Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . ty and made improvements. He considered his forty arpensdepth as beginning, not at the marshy seashore, but at the lineof tillable land, and acted accordingly. This was saving upmore misery for his family. Ten years later, after he haddied, his widow, Louisa Budro, was threatened with the lossof the back part of the tract in the application of some one elsefor a grant of it. Sh
Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . ty and made improvements. He considered his forty arpensdepth as beginning, not at the marshy seashore, but at the lineof tillable land, and acted accordingly. This was saving upmore misery for his family. Ten years later, after he haddied, his widow, Louisa Budro, was threatened with the lossof the back part of the tract in the application of some one elsefor a grant of it. She petitioned the governor-general, and,being backed up by the commandant, the Bosage grant wascorrected so as to begin with the dry land as occupied. Most of the new settlers wanted country lands, not in order,like Bosage, to hide themselves and their misery from theworld, but to raise stock, or corn, or tobacco. And it was afine opportunity. The British had largely abandoned the coun-try, leaving their well-cleared farms on the Tensaw or Tom-bagbe to become Spanish royal domain, and thus liable to begranted to the first comer, in substantially this form: — The Surveyor-General of this Province, Charles Laveau.
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