Re: Knowles in Conecuh and Escambia counties Alabama
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Re: Knowles in Conecuh and Escambia counties Alabama
Fred Knowles 3/18/08
It has been a while since these threads were posted and after reading them again I realized that I never posted a follow up after talking to Lawrence Earl Gulley in a telephone conversation. Lawrence said it was handed down from Sarah (Sallie) Knowles to her son Robert Harrison Knowles and from him to his daughter Sarah Janie and then to Lawrence which was her Grandson, that when John James Knowles came to Alabama from Georgia he had a wife and she died. This explains why James Noles that was listed on the 1820 Conecuh County Census was head of household and living alone. He said James was allowing an old Indian and his two daughters to hide on the land he had staked out to homestead and in return he would make his daughters help James which was building a log cabin and clearing land. He said when the Old Indian was ready to move on to Indian territory he came to James and said, for one milk cow, one calf and eighteen pieces of gold you can have the choice of either of my daughters for your wife. He said James took his offer and chose the prettier of the two and her name was Sarah Sallie Love. The telephone conversation we had was late on a Sunday afternoon and we had to end our conversation when Lawrence's wife said it was time to go to church. I've done a lot of research on this since and find the most likely Indian family for Sarah Sallie Love would be the descendents of William Love that was granted 800 acres of land near Broad River in South Carolina in 1753. They were known traders with the Chickasaw Indians and William married a full blood Indian in Madison County, Mississippi Territory in 1755. This was the Chickasaw Cession in 1755. Williams son Thomas Love went to live with the Chickasaw Indians in 1782 and married Chief James Logan Colbert's daughter Sally house-of-in-cun-no-mar Colbert. Their son Benjamin Love Stated in the Chickasaw papers with the U.S. that his father Thomas was a white man living among the Indians and that his Indian Blood was from his mother Sally Colbert. Thomas was born about 1745 and apparently had a white mother. It's very possible that Sarah Sallie Love was the daughter of one of williams sons with the full blood Indian and prefered to be called Sally because she Idealized her Aunt Sally that was the daughter of the great Indian Chief. This could have very well happened because it is said that the Indian Traders would make trips to Pensacola, Florida and purchase guns from the British and sell to the Chickasaw Indians. Hopefully We will be able to find the Indian family of Sarah Sallie Love. This is quiet a story.
Thanks