Post # 2 : WHERE. Macon County Alabama is located in the East Central part of Alabama just west of Montgomery and most famous for Tuskegee University and for the 70's cult classic "Macon County Line". It is also the place where my Maternal ggggreat grandfather, Freeman W Boyd, lived in 1850 according to Federal census records.
Macon county was formed from land taken from the Native Creek Indians in an 1832 treaty in which all land claimed by the Creeks east of the MS river was traded for land located in present day Arkansas and Oklahoma. To explain: when a state was formed, it was a governmental entity, joining together the disparate parts of settlements in a particular geographic region. For example, Alabama was formed in 1819, but not until after 1832 did all the land that occupied the area we know as the state belonged to the people of the state of Alabama and was the case of most deep south states. When President Andrew Jackson, a proud Tennessee boy and patriot of the Indian war of 1814 (also goes by the war of 1812 plus two) signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, it started a push by the federal government with the aid of the local state's militias to forcibly remove the native tribes. At this point, it's hard for me to explain... The Seminoles and Lower Creeks didn't like the situation, so they attacked a plantation and a couple of notable white people. Their attacks were exploited by the land speculators and the federal government to rouse sentiment in the local people for the removal of the Indians off their land.