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I am looking for information on the following family: Dean/Deen. I have the following information from an unknown source: Billy,
I found the following in an article on the history of Marion Co. This is the one I mentioned in a previous email.
"""Jesse Dean was one of the first white settlers in this section now known as Marion County and came from Tennessee. When he was a young man he was captain of a flat boar and at intervals came down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. On one of these trips Mr. Dean decided to send his crew back up the river, but to make but to make the trip over land by way of an old Indian trail. He wanted to see the country and look for a place to locate a settlement. A few settlers had already arrived and one white family lived at the place where Foxworth now is. A half days' continuous walking brought him to another white family who lived two miles. from the place now known as a Bunker Hill in Marion County. Another days walk brought him to the next settlement which was at that time Williamsburg in Covington County. Evidently Mr. King liked the sparsely settled country because months afterwards he married Cynthia Graves and brought her as a bride to settle at Bunker Hill.""""
Billy Deen
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