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HOLMES (DAVID) PAPERS
1796 - 1825
Letters, certificates, and commissions of David Holmes, governor of the
Mississippi Territory and the state of Mississippi and United States senator
from Mississippi. The certificates of appointment, commissions and other
papers pertaining to appointments are as follows:
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Parmenias Briscoe, ranger, Claiborne County
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John Coulter, chief justice of the Orphans' Court, Wilkinson County
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Joseph Johnston, register of the Orphans' Court, Wilkinson County
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William Mason, justice of the quorum, Monroe County
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Robert H. Morrow, justice of the peace, Adams County
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James Stigler, justice of the quorum, Lawrence County
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nominations for the Legislative Council, Feb. 15, 1815, Robert Beaty, David
Williams, Robert Cocks, and Cato West
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appointments of census takers, 1810, Daniel Beasley, Jefferson County;
Andrew Glass, Warren County; Joseph Montgomery, Franklin County; Thomas
G. Percy, Wilkinson County; John Richards, Amite County; Louis Winston,
Madison County; and David Greenleaf and Dr. Alexander E. McConnell, surgeon,
United States Navy
Five of the papers were signed by Silas Dinsmoor, and three of them indicate
that he appointed as his attorneys at various times William Lattimore,
James Eakin, and William Tharp.
The papers are distributed by date as follows:
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1796, 1 piece
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1810–1819, 18 pieces
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1820–1825, 1 piece.
