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| Anne Shields m. Aug 6?, 1766 PA b. 1740? ?PA d. ?Jan 18, 1790 ?Natchez District |
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About 1767 Alexander was an elected member of the West Florida Commons House of
Assembly representing the Mobile district. He started businesses and eventually
obtained land in Natchez, in 1770, and Point Coupee upriver from Baton Rouge in
1772. Within a year he had almost 4,000 acres om the Tombigbee (now in Alabama)
and Mississippi Rivers. |
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On Jun 2, 1780 in New Orleans, "Ann Shell [Shield] lawful wife of Alexander
McIntosh" appeared before the court to declare that the writing on an obligation
for $439 to a James Jellison was the "hand-writing of her husband, and written
in his usual manner" and signed the statement as "Ann McIntosh" [McBee, Book G
p.1, pp 289-90]. |
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The Commandant of the Natchez District received notice of the death on Jul 29,
1781 of Elizabeth Alston, wife of
John Alston. On that date a
Conveyance was issued to appoint Alexander as the guardian of the six surviving
children, and an Estate Inventory was performed, listing 16 slaves as well as lands and
buildings [McBee, Book A, p. 1]. |
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On Aug 3 [Friday], 1781, Alexander declared to the Court that Henry Alston, aged
5, one of the minor heirs died, and on the 2nd day of same Month died a negro boy,
named "Stephen", aged 7 yrs., belonging to Alston estate ]
He also asked that a female slave be sold and that
Daniel Perry be appointed to manage the
Alston plantation [McBee, Book A, p. 2]. |
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On Aug 1 and Sep 13, 1781 Alexander petitioned the court for a $385 debt owed to
him by [Isaac] Johnson, who tried to pay with a "negro wench" that was "not
sufficient" and Carlos de Grand-Pré ruled
that "seizure be made" [McBee, Book G page 5, p. 290]. |
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On Sep 26, 1781 Alexander petitioned the court for $12 owed to him by
Nathanial Allen for rent of a house that Alexander owned [Book G, page 12, p. 291]. |
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On Sep 5, 1781 John Alston sold
"all his cattle" to a William Brocus, as witnessed by
John Townshend. By Sep 29, 1781 John Alston
had "absconded" when the rest of his estate was put up for sale [McBee, pp. 3, 235]. |
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Map of
the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799. |
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On Nov 26, 1781, the Natchez court "In pursuance of the memorial of Mary Smith,
wife of John Smith, who acted as Lt. during
the Rebellion in this province, and since sent to N.O. [prison], have left in
power and possession of said Mary Smith the plantation, one negro named "Solomon"
aged 40 years, of the Mandingo nation, 29 head of cattle, 4 horses, 24 hogs,
besides those running in the woods, of which the number is unknown, all the
utensils and furniture for the safety of all which she has given Alexander
McIntosh for surety ..." [McBee, Book A, p. 10]. |
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Alexander died sometime between Oct 1781 and May 1782, leaving his business in
the hands of his widow, Anne. On Oct 22, 1781, he appeared in Natchez to release
a mortgage after a debt owed by Isaac Johnson and his wife Mary had beed paid
for two slaves; "Stephen" native of Carolina, aged about 30, and "Mary" a "Hibou
negro wench, aged about 25. Alexander's wife was recorded as "Widow" first on
May 17, 1782 [McBee, Book A, pp. 7, 13]. |
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In May 1782,
13 families
arrived in Natchez after a flatboat trip down the Mississippi River, and were
recorded by Spanish authorities on Jul 6, totalling 79 "Individuos" and 88
"Escalvos" meaning being hooked on board as slaves. Starting on May 17, Alexander's
widow Anne was involved in many land and slave transactions with most of the
13 arriving family heads [McBee, Book A, pp. 13-18]. |
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Between May 17 and Jun 1, 1782, Alexander's widow, Anne McIntosh, was involved in the following
transactions with the new arrivals from the Cumberland Settlement: She bought a negro woman named Jane, aged 18, native of Virginia for $440, from John White in the presence of David Smith, and Richard Gooding, who signed with seller. She bought a negro boy named Luke, aged about 10, for $300 "consideration" from David Smith, who signed. She bought a negro man named Antoine Ellis, aged about 40, native of Curacao for $350 "consideration" from Richard Gooding, who signed. She sold to Thomas Green Sr. 300 arpents of land on St. Catherine's Creek, bounded on one side by the Creek and on another by the land of John Smith, as well as 133 acres on the same creek, also bounded by the land of John Smith, and horses and ploughs on account for which the purchaser paid $280 in the form of a 12 year old negro named James, born in Carolina, and the remainder to be paid by Dec of that year. On Jun 1, she bought a negro woman named Bertha, aged 40, native of Barbadoes for $300 consideration which was paid in cows and horses to the seller, James White who signed. [McBee, Book A, pp. 14,101]. |
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After Alexander's brother William McIntosh died, the
guardianship of the Alston estate and children fell to William's two sons,
William and James McIntosh. |
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On Jun 17, 1782 two lands of John Alston were
confiscated "for use of the King"
of Spain. One was 800 acres on Second Creek in the Narchez District very near the
British grant of Joshua Howard. |
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The daughter of Philip Alston, Frances, married
James Dromgoole in 1782, in the Natchez District. |
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Alexander's widow Anne married Adam Bingaman, a large Natchez landowner, by Nov 9,
1782, when Thomas Green sold to "Adam Bingaman
500 arpents of land bounded on one side by
John Smith, on another by lands not granted
and on the other by ? creek, on which a frame dwelling house, barn, negro cabins,
milk-house, and other building useful to the plantation, and further 133 acres
on same creek [?], bounded on one side by John Smith
..., also two horses and one plough for $1000,
plantation to be delivered after one month, titles received by him from Widow McIntosh,
now wife of said Bingaman" [McBee, p. 15]. |
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On Jul 4, 1786, the McIntosh brothers William and
James, administrators of the estate
and guardians of the children of John Alston,
declared to the Natchez District Commandant that a 20 year old slave named King
had been stolen by James Drumgoole and Philip Alston. King had "formerly belonged
to the 'robber' Philip Alston" [McBee, p. 34]. |
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On Dec 31, 1788, "Joucha Hayward" arrived in Natchez from "Cumberland/Tennessee",
not listed among the flatboats and without family. In a letter dated Mar 2, 1790,
from Carlos de Grand-Pré, Natchez,
Mar 2, 1790 to Governor Don Estavan Miro, the amount of tobacco was reported by
growers of Natchez. A "Joshua Houvard" reported
producing 5000 pounds of tobacco [MS Dept of Archives & History, website]. |
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| In 1790, Alexander's widow, now Anne Bingaman, wrote her will in which, "my dear beloved husband [Adam Bingaman], whom I likewise constitute my sole executor of my last will and testament, all my lands and properties of every kind. Wit: Patrick Foley, Samuel Gibson, Jacob Cobun" [McBee, Book B. p. 73-74]. | |||
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According to the 1792 Spanish Census for Natchez District, "Juan Alston" and
brother "Phelipe Luis Alston" were each heads of household in the District of
Buffalo Creek, which was replaced by parts of Adams and Wilkinson Cos. MS
[MSGenWeb, 1792 Census Index].
A different translation has a "Juan Haton" with 1200 arpents of land
(about 1,000 acres), 3 White persons [possibly John, son Solomon and ?], and
13 Black persons, in the same area, which was south of Natchez
[Adams Co. Miss. Gen. & Hist. Network]. |
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John Alston's nephew John McCoy Alston married Sinah Hooper, daughter of
Absalom Hooper, on Jan 3, 1795 in
Davidson Co. when it was part of the Southwest Territory. |
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Petit Gulf where the Alston famity owned land is now part of Jefferson Co., created
from Adams Co., Mississippi Territory, in 1796
(see present day map). |
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Joshua Howard had become "Conservator of the
Peace for the Southern District, Mississippi Territory" by Oct 27, 1798 when two
men swore to the truth of statements made re: suit involving
Elizabeth Still Lee lending a slave girl Peg
to her son-in-law Alexander Freeland in the Summer of 1796. She had made her
deposition before Cato West, Howard's counterpart
in the Northern District [Ragland p.6]. |
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Franklin Co. MS was founded in 1809
(see present day map
for location). |
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Sources: Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "1792 Census for Natchez District (under Spanish Government control)", 2009, 1792 Census. "George W. Humphreys Bible", Claiborne MS Bibles, photostat of original bible, recorded 1957 by May Wilson McBee, in Mississippi Genealogy Trails, website. Cumberland Compact, original document signed May 13, 1780, Washington County NC, website. Clayton, Prof. W.W., History of Davidson County Tennessee, reprod. 1971 by Charles Elder, Nashville TN. David Library of the American Revoution, "British Colonial Office Records CO5 West Florida Reords", website, vol 593, item 107. Drake, Doug, Jack Masters and Bill Puryear, Founding of the Cumberland Settlements, The First Atlas, 1779-1804, Warioto Press, 2009, pp. 23, map E7. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, Book A, pp. 1-3, 7, 10-18, 34, 450, 471-2, Book F, p. 235, Book G, pp. 289-91. MS Dept. of Archives & History (MDAH), Jackson MS, rootsweb, Americans Arriving in Spanish-Held Natchez 1788-1790. Rowland, Dunbar, "1816 Census for Franklin Co. Miss.", taken from The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi,Centennial Edition, 1917, rootsweb website. USGenWeb, "Pennsylvania Archives Second Series Vol II", Marriage Licenses Issued Prior to 1790 in Province of PA, website, p. 191. Wells, Carol, Natchez Postscripts 1781-1798, Heritage Books, pp. 101, 144-5, 151. Will Books 3 and 4, Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1811-1848, The Genealogical Society of "Original" Wilkes County), Will Book 3, "Estate of Joahua Howard", Oct 1814, page 89, 120. |
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