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Indian Treaties

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Treaties in the Territory and state of Mississippi By 1837, virtually all Native land in Mississippi was ceded to the U.S., completing the legal groundwork for settlement.
{| class="wikitable"
!'''Treaty'''
!'''Date'''
!'''Tribe(s)'''
!'''Land / Effect'''
|-
|Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney’s Treaty)
|Oct. 27, 1795
|Spain–U.S. (not Native)
|Set southern boundary at 31st parallel, cleared way for Mississippi Territory (1798).
|-
|Fort Adams
|Dec. 17, 1801
|Choctaw
|First Choctaw cession; land along lower Mississippi River (Adams & Wilkinson Cos.).
|-
|Fort Confederation
|Oct. 17, 1802
|Choctaw
|Additional Choctaw land cession east of Mississippi River.
|-
|Mount Dexter
|Nov. 16, 1805
|Choctaw
|~4.1 million acres ceded across central MS, including Natchez Trace area.
|-
|Washington (Chickasaw)
|Sept. 20, 1816
|Chickasaw
|Ceded land in north Mississippi.
|-
|Doak’s Stand
|Oct. 18, 1820
|Choctaw
|~5.5 million acres in central MS; first “exchange” for land west of Mississippi River.
|-
|Old Town
|Sept. 25, 1826
|Choctaw
|Further Choctaw cession east of Pearl River.
|-
|Dancing Rabbit Creek
|Sept. 27, 1830
|Choctaw
|Ceded ~11 million acres; first removal treaty under Indian Removal Act; Choctaws agreed to move west.
|-
|Pontotoc Creek
|Oct. 20, 1832
|Chickasaw
|Chickasaws ceded all remaining land in north MS; removal west promised.
|-
|Doaksville
|Jan. 17, 1837
|Chickasaw & Choctaw
|Chickasaws joined Choctaws in Indian Territory after failure to secure their own western homeland.
|}
Counties formed from several treaties.
{| class="wikitable"
!Treaty (Nation)
!Date
!Counties formed from the cession (year created)
|-
|'''Treaty of Doak’s Stand (Choctaw)'''
|Oct 18, 1820
|'''Hinds (1821)''', '''Copiah (1823)''', '''Simpson (1824)''', '''Yazoo (1823)'''. (Treaties)
|-
|'''Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (Choctaw)'''
|Sept 27, 1830
|'''Attala (1833), Bolivar (1836), Carroll (1833), Choctaw (1833), Clarke (1833), Coahoma (1836), Jasper (1833), Kemper (1833), Lauderdale (1833), Leake (1833), Neshoba (1833), Noxubee (1833), Oktibbeha (1833), Scott (1833), Smith (1833), Winston (1833), Yalobusha (1833)'''; '''Tallahatchie (1833*)'''. (Treaties)
|-
|'''Treaty of Pontotoc Creek (Chickasaw)'''
|Oct 20, 1832
|'''Chickasaw (1836), DeSoto (1836), Itawamba (1836), Lafayette (1836), Marshall (1836), Panola (1836), Pontotoc (1836), Tippah (1836), Tishomingo (1836), Tunica (1836)'''. (Treaties)
|-
|'''Treaty of the Chickasaw Council House (Chickasaw)'''
|Sept 20, 1816
|'''Monroe (1821)'''. (Avalon Project)
|}

Adams County

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Adams County, Mississippi – Established: April 2, 1799

Derived from: Part of the original [[Natchez District]]; lands opened by early [[Indian Treaties|Choctaw]] & [[Indian Treaties|Chickasaw]] cessions

County Seat: Natchez

Area: ~460 sq mi.

Population: 29,538 (2020 Census)

Racial & Ethnic Composition (2020): Black ~54%, White ~42%, Hispanic ~2%, Other ~2%

Lawrence County

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== '''Quick facts''' ==
County formed: created in the Mississippi Territory in December 1814 (appeared in the 1817 constitutional convention returns) and commonly cited as organized in the 1814–1817 period; named for U.S. naval officer [[wikipedia:James_Lawrence|Captain James Lawrence]]. County seat: [[Monticello]].

Area (modern): ~431–436 sq. miles (land ~431 sq. mi.; total ~436 sq. mi.).

Adjacent (modern) counties: [[Copiah County|Copiah]] (NW), [[Simpson County|Simpson]] (NE), [[Jefferson Davis County|Jefferson Davis]] (E), [[Marion County|Marion]] (SE), Walthall (S), [[Lincoln County|Lincoln]] (W)

Population, 1820–1850

1820:4,916

1830:5,293

1850:6,478

=== Introduction ===
<sub>Lawrence County in south-central Mississippi sits in a landscape defined by longleaf pine, mixed uplands, and the drainage basins that feed the Pascagoula–Pearl systems. From the territorial era into the middle of the nineteenth century its history reflects the classic pattern of southern frontier settlement: indigenous displacement, early Anglo-American settlement after the War of 1812, incremental legal creation of county structures, expansion of smallholder agriculture and later greater incorporation of marketable commodity production, and a social order increasingly ordered around race and enslaved labor. This essay traces those developments from the county’s legal formation through the 1850 census, emphasizing settlement patterns, land use and economy, institutions of law and governance, and family and social structures. Sources used include contemporary federal census publications, the Mississippi Encyclopedia and local county histories and genealogical compilations.</sub>

==== I. Legal formation and the early territorial context (pre-1817 — 1820s) ====
Lawrence County was created during the Mississippi Territorial period. Territorial legislators and later the framers of Mississippi’s [[1817 constitution]] recognized and created several counties in the region; Lawrence appears in the roster of counties formed during 1814–1817 and represented at the constitutional convention that prepared statehood in 1817. The choice to name the county for [[wikipedia:James_Lawrence|Captain James Lawrence]] echoed a national pattern of commemorating War of 1812 figures on the new frontier.

When first organized the county’s legal and political institutions were embryonic: county courts, registers of land, and sheriff’s offices were established in the 1810s and 1820s, and the county seat (Monticello) served as the hub for administration and record-keeping. The early county records—deed books, tax rolls, and court minutes—show the first waves of land entries, petitions for road construction, and the assignment of civic offices; they are the principal source base for reconstructing early settlement. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History preserves statewide county enumerations and returns that help reconstruct that formative period.

==== II. Patterns of settlement and migration ====
Settlement of Lawrence County followed the larger southward and westward flows of the early nineteenth-century United States. Migrants came primarily from older southern states—Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia—and by the 1810s–1820s were joined by arrivals from Tennessee and older western counties in Mississippi. Settlers entered via the Natchez district and river routes but increasingly by overland roads and internal paths connecting the pine belt to interior markets. The first settlers established log cabins and small cleared fields along creeks and ridges; householders commonly took 80–320 acre entries under federal or state land policies and then expanded holdings through secondary purchases and clearing. Family genealogies and land entry clusters show the development of tight agrarian communities—churches and family networks anchored settlement clusters (e.g., the Crooked Creek/Big Black tributary settlements).Unlike the plantation counties of the alluvial Mississippi and parts of the Black Belt, the early economy of Lawrence County was mixed. The upland soils and pine ridges favored a combination of subsistence staples (corn, hogs, garden produce, and a limited amount of cotton) rather than the large, highly capitalized cotton plantations of the lower Mississippi. As markets matured in the 1820s–1840s, however, cotton cultivation expanded where local soils allowed and planters and speculators consolidated some holdings, bringing a gradual increase in the number of enslaved persons recorded in county enumerations. The decennial totals (1820–1850) show steady growth: from roughly 4,900 in 1820 to about 6,478 by 1850, reflecting both natural increase and in-migration. III. Land use, agriculture, and economy to 1850

Land use in Lawrence County through mid-century reflected the interface of ecological opportunity and market incentives. The pine uplands were well suited to free-range livestock, timber, and limited cereal cropping; pockets of richer loams—often along stream valleys and bottomlands—supported cotton and tobacco where drainage was favorable. Farm size distribution in early tax lists reveals a mixture of smaller subsistence farms and mid-sized holdings; very large plantations (several hundred to thousands of acres) existed but were less dominant than in the lower Mississippi. Where cotton was profitable, slave labor intensified cultivation in ways visible in the county’s rising enslaved population in the 1830s–1850s.

By the 1840s improved roads and stage routes and the expansion of markets (principally via Natchez, Mobile, and New Orleans) made commodity agriculture more profitable—encouraging planters to invest in cleared acreage and to purchase enslaved labor. At the same time, extractive industries such as timber and local mills provided wage and barter work for smallholders and artisans. County tax lists and the 1850 agricultural schedules (and later 1860 data) show this mixed rural economy: a core of family farms, a growing number of slaveholding farms, and an emergent network of local craftsmen, tavern keepers, and merchants centered at Monticello and a handful of crossroads towns.

==== III. Legal, political, and institutional development ====
From the moment of its organization Lawrence County adopted the standard southern county apparatus: a county court (which combined administrative and judicial functions), a sheriff-tax collector, a land register, and justices of the peace. These local institutions regulated land transactions, probate, road maintenance, and the enforcement of statutes—including slave codes. County courts were the locus of political life: elections, militia musters, and civic litigation were public events that knitted local elites together and set institutional norms. By mid-century the county’s local notables included planters, merchants, ministers, and a growing professional class (lawyers and surveyors) whose standing derived from landholding and participation in county offices. Contemporary county histories and the summaries used by nineteenth-century compilers emphasize the role of a “county elite” in both governance and the economy.

==== IV. Social structure, slavery, and race to 1850 ====
Social structure in Lawrence County by 1850 was stratified along lines typical for a southern interior county. A base of yeoman farmers and smallholders constituted the largest numeric group; they often held little or no enslaved labor and practiced mixed farming. Above them stood slaveholders—ranging from middling planters to larger holders—whose wealth derived from land and enslaved labor. Enslaved people performed field, domestic, skilled, and artisanal labor; 1850 was the first census year with separate slave schedules, and the aggregate data show a county with a significant enslaved population where fertile tracts supported cotton and other labor-intensive crops. By 1860 (a decade after our chronological cutoff) county totals recorded over 3,600 enslaved persons—an indication of how, once economic incentives favored cotton and marketable commodities, slaveholding expanded in the county.

==== V. Demography to 1850: growth, composition, and limitations of the record ====
Between 1820 and 1850 Lawrence County’s total population rose from roughly 4,900 to approximately 6,478—an increase driven by migration and natural growth. The character of population growth changed between the 1830s and 1860s as cotton expansion raised the number of enslaved persons relative to the free population, culminating in the much larger slave totals recorded in the 1860 returns. The 1850 federal census volume provides county breakdowns and the separate slave schedules (enumerated by owner) for that year; researchers who need precise counts by race, age cohorts, and household should consult the hard copy or scanned pages of the 1850 Mississippi census (Table I and the separate slave schedules) and the microfilm collections for 1820–1840. These primary returns are indexed in modern family history repositories and online collections (National Archives, FamilySearch, and county indexes) that facilitate detailed breakdowns.

==== VI. Interpretation: County trajectory and the broader southern pattern ====
Lawrence County’s trajectory to 1850 typifies a middle-South county that moved from frontier settlement toward a more market-oriented agriculture. Initially dominated by small farms and extractive woodland economies, it gradually absorbed the market pressures that encouraged larger scale cotton production where soils permitted. That shift altered social relations: enslaved labor became more prominent and a planter class consolidated greater economic and political influence. Yet the county never became a uniform, large-plantation economy like the lower Yazoo or Natchez districts; instead it remained a mixed agrarian county with a distinctive local elite and a sizable non-slaveholding majority. This middle position shaped local politics—moderation in some fiscal matters, conservatism on questions of social order, and a reliance on county institutions to adjudicate the tensions of growth and

Lawrence County

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Quick facts

County formed: created in the Mississippi Territory in December 1814 (appeared in the 1817 constitutional convention returns) and commonly cited as organized in the 1814–1817 period; named for U.S. naval officer Captain James Lawrence.
mississippiencyclopedia.org
lawrencecountymschamber.com

County seat: Monticello.
lawrencecountymschamber.com

Area (modern): ~431–436 sq. miles (land ~431 sq. mi.; total ~436 sq. mi.).
Census.gov
US County Maps

Adjacent (modern) counties: Copiah (NW), Simpson (NE), Jefferson Davis (E), Marion (SE), Walthall (S), Lincoln (W).
Wikipedia
MapQuest

Population, 1820–1850 (decennial totals)
Census year Total population (county) Source
1820 4,916 FamilySearch / county census compilations.
FamilySearch
Internet Archive

1830 5,293 FamilySearch / county census compilations.
FamilySearch

1840 5,920 FamilySearch / county census compilations.
FamilySearch

1850 6,478 Historical county totals (as summarized in county histories and census aggregates).
Wikipedia
Census

Notes on demographic detail: the United States decennial publications and separate 1850 slave schedules provide breakdowns by free white, free colored, and enslaved populations; the full county-level aggregates are in the 1850 census volume for Mississippi (U.S. Census, 1850) and in state compilations. Where precise per-county free/slave columns for every decade are needed, the printed county tables (and the separate slave schedules for 1850) are the authoritative primary sources; copies of the 1850 Mississippi volume and the slave schedules are online at the U.S. Census library and in microfilm repositories.
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Scholarly historical essay (c. 4–6 pages)
Introduction

Lawrence County in south-central Mississippi sits in a landscape defined by longleaf pine, mixed uplands, and the drainage basins that feed the Pascagoula–Pearl systems. From the territorial era into the middle of the nineteenth century its history reflects the classic pattern of southern frontier settlement: indigenous displacement, early Anglo-American settlement after the War of 1812, incremental legal creation of county structures, expansion of smallholder agriculture and later greater incorporation of marketable commodity production, and a social order increasingly ordered around race and enslaved labor. This essay traces those developments from the county’s legal formation through the 1850 census, emphasizing settlement patterns, land use and economy, institutions of law and governance, and family and social structures. Sources used include contemporary federal census publications, the Mississippi Encyclopedia and local county histories and genealogical compilations.
mississippiencyclopedia.org
Census

I. Legal formation and the early territorial context (pre-1817 — 1820s)

Lawrence County was created during the Mississippi Territorial period. Territorial legislators and later the framers of Mississippi’s 1817 constitution recognized and created several counties in the region; Lawrence appears in the roster of counties formed during 1814–1817 and represented at the constitutional convention that prepared statehood in 1817. The choice to name the county for Captain James Lawrence echoed a national pattern of commemorating War of 1812 figures on the new frontier.
lawrencecountymschamber.com
mississippiencyclopedia.org

When first organized the county’s legal and political institutions were embryonic: county courts, registers of land, and sheriff’s offices were established in the 1810s and 1820s, and the county seat (Monticello) served as the hub for administration and record-keeping. The early county records—deed books, tax rolls, and court minutes—show the first waves of land entries, petitions for road construction, and the assignment of civic offices; they are the principal source base for reconstructing early settlement. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History preserves statewide county enumerations and returns that help reconstruct that formative period.
Mississippi Digital Archives
NPGallery

II. Patterns of settlement and migration

Settlement of Lawrence County followed the larger southward and westward flows of the early nineteenth-century United States. Migrants came primarily from older southern states—Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia—and by the 1810s–1820s were joined by arrivals from Tennessee and older western counties in Mississippi. Settlers entered via the Natchez district and river routes but increasingly by overland roads and internal paths connecting the pine belt to interior markets. The first settlers established log cabins and small cleared fields along creeks and ridges; householders commonly took 80–320 acre entries under federal or state land policies and then expanded holdings through secondary purchases and clearing. Family genealogies and land entry clusters show the development of tight agrarian communities—churches and family networks anchored settlement clusters (e.g., the Crooked Creek/Big Black tributary settlements).
Historic Pathways
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Unlike the plantation counties of the alluvial Mississippi and parts of the Black Belt, the early economy of Lawrence County was mixed. The upland soils and pine ridges favored a combination of subsistence staples (corn, hogs, garden produce, and a limited amount of cotton) rather than the large, highly capitalized cotton plantations of the lower Mississippi. As markets matured in the 1820s–1840s, however, cotton cultivation expanded where local soils allowed and planters and speculators consolidated some holdings, bringing a gradual increase in the number of enslaved persons recorded in county enumerations. The decennial totals (1820–1850) show steady growth: from roughly 4,900 in 1820 to about 6,478 by 1850, reflecting both natural increase and in-migration.
Internet Archive
Wikipedia

III. Land use, agriculture, and economy to 1850

Land use in Lawrence County through mid-century reflected the interface of ecological opportunity and market incentives. The pine uplands were well suited to free-range livestock, timber, and limited cereal cropping; pockets of richer loams—often along stream valleys and bottomlands—supported cotton and tobacco where drainage was favorable. Farm size distribution in early tax lists reveals a mixture of smaller subsistence farms and mid-sized holdings; very large plantations (several hundred to thousands of acres) existed but were less dominant than in the lower Mississippi. Where cotton was profitable, slave labor intensified cultivation in ways visible in the county’s rising enslaved population in the 1830s–1850s.
Historic Pathways
US County Maps

By the 1840s improved roads and stage routes and the expansion of markets (principally via Natchez, Mobile, and New Orleans) made commodity agriculture more profitable—encouraging planters to invest in cleared acreage and to purchase enslaved labor. At the same time, extractive industries such as timber and local mills provided wage and barter work for smallholders and artisans. County tax lists and the 1850 agricultural schedules (and later 1860 data) show this mixed rural economy: a core of family farms, a growing number of slaveholding farms, and an emergent network of local craftsmen, tavern keepers, and merchants centered at Monticello and a handful of crossroads towns.
Census
US County Maps

IV. Legal, political, and institutional development

From the moment of its organization Lawrence County adopted the standard southern county apparatus: a county court (which combined administrative and judicial functions), a sheriff-tax collector, a land register, and justices of the peace. These local institutions regulated land transactions, probate, road maintenance, and the enforcement of statutes—including slave codes. County courts were the locus of political life: elections, militia musters, and civic litigation were public events that knitted local elites together and set institutional norms. By mid-century the county’s local notables included planters, merchants, ministers, and a growing professional class (lawyers and surveyors) whose standing derived from landholding and participation in county offices. Contemporary county histories and the summaries used by nineteenth-century compilers emphasize the role of a “county elite” in both governance and the economy.
msgw.org
lawrencecountymschamber.com

V. Social structure, slavery, and race to 1850

Social structure in Lawrence County by 1850 was stratified along lines typical for a southern interior county. A base of yeoman farmers and smallholders constituted the largest numeric group; they often held little or no enslaved labor and practiced mixed farming. Above them stood slaveholders—ranging from middling planters to larger holders—whose wealth derived from land and enslaved labor. Enslaved people performed field, domestic, skilled, and artisanal labor; 1850 was the first census year with separate slave schedules, and the aggregate data show a county with a significant enslaved population where fertile tracts supported cotton and other labor-intensive crops. By 1860 (a decade after our chronological cutoff) county totals recorded over 3,600 enslaved persons—an indication of how, once economic incentives favored cotton and marketable commodities, slaveholding expanded in the county.
Census
mississippiencyclopedia.org

Racial hierarchy and law were enforced through local courts and social norms: slave codes governed movement, labor discipline, and punishments; free persons of color lived under constrained civil rights; and the county’s legal apparatus adjudicated property and family matters in ways that reflected a racialized political order. Churches (primarily Baptist and Methodist congregations in this region) played dual roles—community formation for white families and a constrained, often surveilled, spiritual space for enslaved people when they were permitted to attend services. Genealogical records and church minute books from the county show the centrality of congregations as civic institutions.
Historic Pathways
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VI. Demography to 1850: growth, composition, and limitations of the record

Between 1820 and 1850 Lawrence County’s total population rose from roughly 4,900 to approximately 6,478—an increase driven by migration and natural growth. The character of population growth changed between the 1830s and 1860s as cotton expansion raised the number of enslaved persons relative to the free population, culminating in the much larger slave totals recorded in the 1860 returns. The 1850 federal census volume provides county breakdowns and the separate slave schedules (enumerated by owner) for that year; researchers who need precise counts by race, age cohorts, and household should consult the hard copy or scanned pages of the 1850 Mississippi census (Table I and the separate slave schedules) and the microfilm collections for 1820–1840. These primary returns are indexed in modern family history repositories and online collections (National Archives, FamilySearch, and county indexes) that facilitate detailed breakdowns.
Census
FamilySearch

A word on sources and limits: pre-1830 census returns often vary in column headings and completeness; local tax returns, state-level enumerations, and county court minutes are vital complementary sources. For slave counts prior to 1850, the census aggregated enslaved persons under special columns; from 1850 onward separate slave schedules provide the owner-level detail that makes possible studies of household size and ownership patterns. For Lawrence County, county histories, the Mississippi Encyclopedia, and state archives hold transcribed returns and tax lists that allow reconstruction of ownership distribution and household composition for specific decades.
Mississippi Digital Archives
Mississippi State University Libraries

VII. Interpretation: County trajectory and the broader southern pattern

Lawrence County’s trajectory to 1850 typifies a middle-South county that moved from frontier settlement toward a more market-oriented agriculture. Initially dominated by small farms and extractive woodland economies, it gradually absorbed the market pressures that encouraged larger scale cotton production where soils permitted. That shift altered social relations: enslaved labor became more prominent and a planter class consolidated greater economic and political influence. Yet the county never became a uniform, large-plantation economy like the lower Yazoo or Natchez districts; instead it remained a mixed agrarian county with a distinctive local elite and a sizable non-slaveholding majority. This middle position shaped local politics—moderation in some fiscal matters, conservatism on questions of social order, and a reliance on county institutions to adjudicate the tensions of growth and

Adams County

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Adams County, Mississippi – Established: April 2, 1799

Derived from: Part of the original [[Natchez District]]; lands opened by early [[Choctaw Cessions|Choctaw]] & [[Chickasaw Cessions|Chickasaw]] cessions

County Seat: Natchez

Area: ~460 sq mi.

Population: 29,538 (2020 Census)

Racial & Ethnic Composition (2020): Black ~54%, White ~42%, Hispanic ~2%, Other ~2%

Adams County

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Adams County, Mississippi – Snapshot
Established: April 2, 1799
Derived from: Part of the original Natchez District; lands opened by early Choctaw & Chickasaw cessions.
County Seat / Major Communities: Natchez (county seat and largest city).
Area: ~460 sq mi.
Population: 29,538 (2020 Census)
Racial & Ethnic Composition (2020): Black ~54%, White ~42%, Hispanic ~2%, Other ~2%

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George County

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'''George County''' is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,350. Its county seat is Lucedale. The county is named for [[wikipedia:James_Z._George|James Z. George,]] US Senator from Mississippi

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== '''Greene County, Mississippi''' ==
is located on the southeast border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,530. Its county seat is [[Leakesville, Mississippi|Leakesville]]. Established in 1811, the county was named for [[wikipedia:Nathanael_Greene|General Nathanael Greene]] of the American Revolutionary War.

=== Quick facts (at-a-glance) ===
· '''Founded / established:''' 1811.

· '''Named for:''' Major General Nathanael Greene.

· '''Area:''' ≈ '''719 sq mi''' total (≈713 sq mi land, ≈5.9 sq mi water).

· '''County seat (historic & current):''' Leakesville.

· '''Adjacent / neighboring counties (modern):''' [[Wayne County]] (north), [[Washington County, Alabama|Washington County]], AL (northeast), [[Mobile County, Alabama|Mobile County]], AL (southeast), [[George County]] (south), [[Perry County]] (west). (County boundaries changed in the 19th century.)

Perry County

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'''Perry County''' is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,511. The county seat is New Augusta. The county is named after the War of 1812 naval hero, Oliver Hazard Perry.

== Quick facts ==
· '''Formation:''' February 3, 1820 (created from part of [[Greene County|Greene]] County).

· '''Name:''' For Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (War of 1812).

· '''Area:''' ~650 square miles (≈647 land sq. mi.; ≈3 water sq. mi.).

· '''Principal early towns / seat:''' [[Augusta, Mississippi|Augusta]] (Old Augusta) was the original county seat; later [[New Augusta, Mississippi|New Augusta]] became seat in the railroad era.

'''Adjacent counties (c.19th century geography):''' [[Greene County|Greene]] (parent county), [[Wayne County|Wayne]], Jones, Jackson, George, Stone, and (later) Forrest areas on county boundary changes. Contemporary county maps list Forrest, George, Greene, Jones, Stone and Wayne as neighbors.

Jones County

2025-08-24T17:38:36Z

Lowryrf: FORMATTING AND TWEAKING INFO

== '''SUMMARY INFORMATION''' ==
· '''Created:''' Jan 24, 1826, from parts of '''Covington''' and '''Wayne''' Counties; named for naval hero '''John Paul Jones'''.

· '''County seat:''' '''Ellisville''' (established 1826).

· '''Size:''' ~'''700 sq mi''' total (about '''695 sq mi land''', '''4.9 sq mi water''').

'''Neighboring counties:''' '''Jasper''' (N), '''Wayne''' (E), '''Perry''' (SE), '''Forrest''' (SW), '''Covington'''

== '''EARLY DAYS''' ==
Founded in 1826 from portions of Covington and Wayne Counties, Jones County is located in southern Mississippi’s Piney Woods region. The Leaf River traverses Jones’s western region from north to south, while Tallahoma Creek wends its way through the county’s eastern section. In the 1820s and 1830s the lands now incorporated into Jones County were ceded to the United States by the Choctaw Indians through the Treaty of Mount Dexter, the Treaty of Doak’s Stand, and the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. The county is named for Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones.

As in other Piney Woods counties, economic activity in Jones did not revolve around agriculture, and the county was among the lowest in Mississippi in raising cotton, corn, and cattle during the antebellum period. The land was described as rich enough a man wouldn't starve but poor enough they wouldn't grow rich. Residents owned considerably more hogs than average, and Jones ranked eleventh in the state in rice production. In 1860 the county’s industrial workforce included only nineteen people working in flour or lumber mills.

An economic depression contributed to emigration from Jones County during its early years. Antebellum Jones remained sparsely populated, reporting only 1,309 free people and 161 slaves in its first census in 1830. By 1860 the population was growing again, and the population had climbed to 2,916 whites and 407 slaves (12 percent), the smallest number and percentage in the state.

Jones County

2025-08-24T17:34:34Z

Lowryrf: Additional information on the start of Jones county

== F'''ormation & setting''' ==
· '''Created:''' Jan 24, 1826, from parts of '''Covington''' and '''Wayne''' Counties; named for naval hero '''John Paul Jones'''.

· '''County seat:''' '''Ellisville''' (established 1826).

· '''Size:''' ~'''700 sq mi''' total (about '''695 sq mi land''', '''4.9 sq mi water''').

'''Neighboring counties:''' '''Jasper''' (N), '''Wayne''' (E), '''Perry''' (SE), '''Forrest''' (SW), '''Covington'''

Founded in 1826 from portions of Covington and Wayne Counties, Jones County is located in southern Mississippi’s Piney Woods region. The Leaf River traverses Jones’s western region from north to south, while Tallahoma Creek wends its way through the county’s eastern section. In the 1820s and 1830s the lands now incorporated into Jones County were ceded to the United States by the Choctaw Indians through the Treaty of Mount Dexter, the Treaty of Doak’s Stand, and the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. The county is named for Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones.

As in other Piney Woods counties, economic activity in Jones did not revolve around agriculture, and the county was among the lowest in Mississippi in raising cotton, corn, and cattle during the antebellum period. The land was described as rich enough a man wouldn't starve but poor enough they wouldn't grow rich. Residents owned considerably more hogs than average, and Jones ranked eleventh in the state in rice production. In 1860 the county’s industrial workforce included only nineteen people working in flour or lumber mills.

An economic depression contributed to emigration from Jones County during its early years. Antebellum Jones remained sparsely populated, reporting only 1,309 free people and 161 slaves in its first census in 1830. By 1860 the population was growing again, and the population had climbed to 2,916 whites and 407 slaves (12 percent), the smallest number and percentage in the state.

Jones County

2025-08-24T17:27:55Z

Lowryrf: Initial entry

As in other Piney Woods counties, economic activity in Jones did not revolve around agriculture, and the county was among the lowest in Mississippi in raising cotton, corn, and cattle during the antebellum period. The land was described as rich enough a man wouldn't starve but poor enough they wouldn't grow rich. Residents owned considerably more hogs than average, and Jones ranked eleventh in the state in rice production. In 1860 the county’s industrial workforce included only nineteen people working in flour or lumber mills.