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Moses  Sutton 

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Solomon Sutton
1724 - 1/6/1817

Mary Blount
1730 - 1775
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Moses Sutton
1776 - 1817
Moses Sutton was born about 1776 in Pitt County, North Carolina and died about 1817 in Pulaski County, Georgia. Actual date of birth is unknown. He lived to be about 41 years old.

He married Sarah Elizabeth Haddock (1783-1825)
children:
Shadrack
Warren
Louisa
William
Theopolius
Moses
John
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Other7/7/1817 GA (Pulaski County) 41 yrs old 
Will of Moses Sutton - Probate Date July 13. 1817, Probate Place: Pulaski, Georgia, USA, Year: 1817, List - wife Sally, sons - Warren, William, Shadrack, Theopolius. daughters - Louisa and a unborn child.  

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6 1782 The British evacuate Savannah on in July.
8 1784 Franklin and Washington Counties are formed.
9 1785 Burbon County formed.
10 1786 Greene County was created the same year Oglethorpe dies.
12 1788 Bourbon County Act rescinded.
13 1789 December 21 - Governor Telfair signs first Yazoo Act selling 20,000,000 acres of and for $207,000 or about one cent per acre to. The Yazoo Companies attempted to pay in worthless paper money and Georgia refuses to transfer the land. The Virginia Yazoo, headed by Patrick Henry, even had the unmitigated gall to attempt to pay in worthless Georgia paper money. The South Carolina Yazoo Company sues Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court to compel delivery but the suit fails when Georgia is able to obtain ratification of the eleventh amendment to the U.S. Constitution on February 7, 1795.
14 1790 Alexander McGillivray, a mixed-blood of the Upper Creek Nation cedes the Altamaha lands to the Oconee. This treaty -- Treaty of New York -- is signed by President George Washington.
14 1790 Columbia and Elbert Counties are created.
17 1793 Hancock, Bryan, McIntosh, Montgomery, Oglethorpe and Warren Counties formed. This same year, the Fugitive Slave Act is passed.
18 1794 General Clarke surrenders ending the Oconee War.
19 1795 Governor Mathews signs the Second Yazoo Act selling somewhere between 35,000,000 and 50,000,000 acres of land for $500,000.
25 1801 Clarke and Tatnall Counties formed.
26 1802 Georgia formally cedes western claims for its southern boundary at the 31st parallel -- which will become a border between,GA, FL and AL. GA's western border reaches to the Mississippi River.
27 1803 Between 1803 and 1811 a horse trail is established connecting Milledgeville, Georgia to Fort Stoddert, American outpost north of Mobile. This is expanded into a road and called The Federal Road by 1811.
31 1807 December 10 - Jasper, Jones, Laurens, Morgan, Putnam, and Telfair Counties formed.
32 1808 Pulaski County created.
33 1809 Twiggs County formed.
35 1811 Tecumseh visits the Creek Indians living in what will become Georgia and Alabama to try to persuade them to join his fight against the flood of white settlers. Some towns join forces with Tecumseh and become known as "Red Sticks".
35 1811 Madison County created.
36 1812 The Creek tribes in southern Alabama and Georgia find themselves under increasing pressure from white settlers. Led by Chief Weatherford, they accepted an alliance with Tecumseh and are nicknamed "Red Sticks".
36 1812 Emanual County formed.
37 1813 During 1813-14, Muskogee-speaking Creeks leave GA and move into areas in Northern FL in response to the Creek Civil War (also known as the Red-sticks War).
41 1817 First Seminole war begins as Georgia backwoodsmen attack Indians just north of the Florida border. !817-1818. General Andrew Jackson invades the area.
AgeDateEvent
1 1777 The concept of chemical compounds is conceived by Lavoisier
7 1783 The hot air balloon is invented by Michel and Montgolfier and the first people in modern history fly at an altitude of 1800 m.
9 1785 The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth.
17 1793 The cotton gin was invented by Whitney.
23 1799 The Rosetta Stone was discovered
24 1800 The first battery was invented by Volta
31 1807 The first steamboat was invented by Fulton
38 1814 The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson
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24 1800 NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
35 1811 NEWS HEADLINES: Tecumseh's emerging Indian Confederacy is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Ohio. Afterwards, Tecumseh and his brother travel from their Shawnee homes in the north to recruit and unify the southern Indians.
36 1812 NEWS HEADLINES: War of 1812 begins and will continue for until 1814. Some call it the Second War of Independence because the US fights Great Britain to a stalemate, Americas independence was assured.
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13 1789 The capitol of North Carolina moves from New Bern to Raleigh and North Carolina becomes the 12th state of the United States of America.
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2 1778 Alliance between United States and France
11 1787 Constitution of the United States is signed
17 1793 Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role.
18 1794 The United States establishes the Navy
22 1798 Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida,
27 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans.
28 1804 The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL.
29 1805 Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a “horse path” through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier.
30 1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread.
35 1811 By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians.
AgeDateEvent
3 1779 Spain declares war on England
4 1780 Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary; England declares war on Holland
7 1783 Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River
11 1787 Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey
12 1788 Russia begins war with Sweden
13 1789 French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
16 1792 French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year
17 1793 Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland.
19 1795 White Terror and bread riots in Paris
20 1796 Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
21 1797 Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa


The Children of Moses Sutton

Shadrick 'Shade' Sutton
Born in Pitt County, North Carolina about 1805 and died somewhere in Texas about 1875. He was about 70 years old.

Shade married Elizabeth Cowan. They moved to Texas in the 1870's. ...
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