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TERRITORIAL PAPERS
PROCEEDINGS OF A CONVENTION
[HF:14 Cong., 2 sess. ?]
[October 29, 1816]
Journal Of a Convention of the Delegates of several Counties of the Mississippi Territory, begun and held at John Ford?s on Pearl River, on Tuesday the 29th day of Oct. 1816?
On which day, being the day prescribed by certain Resolusions adopted by the citizens of Clarke county, for the purpose of conferring on the subject of the admission of the Mississippi Territory into the Union, as a free, sovereign and independent State, the following members appeared, produced their credentials and took their seats, to wit:
Daniel Williams, Jr.	Wilkinson	county.
And a quorum, consisting of a majority of the whole number, being present,
The members proceeded, by ballot, to the choice of a President and Secretary; and upon examining the bollots, Cowles Mead, one of members from Jefferson county, was unanimously elected President, and James Phillips ^ ?Kiretary:
Whereupon, Mr. M ''as conducted to the chair, from whence he made	\
u Taken from the Washington Republican and Natchez Intelligencer of\Nov. -27^1816^found in the House files, 14 Cong., 2 sess.; the letter in which it was enclosed'liafi not been determined.
Jefferson county.
Franklin county.
David Dickson, Samuel H. Garrow, Sterling Dupree, Samuel Dale, Harmon Runnels Henry B. Slade, Benjamin S. Smoot, Geo. H. Nixon,
Pike county.
Mobile county. Jackson county. Monroe county.
Lawrence county. Baldwin county. Washington county.
Thos. Anderson, Jacob J. H. Morris, John G. Creagh, James Patton,
Marion county. Hancock county. Greene county. Clarke county. Wayne county.
a,nd seconded.
.tee of elections be appointed; and a commuted of Mr. Runnels, Mr. Patton, Mr. Chaney and
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