Alabama: Bibliography and Sources

Abrams, Ulysses Huey. History of Early Bibb County, Alabama, 1820-1870. Edited by Mattie Sandford Johnson. N.p.: [Mattie Sandford Johnson], 1981.

Alabama. Acts of Alabama. Tuscaloosa et al., 1819-. Cited as Ala. Acts.

Alabama Genealogical Register 9 (1967): 63-69, 124-135, 186-196; 10 (1968): 51-52, 123-124. Contains transcripts of territorial censuses. Cited as Ala. Geneal. Reg.

Alabama Historical Quarterly 6 (Fall 1944): 333-515. Reprint. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Willo Publishing Co., 1960. Entire issue devoted to 1820 and 1830 Alabama censuses. Cited as Ala. Hist. Quart.

Alabama Supreme Court. Alabama Reports. 295 vols. 1841-1977. Reports of cases heard before the Supreme Court of Alabama. Cited as Ala. Rpts.

Alabama Territory. Acts of Alabama Territory. 1st and 2d sessions, January and November 1818. St. Stephens, Ala., 1818. Cited as Ala. Terr. Acts.

Anthony, J. D. "Reminiscences of Cherokee County, 1835-1875." In Early History of Northeast Alabama, and Incidentally of Northwest Georgia, edited by W. Stanley Hoole and Addie S. Hoole. University, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1979.

Ball, T. H. Glance Into the Great South-East, or, Clarke County, Alabama, and Its Surroundings, from 1540 to 1877. Grove Hill, Ala., 1882.

Barefield, Marilyn Davis, comp. Old Huntsville Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1810-1854. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1985.

Barefield, Marilyn Davis, comp. Old Mardisville, Lebanon and Centre Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1834-1860. Greenville, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1990.

Barefield, Marilyn Davis, comp. Old Tuskaloosa Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1821-1855. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1984.

Barefield, Marilyn Davis. Researching in Alabama: A Genealogical Guide. Edited by Yvonne Shelton Crumpler. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1987.

Bennett, James R. Old Tannehill: A History of the Pioneer Ironworks in Roupes Valley (1829-1865). [Birmingham]: Jefferson County Historical Commission, 1986.

Birmingham Public Library. List of Nineteenth Century Maps of the State of Alabama. Birmingham, 1973.

Brannon, Peter A. "Tennessee State Line: An Historical Interpretation." Alabama Historical Quarterly 18 (1956): 412-420.

Brannon, Peter A. "Western Boundary Line of Alabama, A Comment." Alabama Historical Quarterly 20 (1958): 571-580.

Brown, Virginia Pounds, and Jane Porter Nabers. "Origin of Certain Place Names in Jefferson County, Alabama." Alabama Review 5 (1952): 177-202.

Bryant, Pat, comp. Georgia Counties: Their Changing Boundaries. 2d ed. Revised by Ingrid Shields. Atlanta: State Printing Office, 1983.

Calhoun, Robert Dabney. "Origin and Early Development of County-Parish Government in Louisiana (1805-1845)." Louisiana Historical Quarterly 18 (1935): 56-160.

Candler, Allen D., comp. Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia. Vol. 3, pt. 2. Journal of the House of Assembly from August 17, 1781, to February 26, 1784. Atlanta: Franklin-Turner Co., 1908.

Cappon, Lester J., Barbara Bartz Petchenik, and John Hamilton Long, eds. Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. Section on boundaries is thoroughly documented.

Coleman, Kenneth. American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1958.

Cotterill, R. S. "National Land System in the South: 1803-1812." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 16 (1929-1930): 495-506.

Cox, Isaac Joslin. West Florida Controversy, 1798-1813: A Study in American Diplomacy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1918.

Crow, Mattie Lou Teague. History of St. Clair County (Alabama). Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1973.

Davis, George B., et al. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 1891-1895. Reprinted as Official Military Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Fairfax Press, 1983. Coverage limited to areas of military activity during the Civil War, but affords accurate detail of landmarks and other geographic features before and after the war.

Doster, James F. "Land Titles and Public Land Sales in Early Alabama." Alabama Review 16 (1963): 108-124.

Du Bose, John Witherspoon. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama, Historical and Biographical. 1887. Reprint. [Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press], n.d.

Dubester, Henry J. State Censuses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population Taken after the Year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States. 1948. Reprint. New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. The standard guide for its subject.

Duffee, Mary Gordon. Sketches of Alabama: Being an Account of the Journey from Tuscaloosa to Blount Springs through Jefferson County on the Old Stage Roads. Edited by Virginia Pounds Brown and Jane Porter Nabers. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1970.

Duncan, Katherine McKinstry, and Larry Joe Smith. History of Marshall County, Alabama. Vol. 1. Albertville, Ala.: Thompson Printing, 1969.

Elliott, Carl, comp. Annals of Northwest Alabama. 4 vols. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Carl Elliott, 1958-1972.

Ellison, Rhoda Coleman. Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years, 1818-1918. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1984.

"Establishment of the Alabama Territory." Alabama Historical Quarterly 24 (1962): 97-128.

Filby, P. William, comp. American and British Genealogy and Heraldry: A Selected List of Books. 3d ed. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983.

Filby, P. William, comp. American and British Genealogy and Heraldry: 1982-1985 Supplement. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1987.

Filby, P. William, comp. Bibliography of American County Histories. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.

Fleming, Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. 1905. Reprint. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1911.

Fonde, Henry. Township and Sectional Map of Mobile County, State of Alabama. St. Louis, 1895.

Foscue, Virginia O. Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.

Foscue, Virginia O. "Sumter County Place-Names: A Selection." Alabama Review 13 (1960): 52-67.

Fuller, Hubert Bruce. Purchase of Florida: Its History and Diplomacy. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1906.

Graham, John Simpson. History of Clarke County [Alabama]. Birmingham: Birmingham Printing Co., 1923.

Griffith, Lucille. Alabama: A Documentary History to 1900. Rev. ed. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1972.

Hahn, Marilyn Davis, comp. Old Cahaba Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1817-1853. Rev. ed. Birmingham: Southern University Press, 1986.

Hahn, Marilyn Davis, comp. Old St. Stephen's Land Office Records and American State Papers, Public Lands. Vol. 1, 1768-1888. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1983.

Hahn, Marilyn Davis, comp. Old Sparta and Elba Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1822-1860. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1983.

Halbert, Henry Sale. "Choctaw Indian Names in Alabama and Mississippi." Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society 3 (1898-1899): 64-77.

Hamilton, Peter J. Colonial Mobile. Rev. ed. 1910. Reprint. Edited by Charles G. Summersell. Southern Historical Publications, no. 20. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1976.

Hamilton, Peter J. "Early Roads of Alabama." Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society 2 (1897-1898): 39-56.

Harris, W. Stuart. Dead Towns of Alabama. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1977.

Haynes, Robert V. "Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory." Journal of Mississippi History 24 (1962): 226-252.

Higginbotham, Jay. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711. Museum of the City of Mobile, Museum Publication no. 4. [Mobile], 1977.

Historical Records Survey, Alabama. Colbert County (Tuscumbia). Inventory of the County Archives of Alabama, no. 17. Birmingham: Alabama Historical Records Survey, 1939. Cited as HRS Ala., Colbert.

Historical Records Survey, Alabama. Lowndes County (Hayneville). Inventory of the County Archives of Alabama, no. 43. Birmingham: Alabama Historical Records Survey, 1939.

Historical Records Survey, Mississippi. Sargent's Code: A Collection of the Original Laws of the Mississippi Territory Enacted 1799-1800 by Governor Winthrop Sargent and the Territorial Judges. Jackson: Mississippi Historical Records Survey, 1939.

Historical Records Survey, Mississippi. State and County Boundaries of Mississippi. Preliminary ed. Jackson: Mississippi Historical Records Survey, 1942. A convenient and reliable collection of boundary descriptions excerpted from the laws.

Jackson, Ronald Vern, comp. Alabama 1855 Census Index. Bountiful, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1981.

Jacoway, W. V. "History of DeKalb County, 1836-1925." In Early History of Northeast Alabama, and Incidentally of Northwest Georgia, edited by W. Stanley Hoole and Addie S. Hoole. University, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1979.

Kane, Joseph Nathan. American Counties: Origins of Names, Dates of Creation and Organization, Area, Population, Historical Data, and Published Sources. 3d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972.

Kennamer, John Robert. History of Jackson County [Alabama]. Winchester, Tenn.: Southern Printing and Publishing Co., 1935.

Lainhart, Ann S. State Census Records. [Baltimore]: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.

Lambert, Alton. History of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. 3 vols. Centre, Ala.: Stewart University Press, 1977-1979.

Little, John Buckner. History of Butler County, Alabama, from 1815 to 1885. Cincinnati, 1885.

Long, John H. "A Case Study in Utilizing Computer Technology: The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries." Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 30, no. 3 (March 1992): 16-17. Describes how computers have been employed in the making of this atlas.

McCalley, Henry. Report on the Valley Regions of Alabama. (Paleozoic Strata). 2 vols. Geological Survey of Alabama, Alabama State Geologist, Special Report, nos. 8-9. Montgomery, 1896-1897.

MacDonald, Grace E., comp. Check-List of Session Laws. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1936. Complemented by Pollack (below), this guide lists all state session laws through 1935.

MacDonald, Grace E., comp. Check-List of Statutes of States of the United States of America, Including Revisions, Compilations, Digests, Codes and Indexes. Providence: Oxford Press, 1937. The most complete guide to state codes through 1937.

McLemore, Richard A. "Division of Mississippi Territory." Journal of Mississippi History 5 (1943): 79-82.

McMillan, Malcolm Cook. Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798-1901: A Study in Politics, the Negro, and Sectionalism. University of North Carolina Departments of History and Political Sciences, James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science, vol. 37. Chapel Hill, 1955.

["Map of the State of Louisiana, and Adjacent Countries."] Frontispiece to Geographical Description of the State of Louisiana, the Southern Part of the State of Mississippi, and Territory of Alabama, 2d ed., by William Darby. New York, 1817.

Mayhew, James H. Map of Madison County, Alabama. Cincinnati, 1875.

Melish, John. Map of Alabama. Philadelphia, 1819. Very accurate for its time.

Mississippi Territory [map]. [c. 1816.] Reprinted as "Mississippi Territory, ca. 1816" in Mississippi Maps, 1816-1873. Jackson: Mississippi Historical Society, 1969. Part of a portfolio of map reproductions; no supporting text or documentation.

Mississippi Territory. Statutes of the Mississippi Territory. Natchez, 1816. Compilation of this digest often attributed to Edward Turner; cited as Miss. Terr. Stat.

Moore, Albert Burton. History of Alabama and Her People. 3 vols. Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1927.

Morse, Sidney Edward. "Alabama" [map]. In North American Atlas, compiled by Sidney Edward Morse, [pl. 33]. New York, 1842.

New Map of Alabama with its Roads and Distances, From Place to Place, Along the Stage and Steam Boat Routes. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait and Co., 1854.

1989-90 County and State Officials Directory [Alabama]. Birmingham: Roberts and Son, [1989?].

Northern Alabama, Historical and Biographical. Birmingham: Smith and De Land, 1888.

Orleans Territory. Acts of the Territory of Orleans. Legislative Council and 1st-3d legislatures, December 1804-January 1811. New Orleans, 1805-1811. The session laws of Orleans Territory.

Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. 4 vols. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921.

Parry, Clive, ed. Consolidated Treaty Series. 231 vols. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1969-1981.

Paullin, Charles O. Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. Edited by John K. Wright. Washington, D.C. and New York: Carnegie Institution of Washington and American Geographical Society of New York, 1932. Excellent section on international and interstate boundary disputes.

"Pike County Alabama Tomb Records." Alabama Historical Quarterly 35 (1973): 1-416. Good county map at back of volume.

Pollack, Ervin H., comp. Supplement with Bibliographical Notes, Emendations, and Additions to the Check List of Session Laws, Compiled by Grace E. MacDonald. Preliminary ed. Boston: National Association of State Libraries, 1941. Fills gaps in MacDonald's 1935 compilation (above) to produce the most complete list of state session laws through 1935.

Powell, George. "Description and History of Blount County." Alabama Historical Quarterly 27 (1965): 95-132.

Rand, McNally, and Company. "Alabama" [map]. In Rand, McNally and Co.'s Enlarged Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide, 154-155. Chicago, 1902.

Read, William A. Indian Place Names in Alabama. Louisiana State University Studies, no. 29. 1937. Rev. ed. Edited by James B. McMillan. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1984.

Riley, Benjamin Franklin. History of Conecuh County, Alabama: Embracing a Detailed Record of Events from the Earliest Period to the Present; Biographical Sketches of Those Who Have Been Most Conspicuous in the Annals of the County; A Complete List of the Officials of Conecuh, Besides Much Valuable Information Relative to the Internal Resources of the County. 1881. Reprint. Edited by J. Vernon Brantley. [Washington, D.C.: J. Vernon Brantley], 1964.

Rowland, Dunbar, ed. Mississippi Provincial Archives, 1763-1766: English Dominion. Nashville: Brandon Printing Co., 1911. Only volume published in a projected multi-volume series.

Rowland, Dunbar, ed. Mississippi Territorial Archives, 1798-1803. Nashville: Brandon Printing Co., 1905. Cited as Rowland, Miss. Terr. Arch.

Royce, Charles C., comp. "Indian Land Cessions in the United States." Part 2 of Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896-1897. Washington, D.C., 1899. The standard authority in its field; state maps detail all Indian land-cession treaties with the federal government.

Sealock, Richard B., Margaret M. Sealock, and Margaret S. Powell. Bibliography of Place-Name Literature: United States and Canada. 3d ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982.

Shortt, Adam, and Arthur G. Doughty, eds. Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada. Vol. 1, 1759-1791. Canadian Archives, Sessional Paper no. 18. Ottawa, 1907. Contains full text of King George III's Proclamation of 1763, including boundary descriptions.

Sinko, Peggy Tuck. Guide to Local and Family History at the Newberry Library. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1987.

Smith, Charles P. "History of Gadsden, 1836-1900." In Early History of Northeast Alabama, and Incidentally of Northwest Georgia, edited by W. Stanley Hoole and Addie S. Hoole. University, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1979.

Snedecor, V. Gayle. Directory of Greene County [Alabama] for 1855-6. 1856. Reprint. Edited by Franklin Schackelford Moseley. Eutaw, Ala.: Franklin Schackelford Moseley, 1963.

Snedecor, V. Gayle. Snedecor's Map of Greene County, Alabama. N.p., 1856.

Snedecor, V. Gayle. Snedecor's Map of Hale County, Alabama. Boston, 1870.

Southerland, Henry DeLeon, Jr. "Federal Road, Gateway to Alabama, 1806-1836." Alabama Review 39 (1986): 96-109.

Stephenson, Richard W., comp. Land Ownership Maps: A Checklist of Nineteenth Century United States County Maps in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1967. Most of the maps listed here have been reproduced on microfiche by the Library of Congress.

Stewart, Mrs. Frank Ross. Alabama's Pike County. 2 vols. Centre, Ala.: Stewart University Press, 1976-1978.

Stewart, Mrs. Frank Ross. Cherokee County [Alabama] History, 1836-1956. 2 vols. Centre, Ala., 1958-1959.

Swindler, William F., ed. Sources and Documents of United States Constitutions. 10 vols. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1973-1979. The most complete and up-to-date compilation for the states.

Tanner, Henry S. New American Atlas Containing Maps of the Several States of the North American Union, Projected and Drawn on a Uniform Scale from Documents Found in the Public Offices of the United States and State Governments, and Other Original and Authentic Information. Philadelphia, [c. 1823]. Map of "Georgia and Alabama" was especially helpful.

Tanner, Henry S. United States of America [map]. Philadelphia, 1829. A useful map, despite its relative lack of detail.

Taylor, Thomas Jones. History of Madison County, and Incidentally of North Alabama, 1732-1840. Edited by W. Stanley Hoole and Addie S. Hoole. University, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1976.

Territorial Papers of the United States. Vols. 1-26 edited by Clarence E. Carter; vols. 27-28 edited by John P. Bloom. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1934-1975. Cited as Terr. Papers U.S.

Tharin, W. C. Directory of Marengo County [Alabama] for 1860-61. Mobile, 1861.

Thorndale, William, and William Dollarhide. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. An atlas of well-designed county outline maps for each state, accompanied by a bibliography and an explanation of methodology.

Toulmin, Harry, comp. Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing the Statutes and Resolutions in Force at the End of the General Assembly in January 1823. Cahawba, Ala., 1823.

Toulmin, Harry, ed. Statutes of the Mississippi Territory, Revised and Digested by the Authority of the General Assembly. Natchez, 1807.

Tuscaloosa Genealogical Society. Pioneers of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Prior to 1830. Montgomery, Ala.: Herff Jones Division, 1981.

U.S. Census Bureau. �Significant Changes to Counties and County Equivalent Entities: 1970�Present.� http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/ctychng.html.

United States. Statutes at Large of the United States of America, 1789-1873. 17 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1845-1874. Cited as U.S. Stat.

U.S. General Land Office. "Diagram of the State of Alabama." In Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. 29th Congress, 1st sess., 1845-1846. Senate Document 16. Serial 472.

U.S. National Park Service. Natchez Trace Parkway Survey. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1941. Also published in 76th Congress, 3d sess., 1940-1941. Senate Document 148. Serial 10450. Very useful modern survey of old roads and landmarks, many of which no longer exist.

Van Zandt, Franklin K. Boundaries of the United States and the Several States. Geological Survey Professional Paper 909. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976. The standard compilation for its subject.

Whitaker, A[rthur] P[reston]. "Muscle Shoals Speculation, 1783-1789." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 13 (1926-1927): 365-386.

Whitaker, Arthur Preston. Spanish-American Frontier: 1783-1795. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927.

Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk. Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1977.