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Cowles Mead

Burr voluntarily surrendered to Mississippib> officials in exchange for a guaranteed trial in the territory, rather than face extradition.
Cowles Mead History from Mississippib> Department of Archives and History Subject Files (.pdf document)
Newspaper Article About Gravesite from Mississippib> Department of Archives Subject Files

http://www.vaiden.net/cowles_mead.html (2086 words)



Flags Over Mississippib>

Under the provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1763, France ceded its territory east of the Mississippib> River to England, and its territory west of the river, along with New Orleans, to Spain.
Mississippib> did not officially adopt a state flag until 1861, when it seceded from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America.
Even though Mississippib> did not legally have an official state flag after 1906, no one seemed to have known it and practically everyone who was interested in such things presumed that it did and continued to fly the flag that was adopted in 1894.

http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature2/flagsoverms.html (3171 words)



Frontier Press Bookstore - Mississippib> - 1-800-772-7559

Land Claims in the Mississippib> Territory, Lowrie, Walter.
A scholarly study of the influence of diverse ethnic groups on Mississippib> culture.
Mississippib> Confederate Pension Applications, A-G, Wiltshire, Betty C. An index to the Confederate pension applications in the Mississippib> Department of Archives and History at Jackson, Mississippib>.

http://www.frontierpress.com/frontier.cgi?category=ms (1633 words)



CIVPROHS.htm

Governor Sargent (a federalist appointee) was criticized by political opponents in the territory for, among other things, promulgating entirely new laws rather than adopting them from some other state.
Mississippib> experienced several forms of government during this period, adopted and amended two state constitutions, and attempted to sever legal ties to the United States.
Because there had been no appeals from Mississippib> state courts to the Supreme Court prior to the Civil War, the attempted secession (and resulting elimination of superior federal court) had little effect on legal practice in state courts.

http://home.olemiss.edu/~mhoffhei/exams/CIVPROHS.htm (16526 words)



Mississippib> Slavery

When the government of the United States established the Mississippib> Territory in 1798, the region around Natchez, which held the bulk of the population, contained about 5,000 whites and 3,500 slaves.
The French first introduced slavery into the Mississippib> territory in the early 1700 and the English, who later settled into the territory, were eager purchasers of slaves.
By 1835 these Indian nations had lost all claims to their territory.

http://www.blackokelleys.net/mississippi_history.htm (541 words)



The Great Migration 1798-1819

Using their map, students will write a paragraph describing the location of the Mississippib> Territory and how its boundaries were different from the boundaries of the modern state.
As students research the great migration to the Mississippib> Territory which occurred between 1798 and 1819, they will recognize how this time period played a dominant role in shaping the later history of the state.
Descriptions of the early Mississippib> Territory can be found in A History of Mississippib>, Volume 1, and Mississippib>s Piney Woods: A Human Perspective.

http://teacherexchange.mde.k12.ms.us/MHNLP/greatmigrationlp.htm (613 words)



American History and Genealogy Project - State of Mississippib> Genealogical and Historical Research

During this period, Congress erected the territory previously surrendered by Spain, naming it the Mississippib> Territory.
American History and Genealogy Project - State of Mississippib> Genealogical and Historical Research
The USGenWeb Texas Archives has published a large number of files containing personal information about living individuals who were born, married, or divorced in Texas.

http://www.natchezbelle.org/ahgp-ms (627 words)



Letter books of William Charles Cole Claiborne

Estimates of area of land in Mississippib> Territory at 1,6000,000 acres or 2,500 square miles on the river, comprehending counties of Jefferson, Adams, Wilkinson and Claiborne.
General Wilkinson begins to survey the old boundary line between the Mississippib> territory and the Choctaw Nation.
Claiborne expected that the settlement of the French in Louisiana would be greatly regretted in the Mississippib> Territory.

http://www.enlou.com/wcccletters/wcccletters-1802-4q.htm (1983 words)



Natchez on Encyclopedia.com

Natchez was capital of the Mississippib> Territory from 1798 to 1802.
Publication: Mississippib> Business Journal; Author: Lofton, Lynn ; Source: MAGAZINES
The Buffalo Community Church in Kosciusko, Mississippib> is where Oprah Winfrey first performed in public and stands along the Natchez Trace Parkway, a scenic journey through the South.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/N/Natchez.asp (782 words)



Mississippib> Books

0913193 Land Claims in the Mississippib> Territory, Lowrie, 1986, 304pp $30.00
085025 Mississippib> Territory in the War of 1812, This is the major historical and genealogical source for information on the part played by the Mississippib> Territory in the campaign against the British and the Creeks during the War of 1812.
All major conflicts in the Mississippib> theater, commencing with the Battle of Burnt Corn in July 1813 to the legendary Battle of New Orleans.

http://members.aol.com/TMCorner/book_mis.htm (1942 words)



Mississippib> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Mississippib> Territory was organized on April 7, 1798, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina; it was later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain.
Mississippib> is a Southern state of the United States.
Mississippib> was the second state to secede from the Union as one of the Confederate States of America on January 9, 1861.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi (1652 words)



CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mississippib>

The present territory of Mississippib> was acquired and claimed as follows: That portion south of 31° N. lat.
was territory of the United States and was claimed by the State of Georgia.
The validity of these suffrage qualifications has been sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Williams vs. The State of Mississippib>, decided by a unanimous court in 1896.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10394a.htm (3969 words)



Mississippib> Territory

Mississippib> Territory was was a historic, organized territory of the United States from April 7, 1798, and expanded twice (in 1804 and 1812), until it extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern border of Tennessee.
The Mississippib> Territory was organized in 1798 from land that had been disputed by the U.S. and Spain until Spain ceded claim with Treaty of Madrid (1795)Treaty of Madrid in 1795.
In 1817 the Mississippib> Territory was divided, when the western portion became the state of Mississippib>, and the eastern became the Alabama Territory, with St. Stephens, AlabamaSt.

http://www.infothis.com/find/Mississippi_Territory (589 words)



Ancestors Of George & Hazel Mullins: Chapter 5 - Mississippib> Territory

This new US Territory included all the land east of the Louisiana Purchase, south of the Mississippib> Territory and, according to the Americans, west of Perdido Bay.
was the extreme western and southern limits of the territory claimed by the United States in 1798.
The Treaty of 1801 established the border of the Territory just west of the Tangipahoa River but settlers were prevented by law in 1803 from settling that far east.

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~pmullins/chapter05.htm (2001 words)



St. Louis Public Library: Gateway Family Historian Summer 2004: They Came from Mississippib>

Congress increases the size of Mississippib> Territory so that it runs from Tennessee in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south.
The eastern half of Mississippib> Territory becomes the State of Alabama.
The state does a census of veterans-records available from Mississippib> Department of Archives and History.

http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/gfh0402p4.htm (591 words)



Ancestors Of George & Hazel Mullins: Chapter 4 - The Journey West

US citizens traveling to Mississippib> Territory from the eastern states were required to have passports.
Summary: The journey to Mississippib> Territory was made over poorly-marked footpaths through Indian-occupied territory during the winter months.
However there were very few roads into the Mississippib> Territory in those days so it is possible to make a reasonable guess.

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~pmullins/chapter04.htm (1457 words)



Daniel Clark-Real Estate

In September 1805 this title is granted to Daniel Clark (9/24/1805, #632, 1,023 acres french measure on the Mississippib> River, v3p137) by a congressional commission on land claims in the Mississippib> Territory.
In August 1805 this title is granted to Daniel Clark (8/1/1805, #474, 800 acres french measure on the Mississippib> River, v2p391) by a congressional commission on land claims in the Mississippib> Territory.
In October 1805 this title is granted to Daniel Clark (10/2/1805, #647, 600 acres french measure on the Mississippib> River, v3p167) by a congressional commission on land claims in the Mississippib> Territory.

http://www.enlou.com/people/clarkd-land.htm (2635 words)



Mississippib> Fast Facts and Trivia

Thanks to: Ron Collins, Greg Maxedon, Source: "Mississippib>", published by the office of the Secretary of State
Mississippib> was the first state in the nation to have a planned system of junior colleges.
Mississippib> suffered the largest percentage of people who died in the Civil War of any Confederate State.

http://www.50states.com/facts/miss.htm (1068 words)



Mississippib> Territory in the War of 1812 (GW 5025)

This is the major historical and genealogical source for information on the part played by the Mississippib> Territory in the campaign against the British and the Creeks during the War of 1812.
Mississippib> Territory in the War of 1812 (GW 5025)
Excerpted with permission from Volume IV of Publications of the Mississippib> Historical Society, Mrs.

http://www.familyhaven.com/genealogy/genealogy01/0806303018AMUS489484.shtml (211 words)



Mississippib> Codes 1799-1839

The Statutes of the Mississippib> Territory, Revised and Digested by the Authority of the General Assembly.
The Statutes of the State of Mississippib> of a Public and General Nature, With the Constitutions of the United States and of this State: And an Appendix Containing Acts of Congress Affecting Land Titles, Naturalization, andc.
The Revised Code of the Laws of Mississippib>, In Which are Comprised All Such Acts of the General Assembly, of a Public Nature, As Were in Force at the End of the Year 1823; With a General Index.

http://library.mssc.state.ms.us/MSCodesAll.htm (1351 words)



Mississippib>

This resulted in the infant United States acquiring the Mississippib> Territory in 1798, with Natchez as the first territorial capital.
Mississippib> has more churches per capita than any other state.
Mississippib> was admitted to statehood in December 1817.

http://www.ohwy.com/ms (286 words)



Mississippib> State Capitol

Portraits of Mississippib>'s governors since the creation of the Mississippib> Territory in 1798 are on display.
The ship was sold to Greece in 1914 but the figurehead was presented to Mississippib> by the United States Navy in December 1909.
The Beaux Arts style building was designed to house all branches of the Mississippib> state government.

http://www.ls.state.ms.us/htms/cap_info.htm (403 words)



Mississippib>.com

On December 10, 1817 the Mississippib> Territory became the 20th state accepted into the United States of America.
A trip to the Gulf Islands National Seashore should not be missed when traveling through this region of Mississippib>.
Mississippib> Gulf Coast The Gulf Coast has many attractions to offer visitors.

http://www.mississippi.com (440 words)



SOLDIERS OF THE MISSISSIPPIb> TERRITORY

Mississippib> Territory in the War of 1812, Mrs.
Mississippib> Territory- Basically the area westward from the Chattahoochee River (Alabama, Georgia) to the Mississippib> River (Mississippib>, Louisiana), Southward from the Tennesse River Valley (Alabama, Tennessee) to the Gulf of Mexico.
Nixon's Regiment of Mississippib> Militia in service to the United States, formed by order of the Governor, December 1813.

http://home.bak.rr.com/simpsoncounty/war1812.htm (1059 words)



Early Southwest Mississippib> Territory - MSGenWeb

The Natchez tribe was established in the area of southeast Mississippib> before the Spanish and French entered the area.
Hostility finally ended in 1830 with the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, but the entire Choctaw were forced to move across the Mississippib> River into Oklahoma where they joined the Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Siminole in Oklahoma, and eventually became one of the Five Civilized Tribes.
The Choctaw Indians were an agricultural and cattle-raising people who lived in central and southern Mississippib>, as well as Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana, during the 18th century.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~msswterr/natribes.htm (1041 words)



The Political Graveyard: Mississippib> Politicians Who Died in Office

Justices of the Mississippib> Territory Supreme Court Who Died In Office:
Mississippib> Secretaries of State Who Died In Office:
Justices of the Mississippib> State Supreme Court Who Died In Office:

http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/pdio.html (349 words)



Flag

This U.S. flag also waved in 1817, as Mississippib> was admitted as the 20th U.S. state.
This flag flew over Mississippib> forts at Ocean Springs (Fort Maurepas) and Natchez, until the French were ousted in 1763.
When the Sovereign Republic of Mississippib> joined the Confederate States of America, on March 27, the short-lived Magnolia flag was replaced by the Confederacy's flag.

http://www.its.state.ms.us/et/portal/MSFlags/flags.html (576 words)



Everetts of Mississippib>

The earliest Everetts on record in the counties of the western Mississippib> Territory were two WILLIAMS, probably a father and son, identified in the 1805 census of Wilkinson County.
Prior to the admission of Mississippib> as a state, another census was ordered in 1816.
While most of our Mississippib> Everett research has been focused on this family, we have spent considerable time attempting to find connections between these three families.

http://everetthistory.home.mindspring.com/MS.html (924 words)



Territory Timeline

1869 -- Wyoming Territory becomes the first American political entity to give women the right to vote, plus the right to hold office and serve on juries.
Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indian leaders agree to move to reservations in Dakota Territory; the U.S. government agrees to abandon roads and forts in the Powder River region, and permit the Indians to retain use of the old hunting grounds east of the Bighorn Mountains in southern Montana Territory.
Increasing numbers of English-speaking colonists settle along the tributaries of the Ohio and Mississippib> rivers.

http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=332 (1431 words)



Mississippib>

Native Americans, Kaintuck boatmen, post riders, government officials, soldiers and fortune seekers all moved across this trail, charting new territory and creating a vital link between the Mississippib> Territory and the fledgling United States.
Experiencing the Mississippib> River for the first time is a memory few will forget.
No contact information is available for this state.

http://www.byways.org/browse/states/MS (167 words)

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