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James Wilkinson (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
alnut Hill was evacuated, and Fort Panmure about midnight......March 29-30, 1798 Act of Congress approved creating Mississippi Territory, including the present State of Alabama......April 7, 1798 Georgia constitution of this year defines definitely the boundaries claimed by the State, which include the Mississippi Territory, established by act of Congress......1798 Winthrop Sargent appointed first territorial governor of Mississippi, and arrives at Natchez......Aug. 6, 1798 General Wilkinson reaches Natchez and fixes headquarters at Loftus Heights, afterwards Fort Adams......Aug. 26, 1798 Act of Congress supplemental regarding the government of the Mississippi Territory, and providing that settlement shall be made with Georgia for claims on or before March 10, 1803......1800 Seat of government removed from Natchez to Washington, 6 miles east, by act of Assembly and council......Feb. 1, 1802 Articles of agreement and cession under the compromise act, secures to t
Whitworth (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, appointed United States Secretary of War by President Pierce......March 5, 1853 Amendment to the constitution ratified, appointing the first Monday in October as day for general election, and making the term of office of the governor two years......Feb. 2, 1856 Jacob Thompson Secretary of the Interior......March 6, 1857 Southern convention delegates from eight States assemble at Vicksburg and consider reopening the slave-trade......May 11, 1859 Whitworth female college at Brookhaven opened and chartered......1859 By joint resolution the legislature directs the governor to appoint commissioners to the several slave-holding States, asking their co-operation in secession. Legislature adjourned......Nov. 30, 1860 State convention meets at Jackson, Jan. 7, 1861, passes an ordinance of secession, Jan. 9, 84 to 15......Jan. 15, 1861 Confederates occupy the unfinished fort on Ship Island, under construction since 1855......Jan. 20, 1861
Robert James Walker (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
anctions the sale of stock for the bank......1839 Governor McNutt by message advises repudiating the Union Bank bonds sold to the United States Bank of Pennsylvania......1841 Legislature by resolution denies that the State is under any obligation, legal or moral, to redeem the Union Bank bonds......1842 State Treasurer Richard S. Graves arrested for embezzlement of State funds to the amount of $44,838.46. He escapes from the house of the sheriff and flees to Canada......1843 Robert J. Walker appointed Secretary of United States Treasury......March 6, 1845 Law passed establishing common schools......March 4, 1846 Mississippi regiment, under command of Col. Jefferson Davis, serves in the Mexican War......1846 University of Mississippi at Oxford, chartered in 1844, is opened......1848 Governor Quitman, arrested by the United States marshal for violation of the neutrality law of 1818 in abetting the expedition against Cuba, resigns as governor. He is acquitted, ren
Harry Toulmin (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
e Mississippi River and others, incorporated......1804 Whole of the territory ceded to the United States by Georgia, north of the Mississippi Territory and south of Tennessee, is annexed to Mississippi Territory by act of Congress......March 27, 1804 Aaron Burr, arrested at Natchez, gives bonds to appear before the territorial court, Feb. 3. The court refusing release from his recognizance, Feb. 5, next morning it was ascertained that he had made his escape......Feb. 6, 1807 Judge Harry Toulmin's digest of the laws of Mississippi adopted by the legislature......Feb. 10, 1807 Congress to extend the right of suffrage in the Territory permitting the people to elect delegates to Congress......Jan. 9, 1808 Bank of Mississippi chartered......Dec. 23, 1809 Mobile district, lying south of lat. 31° and between the Pearl and Perdido rivers, is added to Mississippi by act......May 14, 1812 Expedition under Gen. F. L. Claiborne attacks the holy city of the Creek Indians, ca
Chevalier Tonti (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
....February, 1541 De Soto reaches the Mississippi, which he crosses, probably within 30 miles of Helena, in boats built for the purpose......April, 1541 Mississippi included in the proprietary charter of Carolina......1663 Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi as far as lat. 33°......1673 La Salle descends the Mississippi to its mouth......1682 Lemoine d'iberville plants a colony on the bay of Biloxi......May, 1699 Iberville, Bienville, and Chevalier de Tonti ascend the Mississippi to the present site of Natchez......February, 1700 Fort Rosalie, at Natchez, erected by Bienville, governor of Louisiana, and completed......Aug. 3, 1716 Mississippi Company chartered with exclusive privilege of the commerce of Louisiana and New France, and obligated to introduce within twenty-five years 6,000 white persons and 3,000 negro slaves......Aug. 17, 1717 Mississippi Company grants land for settlements on the Yazoo, at Natchez, on the bay of St
Jacob Thompson (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
by the United States marshal for violation of the neutrality law of 1818 in abetting the expedition against Cuba, resigns as governor. He is acquitted, renominated, but declines......1851 Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, appointed United States Secretary of War by President Pierce......March 5, 1853 Amendment to the constitution ratified, appointing the first Monday in October as day for general election, and making the term of office of the governor two years......Feb. 2, 1856 Jacob Thompson Secretary of the Interior......March 6, 1857 Southern convention delegates from eight States assemble at Vicksburg and consider reopening the slave-trade......May 11, 1859 Whitworth female college at Brookhaven opened and chartered......1859 By joint resolution the legislature directs the governor to appoint commissioners to the several slave-holding States, asking their co-operation in secession. Legislature adjourned......Nov. 30, 1860 State convention meets at Jackson, J
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
the extreme northeast corner. On the west the Mississippi River separates it from Arkansas and Louisiana aboveuisiana on the south, 110 miles east from the Mississippi River to the Pearl. That portion of the State east 31° N.; the western boundary the middle of the Mississippi River, with free navigation......Oct. 27, 1795 Ge0, 1798 Act of Congress approved creating Mississippi Territory, including the present State of Alabama.....ries claimed by the State, which include the Mississippi Territory, established by act of Congress......1798 supplemental regarding the government of the Mississippi Territory, and providing that settlement shall be massed boatmen employed in the navigation of the Mississippi River and others, incorporated......1804 Whole ofo the United States by Georgia, north of the Mississippi Territory and south of Tennessee, is annexed to MissisMississippi Territory by act of Congress......March 27, 1804 Aaron Burr, arrested at Natchez, gives bonds to appea
Gulf of Mexico (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
Mississippi, One of the Gulf States of the United States, is bounded north by Tennessee. The Tennessee River touches the State in the extreme northeast corner. On the west the Mississippi River separates it from Arkansas and Louisiana above lat. 31° N., which divides the State from Louisiana on the south, 110 miles east from the Mississippi River to the Pearl. That portion of the State east of the Pearl River extends south to the Gulf of Mexico, affording a coast-line of about 80 miles. Alabama forms the entire eastern boundary. It is limited in latitude between 30° 13′ and 35° N., and in longitude between 88° 7′ and 91° 41′ W. Area, 46,340 square miles, in seventy-five counties; population, 1890, 1.289,600; 1900, 1,551,270. Capital, Jackson. Fernando De Soto, on his expedition, enters the present State of Mississippi near the junction of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior rivers; crosses the Pearl in Leake county, and reaches the Indian village of Chickasaw......December,
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
o carry out the provisions of the treaty regarding the boundary-line between the United States and Spain......Feb. 24, 1797 Colonel Ellicott succeeds in securing the election of a permanent committee of public safety......July, 1797 On Jan. 10, 1798, Colonel Ellicott receives notice from the governor-general of New Orleans that orders had been received from the King to surrender the territory, but it was not until the Spanish had lost hope from intrigues in the West that on March 23 Fort Nogales on Walnut Hill was evacuated, and Fort Panmure about midnight......March 29-30, 1798 Act of Congress approved creating Mississippi Territory, including the present State of Alabama......April 7, 1798 Georgia constitution of this year defines definitely the boundaries claimed by the State, which include the Mississippi Territory, established by act of Congress......1798 Winthrop Sargent appointed first territorial governor of Mississippi, and arrives at Natchez......Aug. 6, 1798
Natchez (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-mississippi
ississippi to the present site of Natchez......February, 1700 Fort Rosalie, at Natchez, erected by Bienville, governor of Louisiana, and coed from Biloxi to New Orleans......1723 Chopart, commander of Fort Rosalie, demands that Great Sun, head of the Natchez tribe of Indians, slity of the colonies at Natchez, Bayou Pierre, etc.......1778 Fort Panmure, formerly the French fort Rosalie, garrisoned by a company of infort Rosalie, garrisoned by a company of infantry under Capt. Michael Jackson, by order of the governor of west Florida......1778 Gen. don Bernardo de Galvez, proposing to expel the who surrenders all west Florida upon the Mississippi, including Fort Panmure and the district of Natchez, to the Spanish......Sept. 21, 1779 Fort Panmure surrendered by the Spaniards to insurgents, under the British flag, after a siege of a week......April 30, 1781 Don Carlos that on March 23 Fort Nogales on Walnut Hill was evacuated, and Fort Panmure about midnight......March 29-30, 1798 Act of Congress approve
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