Emanuel Chaney & Sarah ?Cato

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The inventory of Green Berry Chaney who died in Wilkes County, Georgia, 1779 mentions Manuel Chaney & P. Chaney in the 1791 returns.  Dianne believes they were 2 of the minor heirs mentioned in his inventory and this was the Emanuel Chaney, son of Green Berry Chaney I, who named his son Green Berry Chaney II, who in turn named his son Emanuel Burgess Chaney.  

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1790 Lost Georgia Census

Washington County

EMANUEL CHENEY

[Note by Dianne: Green Berry Chaney was born in Georgia 1794 per the 1850 Washington Co, Alabama Census. In 1830 Washington County, Alabama Census, Green Berry Chaney had a man 50-60 living with him. Could this have been Emanuel? ]

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Pioneers of Washington County, Alabama

By Roy C. Brewer

791 Fort Scott Drive, Arlington, VA 22202

The following list is an attempt to identify those persons living in Washington County, as now constituted, before the year 1800. A manageable geographic area is chosen for discussion rather than the originally designated county stretching from 31' to 32'28' latitude and from the Chattahoochee to the Pearl River.

Such a listing, to be significant, should distinguish between those occupying the area west of Tombigbee, those east of the Tensaw, and those west of the Mobile River. Sources available for this purpose are American State Papers (Public Lands); Brand Register of San Esteban District (1795), and Census of Inhabitants, San Esteban District (1797)…

The tabulation here of land claim presences in Washington County lists the earliest date an individual's name appears in the land records. British and Spanish grantees, as well as applicants claiming occupancy (as of the Spanish evacuation of Mississippi Territory, 1797), are so earmarked. There were claimants to title as much as five transfers removed from the original grant. Intermediate owners are also listed. There were witnesses in support of every claim and an occasional tenant worker, as well as adjacent landowners (named by dated statements). Some others were squatters, and some may have been speculators. A person may appear in these records in connection with several dates and in various functions, but the earliest date only is here recorded to show his first appearance on the west side of the Tombigbee River, from Sinta Bogue Creek south to four miles below the Cut-off. Some titles, relationships, and dates of death are given.

LAND CLAIM PRESENCES REGISTER OF BRANDS, SAN ESTEVAN DISTRICT, 1795CENSUS OF INHABITANTS, SAN ESTEVAN DISTRICT, 1797

American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. 1, 1832. (*British grantees; Spanish grantees; o Occupancy claims) Archivo General De Indias, Sevilla, Papeles De Cuba, Legajo 222 Archivo General De Indias, Sevilla, Papeles De Cuba, Legajo 64

1798 CHENEY, EMANUEL

1798 CHENEY, SALLY, Wife

1798 Coleman, Francis

1797 Coleman, William

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Petition to Congress, 1799 Washington County, Alabama

PETITION TO CONGRESS BY THE INHABITANTS OF TOMBIGBEE AND TENSAW AUGUST 1, 1799

To the honorable the Congress of the United States of America, the petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants, of the settlements of Tombigby and Tensaw, in behalf of themselves and others concerned, respectfully shews--

That your petitioners from the change of government which has lately taken place, and which change they have long anticipated with the most anxious solicitude, are, in a situation and predicament, perhaps very different from most of their fellow Citizens. This peculiarity of their circumstances give rise to apprehensions which, your honorable body only, are competent to obviate.

There are some who claim lands lying on these rivers, under old Brittish Titles

the record whereof is not within our knowledge; but we in general claim and

possess by virtue of Spanish Grants, obtained since the Cession of the Florida's

to Spain, and some hold by settlement and Occupancy.-

It is evident, that in the first two cases, the different Titles will in many instances interfere and clash as the former rights are generally covered by the latter. This may be a source of discord, and a subject of perpetual discontent and litigation, and endless expence, which your petitioners are unable to support, and which from a principle of amity and social duties they are entirely averse to. We pray that your honorable body may take this subject into consideration and make such fair and equitable arrangements and regulations, as in your wisdom may seem most salutary and operative to avert the grievances herein contemplated-.

Such of your petitioners as hold lands by settlement and occupancy, are mostly natives of the Southern States, and have been usually entitled to the priority of saving their settlements by applying, according to the established regulations, as this seems just: they with deference suggest, that similar regulations would conduce most to the advantage of these inhabitants, and not prove detrimental to the government. Your petitioners residing on a very limited Tract not exceeding fifty miles from the Indian above, to the Spanish line below, (the vacent lands of which are inconsiderable) and of this small Tract it is only the lands immediately on the rivers, and some of them must be excepted, that are worth cultivation. In general within two miles of the rivers, the Country is a continued pine-Barren in many places not arrable, and every where steril and unproductive. Thus limited and circumscribed, your petitioners are induced to solicit an enlargement of Territory, which they apprehend might at an early period, be obtained on good terms should Congress be disposed in their favor-The Indians of both Nations it is believed would readily agree to a sale of the lands lying between the two rivers; below a line drawn from the place where the old Choctaw line strikes Tombigby, near HatcheeTigbie, directly east ward to the Allibama, thence in the same direction a few miles, and thence by a line drawn south until it strikes the old Creek line below Little river. This acquisition of Territory will unite the Settlements of Tombigby and Tensaw; will admit an increase of population, will add to the stability and safety of the settlements, and we apprehend will pertain to the advantage of the United States-

Your petitioners are differently circumstanced from their fellow-Citizens of the Territory residing on the Mississippi, with respect to Commercial and Marine relations. They have not been informed that there has been any special agreement made for the free Navigation of these Rivers or the freedom of the ports of Mobille and Pensacola, and it is by a naval intercourse only, with the United States, the West Indies and Europe, that the Citizens of these settlements can send the surplus of their produce, or command a recompense for their labor and industry. On this point they are the more urgent, as they now experience from necessity, what they lately did from force, all the grievances possible, resulting from extortion and imposition, practised by foreign Adventurers and Traders residing near, and coming among them.

Your petitioners represent as a greivance, that there should be posts for the distribution of presents to the Indians, and that Indian Traders should be suffered to reside and deal within the settlements. These people on their way to and from the posts or places of Trade, are guilty of every species of theft violence and out-rage natural to the rudeness and ferocity of their manners-

Attached to the United States in general by birth, United to them by choice and by principles, your petitioners are the more confident in soliciting your honorable body to take the primises into Your most serious consideration and grant such relief, and make such provision, as in your wisdom may appear just and adequate.

August lst 1799

CHINEY, EMANUEL

All spelling and punctuation were copied exactly from Territorial Papers (HF:6 Cong., 1 sess.:DS).

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Personal Tax Roll-Washington County Mississippi TerritoryPersonal Tax Roll-Washington County Mississippi Territory 1803-1805

CHAINLIY, EMANUEL

Coleman, Francis

Coleman, Richard S.

Coleman, William

Hainesworth, James Jr.

Hainesworth, Levin

Shaw, Martha

Shaw, Matthew

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Will of Peyton Chaney

Jno. B. Bruce? proven 1st September 1840

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