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-===== John Alexander Davidson =====
+===== Thomas Denman =====
-//Manuscript heading: Captain Davidson//
+//Manuscript heading: Colonel Denman//
-  * **Born:** 1768 Mecklenburg NC 1768
+  * **Born:** About 1790 South Carolina
-  * **Died:** Nov., 1825, Port Gibson, [[claibornems|Claiborne Co]]. MS
+  * **Died:** December 5, 1842, Madison Co, MS
-Captain John Alexander Davidson led the Mississippi Territory Volunteer dragoons from [[jeffersonms|Jefferson County]] between January 12 and February 12, 1807. Dragoons were military units that rode to the engagement but dismounted and fought on foot. His unit was involved in the Burr Affair Davidson was listed on the 1805 Territorial Census in [[jeffersonms|Jefferson County]]. Born in North Carolina he was in [[jeffersonms|Jefferson County]], MS by 1795 when he married Elizabeth Green a native of [[natchez_ms|Natchez]], MS.
+Thomas Denman was born in South Carolina to William and Sarah Denman. His father died in Marion County, Mississippi in 1814, an area that later became part of Pike County. Denman served in Nixon’s 13th Regiment from January 3 to April 2, 1815. The unit disbanded after the Battle of New Orleans and the end of the War of 1812 at Fordsville, Mississippi. The colonel title seems to be another social promotion by Claiborne.
-His father was Brig Gen Lee Davidson who died at the battle of Cowan’s Ford during the Revolution. One son Thomas Green Davidson settled in Springfield Louisiana and served as a U.S. Representative between 1855 and 1861.
+//Source: Trip Through The Piney Woods, PDF p. 37.//
-//Source: Trip Through The Piney Woods, PDF p. 35.//