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Alexander Douglass and his mother (Sarah Curry Douglass) left North Carolina before these (other migrants heading to West Florida), but he did not get here (Walton County, West Florida) until two years afterwards.

He stayed on the Chipola and made a crop there, and then came on. He was the first emigrant that crossed at Douglass' Ferry, and had to stay there some time, on account of a swell in the river, before they could get him over.

It was he that surveyed "that wonderful high water route" through which you can come in the high est water from high bank to high bank on either side and cross the main river, floating down it from either way.

It is really an ingenious route. He lived at the "Old Place" for a few years and then moved to Douglass' Ferry, which was named for him, he having established it, and made it a popular crossing place for travelers going East and West.

He died of exhaustion, swimming his cattle from reed-brake islands in the river swamp to high safe piney woods, during the high waters of the "Lincoln Freshet."

See also:
•  Douglasses of Walton County


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