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The towns in the county are Woodville, the county site, Cen- treville and Fort Adams.
The principal streams are Homochitto river, Buffalo, Percy, Bayou Sara, Thompson's, Cooks and Dunbar creeks. The Mis- sissippi river forms the western boundary of the county.
Wilkinson has 104,889 acres of cleared land; the average value per acre as rendered the assessor, is $6.68; the total value of cleared lands, including incorporated towns, is $915,603.
The population as shown by the census of 1890: whites, 3,864 ; colored, 13,727; total, 17,591.
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SENATORS.
1820 Joseph Johnson.
1821 John Joor.
I822 Abram M. Scott. 1823 John Joor.
1825 John Joor.
1826 Abram M. Scott.
1827 Abram M. Scott.
IS2S Joseph Johnson.
1829 Joseph Johnson. 1830 C. P. Smith.
IS31 C. P Smith.
1833 Thos. H. Prosser.
1835 John Henderson.
1836 John Henderson.
1837 Alfred T. Moore.
IS38-'39 Preston W. Farrar,
IS40 Preston W. Farrar.
1841 Truxton Davidson.
1842-'43 Jas. A. Ventress.
1844 Jas. A. Ventress.
IS46-'48 T. J. Stewart.
1850 T. J Stewart.
1852 A. K. Farrar.
1854 A. K. Farrar.
1856-'57 A. K. Farrar.
1858 A. K. Farrar.
1859-'60-'61 Geo H Gordon.
1861-'62 Geo. H. Gordon.
ยท 1865-'66-'67 Moses Jackson.
1870-'71 Wm. H. Gibbs. 1872-'73 Wm. H. Gibbs.
1874 Geo. W. White.
1874-'75 Geo. W. White. 1876-'77 Geo. W. White.
1878 Moses Jackson. ISSO Moses Jackson. 1882 Thos. V. Noland.
1884 Thos. V. Noland.
1886 Wm. F. Love.
1888 Wm. F. Love.
1890 J. H. Jones.
REPRESENTATIVES.
A. M. Scott, Moses Liddell, William John- son.
G. C. Brandon, W. A. Richardson, Wm. Yerby. Geo. Poindexter, M. Liddell, Wm. Yerby.
Gerard C. Brandon, M. Liddell, H. Cage, Geo. Poindexter, Jos. Johnson.
Joseph Johnson, Ed. McGehee, Wm. Haile.
Wm. Haile, C. P. Smith, W. L. Brandon.
C. P. Smith, M. F. Degraffenreid.
Thos. G. Ellis, T. B. J. Hadley.
M. F. Degraftenreid, Jacob Chambers.
E, F. Farish, M. F. Degraffenreid.
M. F. Degraffenreid, Geo. H. Gordon.
G. D. Boyd, F. Richardson.
G. D. Boyd, F. Richardson.
J. A. Ventress, P. W. Farrar, G. H. Gordon.
J. A. Ventress, P. W. Farrar.
Jas. A. Ventress, Spencer Wood.
Jas. A. Ventress, W. A. Norris.
Jas. A. Ventress, Wm. A. Norris.
Wm. A. Norris, H. D. Cooper.
D. H. Cooper. H. F. Simrall.
James D. Stewart.
J. H. Sims.
Geo. H. Gordon.
L. K. Barber.
Geo. H. Gordon.
H. S. Van Eaton.
Thos. H. Williams.
H. F. Simrall.
H. N. Foley, Geo. W. White.
H. N. Foley, Geo. W. White.
E. H. Osgood, S. W. Fitzhugh.
S. W. Fitzhugh, J. W. Shattuck.
Samuel Riley, J. W. Shattuck. Geo. T. McGehee, Jno. A. Redhead.
Geo. T. McGehee, T. V. Noland.
P. L. Ferguson, Hugh L. Davis.
D. C. Bramlett, Geo. H. Peets.
J. H. Jones, T. V. Noland.
J. H. Jones, W. A. Dickson.
T. V. Noland, W. A. Dickson.
CHAPTER XXXV.
WINSTON COUNTY
Was established December 23d, 1833, and named for Col. Winston, commander of a regiment during the Territorial period. Two days later, by an act of the Legislature, Booth Malone, James Bevil, and Erasmus L. Acee were appointed commissioners to organize the county.
Among the early settlers were Jesse M. Field, the first Repre- sentative from the county; E. Foster, W. H. Fox, Isaac Jones, W. B. Hudson, Thos. Jordan, John H. Buckner, Jesse I. Dodson, W. T. Lewis, Amzi Meek, James Meek, Amzi Carrigues, Wm. McDonald, J. Whitehead, Henry Martin, James Hudson, Joseph Bell, who represented the county in both branches of the Legis- lature fifty years ago, was known in an early day as General Bell, being Brigadier-General of the militia, and served one term as Secretary of State ; was also for a number of years connected with the United States land office at Jackson ; Rev .. Jas Martin, Andy Webb, Wm. Fox, John Fagin, who was the first circuit clerk of the county ; Jos. P. Crostly was the first probate clerk and W. H. Hardy the first sheriff of the county. A log court- house was constructed in 1834; at that time Bynum and Reese and Long B. Lewis were engaged in merchandising.
The towns in the county are Louisville, the county site, Platts- burg, Webster, Winstonville, Coopwood, Singleton, Pughs, Fearn Springs, Noxupater and Randall's Bluff.
The streams are Noxupater, Talla Haga and Waaya creeks, and the Lobutchie and Noxubee rivers.
Winston has 51,069 acres of cleared land ; average value per acre, $3.03. Total value, including incorporated towns, $184,432.
The population of the county as shown by the census report of 1890 : Whites, 6,977; colored, 5,072; total, 12,049.
SENATORS.
1835 1836 1837 Geo. B. Augustus
REPRESENTATIVES.
Jesse M. Field.
Isaac Jones,
John H. Buckner.
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1838 Geo. B. Augustus.
1839-'40-'41 Geo. B. Augustus.
1842 Joseph Bell.
1843 Joseph Bell.
John Coalter.
1846 Anderson W. Dabney.
IS48 Anderson W. Dabney.
1850 Thomas J. Hughes.
1852 Thomas J. Hughes.
1854 Joseph Koger.
O. B. Covington, Hugh McQueen.
1856-'57 Joseph Koger.
S. W. Smythe, M. A. Metts.
1858 J. B. Covington.
G. C. Lynch, John Coulter.
T. P. Miller, G. G. Beaman.
Wm. T. Lewis, Wm. Kirk.
W. W. Caperton, J. S. Reid.
W. B. Owings.
M. A. Metts.
Graham.
1875 M. A. Metts.
Graham.
1876-'77 M. A. Metts.
Wm. B. Johnson.
1878 J. E. Bridges.
M. A. Metts.
1880 J. E. Bridges.
M. A. Coleman.
1882 S. M. Roane.
Henry J. Gully.
R. C. Jones.
O. C. Watson.
T. P. King.
1890 W. F. Rogers.
Wm. McDaniel.
Joseph Bell. Thomas D. Connell.
T. J. Hughes, Charles T. Murphy.
S. W. Smythe, T. J. Hughes.
S. W. Godfrey, M. T. Collier.
Willis Kelley, W. B. Smith.
S. W. Smythe, Erastus Huntley.
1859-'60-'61 J. B. Covington.
1861-'62 G. D. Moore.
. 1865-'66'-67 W. D. Lyles.
1870-'71 T. W. Castle.
1872-'73 T. W. Castle.
1874 S. W. Smythe.
1884 S. M. Roane.
1886 H. J. Gully.
1888 H. J. Gully.
J. L. H. Strait.
YALOBUSHA COUNTY
Was established December 23, 1833, and two days later by an act of the Legislature, Jesse B, Garth, John H. Byers, Green Hastings, Samuel Gwin, A. S. Campbell, Wm. J. Oldham, Samuel B. Marsh, Robert Dawson and John H. Mckinney were appointed commissioners to organize the county.
In an early day the rival towns, Pittsburg and Tullahoma, were established on adjoining sections of land by two widely known politicians, the former by Governor Hiram G. Runnels, and the latter by Franklin E. Plummer. The rivalry was participated in by the citizens of the two villages, to the detriment of each from a social and financial standpoint. The strife culminated in the consolidation of the two, and the building up of the prosperous town of Grenada.
Among the earliest settlers of the county were Capt. John Smith, James Sims, C. H. Guy, Nathan Howard, R. T. Byerly, M. H. Melton, Thomas Slack, Dr. Allen Gillespie, Bouthea, Ralph Coffman, G. D. Mitchell, John S. M. Orvell, Robert Eding- ton ; Allen Walker, the two latter represented the county in the Legislature; John Balfour, Joseph Bullock, Major Jack Williams, Larkin Cleveland, G. K. Morton, A. S. Brown, John B. Pass,
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1844 Joseph Bell.
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Daniel Robinson, Clark Dugan, Dr. Howell, N. Edmunds, A. C. Baine, John C. Abbott, Henry Williams, George and Levin Lake, William and James Minter, George Thompson, L. R. Stewart ; the three latter represented the county in the Legislature; Thomas B. Ives, who represented the county in the State Senate ; S. W. Ford, Robert Williams, Judge Lucas, L. P. Peacock, John Bric- tor, Thomas Scott, John Reed, G. W. Mayhew, James Winter, A. C. Chisholm, John Baker, Matthew Clinton, Virgil A. Stewart, who acquired notoriety in exposing the crimes and causing the capture and conviction of the notorious marauder, John A. Mur- rell, who was sent to the penitentiary from Tennessee; General T. C. McMackin, the famous hotel keeper, who never had an equal in his line in the southern country, commenced his career as a tavern-keeper at old Hendersonville, four miles south of where Coffeeville now stands ; E. S. Fisher, who served on both the circuit and supreme benches ; John S. Topp and F. A. Tyler, who still survives his early brethren, were the lawyers of that day ; Dr. Ship, Gabriel Ragsdale, Aurelius McRelus, David Maberry, James Barfield, the first sheriff of the county ; Judge Carberry, Thomas Baker, John and William Brown, David Ray- burn, the Thomas and Jones families, Thomas Bridges, Major James N. Harper, John Durden, the families of Calhoun, Simons, Towns, Lee, Bean, Torrants, Williams, Kirkman, Wade, Oliver, Stone, Baker, Reddick and Eggleston, Judge Hale, Joseph Terry, Dr. Amos Vaughn, Alfred McCoslin, Robert Mullen, Robert Brooks, the Tolberts and Saunders, Shadrack Barnes, Sterling Harrison, Dr. Jacob Snyder, W. H. Whitaker, Samuel Pool, Samuel Smith, E. P. Stratton, Judge R. D. McLain, father of Hon. Wm. C. McLain, a prominent lawyer of Grenada, and member of the Constitutional Convention of 1890 ; Wm. Duncan, Drs. R. C. Malone and Bell, Edward Hughes, Michael Milton, Jas. Y. Blocker, N. B. Ingram, Geo. S. Golliday, who represented the county in the State Senate; Jesse Finley, Byrd 'Crawley, Samuel Chapman, Alexander Barksdale, Drs. Woods and Wil- bourne, Mrs. M. A. Powell and sons, William, Thomas and John Powell, Seth W. Jones, the families of Martin, Jennings, Hardy and Yorks.
The towns are Coffeeville, the county site ; Water Valley, which forms a second circuit and chancery court district; the railroad machine shops, Yocona cotton factory, and Shaw's foundry are located at this place, and Torrence ; these towns are on the Illi-
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nois Central Railroad ; Oakland, Garner and Tillatoba are on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad.
The principal streams in the county are Yalobusha and Loosas- coona rivers ; Abataprombogue, Oakhicama, Perry, Cypress and Turkey creeks.
The Illinois Central Railroad runs through the county from north to south, and the Mississippi and Tennessee through the southern corner of the county.
Yalobusha has 126,989 acres of cleared land ; average value as rendered to the assessor, $4.46. The total value of cleared lands, including incorporated towns in the county, is $989,022.
Population of the county as shown by the census of 1890 : Whites, 7,618 ; colored, 9,011; total, 16,629.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
1835 1836
1837 Thos. B. Ives.
1838-'39 Thomas B. Ives.
1840 Thos. B. Ives.
1841 Thos. B. Ives.
1842-'43 Thos. B. Ives.
1844 Thos. B. Ives.
1846 Wm. B. Wilbourn.
1848 Wm. B. Wilbourn.
1850 G. S. Golliday.
1852 G. S. Golliday.
1854 H. Allen, Jr.
1856 H. Allen, Jr.
1857 C. H. Guy.
1858 L. Brasher.
1859 L. Brasher.
1860-'61 L. Brasher.
1861-'62 J. L. Davis.
A. P. Dunnaway, J. Burton.
R. M. Brown, John L. Milton.
M K. Mister, R. W. Jones.
W. A. Benson .-
W. A. Benson, A. T. Roane.
B. L. Wynn, D. W. Rogers.
George H. Lester, D. W. Rogers.
John M. Moore, A. T. Roane.
M D. L. Stephens, J. J. Ross.
Peter Johnson, J. L. Collins.
W. V. Moore, D. W. Rogers.
1886 S. M. Ross.
18SS S. M. Ross.
1890 J. W. Lamar.
Robert Edrington.
Allen Walker.
Allen Walker.
James Minter, George Thompson, L. R. Stuart.
R. S. Rayburn, W. G. Kendall, L. R. Stuart.
John Baldwin, John R. Mabry.
A. C. Baine, James Wier.
John Balfour, Daniel York.
R. H. Leigh, C. H. Guy, Daniel York.
H. Ray, James Weir, B. T. Cleveland.
F. M. Aldridge, C. H Guy, J. B. Ashe.
C. H. Guy, S. Parks, Lewis Aldridge.
Sam. R. Garner, Robert E. Wynn, F. M. Aldridge.
Sam. R. Garner, J. Q. Martin, C. G. Armis- tead.
Sam. R. Garner, J. Q. Martin, C. G. Armis- tead.
D. York, C. H. Guy, - Black.
C. G. Armistead, P. T. Williams.
C. G. Armistead, J. J. Gage.
. 1865-'66 M. D. L. Stephens. 1870-'71 H. L. Duncan.
1872 H. L. Duncan.
1873 H. L. Duncan.
1874-'75 P. R. Thornton.
1876-'77 P. R. Thornton.
1878 D. W. Rogers. 1880 D. W. Rogers.
1882 Wm. A. Roane.
1884 Wm. A. Roane.
Willis Golliday, W. T. Young.
A. H. Williamson, J. W. Lamar.
W. V. Moore, I. T. Blount.
YAZOO COUNTY
Was established January 21st, 1823, taken from Hinds, and at
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the time of its organization embraced a large area of territory of what is now Madison, Holmes, Washington and Issaquena counties. The first county site was at Beattie's Bluff on Big Black; it took its name from the owners of the land, Robert and David Beattie.
The early settlers of Yazoo were James H. O'Neal and Martin Friley on O'Neil's creek in 1822; the lands located by these pioneers are now owned by their children. David and Elliott Ragsdale opened plantations where the town of Satartia is now located. A Mr. Hanau settled what is now Yazoo City. and known as Hanau's Bluff until 1829. Governor Hiram G. Run- nells, Judge Isaac Caldwell and Daniel W. Wright purchased the land and laid off the town, which was called Manchester until 1838, when it was changed to Yazoo City. The first gin in the county was at Hanau's Bluff, erected in 1826. The first saloon in the county west of Big Black was in this gin-house. Henry and Hiram Hagan settled the Tokeba plantation ; Rich- ardson Bowman was a native of Ireland and came to America because of his connection with the Irish revolt of 1798 ; he first settled at Covington, Louisiana, and married Miss Riley, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and at the battle of New Orleans, and was there promoted from the ranks to a first lieutenancy. After the war he removed to Pike county, in this State, and in 1826 to Yazoo, and settled on the table lands of Big Black ; there in connection with his planting interests he engaged in merchandising-a man of enterprise, public spirit and a leading Democrat. This pioneer boy from the Emerald Isle accumulated a valuable estate, the lands of which are still owned by his sons and daughters, all of whom are honored and respected ; his son, Judge Robert Bow- man, of Yazoo City, is widely known as a leading lawyer and among Yazoo's most prominent citizens ; S. Collins, Charles Brumfield, the Picketts, Hendrick's, Henry Vaughn, the latter now eighty-four years of age, owns and lives on the land he opened in an early day ; James and Thomas Ellison, W. H. Stub- blefield, Gid Pepper, James Bull, the Priesters, William P. Gad- berry, who donated the lands upon which Benton, the new county site, was located, he was the first probate judge of the county, was probate clerk and the first postmaster, merchant and hotel-keeper in Benton ; his eldest son, Dr. W. Y. Gadberry, has been for forty years a prominent physician of high reputation, widely known for learning and skill and at one time a medical
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professor in the city of Louisville, Kentucky ; Richard M. Green, who built the first mill in Yazoo county ; his son, Dr. J. F. Green, is now a practicing physician of high standing in Yazoo City ; Otho Bell, who was the first sheriff of the county, and after the organization of Holmes, was the first sheriff of that county ; John Everett, John M. Sharp, a successful planter and member of the Legislature; Gabriel, Richard and William Swayze, Steven and A. H. Inse, who came from Adams county; their descendants own large tracts of land inherited from their ancestors ; John Dowd, James Hart and Doctor Gale, who invested largely in lands on the lower Yazoo ; Silver Creek was settled by Robert Morris, Benjamin Roach, Wm. C. Harris, W. R. Hill, John Woolfolk and Wm. Lambreth ; John S. Young was the first cireuit clerk of the county ; Robert S. G. Perkins, Morgan L. Fitch, Algernon Duval and Robert Campbell were among the earliest lawyers; the latter served as probate judge of the county ; John Battaile, a lawyer of literary culture ; Wm. R. Miles, a Kentuckian by birth, settled in Yazoo to practice his profession, the law; did a large and lucrative practice, is a gentleman of distinguished ability, in politics was a Whig, and forty years or more ago was among the foremost public speakers in the State; a fine story-teller, splendid presence, an unusual magnetism, it was difficult for even a Democrat to vote against Wm. R. Miles, who represented the county in the State Senate, and was a Brigadier-General in the Confederate army. Some years ago the venerable General retired to his plantation where he now resides surrounded by every luxury that can add to the comfort of old age. Edward C. Wilkinson, a lawyer of recognized ability, was associated in the practice with General Miles, as the senior partner of the film; he was judge of the circuit court of his district, and at one time a candidate for Judge of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, against Chief Justice W. L. Sharkey. Judge Wilkin- son was an uncle of United States Senator E. C. Walthall. R. S. Holt, James R. Burrus and Edward Bowman were lawyers of high standing; the latter of excellent attainments and engaging manners, died at an early age. George W. Dougherty, not a profound lawyer, but bright and quick with infinite humor and and jest. Morgan L. Fitch, who read law after settling at Ben- ton, and subsequently was elected circuit judge. Q. D. Gibbs, who came to Manchester, now Yazoo City, in 1834 ; he was re- garded as the best commercial lawyer at the bar, ranked de- servedly high in his profession and was a gentleman of the
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greatest integrity ; he represented the county in the Legislature, was the father of W. D. Gibbs, a lawyer and planter of Yazoo, who has represented the county in the Legislature, and for some years prominent in politics. Q. D. Gibbs was also the father of ex-Lieutenant-Governor Barnett Gibbs, of the city of Dallas, Texas, who is one of the leading men of that State, and most kindly remembered by his Mississsippi friends. W. E. Pugh, A. G. and S. E. Nye and Geo. B. Wilkinson, were lawyers in Yazoo at an early day.
The first newspaper published in the county was the Yazoo Banner, by Philip Duval, a gallant and plucky man. The Yazoo Whig was established by James A. Stevens, in 1832. The first Democratic paper in the county was established by Major Ethel Barksdale, at Yazoo City, in 1845, and called the Yazoo Demo- crat; it was conducted with signal ability, and made for its editor the reputation of a forcible writer. The physicians in Benton were Dr. J. W. Morough, an Irishman, and a graduate of the University of Dublin, Dr. Ben. Hagerman, Dr. Wilkinson, Dr. Wm. Yandall, Dr. Burton Yandall, Dr. Hiram J. Thomas, Drs. Leake and Barnett, later Drs. Kidd and James, all physicians of high standing and extensive practice. Dr. Kidd was the hus- band of that gifted and accomplished lady, Mrs. L. A. Kidd, now President of the North Texas Female College, located at the city of Sherman, one of the largest and best equipped schools in the Southern States. There may be also named among the early settlers in the lower end of the county, Samuel Marley, John B. Hall, Jonathan Bonney, Arnold Russell, Dr. Isaac Hamberlin, Dr. Joel C. Rice, who was the father of the well known physi- cian, Dr. C. A. Rice, Fielding Cook, Wm. Hall, Henry Douglas, and Michael Kennedy, Robert Cage, whose eldest daughter mar- ried General Harry T. Hayes, who became an eminent lawyer in New Orleans, and a Confederate soldier with the rank of Briga- dier General. General Hayes and his elder brother, Col. Jack Hayes, who will be remembered as the Colonel of the celebrated regiment of Texas Rangers, which he commanded with brilliant success in the Mexican war, were natives of Wilkinson county, Mississippi, and reared by their uncles Judge Harry W. and Rob- ert H. Cage.
Among the early merchants at Benton were Philip P. Gadber- ry, T. H. and J. A. Rollins and Robert Jennings.
The first merchants in Yazoo City, were B. F. Williams, P. B. Pope, George Jonas, Jas. Robinson and Richard Allen ; succeed-
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ing these were Fountain Barksdale, now a gentleman of advanced age, widely known and greatly respected, James Allen, Harrison & Hyatt, J. M. Delvin, R. F. Jennings, C. W. Wood, B. F. Bos- tick and Robt. Wilson; all these gentlemen did an extensive trade.
Prior to the construction of the Illinois Central railroad, Yazoo City, was a commercial point of much importance; it was the mar- ket for Yazoo, Holmes, Attala. Winston, Madison, Leake and Neshoba counties. There were shipped from the city annually, about sixty thousand bales of cotton.
In 1827, an act was passed by the Legislature for the election of five commissioners to select a permanent seat of justice for the county. The 5th section of the act directed that the town when selected should be called Benton. The county site was subsequently removed to Yazoo City, which now has a popula- tion of nearly 5,000 and is among the handsomest and most attractive towns in the State.
Satartia, Enola, Benton, Deasonville, Vaughn's Station, Free Run and Zeiglarsville, comprise the other towns in the county.
The principal streams are the Yazoo river, which flows oue hundred and forty miles through the center of the county, and the Sunflower and Big Black rivers ; Wolf Lake, a beautiful sheet of water a few miles northwest of Yazoo City, and Lake George ; both of these lakes are navigable during high water.
The railroads in the county are the Illinois Central, running north and south, and its branch road from Jackson via Yazoo City to Greenwood.
There are 252,692 acres of cleared land; average value of which, as rendered to the assessor, $8.08 per acre ; total value, including incorporated towns $2,954,885.
The population as shown by the census report of 1890 : whites, 8,515 ; colored, 27,873 ; total, 36,388.
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
1825 Harden D. Runne's.
Andrew E. Beaty.
1826 Harden D. Runnels.
Lindsay C. Hall.
1827 Harden D. Runnels.
Richard Sparks.
1828-'29 Henry W. Vick.
Richard Sparks.
1830 Henry W. Vick.
Thomas Land.
Richard Sparks, W. W. Walton.
D. W. Vance, - - Alston.
D. W. Vance, J. C. Bole.
C. E. Wilkinson, P. Duval.
R. C. Campbell, R. L. Adams.
T. B Woodward, M. A. Jenkins.
J. R. Burress, M. A. Jenkins.
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1831 Thomas Land.
1833 David Ford.
1835 Thomas Land. 1836
1837 Spence M. Grayson.
1838 Spence M. Grayson.
1839 Spence M. Grayson.
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1840 Robert C. Campbell. 1841 Caleb D. Bonney.
1842-'43 Robert Montgomery. 1844 Robert Montgomery. 1846 Wm. R. Miles. 1848 J. J. B. White.
1850 J. J. B. White. 1852 W. L. Johnston
1854 W. L. Johnston.
1856-'57 Peter B. Starke.
1858 Peter B. Starke.
IS59-'60'61 Peter B. Starke.
1861-'62 Peter B. Starke.
: 1865 W. S. Yerger.
. 1866-'67 W. S. Yerger. 1870-'71 Albert T. Morgan. 1872-'73 Albert T. Morgon. 1874 J. E. Everett. 1875 J. E. Everett. 1876-'77 J. E. Everett.
1878 W. D. Gibbs. 1880 W. D. Gibbs. 1882 Wm. H. Luse.
1884 Wm. H. Luse.
1886 Wm. II. Luse.
ISSS Wm. H. Luse.
1890 A. M. Hicks.
J. R. Burns, John M. Sharp. Charles E. Mount, J. R. Burress. Charles E. Mount, B. Lewis. Wm R. Miles, Berry Lewis. G. W. Woodbury, R. L. Adams. T. P. Slade, H. J. Thomas. H. J. Thomas, H. B. Regan. C. Bowman, George W. Daugherty.
James R. Burress, Harrison Barksdale.
E. M. Verger, B. R. Holmes.
W. L. Johnston, H. J. Thomas. H. Barksdale, H. J. Thomas. Q. D Gibbs. N. G. Nye. Alex. Montgomery. A. S, Wood, W. H. Foote, F. E. Franklin. J. E. Everett, James M. Dixon, F. D. Wade. Walter Boyd, J. G. Patterson.
Walter Boyd, J. G. Patterson, Richards. A. M. Hicks, R. S. Hudson, L. A. Camp- bell.
A. M. Hicks, D. Bunch, Robert Day.
A. M. Hicks, Garnett Andrews, H. Craytin. A. M. Harlow, A. G. Norrell, W. J. Wat- lington. James A. Barksdale, A. G. Norrell, W. J. Watlington, W. L. Dyer.
H. L. Taylor, A. G. Norrell, W. S. Epper- son, W. D. Gibbs.
T. R. Holloman, J. S. Reid, C. H. Perkins, P. Simmons.
I. M, Kelly, S. S. Hudson, C. H. Perkins, W. J. Watlington.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.
T "HE Congress of the United States, on the 20th of Febrn- ary, 1819, donated two sections of land, either in a body, or by fractional sections, as should be preferred by legislative action, for a seat of government in the State of Mississippi-the land to be located by authority of the State wherever the Indian title was extinguished, and be- fore the commencement of the public sales of the adjoin- ing and surrounding lands belonging to the United States. In pursuance of this grant, the Legislature on 12th Feb- ruary, 1821, appointed Thomas Hinds, James Patton and William Lattimore, commissioners to make the location, and directed that it should be within twenty miles of the true centre of the State, embracing its whole extent, not only the part within its jurisdiction, but also that occu. pied by the Indian tribes. On the 28th November following, a supplemental act was passed by the Legislature author- izing Thomas Hinds, William Lattimore and Peter A. Van- dorn to locate the east halves of sections three and ten, and the west halves of sections two and eleven in town- ship five, range one east of the basis meridian, as a per- manent seat of government for the State, and by the same act the commissioners were further authorized to lay off a town on such part of the located lands as they deemed advisable, and when laid out, to be called Jackson, in honor of Major-General Andrew Jackson. Inducements were held out at that early day to persons of enterprise to become citizens of the newly located capital, and with that view, the scope of the commissioners was enlarged to the extent of granting a right of preference to ten town lots to responsible persons. on condition that the occu- pants should by the following November " build a neat
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