1812 Passport of Daniel Colvin & James Hughey to cross the Creek Nation towards Louisiana ************************************************ Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 4/2008 http:/www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1812 Passport of Daniel Colvin & James Hughey to cross the Creek Nation towards Louisiana ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== EXPLANATION: Daniel Colvin and James Hughey, Sr. were among the earliest Europeans to settle in what is now Ouachita/Union/Jackson/Lincoln Parishes, Louisiana. Technically, they settled in what is now Lincoln Parish, but his home lay in Ouachita Parish from his arrival in 1812 until 1839, when was put into Union Parish, then Jackson Parish in 1845, and finally, Lincoln Parish in 1873. Colvin was born in 1777 in South Carolina, in what was then Craven County, the son of John Colvin and Hannah Price. Daniel's father served in the Revolution, fighting for the patriots, and afterwards the family lived in Chester County South Carolina. The Colvins lived near the family of James Hughey, Sr., and Daniel married Hughey's daughter, Susan. The Colvin-Hughey party secured their passport in January 1812, and they apparently went directly west via the Federal Road through the Creek Nation in present-day Alabama towards Louisiana. They probably arrived in north Louisiana by the year's end, or in early 1813. This group passed through the Creek Nation a mere seventeen/ eighteen months prior to the beginning of hostilities between the United States and the Red Sticks, the faction of the Creek Nation who followed the teachings of the Shawnee prophet Techumsa and attempted to eradicate the whites in Alabama and Georgia. The 1813-1814 Creek War began with the Fort Mims Massacre on 30 August 1813. By all accounts, the Colvins and Hugheys had safely passed through the Creek Nation long before the hostilities. Daniel Colvin settled near what is now Vienna upon his arrival in about 1812. He technically did not own his property until the United States surveyors completed their work and opened that region for sale to the citizens in 1826. Daniel Colvin was one of the original purchasers at the Ouachita Land Office when it opened its doors for the first time. The Colvins apparently operated a store or relay station of some sorts, as their home was near the trail leading from Monroe to Shreveport. Daniel's son Jeptha opened the first post office in the region in 1838, originally known as Colvin's Post Office. The name was changed to Vienna in 1850. Daniel Colvin died on 24 March 1850, probably at his home located about 1 or 1.5 miles north of Vienna, in what is now Lincoln Parish Louisiana of bladder inflammation. REFERENCE: The passport below was transcribed from the orginal book, but its existence was pointed out to me by the work of Ethelle and Baker Colvin, "Colvin and Allied Families", published in 1965. The Colvins live today in Spearsville, Union Parish Louisiana. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Passports Issued by Governors of Georgia, 1810 - 1820, by Mary G. Bryan, The National Genealogical Society, Arlington, Virginia, 1965, p. 91 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Wed. - 15th January 1812 On application ORDERED That passports be prepared for the following persons to travel through the Indian Nations to the WEstern Country, viz, One for Mr. James Hughey and his wife eight children and ten negroes and Mr. Daniel Colvin with his wife two children and two negroes, and also Mr. Charles H. Simms with his wife five children and one negro, and One for Mr. Mason Hughey with his wife and five children, and Mr. James Roden with eleven negroes, all from the STate of So. Carolina. Which were presented and signed --- ================================================================================== File posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/union/history/1812-colvin-hughey.txt #########################################################################################