In looking for my elusive Nehemiah/Needham, I found
some other info from MS & MS Terr. (I had to make an
emergency trip to Houston & ran by the Clayton Library
for a couple of hours while there while in town.)
I'll send what I found to the list as I get it typed
up. This first one is just a list of the forts in the
area of the Tombigbee River, in Mississippi Territory.
Close to the end is a mention of CATO's Fort - there
wasn't any other description given of it, except for
what I put here. I figured the list of other forts
would be helpful since they are named for others in
the area. Apparently, from the descriptions, this is
the area where Sterling Sr. was, along with his sons,
in what would later become Alabama. The Tandy WALKER
listed here was on the next page over from Sterling &
Lewis on the Washington Co. taxlists. The McGREW is
prob. related to/or the actual John Fludd McGREW
listed on the Al. CATO page as being associated with
the CATO family (CATO & McGREW) & in John Fludd McGREW
& Lewis CALLER vs Wyche CATO...
This comes from "Mississippi Territory in the War of
1812" by Rowland. On page 39 in the footnotes Mr.
Rowland quotes a description of the forts in the area
used to defend against Indians. He describes the Old
St. Stephens Fort as one that could again be used & on
the west side of the Tombigbee, on a high bluff, at
the head of sloop navigation. Then you come to Fort
STODDARD 4 mi. east of Mt. Vernon, then at Mobile was
Fort CHARLOTT & Fort BOWYER, then the ill fated Fort
MIMS. 2 mi. so. east of Fort MIMS was Fort PIERCE,
built by 2 brothers from New Englander, John (a
teacher) & William (a weaver) PIERCE. In Clarke Co.
was Fort GLASS built by Zachariah GLASS & his Creek
Indian neighbor, Nah-hee. Fort MADISON was in the
northeast corner of Sect. 1, Township 6, Range 3 E of
the St. Stephen's meridian which was then the eastern
boundary of Clark Co. & only 225 yards north of Fort
GLASS. The 1st store, gristmill & cotten gin was set
up around this area in 1812 & 1813. Fort SINQUEFIELD
was about 10 mi. north of Ft. MADISON, on the western
side of Bassett's Creek, in Sect. 13, T 8, R 3 E about
5 mi. southeast from the "present" town of Grove Hill,
formerly called Macon, the county seat of Clark Co.
Fort WHITE was a short distance northeast of Grove
Hill. LANDRUM's Fort was 11 mi. west from Fort
SINQUEFIELD (Sect. 18, T 8, R 2 E) & MOTT's Fort was
in the same area. On the Tombigbee & northward from
there, Fort EASLEY (Sect10 or 11, T 11, R 1 W) at what
is now WOOD's Bluff, named as were nearly all others,
from a prominent settler in the neighborhood (the
bluff took it's name from Maj. WOOD of the Burnt Corn
expedition & was 50 mi north of Fort MIMS). TURNER's
Fort was 8 mi. south & 5 mi. west of Fort EASLEY on
the west bend of the Tombigbee, near the residence of
Abner TURNER. 2-3 mi. from there was the Choctaw
Reservation known as Turkey Town (Fakit Chipunta in
Choctaw). In this stockade were members of the TURNER,
THORNTON, PACE & other families. Here for a while
resided Tandy WALKER, who is mentioned in GAINES
records, who was 'a most experienced & daring
backwoodsman', but in the summer of 1813 he was
connected to affairs at Fort MADISON. Passing down the
river on the west side, 5 mi. below Coffeeville, about
a mile from the river, was CATO's Fort. Still further
west, in Washington Co., was RANKIN's Fort, the most
western of the River Group. McGREW's Fort was in the
corner of Sect. 1, T 7, R 1 W, about 3 mi. north of
Fort St. STEPHENS, in Clark Co., 5 mi. north & 18 west
from Ft. MADISON. Here 2 brothers, William McGREW &
John McGREW, British Royalists then, refugees,
probably from the Atlantic Coast, made an early
settlement near the Tombigbee River. They supposedly
were exemplementary mean, having become good
Americans. 6 mi. south from Jackson, at Gullett's
Bluff, was Fort CARNEY, built by Josiah CARNEY, who
settled on the river in 1809. 3 mi. south of Ft.
CARNEY, near Oven BLUFF, was POWELL's Fort, where
about 6 families, including those of John McCASKEY,
James POWELL & John POWELL. LAVIER's Fort, built,
according to a black man Dick EMBREE, near the
residence of Capt. Lawson LAVIER who traded with the
Choctaw Indians. Also, in what is now Wayne Co., MS
were ROGER's & PATTON's Forts. PATTON's Fort was at
Winchester & ROGER's Fort was 6 mi. above.
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