THE STORY OF THORNHILL, MARION COUNTY, ALABAMA from http://members.home.net/jmize/genealogy/thill.htm
(Present Thornhill, Mize Store,Whitehouse & Buttahatchee School areas) by Joel Sanford Mize
Except for a handful of hardy pioneers who lived with the Indians, first settlement in the Thornhill area by English origin white men first occurred about the time Alabama became a state around 1819. A few French trappers may have lived in the area for brief periods for a 100 years before the English came. It was only after General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River in 1814 that Alabama territory south of the Tennessee River became safe for the settlers of european origin. The government land office in Huntsville, Alabama sold some land in the Thornhill area beginning in 1822. It was in that year that the Byler Road begun in 1819 was completed from the Tennesse River area southward to Tuscaloosa, completing a connection to Nashville via the upper Natchez Trace (Military Road). Several of these first buyers had scouted out the land in advance of the sale and usually preferred the rich river bottom lands along with some prime ridge land between the coves for its prospective agriculture (mainly cotton) use and access to good drinking water. A man named RICHARD PRIEST (son-in-law of JOSEPH BURLESON), who lived in the Moulton area bought the first 80 acre parcel in central Thornhill in 1821-1822 followed by John Green taking an adjacent 80 acres in 1823. PRIEST along with Joseph BURLESON and others took land in the upper Buttahatchee river bottoms near the Whitehouse to Buttahatchee school area at this same time. This first-bought acreage in 'central Thornhill' roughly coincided with the Mitchell-Hulsey-Postell farms of more recent times. There was a waiting period of about one year from application for the land until the 'Patent Land' was issued to the buyer.
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1850 BASTROP COUNTY CENSUS
The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June 1850, was in this family.
Schedule I - Free Inhabitants in (living) in the County of Bastrop State of Texas enumerated by me, on the 27th day of August 1850, Levi W. Young , Ass't Marshall.
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Priest, Richard 56 m VA Farmer
Mary 57 f TN 1 nee Burleson
John B 17 m AL Farm Hand
Marilda 15 f AL
Meanon W.13 m AL
Aaron 10 m MS
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Additional Children [whose burial locations have not been located] of Richard L Priest and Mary Ann "Polly" Burleson:
Rachel J. Priest Lee b, Abt. 1827 d. 1 Jun 1879
John B. Priest b. 1833
Menan W. Priest b. 1837
Aaron Priest b. 1839 d. 1865
Any help finding these good people would be appreciated!
(Present Thornhill, Mize Store,Whitehouse & Buttahatchee School areas) by Joel Sanford Mize
Except for a handful of hardy pioneers who lived with the Indians, first settlement in the Thornhill area by English origin white men first occurred about the time Alabama became a state around 1819. A few French trappers may have lived in the area for brief periods for a 100 years before the English came. It was only after General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River in 1814 that Alabama territory south of the Tennessee River became safe for the settlers of european origin. The government land office in Huntsville, Alabama sold some land in the Thornhill area beginning in 1822. It was in that year that the Byler Road begun in 1819 was completed from the Tennesse River area southward to Tuscaloosa, completing a connection to Nashville via the upper Natchez Trace (Military Road). Several of these first buyers had scouted out the land in advance of the sale and usually preferred the rich river bottom lands along with some prime ridge land between the coves for its prospective agriculture (mainly cotton) use and access to good drinking water. A man named RICHARD PRIEST (son-in-law of JOSEPH BURLESON), who lived in the Moulton area bought the first 80 acre parcel in central Thornhill in 1821-1822 followed by John Green taking an adjacent 80 acres in 1823. PRIEST along with Joseph BURLESON and others took land in the upper Buttahatchee river bottoms near the Whitehouse to Buttahatchee school area at this same time. This first-bought acreage in 'central Thornhill' roughly coincided with the Mitchell-Hulsey-Postell farms of more recent times. There was a waiting period of about one year from application for the land until the 'Patent Land' was issued to the buyer.
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1850 BASTROP COUNTY CENSUS
The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June 1850, was in this family.
Schedule I - Free Inhabitants in (living) in the County of Bastrop State of Texas enumerated by me, on the 27th day of August 1850, Levi W. Young , Ass't Marshall.
115/122
Priest, Richard 56 m VA Farmer
Mary 57 f TN 1 nee Burleson
John B 17 m AL Farm Hand
Marilda 15 f AL
Meanon W.13 m AL
Aaron 10 m MS
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Additional Children [whose burial locations have not been located] of Richard L Priest and Mary Ann "Polly" Burleson:
Rachel J. Priest Lee b, Abt. 1827 d. 1 Jun 1879
John B. Priest b. 1833
Menan W. Priest b. 1837
Aaron Priest b. 1839 d. 1865
Any help finding these good people would be appreciated!
THE STORY OF THORNHILL, MARION COUNTY, ALABAMA from http://members.home.net/jmize/genealogy/thill.htm
(Present Thornhill, Mize Store,Whitehouse & Buttahatchee School areas) by Joel Sanford Mize
Except for a handful of hardy pioneers who lived with the Indians, first settlement in the Thornhill area by English origin white men first occurred about the time Alabama became a state around 1819. A few French trappers may have lived in the area for brief periods for a 100 years before the English came. It was only after General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River in 1814 that Alabama territory south of the Tennessee River became safe for the settlers of european origin. The government land office in Huntsville, Alabama sold some land in the Thornhill area beginning in 1822. It was in that year that the Byler Road begun in 1819 was completed from the Tennesse River area southward to Tuscaloosa, completing a connection to Nashville via the upper Natchez Trace (Military Road). Several of these first buyers had scouted out the land in advance of the sale and usually preferred the rich river bottom lands along with some prime ridge land between the coves for its prospective agriculture (mainly cotton) use and access to good drinking water. A man named RICHARD PRIEST (son-in-law of JOSEPH BURLESON), who lived in the Moulton area bought the first 80 acre parcel in central Thornhill in 1821-1822 followed by John Green taking an adjacent 80 acres in 1823. PRIEST along with Joseph BURLESON and others took land in the upper Buttahatchee river bottoms near the Whitehouse to Buttahatchee school area at this same time. This first-bought acreage in 'central Thornhill' roughly coincided with the Mitchell-Hulsey-Postell farms of more recent times. There was a waiting period of about one year from application for the land until the 'Patent Land' was issued to the buyer.
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1850 BASTROP COUNTY CENSUS
The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June 1850, was in this family.
Schedule I - Free Inhabitants in (living) in the County of Bastrop State of Texas enumerated by me, on the 27th day of August 1850, Levi W. Young , Ass't Marshall.
115/122
Priest, Richard 56 m VA Farmer
Mary 57 f TN 1 nee Burleson
John B 17 m AL Farm Hand
Marilda 15 f AL
Meanon W.13 m AL
Aaron 10 m MS
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Additional Children [whose burial locations have not been located] of Richard L Priest and Mary Ann "Polly" Burleson:
Rachel J. Priest Lee b, Abt. 1827 d. 1 Jun 1879
John B. Priest b. 1833
Menan W. Priest b. 1837
Aaron Priest b. 1839 d. 1865
Any help finding these good people would be appreciated!
(Present Thornhill, Mize Store,Whitehouse & Buttahatchee School areas) by Joel Sanford Mize
Except for a handful of hardy pioneers who lived with the Indians, first settlement in the Thornhill area by English origin white men first occurred about the time Alabama became a state around 1819. A few French trappers may have lived in the area for brief periods for a 100 years before the English came. It was only after General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River in 1814 that Alabama territory south of the Tennessee River became safe for the settlers of european origin. The government land office in Huntsville, Alabama sold some land in the Thornhill area beginning in 1822. It was in that year that the Byler Road begun in 1819 was completed from the Tennesse River area southward to Tuscaloosa, completing a connection to Nashville via the upper Natchez Trace (Military Road). Several of these first buyers had scouted out the land in advance of the sale and usually preferred the rich river bottom lands along with some prime ridge land between the coves for its prospective agriculture (mainly cotton) use and access to good drinking water. A man named RICHARD PRIEST (son-in-law of JOSEPH BURLESON), who lived in the Moulton area bought the first 80 acre parcel in central Thornhill in 1821-1822 followed by John Green taking an adjacent 80 acres in 1823. PRIEST along with Joseph BURLESON and others took land in the upper Buttahatchee river bottoms near the Whitehouse to Buttahatchee school area at this same time. This first-bought acreage in 'central Thornhill' roughly coincided with the Mitchell-Hulsey-Postell farms of more recent times. There was a waiting period of about one year from application for the land until the 'Patent Land' was issued to the buyer.
____________
1850 BASTROP COUNTY CENSUS
The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June 1850, was in this family.
Schedule I - Free Inhabitants in (living) in the County of Bastrop State of Texas enumerated by me, on the 27th day of August 1850, Levi W. Young , Ass't Marshall.
115/122
Priest, Richard 56 m VA Farmer
Mary 57 f TN 1 nee Burleson
John B 17 m AL Farm Hand
Marilda 15 f AL
Meanon W.13 m AL
Aaron 10 m MS
_____
Additional Children [whose burial locations have not been located] of Richard L Priest and Mary Ann "Polly" Burleson:
Rachel J. Priest Lee b, Abt. 1827 d. 1 Jun 1879
John B. Priest b. 1833
Menan W. Priest b. 1837
Aaron Priest b. 1839 d. 1865
Any help finding these good people would be appreciated!
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