Northern Alabama, historical and . uring the bloody warwhich crushed the power of the Creek Indians inSouth Alabama, he served as surgeon on the staffof the General. After the finishing battle of Tohopeka, on hisreturn home. Dr. Moore was appointed one of fivejustices of the quorum of Madison County—an English and Virginian method of administer-ing law; and he served until the admission ofAlabama, as a State, into the Union. Under an act passed by the Territorial Legisla-ture December 11, 1816, Dr. David Moore wasone of nine citizens authorized to open books ofsubscription for T
Northern Alabama, historical and . uring the bloody warwhich crushed the power of the Creek Indians inSouth Alabama, he served as surgeon on the staffof the General. After the finishing battle of Tohopeka, on hisreturn home. Dr. Moore was appointed one of fivejustices of the quorum of Madison County—an English and Virginian method of administer-ing law; and he served until the admission ofAlabama, as a State, into the Union. Under an act passed by the Territorial Legisla-ture December 11, 1816, Dr. David Moore wasone of nine citizens authorized to open books ofsubscription for The Planters and MerchantsBank, at Huntsville; and this was the first bankestablished in Mississijipi Territory. In 1820, after the admission of Alabama as aState, Dr. Moore was elected to the Legislature,and was returned thirteen times—five times atthe head of the ticket chosen. From 1822 to1825 he was sent to the State Senate; but, forinfluence, he afterward preferred the lower house,of which, in 1841, he was unanimously electedthe V ^/ u^, .ayiyiA^ NORTHERN ALABAMA. 267 Among the many important measures, whichhe influenced, it should be stated, that Dr. DavidMoore inaugurated and carried through the wo-mans law. which creates a statutory settle-ment for the protection of married women fromthe i)Ossible vices or business misfortunes of theirhusbands, and generally considered just in itsprovisions without humiliating the husbands —a most wise and conservative measure, whichhas saved from ruin thousands of the familiesof Alabama. Dr. Moore was eminent in his iirofossion ; buthe had faith in land investments and in cottonplanting. He bought the best lands, employedthe best overseers and required them to accountto him regularly. lie made good crops,shipped his cotton to Liverpool, sold it at hisown time, and furnished exchange to the peopleof the Tennessee Valley. He became the ownerof nine choice plantations and many negroes. In January, 183:5, the Madison Turnpik
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