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1816 Alabama list: Benjamin Thomas
Benjamin Thomas in Madison County, in the 1816 count of the Mississippi Territory, as the DAR printed it in 1955.
- Date
- 1816, published 1955
- Place
- Madison County, Mississippi Territory (now Alabama)
- People
- Benjamin Thomas (1778–c. 1834)
- Type
- Census · Published account
- Citation
- Inhabitants of Alabama in 1816 (Pell City, Ala.: Broken Arrow Chapter, D.A.R., 1955).
This is the first record of a Benjamin Thomas in Alabama. The 1816 count of the Mississippi Territory listed only the heads of families, and this is the list as the Daughters of the American Revolution printed it in 1955, not the original return. On December 11, 1816, he bought a tract with houses on it from John and Alice Pettus, and by 1820 the family had moved on to Lawrence County.