Creator: Territorial Auditor (RG 3).

Collection Summary: County records submitted to, or compiled by the Auditor, pertaining to the money collected for each territorial county’s property taxes and the fines assessed as penalties in county and district courts.  These records include: 1) Tax returns for each county, sworn to by county officials. 2) Receive warrants issued to county tax collectors authorizing the deposit into the territorial treasury of yearly tax collections. 3) Tax Records containing lists of tax delinquencies, insolvencies, and errors in (“improper”) assessments. 4) Statements of fines and forfeitures assessed at court proceedings. 5) Sheriff’s Orders to levy taxes by forcible means and to execute court judgments. 6) Auditor’s Ledger Sheets showing county receipts and expenditures. 7) Files relating to other fiscal matters such as claims and bills of cost, court-related documents and miscellaneous receipts. Both county and territorial taxes were collected in each county. It appears that the records in this series deal primarily with territorial tax concerns; however, since the auditor was (at times) also responsible for auditing county fiscal records, there may be reference to county tax matters as well.

Access Restrictions: Access to original materials is limited due to age and fragility. 

Date(s): 1802-1817.

Volume: 2.50 Cubic Feet.

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in April 2025.

Related Materials: TBD.

Record Group History: The Mississippi Territorial Auditor was a positioned created by the Territorial Legislature on March 1, 1806. The Auditor was to be appointed by the Territorial Governor and granted the authority to examine all public accounts for the Mississippi Territory and conduct investigations into the use of the Territory’s funds. The auditor was also authorized to issue treasury warrants for the payment of public debts.

Collection Inventory:
Box Content 

Box Number

Abstract of Claims/Jefferson Co.: 1808B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Auditor's Ledger Sheets/Adams Co.: 1806-1809B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Auditor's Ledger Sheets/Claiborne Co.: 1809B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Auditor's Ledger Sheets/Jefferson Co.: 1808-1810B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Auditor’s Ledger Sheets/Militia Reports: 1811B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Auditor's Ledger Sheets/Washington Co.: 1810, 1811B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Auditor's Ledger Sheets/Wayne & Green Cos.: 1814B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Auditor's Ledger Sheets/Wilkinson Co.: 1810, 1811B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Claims/Bills of Costs: 1806-1809B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Compensation to Collection Officials: 1804-1807B1-R033-B05-S03-135
County Assessments: 1815, 1817, Not datedB1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Court-Related Documents: 1804-1817B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Cumulative Report of Money owed Mississippi Territory/Washington Co.: 1800-1814B2-R088-B06-S01-4779
Fines & Forfeitures (collected in court cases): 1802-1815B2-R101-B07-S07-134
Land Records (Miscellaneous): 1807, 1815B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Sheriff's Executions for Court Cases: 1804-1811B1-R033-B05-S03-4790
Sheriff's Orders to Collect Taxes: 1808B1-R033-B05-S03-4790
Tax Assessment Form: Not datedB1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/ Adams Co.: 1808-1816B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Amite Co.: 1810-1815B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Claiborne Co.: 1806-1816B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Franklin Co.: 1810-1816B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Hancock Co.: 1817B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Jefferson Co.: 1805-1816B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Lawrence Co.: 1815-1816B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Madison Co.: 1810-1813B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Marion Co.: 1812-1814B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Washington Co.: 1806-1812B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Tax Records/Wilkinson Co.: 1805-1816B1-R033-B05-S03-4795
Taxes/Fines - Receive Warrants: 1806B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Receive Warrants: 1807B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Receive Warrants: 1812B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Receive Warrants: 1813 (for years 1811-1813)B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Receive Warrants: 1814 (for years 1812-1814)B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Receive Warrants: 1815 (for years 1812-1815)B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Receive Warrants: 1816 (for years 1815-1816)B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Returns of County Officials: 1805B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Returns of County Officials: 1806B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Returns of County Officials: 1807B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Returns of County Officials: 1808B1-R033-B05-S03-135
Taxes/Fines - Returns of County Officials: 1812B1-R033-B05-S03-135