Newton G. Alsup was part of a family of early settlers of Williamson & Giles Counties in TN, Monroe Co. in MS, and Bastrop Co., TX.
Per James McCallum's 1876 history (largely based upon oral recollections of residents) of Giles Co., which was carved from Maury, Newton's father Drury settled the place on which Nathan Bass lived [on/near?] Indian Creek, and around Bunker Hill in the early part of 1809; and made corn. Online listing of Giles Co. tax records for 1812 lists both grandfather John and Drury. Giles Co. court records show Drury selling land in Oct. 1819; and the 1820 census for Giles Co. shows what are likely John's sons Joseph (Joel) Alsup & Thomas Alsup Sr., but neither John nor Drury. Therefore, it's a fair assumption that Newton G. Alsup was born in Giles Co., TN.
Drury and family migrated to Monroe Co., MS near the Buttahatchie River (perhaps with a stop in Lamar Co., AL), where Drury had a mill with Newton's grandfather John (per this writer's grandmother, whose gr.-grandfather E.B. Alsup & grandfather, Lycurgus Alsup continued to operate the mill ... she was born & raised in that area while E.B. & Lycurgus were still alive). Drury was also a farmer ... the land was good, rich, black bottom land, and many planters raised cotton there (per this writer's grandmother, the daughter of Fannie Alsup Carothers).
Newton's father Drury, mother Tabitha, and several siblings (Thomas H. Alsup, Joel Alsup, Emily Alsup Denman Turner (?), Horace B. Alsup, James Alsup, and James Sidney Alsup a/k/a J.S. Gorman) migrated to The Republic of TX; and siblings Elisha Benton Alsup, Sr. & Susan Alsup Smithson remained in MS.
This writer doesn't know the exact date of the migration, but no Alsup appears in any of the online postings of Bastrop Co. tax records through 1838. In 1839 Newton G. Alsup married Mary Cottle and also established a claim for 640 acres with the Bastrop Co. Bd. Of Land Commissioners. (Source for the land claim: First Settlers of Bastrop and Travis Counties, Texas, Gifford White (1984))
Per James McCallum's 1876 history (largely based upon oral recollections of residents) of Giles Co., which was carved from Maury, Newton's father Drury settled the place on which Nathan Bass lived [on/near?] Indian Creek, and around Bunker Hill in the early part of 1809; and made corn. Online listing of Giles Co. tax records for 1812 lists both grandfather John and Drury. Giles Co. court records show Drury selling land in Oct. 1819; and the 1820 census for Giles Co. shows what are likely John's sons Joseph (Joel) Alsup & Thomas Alsup Sr., but neither John nor Drury. Therefore, it's a fair assumption that Newton G. Alsup was born in Giles Co., TN.
Drury and family migrated to Monroe Co., MS near the Buttahatchie River (perhaps with a stop in Lamar Co., AL), where Drury had a mill with Newton's grandfather John (per this writer's grandmother, whose gr.-grandfather E.B. Alsup & grandfather, Lycurgus Alsup continued to operate the mill ... she was born & raised in that area while E.B. & Lycurgus were still alive). Drury was also a farmer ... the land was good, rich, black bottom land, and many planters raised cotton there (per this writer's grandmother, the daughter of Fannie Alsup Carothers).
Newton's father Drury, mother Tabitha, and several siblings (Thomas H. Alsup, Joel Alsup, Emily Alsup Denman Turner (?), Horace B. Alsup, James Alsup, and James Sidney Alsup a/k/a J.S. Gorman) migrated to The Republic of TX; and siblings Elisha Benton Alsup, Sr. & Susan Alsup Smithson remained in MS.
This writer doesn't know the exact date of the migration, but no Alsup appears in any of the online postings of Bastrop Co. tax records through 1838. In 1839 Newton G. Alsup married Mary Cottle and also established a claim for 640 acres with the Bastrop Co. Bd. Of Land Commissioners. (Source for the land claim: First Settlers of Bastrop and Travis Counties, Texas, Gifford White (1984))
Newton G. Alsup was part of a family of early settlers of Williamson & Giles Counties in TN, Monroe Co. in MS, and Bastrop Co., TX.
Per James McCallum's 1876 history (largely based upon oral recollections of residents) of Giles Co., which was carved from Maury, Newton's father Drury settled the place on which Nathan Bass lived [on/near?] Indian Creek, and around Bunker Hill in the early part of 1809; and made corn. Online listing of Giles Co. tax records for 1812 lists both grandfather John and Drury. Giles Co. court records show Drury selling land in Oct. 1819; and the 1820 census for Giles Co. shows what are likely John's sons Joseph (Joel) Alsup & Thomas Alsup Sr., but neither John nor Drury. Therefore, it's a fair assumption that Newton G. Alsup was born in Giles Co., TN.
Drury and family migrated to Monroe Co., MS near the Buttahatchie River (perhaps with a stop in Lamar Co., AL), where Drury had a mill with Newton's grandfather John (per this writer's grandmother, whose gr.-grandfather E.B. Alsup & grandfather, Lycurgus Alsup continued to operate the mill ... she was born & raised in that area while E.B. & Lycurgus were still alive). Drury was also a farmer ... the land was good, rich, black bottom land, and many planters raised cotton there (per this writer's grandmother, the daughter of Fannie Alsup Carothers).
Newton's father Drury, mother Tabitha, and several siblings (Thomas H. Alsup, Joel Alsup, Emily Alsup Denman Turner (?), Horace B. Alsup, James Alsup, and James Sidney Alsup a/k/a J.S. Gorman) migrated to The Republic of TX; and siblings Elisha Benton Alsup, Sr. & Susan Alsup Smithson remained in MS.
This writer doesn't know the exact date of the migration, but no Alsup appears in any of the online postings of Bastrop Co. tax records through 1838. In 1839 Newton G. Alsup married Mary Cottle and also established a claim for 640 acres with the Bastrop Co. Bd. Of Land Commissioners. (Source for the land claim: First Settlers of Bastrop and Travis Counties, Texas, Gifford White (1984))
Per James McCallum's 1876 history (largely based upon oral recollections of residents) of Giles Co., which was carved from Maury, Newton's father Drury settled the place on which Nathan Bass lived [on/near?] Indian Creek, and around Bunker Hill in the early part of 1809; and made corn. Online listing of Giles Co. tax records for 1812 lists both grandfather John and Drury. Giles Co. court records show Drury selling land in Oct. 1819; and the 1820 census for Giles Co. shows what are likely John's sons Joseph (Joel) Alsup & Thomas Alsup Sr., but neither John nor Drury. Therefore, it's a fair assumption that Newton G. Alsup was born in Giles Co., TN.
Drury and family migrated to Monroe Co., MS near the Buttahatchie River (perhaps with a stop in Lamar Co., AL), where Drury had a mill with Newton's grandfather John (per this writer's grandmother, whose gr.-grandfather E.B. Alsup & grandfather, Lycurgus Alsup continued to operate the mill ... she was born & raised in that area while E.B. & Lycurgus were still alive). Drury was also a farmer ... the land was good, rich, black bottom land, and many planters raised cotton there (per this writer's grandmother, the daughter of Fannie Alsup Carothers).
Newton's father Drury, mother Tabitha, and several siblings (Thomas H. Alsup, Joel Alsup, Emily Alsup Denman Turner (?), Horace B. Alsup, James Alsup, and James Sidney Alsup a/k/a J.S. Gorman) migrated to The Republic of TX; and siblings Elisha Benton Alsup, Sr. & Susan Alsup Smithson remained in MS.
This writer doesn't know the exact date of the migration, but no Alsup appears in any of the online postings of Bastrop Co. tax records through 1838. In 1839 Newton G. Alsup married Mary Cottle and also established a claim for 640 acres with the Bastrop Co. Bd. Of Land Commissioners. (Source for the land claim: First Settlers of Bastrop and Travis Counties, Texas, Gifford White (1984))
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