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Hello
In Lynn Hastie-Thompson's Weatherford Book, she says that on July 18 leading up to Battle of Burnt Corn, Leonard McGee's house had been burned (along with that of James Cornells).*
During the Removal period, Chief Lynn McGhee and two other Friendly Creeks were each given a tract of land. The primary reason for this gift dated to the Treaty of Feb 1815 in which McGhee, Samuel Smith and Semoice were each given a reservation of 640 acres. Some historians believe McGhee was rewarded for saving Jackson's life. (when?) Others believe McGhee and the two other Friendly Creeks served as guides for Jackson's army.* **
* Lackey, Richard S. "Frontier Claims in the Lower South", p. 10
** Phillips, John Franklin "American Indian" pp. 131-132
NOTE In David Tate's Will 1829, Baldwin Co AL, he gave jLynn McGhee 400 head of cattle "if he gets off to himself, but I hope he will always live with Mrs. Tate who will not let him suffer a moment even for sugar and coffee". I guess this would have been David's second wife Margaret Dyer Powell. He was buried Montpelier at his old homestead "brickyard place" in present Blacksher AL "not far from the mouth of Little River".
NOTE: In my atlas, there's a large topographical area called "Red Hills" below Montgomery.
NOTE: Charles Weatherford's plantation was originally at "Econchate" or "Red Ground".
gmw
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