Subj: Re: Griffin family, Magnolia Plantation, Washington Co, MS, 1800's Date: 8/19/02 6:01:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:nowell@tecinfo.com">nowell@tecinfo.com</A> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMB.2ACI/263.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: This information on Washington county TERRITORY OF MISSISSIPPI refers to Clarke County Alabama-More and more I feel this is where you need to search. Princella Between 1809 and 1812 it appears to have been confined entirely within what is now Alabama. It was bounded on the north and east by the Treaty of Mt. Dexter boundaries and included the ca. N 1/2 of present day Washington County (the southern half of present day Wash. was for a long time Baldwin County, which has now moved completely away from its original site and is now located entirely east of the Mobile River and Mobile Bay), the southern half of Choctaw County and most of CLARKE COUNTY (east of the Tombigbee). This is from MISSISSIPPI: ATLAS OF HISTORICAL COUNTY BOUNDARIES, edited. by John H. Long, complied by Peggy Tuck Sinko, Simon & Schuster, 1993, page 199. between 1812 and 1817, when the Alabama Territory was formed, Washington County lost all of its land east of the Tombigbee River, leaving only the north half of present Washington and the south half of Choctaw. From MS: ATLAS OF HISTORICAL COUNTY BOUNDARIES, p. 200.