Pioneers to the Early Southwest

In the early 19th-century, the Southwest Frontier was Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. This great Wilderness was rich in resources. In most places, Indian tribes still lived in the shadow of great ceremonial mounds, built by their ancestors. Traders lived among the tribes and swapped furs and hides for tempting items such as cloth, pots and guns.

Over the years, settlers moved into the forests, clearing old growth trees for fields and pastures. New lands opened for settlement. Indians were forced to move. In the 1810s and 20s, groups of Scots pioneered into the Southwest from North Carolina, some to what is now southeastern Alabama, some to Mississippi, some went to Florida, and others on to Texas. Among them were my own MacKinnons who went to Walton Co., FL. Other families moved southwest too, among them my Hightowers and Tervins. I begin this site with these families, with their stories and genealogies, and how they made their lives in the wild lands.

MY OWN FAMILY WHO PIONEERED TO THE SOUTHWEST
MacKINNON, CURRY, DOUGLASS, TERVIN, HIGHTOWER

CATHERINE MacKINNON, PIONEERING SENIOR
Go here to read of a Scottish woman who braved the wilds of the west.

NEILL McLENNAN. The Pathfinder
Go here to read of the man who led them all into the Wilderness, then headed west.

TEMPY ELLIS & MILLY of MILLY'S CREEK
Go here to read about the rescue of a captured child by a kind pioneering woman

FAMILIES WHO MOVED TO THE TERRITORY
Meet a family who moved south following the Creek War. More to come!
The VAUGHNS

THE FLORIDA INDIAN WARS
Go here to learn how the Walton County pioneers participated in the Indian war. More to come!

MISCELLANIA
Walton Co., FL church history

LINKS of INTEREST
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