Alabama Colonial Records

Online Records

 * 1768-1820- British & Spanish Grants, West Florida. Images only.
 * 1734-1812- Alabama translated land claim records, 1734-1812; index. Images only.
 * 1788-1798- Original Spanish, French and English documents, 1788-1798; index, 1788-1798, 1788-1798. Images only.
 * 1704-1996- Church Records. Catholic Church. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Mobile, Alabama). Images only.
 * 1704-1764- Parish registers, 1704-1764 (excerpts). Catholic Church. Notre-Dame-du Fort Condé dé la Mobile (Mobile, Alabama). Index and images.

History
After the Spanish San Franciscans arrived in Saint Augustine, Florida in 1573, they started moving northward and eastward into the Alabama area. France claimed the region in 1699 and established Fort Conde (Mobile) in 1702 and Fort Toulouse in 1717. The French controlled this area until 1763. The British governed this area as part of West Florida from 1763 to 1783. In 1783, the British ceded Mobile to the Spanish while the rest of Alabama became a part of Georgia. In 1798, Alabama was incorporated as part of the Mississippi Territory. The U.S. claimed Mobile in 1813 during the War of 1812 and the rest of Alabama was organized into a territory in 1817.

Resources

 * 1706, 1721, and 1725 census abstracts in Deep South Genealogical Quarterly, 1, August 1963.
 * Alabama and the Borderlands from Prehistory to Statehood by R. Reid Badger and Lawrence A. Clayton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
 * Early Settlers of Alabama. 2 Vols. by Elizabeth S. Blair and James E. Saunders. 1899. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969, fiche 6051449.
 * Historical Atlas of Alabama by Donald B. Dodd. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1974.

British Colonization

 * British burials and births on the Gulf Coast : records of the Church of England in West Florida, 1768-1770 by Winston De Ville. Ville Platte, Louisiana : De Ville, 1986.
 * British West Florida, 1763-1783 by Cecil Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943.
 * The West Florida Controversy, 1798-1813 by Isaac Joslin Cox. 1912. Reprint. Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1967.

French Colonization

 * Mobile Funerals, 1726-1764: Alabama Church Records of the French Province of Louisiana by Winston De Ville. Ville Platte, LA: Smith, 1994. Includes marriages from area of present-day Mobile, Alabama. Taken from records of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
 * Colonial Mobile by Peter Joseph Hamilton. 1897. Reprint. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1976.
 * Creole Mobile : a compendium of the colonial families of the central gulf coast, 1702- 1813 by Johnnie Andrews. Prichard, Alabama : Bienville Historical Society, 1974.
 * Fort Toulouse: The French Outpost at the Alabamas on the Coosa by Daniel H. Thomas. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
 * Fort Toulouse Colonials: A Compendium of the Colonial Families of Central Alabama, 1717-1823 by Johnnie Andrews. Pritchard, AL: Bienville Historical Society, 1987.
 * Mobile Land Grants, 1710-1795 by Johnnie Andrews. Pritchard, AL: Bienville Museum, 1973.
 * Colonial Prichard, 1710-1821 by Johnnie Andrews. Prichard, Alabama : Bienville Historical Society, 1969.

Spanish Colonization

 * "Alabama's Forgotten Settlers: Notes on the Spanish Mobile District, 1780-1813," by Jack D.L. Holmes. Alabama Historical Quarterly 33 (Summer 1974): 87-97, fiche 6334262.
 * Spanish Census Reports at Mobile: A Partial Reconstructed List by Johnnie Andrew. Mobile, AL: Bienville Historical Society, 1973. Census years: 1756, 1787, 1789, 1805