the immigrants were impatient. They rushed in during this period of “Alabama fever” laid claim to tracts, and became squatters. Wagon trains from individual states formed and they tended to congregate and settle in various parts of Alabama. The most populous settlement, with the exception of Mobile, was upon the Tensaw river and lake of that name. It was composed of both whigs and royalists. The latter had been driven from Georgia and the Carolinas. Added to these, were men, appropriately called old Indian countrymen, who had spent much of their lives in Indian commerce. The Georgians settled in the eastern part of the State while further west and southerly were the North Carolinians and Virginians. Some North Carolinians and Virginians also settled in North Alabama, especially Huntsville. Tennesseans settled in the North and further south in the counties of Bibb and Shelby. Some of the settlers of what was to be Cahaba, later Bibb County were first attracted to this “valley of very inviting land” when they were fighting the Indians with ANDREW JACKSON in 1814.
The 117 page book is the second in a series of biographies of some of these early settlers. Pioneers included in this book are: REV. ANDREW BARNWELL MILEY, JOHN LEONARD, JOEL C. LOWERY, JOEL BARTON LOWERY, HOPKINS LEE, ANTHONY P. HUTCHINS, THOMAS HUTCHINS, JOHN A. GOODSON, BAYLISS EARLE GRACE, JOHN ARCHER ELMORE, RUEL MARSHALL EARP, JAMES HIRAM EARP, M.D., CULLEN REDWINE EARP, ROBERT BROADNAX, THOMAS MILES BRAGG, WILLIAM WYATT BIBB, OLIVER S. BEERS, SAMUEL W. MARDIS, CROCKETT MCDONALD, JAMES H. MCDONALD, JOHN GRAHAM, WILLIAM C. GRAHAM, WILEY GALLAWAY, ESQ., PETER W. TAYLOR, JAMES BRANDON WALLACE, JAMES GALLAGHER, BOLLING C. BAKER, JOHN B. SALE, DAVID P. LEWIS, RICHARD ORICK PICKETT, WILLIAM M. GALLAWAY, DANIEL W. WRIGHT, JOHN GREGG, CHRISTOPHER C. GEWIN, HANCE MCWHORTER CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM RENEAU, HUGH M. WARREN, BOLLING CLARK BURNETT, MATTHEW ROBERTS, JESSE BEENE, SAMUEL B. MOORE, GEORG STROTHER GAINES, CALEB OWEN, JOHN DANDRIDGE BIBB, HENRY WATKINS COLLIER, DR. NICHOLAS MERRIWEATHER