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512	CHRONOLOGY
March 23. Fort Nogales on Walnut Hill is evacuated by Spanish garrison.
March 29-30. Fort Panmure is evacuated about midnight.
Territorial Days. 1798-1817
1798	April 7. Act of Congress creates the Territory of Mississippi with bounds including the region now Alabama.
May 7. Winthrop Sargent appointed first Governor of the Mississippi Territory by President Adams.
August 6. Gov. Sargent arrives at Natchez.
Gen. Wilkinson reaches Natchez; makes headquarters on Loftus Heights, later Fort Adams.
1799	February 28. The first law made and promulgated by the Territorial authorities is signed by Winthrop Sargent, Governor, Peter Bryan Bruin and Daniel Tilton, judges. The law provides for the organization of militia.
1800	Population (U. S. Census) of Mississippi Territory, 8,850. Benjamin F. Stokes publishes the Mississippi Gazette, the first newspaper in the Mississippi Territory.
Supplemental act of Congress regarding Mississippi Territory provides that settlement shall be made with Georgia for claims on or before March 10, 1803.
1801	May 25. William Charles Cole Claiborne is appointed Territorial Governor by President Jefferson.
October 24. Treaty of Chickasaw Bluffs, between U. S. and the Chickasaw Nation, gives road right-of-way between Mero Settlement to Natchez. This, with the Treaty of Fort Adams, opens the Natchez Trace.
1802	February 1. The seat of government is moved from Natchez to Washington, 6 miles east.
Port of New Orleans closed to American goods.
Jefferson College is established at Washington, Miss., by legislative act.
April 24. The U. S. Government agrees to pay Georgia $1,250,000 to relinquish claims to certain disputed territory, partly in the new Mississippi Territory.
Bandits infest the Natchez Trace. Governor puts price on head of one bandit. Mason. The head is brought in by Little Harpe and another bandit. They unsuccessfully claim reward. Little Harpe is hanged.
1803	March 10. Natchez is incorporated as a city.
March. Port of New Orleans reopened.
March. Congress provides for survey of land ceded by Georgia to U. S.
United States purchases Louisiana from France for $15,000,000.
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March 27. The territory north of Mississippi Territory and south of Tennessee, e.g., the land ceded by Georgia to U. S., is annexed to Mississippi Territory.
March 1. Robert Williams, of North Carolina, succeeds W. C. C Claiborne as Governor.
By treaty with U. S. the Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw Nations permit roads to be opened through their districts.
January 12. Aaron Burr arrives at mouth of Bayou Pierre. He surrenders unconditionally to Mississippi Territory authorities.
January 18. Burr, at Washington, Miss., gives bond to appear before the territorial court February 2.
February 4. No formal court action having been taken, Burr demands release from recognizance. Refused, he breaks bond next day, but is arrested in Alabama.
Judge Harry Toulmin's digest of the laws of Mississippi is adopted by the legislature; this is the first digest.
Eleazer Carver begins manufacture of cotton gins near Washington, Miss.
January 9. Congress extends the right of suffrage to Mississippi Territory.
March 3. Gov. Williams resigns. Four days later David Holmes is appointed his successor.
December 23. The Bank of Mississippi is established at Natchez. Population, 40,352.
May 14. The District of Mobile, lying east of Pearl River, west of the Perdido River, and south of 31°, is annexed to the Mississippi Territory.
August 13. Fort Mimms, in what is now the State of Alabama, is attacked by 1,000 Creeks under Weatherford, McQueen, and Francis; 260 of the garrison are massacred.
December 23. Mississippi troops, under General Claiborne, attack and destroy Escanachaha, the Holy City of the Creek Indians. December. The naval battle of Pass Christian is fought near St. Louis Bay.
January 8. Mississippi troops take valiant part in the Battle of New Orleans.
Mississippi Territory gains new lands, ceded by Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations.
Statehood. 1817-
March 1. Congress passes act enabling Mississippi Territory to prepare for statehood.
July 7. Constitutional Convention in session at Washington, Miss., with 47 delegates representing 14 counties.
August 16. President of the U. S. is notified that State Constitution has been adopted on the 15th.