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Records where state='MS'| ID: 479 Title: Nathan Hooker Junior becomes County Coroner | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Submitted: 2010-02-18 | Year: 1825 To 1825 Label: History | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: SLC FHC film #2026542, Monticello, Mississippi Records | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location: Country: USA, State: MS, County: Lawrence, City: Monticello | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ID: 476 Title: List of those who first settled in Lawrence Co., Mississippi | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Submitted: 2010-02-24 | Year: 1815 To 1854 Label: Land | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: SLC FHC, Microfilm #2026542 Lawrence County, MS, Monticello Deed Book A, 1815 - 1854 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Body: *pg 372 Robert Ray buys land T5N, R 19W, Sec 3, SW1/4 on 29 Feb 1816 -Image 522 *pg 372 Stephen Noble buys land T5N, R19W, Sec 3, SW 29 Feb 1816 -Image 522 pg 340 Wm Ray and Wm Beard mentioned- Land in Monticello. Oct 1823 *pg 396 US to Green Young to John Ray. 23 Feb 1821, T6N, R19W,Sec 8, NE -Image 1196 *pg 397 US to John Ray 13 Feb 1818 T6N, R19W, Sec 9, W1/2NW -Image 1197 *pg 415 US to Stephen Noble 29 Feb 1816, T6N, R19W, Sec 27, NW, See also John Green and Ephraim Green *pg 421 US to William Goodson, 30 Dec 1818, T6N, R19W, Sec 33, E1/2NE *pg 422 US to Fort Alford, 30 Dec 1818, T6N, R19W, Sec 34, W1/2SW *pg 431 US to Nathan Hooker, 20 Sep 1816, T7N, R19W, Sec 6, NW. See also Hymrick Hooker and Mikells *pg 434 Levi Noble & Jane to J. Bishop, 18 Nov 1833, T7N, R19W, Sec 9, W1/2SW *pg 436 US to Richard Sparks, no date, T7N, R19W, Sec 11, SW. See also Levi Noble. *pg 439 US to Wm Sparks, 8 Oct 1816 Donated to Bethany Baptist, T7N, R19W, Sec 14 *pg 456 US to Benjamin Goodson, 7 Aug 1817, T7N, R19W, Sec 31, W1/2SW. See also Wm Steen. *pg 458 US to Benjamin Goodson, 3 Oct 1817, T7N, R19W, Sec 33, W1/2SE, See also Wm Askew. *pg 459 James Goodson to James Buckley Sr., 14 Jan 1814, T7N, R19W, Sec 34, NW&SE *pg 485 US to Levi Noble, 16 ? 1833, T8N, R19W, Sec 23 N1/2SE pg 486 More- Levi Noble 1835 and 1837 *pg 493 Richard Hooker 20 Sep 1816, T8N, R19W, Sec 31, SE. See Mikells *pg 529 More- Levi Noble *pg 544 US to Benjamin Goodson 29 Feb 1816, T6N, R20W, Sec 11, E1/2NE pg 570 US to James Goodson, 30 Mar 1816, T6N, R20W, Sec 27, NE & NW *pg 589 US to Mark Noble, 1 Sep 1832, T7N, R20W, Sec 10, SENE *pg 594 Wm Fielder and Richard Sparks mentioned. Source for the following: BLM Eastern States Office US to Wm Goodson 28 Mar 1821, T6N, R19W, Sec 27, SW US to James Goodson 25 May 1825, T6N, R20W, Sec 15, SW US to James Goodson 15 Nov 1825, T6N, R20W, Sec 11, E1/2NE US to Benjamin Goodson 21 Aug 1821, T6N, R20W, Sec 1, SW US to Levi Noble 1 Oct 1825, T7N, R19W, Sec 11, N1/2SE US to Henry Askew and Wm Noble 22 Apr 1828, T4N, R16W, Sec 7, E1/2SE US to Levi Noble 5 Jan 1831, T6N, R20W, Sec 5, E1/2NW US to Benjamin Goodson 1 Jan 1849, T6N, R20W, Sec 1, SE US to Wm Goodson 1 Dec 1831, T6N, R19W, Sec 28, E1/2SE |
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| Location: Country: USA, State: MS, County: Lawrence | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ID: 467 Title: Residents of Southeast MS Territory | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Submitted: 2009-10-22 | Year: 1806 To 1817 Label: Land | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: SLC FHL 976.21 H29s V1, Residents of Southeast MS Territory (Alabama Territory) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Body: *pg 35, Jacob Ray in Washington County, MS, 1809 *pg 37, Joseph I Ray in Washington County, MS, 1809 *pg 71, John Ray and Henry Ray on Tax Roll for Clarke Co, MS 1813 *pg 89, Henry Ray on Tax Roll of CLarke Co, MS, 1814 *pg 181, James Ray, Walker, Few, Bird, Hall, Charles Ray, Hall Ray on petition. *pg 12, Sanders Rae (Sanders Ray) on map of land on the Tombigbee River. *pg 17, Entry for Sanders Rae #50 on Tombigbee River drainage. *pg 80, Benjamin Few and Sanders Ray in court case in Wakefield, Washington Co, MS Territory (Alabama), May Term 1807 |
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| Location: Country: USA, State: AL, MS, County: Washington, Clarke | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ID: 455 Title: First settlers of Lawrence County would purchase land and have it recorded in St. Stephen's Land Office. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Submitted: 2009-09-24 | Year: 1815 To 1816 Label: Land | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: SLC FHL 976.1 R2ha, Old St. Stephen's Land Office Records 1768-1888 vol 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Body: The land offices like St. Stephens Land Office would keep track of land as it went from federal to private ownership. If one just goes to the index to look up a name it doesn't show as much as by searching the early entries of land ownership in Lawrence area/East of Pearl River area. This is when you see the relatiionships of friends and family that migrated together or near the same time frame to be grouped once again in a new land - the newly opended lands of Mississippi. pg 14, William Sparks - Marion Co, T. 7 N, R. 21 W., 3-24-1812 pg 14, William Fielder - Marion Co, T. 7 N, R. 21 W., 1-30-1812 pg 14, James Stewart - Marion Co, T. 1 N, R. 11 W., 6-1-1812 pg 18, Stephen Noble - Pearl River area, T. 6 N., R. 19 W., 12-6-1815 pg 19, William Foster - Clarke Co Alabama, T. 8 N., R. 2 W., 12-6-1815 pg 20, William C. Young, Washington Co Alabama, T. 11 N., R. 2 W., 2-14-1816 *pg 21, Levi Noble - Lawrence Co, T. 6 N., R. 20W, 2-29-1816 *pg 21, Harmon Runnells - Lawrence Co, T. 7 N., R. 20 W., 2-5-1816 *pg 21, Howell W. Runnells - Lawrence Co, T. 7 N., R. 21 W., 2-5-1816 *pg 21, James Buckley - Lawrence Co, T. 6 N., R. 19 W., 3-11-16 *pg 21, Edward Buckley - Lawrence Co, T. 6 N., R. 20 W., 3-11-1816 *pg 22, Richard Sparks - Lawrence Co, T. 7 N., R. 20 W., 3-11-1816 *pg 22, Richard Fielder - Lawrence Co, T. 7 N., R. 20 W., 3-11-1816 *pg 22, Randolf Traillor - Lawrence Co, T. 7 N., R. 20 W., 3-11-1816 *pg 22, Benjamin Goodson - Lawrence Co, T. 6 N., R. 20 W., 2-29-16 *pg 22, James Goodson - Lawrence Co, T. 6 N., R. 20 W., 4-1-1816 *pg 22, Robert Ray - Lawrence Co, T. 5 N., R. 19 W., 2-26-1816 pg 23, Howell W. Runnells - Lawrence Co, T. 9 N., R. 20 W., 9-29-1820 pg 23, Duncan Ray - Wayne Co, T. 6 N., R. 5 W., 8-11-21 |
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| Location: Country: USA, State: MS, County: Lawrence | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ID: 448 Title: Edward B. Noble and William F Noble vs Christopher Finch | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Submitted: 2009-09-09 | Year: 1831 To 1831 Label: Court | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: SLC FHL microfilm # 2258090 Circuit Court of Hinds County | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Body: Court Case 3510 in Hinds County |
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| Location: Country: USA, State: MS, County: Hinds | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ID: 421 Title: History of Settlement of western Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Submitted: 2009-07-28 | Year: 1780 To 1810 Label: History | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: http://www.archive.org/stream/historydiscover02monegoog/historydiscover02monegoog_djvu.txt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Body: I was just thinking again about who Jacob Ray's wife was, it would help a lot in whether she was Joseph's wife instead. So where was Jacob that we might find records? He was in Wilkes Co., but did he also live where his father, probably Saunders Ray, was (in a settlement on the 'Bigby' river (spelled lots of ways) where he visited a few times.
So where is the Bigby settlements? The info from the web site above came from an old book about the settlement of GA, MS, AL etc. It looks like they copied the book with an optical scanner that got about 90% of the characters correct. I copied a few excerpts out for the discussion below. It is good to get a feel of the westward settlement and figure out where the settlements were and why people were there. I think from the history: that the Bigby was the Tombigbee River that runs to the south along the western edge of 'now' Alabama. Near the Gulf it joins the Mobile River and empties into the Gulf. Most of the area west of Bishop and Scull Shoals in the 1780s and 1790s (where our Rays were) was the Creek Nation with lots of Indian problems with treaties that were made and broken. Where Whites would make treaties with some tribes that weren't honored by other tribes.... messy conflict into the early 1800s. So people got passports so they understood and agreed to where they could go and not go in crossing these Indian lands based on the current agreement of the treaties and routes. France and England had already made treaties with the Indians for an area on the Tombigbee River where whites had safety and no Indians. That was the area on the southern part of the Tombigbee River and the Mobile River. It was incorporated into the original Washington County of Alabama. I just found this that explains it better: http://theusgenweb.org/al/washington/ **** Washington County is the oldest county in the State of Alabama. The area adjacent to the coastline that is now Washington County was claimed by Spain as part of Florida from 1519 to 1700; governed by France as part of Louisiana from 1700 to 1763; taken from France by England in 1763 and held by England until the end of the Revolutionary War, when it was again claimed by Spain. Spain claimed as a northern boundary for Spanish West Florida the latitude of 32 degrees, which runs a few miles north of Montgomery. The United States claimed its sovereignty extended south to the 31 degree line, and the State of Georgia claimed title to the area between that line and the southern boundary of Tennessee. Eventually, it was this much disputed area that became Washington County. With the Treaty of Lorenzo in 1795, Spain agreed to withdraw to the 31 degree line. In 1798, the United States then created the Mississippi Territory which included this area, and Georgia relinquished all claims to lands in Alabama and Mississippi in 1802. At that time, only two population centers existed in the Mississippi Territory, on the Mississippi River, and the Tombigbee Settlements at the forks of the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers. As a result, the area was divided into the Natchez District west of Pearl River and the Tombigbee or Mobile District east of Pearl River. Washington County, in the Tombigbee District, was created on June 4, 1800 by proclamation of Governor Winthrop Sargent of the Mississippi Territory, and named in honor of General George Washington. Its original boundaries extended 300 miles east to west and 88 miles north to south. Out of this area sixteen counties in Mississippi and twenty-nine counties in Alabama have since been formed. **** That had to be why St. Stephens was chosen to be where the Land Office was as it would be relatively civilized, but on the edge of where all the new tracts of land would be settled. Maybe we should poke around some in this area for a Sauders W. Ray will or any info about Jacob Ray who I think is his son along with son Jonas. They might have even slipped into MS with all the movement of people at that time to get the choice Indian land as the Indians were forced out. Excerpts from: http://www.archive.org/stream/historydiscover02monegoog/historydiscover02monegoog_djvu.txt The whole region extending north and east of the Natchez District for nearly five hundred miles, to the settlements on Cumberland River of Tennessee, and to those on the Oconee, in (Georgia, was Indian territory, in the sole occupancy of the na- tive tribes, except the small district on the Tombigby and Mo- bile Rivers, to which the Indian title had been extinguished by the former governments of France and England. The Natchez District extended upon the east side of the Mississippi River for about one hundred miles, and was bounded on the east by a line extending direct from the sources of the Tickfaw,ina direction west of north to the Yazoo River, ten miles above its mouth. No portion of this district extended more than twenty- five miles direct from the river. Such was the country which was then placed under the first grade of territorial government. The only route of intercourse with the United States was that of the Mississippi and the AD. 1800. VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI B4S [A.D. 1800.] The counties of Adams and Pickering comprised the whole Natchez District until the 4th of June, 1800, when the governor again issued his proclamation, counter- signed by John Steele, secretary, laying off the ** County of Washington" on the Tombigby River. The limits of this county were the territorial boundaries on the north and south, the Pearl River on the west, and the Chattahoochy on the east ; and the Mississippi Territory comprised only three large coun* ties until the following year. Meantime, in consequence of an increase of population, and also om account of dissatisfaction among the people, and re- monstrances against the arbitrary measures of Governor Sar- gent and his council. Congress, by special favor, passed an act authorizing the establishment of the second grade of territorial government at an earlier period than the population of the ter- ritory would authorize under the provisions of the ordinance of July Idth, 1787. Thus, the second grade of representative government commenced in the Mississippi Territory before the free white males had increased to five thousand in number. The Creation of Washington County for Tombigby settlers: A House of Representatives, or Legislative Assembly, was duly elected, and members of the '' Council" having been ap^ pointed, the General Assembly was organized for business in December following* The Legislative Assembly consisted of four representatives from Adams, four from Pickering, and one from the Tombigby settlements, elected in the ratio of one rep- resentative to every five hundred free white males ; and the Legislative Council consisted of five members. The first Gen- eral Assembly thus organized convened at Natchez on the first Monday in December, which was fixed as the time for each annual meeting thereafter^ All bills enacted by the two houses received the force of law only after the approbation and signature of the governor, who held an unqualified veto upon * The style of tfiu prodBmatkn wsm in this form, viz. : "Know aS men," kc, " In virtae of the authority rested in me by the sovereign antfaority of the United Bttteib and for the purpose of extending the administration of eqnal justice to the inhabitants upon the Tombigby and other eastern settlements, I have dioaght proper, therefore, to erect a new county ; and by Aese letters made patent, do ordain and ofder tiiat all and singnlar the lands lying and being widiin the following limits, to wit," 4co., "shall ooDstitute the same ; to be named, and to be hereafter called, the ' County of Washington ‘. … Washington District. — ^In the mean time, the population on the Tombigby and Mobile Rivers bad increased, and it was deemed expedient to erect the county of Washington into a judicial district, with an " additional judge." Agreeably to an act of Congress, approved March 27th, 1804, an additional judge was appointed, and required to reside in or near the prin- cipal settlements of Washington county, where he should hold two regular terms of the Superior Court annually on the first Mondays in May and September.* The court wks soon after- ward organized, with the Honorable Harry Toulmin as judge. Judge Toulmin entered upon his duties with zeal and energy, and contributed greatly to the complete organization of the new territorial government, and the establishment of a regular sys- tem of judicial proceedings throughout the territory. Such was the confidence reposed in his talents and integrity as a legislator, that he was employed by the Greneral Assembly, What the area was like in 1805 and years shortly thereafter Indian Treaties in 1805, — The eastern halt of the territory was still an unbroken savage wilderness in the possession of the Creek nation, except the district on Tombigby and Mobile Rivers. The routes from this district to Georgia and East Tennessee were only Indian trails, traversed and occupied by the Creeks and Cherokees. The principal intercourse between these settlements and those on the Mississippi was by way of the road leading from New Orleans to Fort Stoddart. To open a direct communication between these settlements and the populous portions of Tennessee and Georgia, and to afford mail facilities to the remote portions of the Union, the Federal gov- ernment ^entered into treaties with the Indian nations. The firsi treaty of this year was with the Chickasas, wherein they ceded the extreme eastern portion of their country lying north of the "Great Bend" of Tennessee River, and comprising about three hundred and forty-five thousand acres in the vicin- ity of Huntsville, and which was subsequently organized into the " county of Madison." The next was with the Cherokees at Tellico, on the 7th of October, 1806. By this treaty the Cherokees ceded to the United States a mail-route through their country, from Knox- ville, in East Tennessee, to New Orleans, by way of the Tellico and the Tombigby Rivers. They also conceded to the people of the United States the free and unmolested use of this road in traveling from one extreme to the other. This was the first public road from East Tennessee to the Tombigby, and it opened the way for emigration to the settlements on the banks of that river below the Indian boundary.* Aaron Burr (once vp of US) plan of invading Mexico and the prospects of cotton brought many west to MS General Wilkinson; having succeeded in arresting the whole plan of the conspiracy, was assailed by Burr and his satellites as implicated in the conspiracy itself. Although Wilkinson was actively instrumental in frustrating the whole conspiracy, it is evident that for years before he did entertain the idea of invading the Mexican provinces with the army of the United States ; but there is no evidence of any design on his part to turn his arms against his country, or to invade Mexico without authority. Meantime, the excitement in the West, connected with Burr's movements on the Mississippi, brought hundreds, if not thou- sands, of enterprising emigrants to the Mississippi Territory, greatly increasing its population, and augmenting the talent and moral worth in the country. Cotton Staple, — Agriculture within the territory had just emerged from that state of depression which existed at the time when the American jurisdiction was established over the coun- try. Indigo had been a principal staple of export up to the year 1807, when the invention of the saw cotton-gin, by Whit- ney, was introduced, and imparted an impulse to the cultiva- tion of cotton which produced a corresponding decline in the indigo crop. Cotton now became the engrossing staple of the Colonel Burr was arrested under the Allowing drcamitancet, vis. : In oompanj A.D. 1807 VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI 879 fine agricultural settlements ; and the comparatively easy and speedy mode of divesting the lint from the seed gave a presage of future wealth and prosperity to the country. Yet cotton-gins were few ; and, like mills in a new country, one public cotton-gin performed the work of ginning the crops for a whole neighborhood. The large estates, which produced from one to two hundred bales of cotton, could afford to keep a gin for their own use ; but the cotton crop of the territory was produced chiefly by small planters, whose entire crops seldom exceeded twenty-five or thirty bales. Such were com- pelled to carry their crops to the public gins and wait their turn, in the order of their application, for their ginned crops. The toll paid for gmning and pressing was one tenth of the nett cotton, besides an extra charge for bagging and rope. |
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| ID: 410 Title: Abraham Blanchard buys land originally assigned to William Goodson | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Submitted: 2009-06-14 | Year: 1830 To 1830 Label: Land | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: BLM eastern states office | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Body: See land description on picture. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location: Country: USA, State: MS, County: Lawrence | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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