Excerpt from The Handy Book for Genealogists: State and County Histories, Maps, Libraries, Bibliographies of Genealogical Works, Where to Write for Records, Etc So great had been the influx of people into that south-western section that two years and four months after Alabama had become a Territory a political convention prepared a state constitution This gathering was held on July 5, 1819 in the temporary state capital, Huntsville, the seat of Madison county, located between the Tennessee River and the southern boundry of the state of Tennessee. Representatives were pres ent from the then existing twenty-two counties of Alabama, namely, Antaga. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.