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Mississippi Historical Society.
David Wright, 1824-28.
Mrs. Wright, died 1826, buried at Mayhew. Ebenezer Bliss, 1823-30.
David Gage, 1823-32.
Mrs. Gage.
Eliza R. Buer, 1825-30.
Adin 0. Gibbs, 1823-24.
Samuel Moulton, 1827-32.
Mrs. Moulton.
Elijah S. Town, 1827-32.
Mrs. Town.
Pamela Skinner, 1827-32.
Nancy Foster, 1829-32.
John Dudley, 1830-31.
Eunice Clough, 1830.
Matthias Joslyn, 1830-32.
Mrs. Joslyn.
Rev. Henry R. Wilson, 1832-36.
Mrs. Wilson.
John R. Agnew, 1835-36.
Ebenezer Hotchkin, 1828-33.
Mrs. Hotchkin (Philena Thacher), 1823-33. William W. Pride, M. D., 1819-25.
Mrs. Pride, 1821.
Assistant Missionaries.
Peter Kanouse, 1818 (only five week’s service). John G. Kanouse, 1818-19.
Mrs. Kanouse.
Moses Jewell, 1818-30.
Mrs. Jewell.
Aries V. Williams, 1819.
Mrs. Williams, 1819-21.
Isaac Fisk, 1819-20.
Anson Dyer, 1820-28.
Zechariah Howes, 1820-33.
Mrs. Howes (Lucy Hutchinson), 1823.
John Smith, 1821-33.
Mrs. Smith.
Calvin Cushman, 1821-33.
Mrs. Cushman.
Elijah Bardwell, 1821-33.
Mrs. Bardwell.
William Hooper, 1821-28.
Mrs. Hooper, 1823-25.
Mrs. Hooper (Eliza Fairbanks), 1828-31.
Following the successful issue of the war with England, 1812-15, the United States began at once to increase and develop its manufacturing establishments. The useful lesson was learned by the stoppage of imports, that individual and corporate enterprises must be self-sustaining to be permanently successful. The axiom that “necessity is the mother of invention” was clearly exemplified in the stimulated labor and inventive genius of New England that soon caused its products to rival in quality similar articles hitherto, received from abroad, and the profits from these “infant industries’’ were exceedingly encouraging.
Along with this impetus to domestic manufacture came the spirit of internal improvement. State and national legislation favored increased commercial activities and better facilities for travel and traffic became popular. Various schemes were inaugurated for laying out and building roads and canals. The climax was, perhaps, reached when Congress considered adversely a bill authoriing the construction of a national road from Buffalo, New York, via Washington, D. C., to New Orleans, Louisiana. Its failure, however, was attributed, not to any real objection to the scheme itself, but to the uncertainty as to what congressional district it would pass through.
Of the several government roads in the South, the one contributing in the largest degree to the development of Mississippi as a State was generally known as General Jackson’s Military Road.
As to its origin, route, date and manner of construction there is a great diversity of opinion. One of our most careful historians has cleverly said:
As in Italy all great architecture is ascribed to Michael Angelo, so in our Southern States all mounds and fortifications are attributed to DeSoto,
1A sketch of the author of this contribution will be found in the Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, VII, 351, footnote.—Editor.
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