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Ip*! , illie j proceed to sell it. What, with thes-j encroachments of tbs immigrants onII TTor ; the Indian lands, their complaints to! the General Government, and to . „ay 1n General Hampton himself, I doubt : 11 not he had an interesting and lively a ile time of it. Indeed, if the remark 1lieedbe permissible just here, I would' ® say that this world has been in aia^ considerable of a “stew ’’ ever since tall Adam was driven out of the Gar- |1ms i den. But to return to the year 1808, Benjamin French left his relatives,tIcin-then settling on Limestone Creek,1c?8 nine mile east of Athens, and visi-11 we ; ted,and established himself at a pointns.ionr atheionadtat17 miles south of Athens, two orthree miles south of Mooresville,on,ulusityickra.near Piney Creek, which place afterwards became a town of aomet1importance, and known as Cotton1c1Port, from tbc fact that the firsteotton raised in this county, wasshipped from that point in fiata, a few miles down into the Tennesseeinrriver and thence on to New OrleansThis was a place of considerableii*t1ltraffic for many years, cotton being tshipped annually from it for a num- . Ibar of years, and more largely thantee,1 from any other point in the county,etsur-until about the year 1818 or 1819,lt;when Brown’s Ferry outstriped it inthe shipment of cotton, ille i Respectfully, M. 8, T.A. i March 23, 1867.'pri!, -—-— . i
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Athens Weekly Post
Athens, Alabama, US
Thu, Mar 28, 1867
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