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THE SALTERS!
James Salter was born in North Carolina in 1760. He fought in the Revoltionary War and was rewarded for his services by President John Quincy Adams. The new land was located in the Mississippi Territory which until after the Creek War of 1812-14 was not conductive to settlement. In 1816, John Salter came down the Federal Road to the area known as Burnt Corn. According to family, James married three different times and fathered 21 or 22 children. Two of his sons were James, Jr. and William.
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