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WILLIAM COLLEY: According to tradition William Colley lived in Tallapoosa 
County, Alabama. He applied for a pension under the Act of June 7, 1832, but 
his claim was suspended.

MATTHEW HARRIS was born in 1752, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, and died May 12, 
1845, in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. He was buried with military honors in the 
old John R. Slaughter Family Cemetery, Dadeville,Tallapoosa County, Alabama. 
His grave was marked by the Tohopeka Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution. 

Matthew Harris is listed as a Revolutionary War soldier on the "Harvey List," 
published by Reprint Publishing Company, 1967. He served as a private in 
Captain Hatton Middleton's Company, 1st Regiment of Horse, commanded by Major 
Leonard Marbury.

The only known child of Matthew Harris is Temperance; however, it is probable 
that there were others. Temperance was born April 25, 1806, Greene County, 
Georgia, and died March 29, 1873. She married John R. Slaughter.

ROBERT GRIERSON was born in Scotland. He died ca. 1816/17, Clay County, 
Alabama, and is buried near Pinckneyville, Alabama. He came to American with 
brothers, Thomas, James, William, two of whom served in the army of the 
colonies and a sister, Mrs. Hopkins.

Tradition reports that Robert Grierson lived in the area of the present 
Hackneyville community, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. He was a trader, planter, 
and a prosperous man. He accumulated cattle, horses, and slaves as early as 
1796.

Robert Grierson is listed on a certified list of Georgia troops, "Georgia's 
Roster of the Revolution," by Lucian Lamar Knight, by Reprint Publishing 
Company, 1967, page 375.

JOHN MAXWELL is listed on a certified list of Revolutionary War soldiers 
entitled to draw in the 1825 Land Lottery, Elbert County, Georgia. The widow 
of John Maxwell, Agatha Maxwell, is buried in the old Maxwell Family Cemetery, 
Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Addition information is available 
on the Maxwell family in "Some Pioneers of Tallapoosa County, Alabama," by 
Sandra Scott Wilson.

ABRAM M. MORDECAI, known as the "Old Indian Countryman," was born in 
Allentown, Pennsylvania, on October 24, 1755. In 1784, he migrated to Georgia 
and settled at the Indian town of "Buzzard Roost," on Flint River, where he 
lived for several years. He married an Indian wife from that locality and had 
a number of children. History records that his children lived among the Creeks 
in Arkansas. From 1786 to the time the Indians were removed from Alabama, 
Abram M. Mordecai lived among the Indians and learned their customs. The 
Creeks named him "Miccogie" or "Little Chief."

In 1804 he was living at a place called "Red Fields" near Montgomery, Alabama, 
and is reported to have been the first merchant in that county. Sometime after 
the War of 1812 and 1814, he migrated to Tallapoosa County, Alabama. By 1816 
he had established his trading post at Dudleyville in Tallapoosa County.

History records that Abram M. Mordecai lived to be an old man and died August 
25, 1849. His grave was marked by the Tohopeka Chapter, Daughters of the 
American Revolution, July 4, 1933. He is buried at Dudleyville, Alabama.


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