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J Mineral Springs before crossing the Pearl ^Florida parishes. Moreover, a document in ” of the State Land Office shows that Wil-_ a ferry on the Pearl River at its junc-. this crossing is not identified with Gen-Both the Melish map and the 1816 Darby Baton Rouge going northeastward and joining with the St. Francisville-Pearl er, this does not fit the description of the General Wilkinson Road. Indeed, it of government township maps, based 1820 and 1850, that one discovers a road wfield and from that point running due lire the lack of evidence, until the ap-maps, a letter written from Mobile on ins that a road had been constructed in Rouge. Unfortunately for posterity,
came into existence following the e of New Orleans in January 1815,
> thousand Kentucky infantrymen and .ted brigade of Tennesseans returned ed road along the Mississippi River to ly along the Natchez Trace to Nash-U’s Second Division of Tennessee fee Pontchartrain and bypassed Natchez »rth until they reached the Natchez
?northward, as shown on the Melish map, x Louisiana-Liberty, Mississippi road iTchefuncte and Tangipahoa rivers to south of the thirty-first parallel. From was blazed northward about one to the Choctaw Indian Agency on the
4e Florida parishes by John Melish. jt _ Stare Land Office, Baton Rouge, letter of "’^Colonial Mobile (Boston, 1910), p. 253.