soulsearcher wrote:Dr. Ron wrote:Yep ....Kentucky is a northern county of Tennessee!
As Alabama is a
southern county of Tennessee!
Well, Tennessee's borders were actually continued due west to the Mississippi River from the southern and northernmost borders of North Carolina. Tennessee technically began as counties within NC.
Alabama, on the other hand, while originally, in part, was part of the Province of Carolina under charter of Charles II, was also part of the Georgia land grant to Oglethorpe. Most of Alabama was included in a territory for Illinois Indians by George III in the early 1760's. See, it's all muddy from here. The southern parts of Alabama, near Florida, were contested by England, France and Spain, and the native tribes of course, who ultimately lost their claims. South Carolina actually tried to claim a strip between Alabama and Mississippi. Georgia tried to pull a North Carolina and claim everything to the Mississippi (NC had done as much with TN prior to its statehood). Congress established and expanded the Mississippi Territory in 1798 and 1804, and that pretty well zipped up where MS and AL are today.
Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven. (David Lipscomb, On Civil Government, 72).