Note from descendant David Bullington: 2/20/2018

"I am fairly sure I have the Lauderdale County property location plotted out on a map for the land John Bullington was in the process of buying (note the discusson in his recorded estate filings that there were land subscription certificates).  Land at this time was sold on a credit basis.  What I saw in Limestone County of this process suggests that properties were occupied by the subscriber for years before actual title being obtained often 20 or 30 years later.   The other occurence that happened was for the $1 an acre or so down payment made sometimes being applied to a smaller subset of the originally subscribed acreage so that such portion could be deeded and sold or passed to heirs.  This seems to be what was happening in the administration of the John Bullington estate."