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uaa to resort to tno expedient ol , | hiring men to come by night, recap- j f,I Iture said property, carry it over the a1 . *1 line, when the officer would meet'ni.t1 him, levy on it, and in proper time 1 ?11 . . . . i ue j proceed to sell it. What, with the«- i encroachment* of the immigrants onIi nr i the Indian lands, their complaints to y! the General Government, and to „V ij General Hampton himself, I doubt : 1 i not he had an interesting and lively a le time of it. Indeed, if the remark * 10 be permissible just here, I would j * jsay that this world has been in aconsiderable of a “stew M ever sinceill Adam was driven out of the Gar- j*as i den. But to return to the year 1808,,i j *Benjamin French left his relatives,i-1\then settling on Limestone Creek,9a | nine milet east of Athens, and visi-1 ] re ! ted,and established himself at a point,17 miles south of Athena, two or13.n’SlenAatthree railea south of Mooresville,n,il-881near Piney Creek, which place afterwards became a town of some1importance, and known as Cotton1(Port, from the fact that the firstcotton raised in this county, wasshipped from that point in fiats, a few miles down into the Tennessees.irriver and tbance on to New OrleansThis was a place of considerabletraffic for many years, cotton beingshipped annually from it for a num-:bar of years, and more largely than ;e, t from any other point in the county,'its! until about tho year 1818 or 1819, j when Brown’s Ferry outetriped it inir-the shipment of cotton.11®' Respectfully, M. 8. T.A- i March 23, 1867.'
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Athens Weekly Post
Athens, Alabama, US
Thu, Mar 28, 1867
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