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History of the borders of Alabama

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Alabama Territory was organized from the eastern half of Mississippi Territory on March 3, 1817. The act defined its borders as:

• Beginning at the point where the Perdido River crosses the 31st parallel north, east to the western boundary line of Georgia.
  • This line was surveyed in 1799 by Andrew Ellicott. The western boundary of Georgia is defined as:
    • Beginning at the point where the Chattahoochee River crosses the boundary with Spain (the 31st parallel north), up the western bank of the river to its great bend.
      • The text of the act specifies, "next above the place where a certain creek or river, called "Uchee" (being the first considerable stream on the western side, above the Cussetas and Coweta towns), empties into the Chatahouchie River;" thence in a direct line to Nickajack, on Tennessee River; thence crossing the said last-mentioned river, and thence running up the said Tennessee River and along the western bank thereof to the southern boundary line of the State of Tennessee.

• "thence along said line to the southern boundary line to the state of Tennessee, thence west along said boundary line to the Tennessee river, thence up the same to the mouth of Bear creek, thence by a direct line to the north-west corner of Washington county, thence due south to the Gulf of Mexico, thence eastwardly, including all the islands within six leagues of the shore, to the Perdido river, and thence up the same to the beginning...

The western boundary of Georgia was defined in 1802 as:

The southern boundary of Tennessee was inherited from North Carolina, defined in the 1776 North Carolina constitution as the 35th parallel north.

All of the existing borders had been surveyed. The border along 31 north from the Perdido River to the Chattahoochee River was surveyed by Andrew Ellicott in 1799,

In 1807,

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• Van Zandt, Franklin K. (1976). Boundaries of the United States and the Several States: With Miscellaneous Geographic Information Concerning Areas, Altitudes, and Geographic Centers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 69426475.

1. 3 Stat. 371
2. Van Zandt 1976, pp. 108–109. sfn error: no target: CITEREFVan_Zandt1976 (help)
3. Van Zandt 1976, p. 100. sfn error: no target: CITEREFVan_Zandt1976 (help)