(1) From: The Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, Published 1890 by Goodspeed. Lafayette County Six years after Little Rock became the capital of Arkansas Territory, the fifth Legislature, representing thirteen counties, held a session from October 1, 1827, to October 31. D. T. WITTER was president, and T. W. NEWTON, Secretary of the council, and the speaker and clerk of the House were, respectively, A. H. SEVIER and Andrew ROANE. On the 15th of the month they carved out a new county on the Louisiana and Texas lines, covering the present counties of * LAFAYETTE, * MILLER, and a good share of * COLUMBIA, and named it in honor of the good Frenchman. The new county organized the same year, (1827), with Jesse DOUGLAS as clerk; Joshua MORRISON, sheriff; J. W. WARD, coroner; and J. T. CONWAY, surveyor. The first judge of which information can be found was Jacob BUZZARD, who served from 1829 to 1836, and during whose administration no records or county seat seems to have been required. His successor, E. M. LOWE, serving from 1836 to 1840, left records beginning at the earliest date, thus: "August term. At a county court began and held at the Cut-Off on Red River at he house prepared for the reception of the court, which commenced on the 6th day of August, 1838, present; E. M. LOWE, chief justice, and John WAGGONER and Benj. LINK, two justices of the peace." Here follows a petition for a road from Moss' bridge to the Louisiana line, saying: "The county is settling up very fast in that section." They wanted H. M. LEMAY, Jacob WAGGONER, and L. B. FORT to be viewers. A ferry license was issued to parties at Long Prairie, on Red River.