Date: 1796 - 1825.

Scope and Content Note:

Letters, certificates, and commissions of David Holmes, governor of the Mississippi Territory and the state of Mississippi and United States senator from Mississippi. The certificates of appointment, commissions and other papers pertaining to appointments are as follows:

  • Parmenias Briscoe, ranger, Claiborne County
  • John Coulter, chief justice of the Orphans' Court, Wilkinson County
  • Joseph Johnston, register of the Orphans' Court, Wilkinson County
  • William Mason, justice of the quorum, Monroe County
  • Robert H. Morrow, justice of the peace, Adams County
  • James Stigler, justice of the quorum, Lawrence County
  • nominations for the Legislative Council, Feb. 15, 1815, Robert Beaty, David Williams, Robert Cocks, and Cato West
  • appointments of census takers, 1810, Daniel Beasley, Jefferson County; Andrew Glass, Warren County; Joseph Montgomery, Franklin County; Thomas G. Percy, Wilkinson County; John Richards, Amite County; Louis Winston, Madison County; and David Greenleaf and Dr. Alexander E. McConnell, surgeon, United States Navy

The papers are distributed by date as follows:

  • 1796, 1 piece
  • 1810–1819, 18 pieces
  • 1820–1825, 1 piece.