246 FAYETTE COUNTY. 



Robert and Wm. Harkins, James and Irvine Spradley, J. R. 

 Cox, Joseph Anthony, Jesse Laseter, I. Haines, Wm. Gille- 

 land, James Alford. 



Face of the Country, Nature of the Soil, Average 

 Product . — The county is generally level. The lands are 

 principally gray, suitable for cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, 

 barley, &lc., valued at five, three, and two dollars per acre, 

 according to quality. Corn averages three barrels per acre ; 

 wheat, eight bushels per acre ; cotton, 500 pounds per acre. 

 Over 4,500 bags of cotton are annually raised in this county. 



Mills. — Saw-mills, eight; grist-mills, nine; merchant- 

 mills, three. A cotton factory is about to be erected on White 

 Water creek, ten miles from Fayetteville. One wool-carding 

 machine. 



Minerals. — Granite, quartz, iron, tourmaline, mica, &c. 



Miscellaneous Notice. — First court held at the house 

 of J. R. Cox. 



Name. — In the oration delivered by the Hon. John Quincy 

 Adams before both houses of Congress, on the life and character 

 of Lafayette, the speaker said : " As in the firmanent that rolls 

 over our heads, there is among the stars of the first magnitude one 

 so pre-eminent in splendour, as in the opinion of astronomers to 

 constitute a class by itself; so, in the fourteen hundred years 

 of the French monarchy, among the multitudes of great and 

 mighty men which it has evolved, the name of Lafayette 

 stands unrivalled in the solitude of glory." Gilbert Mottier 

 Lafayette, the asserter of the rights of man, the intimate 

 friend of Washington, was born in France, at Chavagniac, in 

 the province of Auvergne, September 6, 1757. At seven years 

 of age, he was sent to the College of Louis le Grand, at Paris, 

 where he received his early education. Under the patronage 

 of the Queen of France, he obtained the rank of a commis- 

 sioned officer. In 1774 he married a lady of high birth and 

 large fortune. This alliance procured for him every enjoy- 

 ment which rank and wealth could bestow. About this time, 

 the attempts of the colonies to acquire their freedom, had ex- 

 cited in France a powerful sympathy in their favour ; and 

 amono; those who were desirous " to crusade for freedom in 



