Joseph Stiggins

• Name	Joseph Stiggins
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1796	Talledega Town, Upper Creek Nation   [1]
  	Swanton identifies Stiggins as the town's trader.
  Possessions	1797	Tensaw Lake, Baldwin, Alabama   [2]
  	635 acres
  Probate	27 Dec 1812	Baldwin County, Alabama
  	Subscription of Last Will and Testament of Joseph Stiggins.
  	In the name of God, amen. Decr 27th 1812__ I Joseph Stiggins of the County of Baldwin Mississippi Territory being weak of body but of perfect mind and memory. Thanks be given to the Almighty God. Therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that its appointed for all men once to die; do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to [say?] principally and first of all I recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it my body. I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent christian burial at the discretion of my Executor nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Almighty [power?] of God and as touching such worldly Estate [wherewith?] it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give devise and dispose of it in the following [manner?] and form____ It is my will and desire that two Hundred acres of the upland tract laying on [Laurance?] Creek and the adjoining exchanged for [with?] Reubin Dyer shall belong to my Son George Stiggins the remaining two [?] to be reserved for the five children [hereafter named?] and their mother Haw during her natural life and after her dec to be equally divided amongst [?] at the discretion of my Executor and it is further my [will?] and desire that my son George Stiggins shall [?] of the Swamp tract from the [?] likewise negroes [S__?] and [P__?] and all my [stocks?] accounts and outstanding debts [?] horses being his private property _ the Horses and 6 cattle of my property to be retained in the family to their use at the discretion of my Executors. Further it is my will that my Daughter Mary Stiggins shall have negroes [L___?] and Betty and my Daughter Susannah [Hataway?] Nancy and Elizabeth it is further my will that my Daughter Nancy shall have and possess negroes Harry and [?] it is my will that the follow negroes Pegg, [C__?], Andrew and Peter shall remain with my wife Haw during her natural life and after her death_ Peg, Harry and Andrew to belong to my son Robert Stiggins if my just debts can be paid without selling Andrew_ Peter to belong to my Daughter Nancy Stiggins at her mothers decease. all the hogs of my property to be retained on the family I strictly forbid that any [part or portn?] of my personal property [end of first page] shall be sold or disposed of in any way or means whatever I strictly forbid that in any partitions [or lawsuits?] ensue but to be settled amongst themselves. Further my son Robert Stiggins shall have the [?] of the swamp tract * * *
  		Last Will and Testament of Joseph Stiggins "Alabama Probate Records, 1809-1985," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25319-24038-70?cc=1925446&wc=M6DK-WNL:220032901,220305801 : accessed 18 August 2015), Baldwin > Wills 1809-1934 vol A-C > image 20 of 718; county courthouses, Alabama.
  Person ID	I5191	Dickinson
  Last Modified	18 Aug 2015

  
  

  Family	Nancy Haw Gray
  Notes	Petition of Joseph Stiggins To the Honorable Legislature of Mississippi Teritory, Governor and Council: The Humble Petition of Joseph Stiggins Showeth that having formerly resided in the Creek Nation amongst the Indians and marrying an Inddian woman by whom I had Children, that I moved to the Country and Edicated and brought up to the Cristian Religion, and finding it Disagreeable that by the law of our Teritory that they can't have their oath though borne of a free woman. Your petitioner prayeth that they may be Released from that Disability the same that their oldest brother, George Stiggins, was by his own petition. Viz: Mary Stiggins, Susannah Stiggins, Nancy Stiggins and Robert G. Stiggins their poserity this Indulgence your petitioner thinks he justly Intitled to whilst he is forever Bound to pray. /s/ Joh Stiggins August 1, 1811 Source: Record Group 5 (Legislative Records, Territorial Archives), Volume 26, Petitions of the general Assembly, 1810-1816, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi. It is variously reported that Haw was either the sister or daughter of Chinnabee. (It should be noted here that Swanton identifies George Stiggins as Natchez.) George Windes informs that Haw was Chinnabee's niece and that she had two other sisters, Mrs. Josiah Fisher and Elizabeth Qualls. Chinnabee was a Natchez chieftain who was a signatory to the Treaty of New York in 1790. It is commonly reported (perhaps mistakenly) that he brought a band of refugees from Mississippi to the Talladega valley in 1756 where they were welcomed by the Abihka, although Swanton dates the Natchez removal to Alabama with the launch of French hostilities against the Chickasaw. That would have been 1736. (East reports him to be a child in 1756.) This Chinnabee was a source of intelligence to the fledgling United States on activities within the Upper Nation. See, for example, the letter of Georgia Governor, William Blount, to the Secretary of War, dated Nov. 8, 1792. State papers and publick documents of the United States, vol. X, p. 249 (Boston, Mass: Thomas B Wait, 3d. Ed., 1819). During the Creek War of 1813, Talledega was attacked by the Redsticks because of that pro-American sentiment. Chinnabee's son, Selocta, served as an interpreter and guide for Andrew Jackson during the 1813-1814 Alabama campaign. [3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Stiggins,   b. Abt 1783, Alabama ,   d. 1832, Eliska, Monroe, Alabama  (Age ~ 49 years) + 2. George Stiggins,   b. 1788, Nauche, Upper Creek Nation (Talledega County, Alabama) ,   d. 22 Nov 1845, Macon County, Alabama  (Age 57 years)  [Birth]   3. Susannah Stiggins,   b. Dec 1795, Alabama ,   d. 1865, Eliska, Monroe, Alabama  (Age ~ 69 years)   4. Nancy Stiggins + 5. Robert G Stiggins
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2013
  Family ID	F1387	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Possessions - 635 acres - 1797 - Tensaw Lake, Baldwin, Alabama Probate - Subscription of Last Will and Testament of Joseph Stiggins. - 27 Dec 1812 - Baldwin County, Alabama  = Link to Google Earth
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• Documents		Mississippi Territory
  		Dyer, Reuben; Randon, John; Stiggins, Joseph Smith, Clifford Neal, Spanish and British Land Grants in the Mississippi Territory: 1750-1854 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004).

  
  

• Sources

  [S336325] Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors, John R. Swanton, (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1998), 316. [S336425] Spanish and British Land Grants in the Mississippi Territory: 1750-1784, Clifford Neal Smith, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), 21. [S336325] Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors, John R. Swanton, (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1998), 314-316. [S336440] A Historical Analysis of the Creek Indian Hillabee Towns, Don C. East, (Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, 2008), 55.