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- The first record of William is his 1812 signing of a petition together with his father and the citizens of several counties to the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee "for the privilege of building flour mills on the Red River between the junction of Sulphur Fork and the Kentucky line . . ."
In early 1813, the Governor of Tennessee dispatched Andrew Jackson, major general of the Tennessee militia, and 1,500 volunteers to the defense of New Orleans. William was one of 670 Tennessee volunteers who joined Colonel John Coffee's cavalry regiment at Franklin, Tennessee, for what became known as the Natchez Expedition in the War of 1812. He served under Capt. Smith in Troop 7. The regiment met up with Jackson's other forces near Natchez on 16 February 1813. After one month they returned to Tennessee having seen no action. Later, William may have participated in the Creek War.
William is said to have spent some time in Louisiana, and removed his family to Texas ca. 1829-32 settling in Liberty county near the Trinity River. His brother, James, settled on the Neches River several miles to the east. [email David McFadden]
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