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ANDREW PICKENS (17 18 ) & THE TUSCALOOSA COUNTY LINE

The Hopewell Treaty between and the Indians was signed at Andrew Pickens plantation in 178

Prince William and Prince Harry are collateral descendents (great nephews) of Captain the Honourable Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer. In September 1814, he commanded the HMS Carron during the 1st Battle of Ft. Bowyer (U.S. fort @ the location of present-day Fort Morgan, Alabama), He commanded the seamen landed during the 2nd Battle of Ft.Bowyer in 1815. He was the spy and scout who discovered the route from Lake Borgne to the Mississippi River for the British which led to the Battle of New Orleans @ Chalmette. He was also in charge of transporting the fugitive slaves from Dauphin Island and Apalachicola who were shipped to the Bahamas, Nova Scotia and Trinidad by the British.
Captain the Honourable Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer, R.N.Robert Cavendish Spencer - WikipediaIn the chapel of the Spencer family in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Great Brington, Northampshire, England, there is a marble bust of Captain Spencer.

This link will give you more information about the British invasion of Dauphin Island and Mobile Point in 1815. DAUPHIN ISLAND: AMERICA'S MOST HISTORIC GULF ISLAND

In 2013, the Malta Independent newspaper published this article about the refurbishing of Captain Spencer's grave in Malta.
FROM THE MALTA INDEPENDENT~ DECEMBER 31, 2013
The much-neglected tomb of Robert Cavendish Spencer, which up to some weeks ago was a mound of stones in the middle of a car park in Valletta have now been restored and enclosed with a railing.
Robert Cavendish Spencer is the great great uncle of Princess Diana.
Robert Cavendish Spencer served as private Secretary to the Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) from 1827 to 1828 and was knighted for his services to the prince.
He had a distinguished career in the British Navy and was well liked by the men he commanded – it was these sailors who erected the monument in his memory.
He died while in quarantine in Malta on 4 November 1830, aged 39.
HMS Madagascar, under Spencer’s command, had just returned from Alexandria and, as was customary, was put in quarantine.
Spencer’s body was kept in quarantine for the full 40 days
His body was then brought by barge from the Lazaretto and buried in Valletta on 12 December 1830.
The procession entered Valletta through Porta Reale (City Gate) then passed down Strada Mezzodi, (South Street) to the lower Bastion of St Michael for interment where Reverend David Morton, the Chaplain of the ship conducted the service.
This part of the bastion was thereafter called Spencer Bastion – by Royal Decree.
A simple inscription on Spencer’s tomb read
“HERE LIES THE BODY OF CAPTAIN THE HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT CAVENDISH SPENCER KCH AGED 39 YEARS WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON BOARD AND IN COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP MADAGASCAR AT ALEXANDRIA ON THE 4th DAY OF NOVEMBER 1830.”
Spencer’s Monument at the junction of Blata il-Bajda / Hamrun itself has a checkered history
Designed by Maltese Architect George Pullicino, the monument was first erected on Corradino Hill in 1831 -Corradino meaning (really) the Hill of Wise Counsel!
Spencer’s monument was moved 62 years later – in 1893 – to Blata il-Bajda on top of Spencer Hill.
The monument was damaged by lightning in 1975 but has been restored.
The restoration of the tomb in Valletta was insisted upon by the former Mepa board, especially Judge Giovanni Bonello when Bank of Valletta was granted permission to restore the House of Four Winds which is to become the chairman’s office.