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By The Rivers Of Water
On October 26 the new Declaration of Independence was drawn up and, a president and other officers were duly elected. We have no record of who they were. The following day President James Madison issued a proclamation annexing West Florida as a part of the Louisiana Purchase. It was then that Sterling DuPree and others launched their campaign of pillage and terrorism in Pascagoula.
On December 7, the United States Government seized Baton Rouge and raised the American Flag. George Farragut, War of Independence hero, was sent from New Orleans to Pascagoula as a bona fide Justice of the Peace.
A move was made to make West Florida another American State but, on January 6, 1811, the United States Flag was raised at Pascagoula and the rebellion came to an end. Dr. William Flood, of New Orleans, was sent to declare the Spanish Parishes of Biloxi, Pascagoula, and Mobile as being a part of Louisiana. Even to this day, the state of Louisiana has retained the Parish system.
Greene County, named for General Nathaniel Greene, was organized out of the great sprawling County of Washington, which spread from the Chatahootchee to the Mississippi Rivers, in 1811.
On May 14, 1812, West Florida, from the Perdido River to the Pearl River, was annexed to the Mississippi Territory. Those who still insist on “States Rights” might well note that in, any squabble between the United States Government and a local unit, the Federal Government wins!
Mississippi Territory (1812 - 1817)
On September 7, 1812, Governor David Holmes, now top man for the Mississippi Territory, declared all of the area from Mobile to Pearl River below the 31st Parallel, the County of Mobile. That placed our land in Mobile County and under the Mississippi Territorial Flag.
Civil Officers for the County were: Wheeler Grfesham, Noel Jourdan, and Robert Williamson, justices of the quorum court. George Davis and Benjamin Youngblood were named justices of
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