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From: "malinda" <>
Subject: Re: [Scotch-Irish] fear of Irish
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:30:11 -0600
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My Scotch-Irish John Reed and family were in that same area at the same
time...also getting moved off land by soldiers from Ft. Hampton. They were
back soon after in Giles Co TN, which is just across the state line from
Limestone Co AL (and Madison Co). His son, Cumberland Presbyterian
minister Rev Carson Pate Reed, married Tranquilla Jenkins of Lawrence Co
AL .

Small world...what is your info source ?
~malinda


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Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Scotch-Irish] fear of Irish


> > My own family was great at hiding terror from their children.
>
> My family was the same way. Mathew Smith was born in Londonderry, Ireland
in
> 1750. Revolutionary Soldier from SC. Moved to VA, KY, Madison County and
then
> Lawrence County in what is now Alabama. Just found out this past spring
that
> he and many family members made a stopover in Sims' Settlement in what is
now
> Limestone County, AL. The problem was this was Chickasaw Indian land. My
> folks signed petition to President Madison in 1810. These white settlers
were
> "removed" by soldiers from Fort Hampton. Do not know if mine left before
the
> soldiers came in and destroyed crops and burned cabins or not. Mathew's
> daughter, Mary who had married Henry Miller. was "lying in." This is when
> they went to Madison County. In the petition the settlers say they had
paid
> $2.00 an acre for the land. Trouble was, the land was legally for sale.
Seems
> some one in the family would have know about it or at least talked about
it.
> Another g-g-g-grandfather. William Thomas Mullins, and some of his family
> were also on this list. He was also a Revolutionary Soldier. Seems the two
> families moved together. Betty.

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