In 1811, the Tennessee General Assembly passed an Act (Acts, 17 55.1) approving the incorporation of the town of Elkton on the Elk River (the only other town in the county at that time being the county seat of Pulaski at “the shoals” of Richland Creek to the north). William PRICE, who owned land at the mouth of Richland, agreed to relinquish 100 acres for the town, which was laid out and some lots sold prior to the death of William Price. Some area residents came to believe that the location was unsuitable, and the following year, 136 signers subscribed to a petition that the town of Elkton be located four miles farther up river at Menefee’s Ford. Dr. William Purnell and others laid off a town and sold lots at Menefee’s, and the two towns became known as “Lower Elkton” and “Upper Elkton.” Lower Elkton became a shipping point for both Giles and Limestone (Alabama) Counties for a number of years, but the eventual cessation of shipping by flat boat dwindled caused the population of Lower Elkton to shrink commensurately; and Upper Elkton eventually became known as Elkton. (Ref: Giles Records, McCallum)<\/p>\n
Reprinted from\u00a0<\/span>Ansearchin<\/em><\/strong>, Vol 31, No 1,\u00a0<\/span> 31 Jan 1812 Petition of citizens of Giles? County to change locations of a proposed “trading town.”<\/p>\n In 1811 an Act was passed granting the establishment of a town on the lands of William PRICE, near the confluence of Richland Creek and Elk River. Due to the sudden death of the father of the petitioner (William PRICE), who died intestate, the plan cannot be carried out; only two or three of the nine legal heirs live in Tennessee. In addition, the original site was marshy and sometimes under water; therefore, the petitioners ask that a town may be established on lands of Justin KEARNEY and John CHILDRESS on Elk River where the Main Post Road from Pulaski to Huntsville crosses Elk River at Manefees Ford, about four miles above Richland Creek; plats are included.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Subscribers were: 16 Sep 1812 (12 pages)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 3. All of these men did not live near one or the other of the Elktons. This petition was signed by those who had an\u00a0interest\u00a0in the development of a town on Elk River, in many cases probably due to a need for shipping products. See the 1812 Giles Tax List, particularly\u00a0Nos. 853-1056<\/span>\u00a0for those who may have lived in Elkton, but also in Pulaski, on Indian Creek, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n 4. Some of these men were among the\u00a01809 Intruders<\/span>\u00a0removed by the federal government (for having settled on Chickasaw Indian lands). Those include: Larkin Evert (Everet and Every in 1809 and Averett on the 1812 tax list). John Manasco and George Winterbower (Winterbower and Winterbowe in 1809), and possibly James Neill (Neil and Niell in 1809 and Neal on the 1812 tax list) and William Paine (Payne in 1809 and on the 1812 tax list).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1811, the Tennessee General Assembly passed an Act (Acts, 17 55.1) approving the incorporation of the town of Elkton on the Elk River (the only other town in the county at that time being the county seat of Pulaski …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncourtesy<\/span>\u00a0The Tennessee Genealogical Society<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe General Assembly of Tennessee\u00a0<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n
\n Guston Kearny
\nJ. Childress
\nWilliam Pennell
\nDavid Sims
\nJohn Temple
\nWilliam Menefee
\nJames Stark
\nJacob Almon
\nIsaac Lamb
\nLarkin Evert
\nHezikiah Robinson
\nDaniel McCollum
\nDuncan Brown
\nEarly Benson
\nThomas Bulman
\nValentime Huff
\nBenjamine Benson
\nPrew Benson
\nHarvey Benson
\nJessee Lamb
\nSamuel Fain
\nSam Mitchell
\nGeorge Flint
\nDavid Martin
\nChas Manson
\nH. Hagen
\nWilliam Phillips
\nJohn Paine
\nJohn Nance\/Vance
\nGeorg William
\nBenjn Long
\nIsaac James
\nJohn Brown
\nAbner James<\/td>\nJames Neill
\nRobert Hunecutt
\nJohn Perry
\nCapel Murray
\nN. Fain Junr
\nJosiah Temple
\nAlexander Hood
\nSamuel James
\nAbraham James
\nJoshua Galyean
\nAbner Galyean
\nJoshua Gallion
\nWm Watson
\nMichael Rork
\nPhilip Payne
\nJohn A. King
\nWilliam Paine
\nThos Payne
\nJoseph Payne
\nIsham Atkins
\nIsham Atkins
\nIsaac Atkins
\nWm Sawyers
\nJohn Sanford
\nGeorge Stanford
\nF. Harwell
\nG.H. Beards
\nGabriel Bumpass
\nMicajah Ezell
\nDudley Smith
\nAbel Wilson
\nWilliam Webb
\nNicholas Jackson
\nHinson McVay<\/td>\nJohn Daugherty
\nGeorge Sanders
\nHowsen Kenner
\nWm Vance
\nIsaac Adams
\nThomas Williams
\nD.L. Blue
\nWilliams R. Cox
\nJames Paine
\nWm Stanford
\nDanl Molloy
\nAlexander Perry
\nJohn Stanford
\nThomas Stanford
\nJames Maddray
\nThomas Stanford Jr
\nThomas Stanford
\nGabel Long
\nJames Stanford
\nGeorge Earnest
\nGeorge Stanford
\nJonathan Ruck
\nThomas D. Maxwell
\nJohn Shoemaker
\nWilliam Maddry
\nJohn Birmingham
\nC. Friley
\nThos Fox
\nJames Friley
\nJohn Birdwell
\nWm Birdwell
\nJohn Halbert
\nJoel Halbert
\nJessey Halbert<\/td>\nRichard Armstrong
\nJessee Craft
\nJoseph Kelley
\nThos Harwood
\nJohn Q. Talbot
\nJno Hawkins
\nBernard M. Patteson
\nThos Bullmam
\nIsaac Lamb
\nJames Mcdanniel
\nMoses Hambleton
\nThos Boid
\nJohn Birdwell
\nJerimah Killingsworth
\nJohn Lamb
\nWilliam Lamb
\nJohn Manasco
\nSilas McGuier
\nGeorge H. Daugherty
\nJames Long
\nWilliam Long
\nJohn Williams
\nGeorge Williams
\nJohn Wadkins
\nElisha Farris
\nHiram Farris
\nCurneus Gatliff
\nJohn Dillion
\nGabreil A. Daugherty
\nJacob Winterbower
\nGeorg Winterbower
\nAlexr Laughlin
\nWm Slone
\nJohn Slone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n