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all the marsh land on the same down to the adjoining water courses, the other called long Island situated on the east of Pearl River extending down to said river and the lake and divided from the main land by Ripleys Bayou." (Book A, p. 1, Hancock Co. Courthouse.)
The 1850 Hancock County Census (p. 13*0 lists Louis (sic) Danniell, a 66-year-old farmer from North Carolina a3 living in Gainesville with three females, 20-year-old Mintoria, 19-year-old Ann E., and 16-year-old Mary B.
Lewis Daniel or Daniells was a judge of the court in Shieldsborough (today Bay St. Louis). He is shown on John La Tourette's Map of Louisiana, dravn in 1845, printed in 1848, as owning the entire Boisdore Grant that stretched from Mulatto Bayou to Bay St. Louis. However, he never made full payment to the Boisdore heirs by agreement when he acquired the land, pending perfection and confirmation of the title by the Boisdore heirs in federal court. In 1850, the U. S. Court decreed against the Boisdore Claim and annulled it, except for 1280 acres of land which included the "Original Boisdore Settlement." This tract and "original settlement" was located on Mulatto Bayou. Lewis Daniell confirmed his ownership of 603 acres of the land by quit claim deed with the Boisdore heirs in 1853* (See attached documents from the Hancock County Courthouse.)
Daniell erected buildings on the property. The heirs of Lewis Daniell sold the property, known as "Clifton Plantation," to Andrew Jackson of Tennessee in 1856 (see attached documents from the Hancock County Courthouse.) Jackson operated a cotton plantation. He had 55 slaves in i860 ( Napier, 1985« 64, 210 n. 71)*