Interstate Passports for Creek territory: This informatin given by Sandra, descendent of Orran Daffin,one of the sons of James Daffin.
p.114 GA Application, dated April 14,1810 [have copy]
"Ordered that passports be prepared for the following persons to travel through the Creek Nation of Indians, to wit-one for Anthony V. Carr from the County of Laurens-one for James Daffin with his wife and two children from the county of Wilkinson-one for Moses Hill from the County of Jones, with
his wife and two children--which were presented and signed."
     D.B. Mitchell--Governor

A James Daffin is  listed in the 1810 Washington County, Mississippi Territory Census (He had one son and one daughter both under age 21)

 A James Daffin shows up in 1812, N. Carolina census for the 10th Company muster rolls.(Jones register)-Halifax County

Early settler of Alabama,shown in the 1816 Clark County, Mississippi Territory Census. He, his wife Nancy, 3 of his sons and his daughter.

During the second decade of the 19th century, a national phenomenon called "Alabama Fever"
 took place in Tennessee, Virginia, the Carolinas, Maryland and Georgia. During the period of 1815-1820, thousands of settlers poured out of those states into the newly organized counties in the Black Belt  area of Alabama. Two hundred years of tobacco culture had depleted the lands of the upper south,  including Virginia and the Carolinas and military successes against Indian tribes of the south in  recent years had opened up vast tracts of settlement. One such area was the land between the  Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers of the recently organizsed state of Alabama, which was created from the Mississippi Territory after Mississippi became a state. The Treaty of Ghent put people in  motion to the newly opened territories of the old Southwest by the Spring of 1815, and a year later  immigration reached flood tide, especially to the Black Belt area of Alabama. On November 9,  1817, James Graham, a North Carolina planter wrote to Thomas Ruffin: "The Alabama fever rages  here with great violence and has carried off vast numbers of our citizens. I am apprehensive, if it  continues to spread as it has done, it will almost depopulate the country. There is no question that  this fever is contagious...for as soon as one neighbor visits another who has just returned from the  Alabama he immediately discovers the same symptoms which are exhibited by the person who has  seen the alluring Alabama. Some of our oldest and most wealthy men are offering their possessions  for sale and desirous of removing to this new country." Moore County, North Carolina was hit  hard by Alabama Fever during this era as many of its citizens moved to the Clarke, Wilcox and  Marengo counties area of Alabama.

1819 and 1820 shows him showing up in the Cherokee Indian Territory of Cherokee Co., Al on their Tax list for that territory.

James shows up in the St. Stephens Land office:

Doc#:  1556               Date: Sept 15,1825           # Acres: 79.9
             1602                           Feb     1, 1826                           79.9
             1704                           Feb     1, 1826                           79.9
             4502                           May   30, 1833                          80
Have copies of all land certificates

1830, Clarke Co., Al census shows a James Daffin on p.232.
JAMES DAFFIN-12210001 F1011001
Also  1830 Covington Co., Al census shows a James Daffin was listed (along with Darling Daffin)
James DAFFIN              2200010000000-1100010000000
Darling DAFFIN            1000000010000-0000100100000

1840 Clarke Co, AL census p.235

1850 Clarke Co., Al census p.255. On this census James is 76 years old, lists his birth place as North Carolina. His wife Nancy is living with her daughter Ann and her husband E.J. Doty, Nancy is 60 years old.

1877- From "A Glance into The GreatSouth-East or, Clarke County, ALabma and its Surroundings from 1540 to 1877." by Rev. T. H. Ball, A.M. Grove Hill, Alabama 1882.[pgs.356-358]

    Daffin

"The above name is also, without much doubt, of Huguenot origin, and it had originally a slightly different orthography[spelling]. James Daffin, who was quite an early settler, had six sons, Jackson, Andrew, John, Orrin, George and Derusha. He had one daughter[Ann] who married E.J. Doty. Andrew Daffin and Jackson Daffin are now living in Texas. The other four sons are dead.
Orrin Daffin left a son, John Daffin, who has a family and is now living near Jackson, Al.
Derusha Daffin removed to Grove Hill and occupied there, for many years, various positions in public life. In 1851 he was married to a Miss Rebecca A. Woodard of Grove Hill.
    In December 1849, he commenced the publication of the Grove Hill Herald and continued this for several years/ He was appointed , at some period of the war, Assistant Adjutant General of the 22nd Brigade.
Mrs. Rebecca Daffin having died, D. Daffin afterwards married Miss Clarinda Coate. His own health became feeble after the war and, in 1868, in company with Judge Torrey of Claiborne, he took a trip to Minnesota for the benifit of his rapidly declining health. For about twenty years, from 1848 to 1868, he filled a large space in the active life of Grove Hill and Clarke County. And then he passed, but not into forgetfulness. His name is written on many a page of the history of Clarke County. The author of this work enjoyed many pleasant years of association with him in various ways, and he is sure that not soon will be erased from the county records the name of Derusha Daffin.
He left two sons, sons of his first wife Henty C. Daffin and Willie W. Daffin. the former married and has some little children growing up within his home. He too is in feeble health.*

* Henry C. daffin died Jan 18, 1878. Mrs Daffin, a very plesant woman, is carrying on the store and resides with her little children in Grove Hill.

WIllie W. Daffin married Miss Nettles in September, 1874. He is residing in Grove Hill and is carrying on a jeweler's shop. The representatives of a once large family are now few in Clarke. Very pleasant qualities of mind and heart are characteristics of the Grove Hill branch of the Daffin family."

Refer to A Glance of the Great Southeast or Clarke County, Alabama and It's Surroundings From 1540 to 1877 by Rev. T.H. Ball : "quite an early settler" (pg 357)
Other family members discussed on pg 357, 358, and 385. 
    Got passport from Creek Indian Nation on April 14, 1810 for James and two children from county of Wilkinson, to travel to Alabama Territory. In Passports Issued by Governors of Georgia 1810-1820 contributed by Mrs. Bryan; Director Ga. Dept. Of Archives & History.
 
 

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