Note 190 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 4)

Fort Stoddard was built in 1799 by Captain Shaumburg, U. S. A., on the Mobile River, at the Spanish boundary line provided in the treaty of 1795, and was named in honor of the acting secretary of war. It was a port of entry until Mobile became part of the United States.—Ed.