Edward Towns

I represent Edward Towns. I lived in the Escambia River District, which included both banks of the Escambia River from the Alabama line into present day Santa Rosa County, about 25-40 miles north of Pensacola as it existed in 1820. My household was part of an Anglo-American population that settled and farmed land in Spanish territory without permission of the Spanish government, but which was tolerated because it supplied Pensacola with produce – next to my entry in the 1820 census of Pensacola, though, it says “Established with license of the Government,” so perhaps I was one of the few lawful settlers there. At the time of the 1820 census of the Escambia River District, I was 24 years old and single. I lived on a large farm with a few cattle and 100 hogs.