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From: "Frances Wimberly" <>
Subject: Re: [MSCLAIBO-L] Re: Claiborne County
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:24:05 -0500
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I also read that Port Gibson was at one time the Capitol of the Choctaw
Nation. frances
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From: Greth Dunn <>
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [MSCLAIBO-L] Re: Claiborne County


> From history, and Katy Headley's book "Claiborne County, The Promised
Land":
>
> This area was a part of the old Natchez District first claimed by the
> French; first settlements under English rule [1763-81]; became a part of
> West FL; under Spainish rule [1781-98]; 1785 GA created Bourbon Co. which
> included the now Claiborne Co.; upon Spain's withdrawing from Natchez, the
> MS Territory was created by U.S. Gov't in 1798; this area was then divided
> into two counties: Adams and Pickering; then on 11 Jan 1802 Pickering
> became Jefferson County; then on 27 Jan 1802 Jefferson County was divided
> with the northern part becoming Claiborne County.
>
> From about 1788 this was called Gibson's Port, Gibson's Landing, Ft.
Gibson,
> Gibson's Port, because it was on land owned by Samuel Gibson located at
> Bayou Pierre, until 1803 when the territorial ligislature officially named
> the county seat: Port Gibson.
>
>
>
>
>
> >I don't know Ms., ancestors from Claiborne Co (some); can you tell me
which
> part Port Gibson >is in-what county would it have originally been in? By
the
> way, this may really answer another >puzzling question I have had. THANK
> YOU! frances
>
> >> according to the book, "Claiborne County, The Promised Land" by
Headley,
> page 32 states, >>"The second legislative session of the territory changed
> the name of Pickering County to >>Jefferson, Jan 11 1802; & on the 27th
day
> of the same month, Jefferson was divided, & the >>northern part became
> Claiborne County. Both the legislative & the executive branches of the
> >>territorial government were agreed on erasing the Federalist name of
> Pickering County by >>naming the 2 divisions after the first Republican
> governor, William C. C. Claiborne, & for the >>3rd President of the US,
> Thomas Jefferson."
>
>
>

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