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List compiled by Shannon Gorman |
Early Settlers of Marion County, Mississippi |
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Found When and Where in Marion County, Mississippi |
Adams, John |
1817 daughters marriage record |
Ainsworth, Leven and David |
1820 census born 1775-1794 |
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1813 Marion/Lawrence tax list |
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1818 land record |
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before 1803- was bondsman on marriage |
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1813 Marion-Lawrence County Tax List |
| Barnes, Henry |
abt 1847- brought in as a slave, stayed after war. Father of Otho Barnes |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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Came to Marion County about 1815. |
Blackburn, Gabriel |
1820 census born before 1775 |
Baugh, Bartholomew |
1820 census born 1775-1794 |
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by 1815 based on childs birth record |
Breakfield, Isaac |
1820 census; a Baptist minister from Georgia who settled in the area now known as Expose. |
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before 1815 per daughters marriage record |
Burns, Reason and wife Cordelia Adams |
marriage 1817 |
Butler, John |
1820 census born before 1775 |
Caison, George |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1819 church record |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
Clark, James |
before 1810 based on childs birth record |
Clark, William |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
Collins, Hannah |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census; born 1789 Descendants state he was here by 1815 |
Cook, Lewis |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1813 Marion/Lawrence County tax list |
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1820 census born 1775-1794 |
Dear, James |
1820 census born 1775-1794 |
Dear, Miller |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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abt 1812 per childs birth record |
Evan, John |
1820 census born 1794-1804 |
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before 1815- daughters marriage record |
Farmer, Zachariah |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1818 Justice of the Peace |
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1818 marriage record |
Floyd, Grovnor |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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land survey for him in 1818 and children born abt 1816 in Marion County |
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born before 1775 in South Carolina; came to Marion county about 1807. Settled near Sandy Hook. Present in 1820 census. |
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born 1790; present in 1820 census; 1815 Marion County Commissioner |
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from South Carolina about 1807. Settled near Hub. |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1816 Tax List |
Foster, Isaac |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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born about 1780 in South Carolina arrived in Marion County about 1808. Present in 1820 census. |
Friday, Frederick |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1826 court records |
Gill, Peter |
1816 tax list |
Gilly, Thomas |
1820 census born before 1775 |
Gordon, Jonathon |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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came from North Carolina in 1812. Settled near what is now known as Foxworth. Married in 1817. |
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1813 marriage record of daughter
1815 Marion County Commissioner |
Grimsley, William |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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by 1817 per childs birth record |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
Harris, Barton |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1815 Marion County Commissioner |
Harvill, Edward |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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from Ireland to South Carolina to Marion County, Mississippi about 1818. Settled on Holiday's Creek about 14 miles north of Columbia. |
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1822 court records |
Holliday, Joseph |
1820 census born before 1775 |
Hunt, William |
1817 land record |
Ivy, Campbell |
before 1823, marriage record |
Johnston, Daniel |
1820 census born before 1775 |
Keller, Phillip |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1818 land record |
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1816 Mississippi Census |
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by 1807 based on childs birth record |
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1808 Georgia Passport |
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1820 census born 1775-1794 |
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1820 census born 1775-1794 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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Came to Mississippi abt 1831. Was a Mississippi State Supreme Court Judge. Recorded land deeds in 1849. |
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before 1820 census |
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Waterhole Community along with Stephen Reagan, Dr. Newton Cowart, Hosea Davis. |
Livermore, William |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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came from Georgia and settled in what is now Columbia. John Lott donated the land on which the current courthouse stands. |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1813 Marion/Lwarence tax list |
Magee, Robert and Margaret Graves |
1813 marriage record |
May, Benjamin P. |
1820 census born 1775-1794 |
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1815 Marion County Commissioner |
McGuffie, John |
1815 Marion County Commissioner |
McIntosh, Daniel |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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came from North Carolina and settled between Ball Mill Creek and Hurricane Creek. He was a member of the 1817 Constitutional Convention. |
Miller, Richard |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
Mixon, Abraham |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1815 Marion County Commissioner |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1805 Mississippi census
1815 Marion County Commissioner |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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from North Carolina about 1815 and settled about 3 miles east of Columbia. |
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by 1818- Came from North Carolina with her daughter Lucy Nance and son-in-law Jesse Gelup Faulk |
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by 1817 based on childs birth record |
Noble, Stephen |
1815 Marion County Commissioner |
| Pace, John |
1820 Marion County census- born 1770-1780 |
Pace, William |
1813 Marion/Lawrence county tax list |
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1819 Church records |
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1815 Marion County Commissioner |
| Perkins, James |
Revolutionary War Patriot-Land owner 1822- land near Walthall-Marion County line |
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1813 Marion/Lawrence tax list/son of James Perkins/purchased land from James Perkins 1824. |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
Poole, William |
1820 cenus born 1794-1804 |
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before 1820-sons marrriage record |
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before 1817 per childs birth record |
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from South Carolina with John Ford |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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Marriage and land records. Settled in the area now known as Sandy Hook. |
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1817 land record |
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1817 land record |
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before 1817 per daughters marriage record |
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in Marion County by 1817 when he registered his cattle brand. Helped settle the Waterhole community. Listed in 1820 census and on land deeds as REGAN |
Regan, Frederick |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1815 Marion County Commissioner |
Russell, John D. |
1820 Marion County Census born 1794-1804 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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by 1814 per childs birth record |
Simmons, James, John, Willis, Ralph and Richard |
1813 Marion/Lawrence tax lsit |
Simms, James |
1820 census born before 1775 |
Slater, John |
1808 Georgia passport |
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before 1809 based on childs birth record |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1819 marriage record |
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by 1816 per daughers marriage record |
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1820 Marion County Census born 1794-1804 |
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1815 Marion County Commissioner |
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by 1810 per childs birth records |
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1821 marriage record |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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from South Carolina. First settled near Brookhaven. Had 11 sons that settled all over Marion County. |
Swazie, Patrick |
before 1821- daughters marriage record |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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from North Carolina and settled about two miles south of Bunker Hill. |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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traveled from Georgia with father William Thornhill on 1811 passport through Georgia |
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1813 Marion/Lawrence county tax list
born abt 1745 |
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1820 census born 1775-1794 |
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before 1820 per childs birth record |
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1813 Marion/Lawrence tax list |
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childs birth record |
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1820 census born before 1775 |
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1812 Marion/Lawrence tax list |
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from Liberty County, Georgia about 1811. Settled in Sandy Hook. |
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operated mill on Lott's Creek |
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1820 land record |
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1813 Marion/Lawrence tax list
1815 Marion County Commissioner |
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Rodolphus was from Canada, married in Marion County in 1825, and was sworn in as a deputy sheriff in 1830. Served as Justice of the Peace and County Clerk. Catherine was born in Kentucky, her family was in Marion County by 1813. (See John Cooper) Rodolphus and Catherine Willoughby were large land owners in what is now Columbia, Mississippi. The Marion General Hospital is located on land once owned by Rodolphus Willoughby. |
Wirt, Travis |
1820 census born before 1775 |
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1817 marriage record of daughter |