Person:Alexander McIntosh (8)

Bayou Sara, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States

1.   United States Congress. American State Papers: 8., Public Lands; 9., Claims: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 9v. (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1994)
   Vol. 1, Page 778, 844.
2.   McBee, May Wilson. The Natchez Court Records: Abstracts of Early Records, 1767-1805. (Greenwood, Mississippi: The Author, 1953).
3.   The Natchez District:
   A Guide to Sources in the Manuscript Collection
   of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
   
   Mcintosh, Alexander. Journal. 1772-1774. 0.25 cubic ft.
   This journal kept by merchant and landowner Alexander McIntosh contains entries from March, 1772, through November, 1774, concerning his trading establishment at Pointe Coupee, British West Florida. The journal includes customers' names, their status as creditors or debtors, and lists the goods or services provided them, giving information on early settlers of British West Florida and the Natchez District. A portion of the journal is missing. (Z/1883.000).
   
   While Louisiana was under the dominance of France, a couple of grants were given to settlers along the bayou and a village and church was established across the river at Pointe Coupee. In 1763, when England gained control, the area was considered a choice location and the following people were issued grants of land to the north and south of the batture land below the bluff and along the bayou. Alexander McIntosh, 500 acres on Bayou Sara, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana in 1768.