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Notes on the early Douglases of Mississippi
Edward
Douglass, married Miss. Green. Went to Mississippi. He was the son of
Elmore Douglass, son of Colonel Edward and Sarah (George) Douglass, who
married Betsey Blakemore.
Sarah E. Douglass, married Dr.
James Glass. Moved to Mississippi. She was the daughter of William
Howard Douglass, son of Edward Douglass, Jr., and Elizabeth (Howard)
Douglass, who married Sally Edwards.
John Douglas was born in 1764, in
South Carolina. He married Nancy Denman Douglas (born Walden) in 1790,
at age 25. Nancy was born on May 20 1774, in Georgetown, S.C.. They had
6 sons: Elisha Douglas, John Douglas and 4 other children. John died
1839, at age 75 in Mississippi.
Norvell Robert Douglas (25
Nov. 25 1859 - 14 Feb. 1937), son of Elisha and N. Jane Davis Douglas
was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery Brookhaven, Lincoln County,
Mississippi.
Thomas Logan Douglass died Marshall Co.,
Mississippi, Nov. 25, 1844 in the 38th year of his age.
Asa Douglas: Born 1809 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. A son of John
Wallace Douglas (1755-1815) and Mary Brawner (1767-1845). Migrated to
Georgia. Appeared in the 1830 Putnam County, Georgia, census (20-49 age
category). Married Elizabeth Denham in Putnam County, 12/16/1830. Father
of John William (1832-1891). Drew in the 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery.
Migrated to Mississippi. Appeared in the 1850 Lowndes County,
Mississippi, census (41 years old). Appeared in the 1860 Oktibbeha
County census (51 years old). Appeared in the 1870 Oktibbeha County
census (60 years old) residing next door to his son, John. Died circa
1875 in Oktibbeha County. Some relationship to James Douglas. Elizabeth
would pass away sometime after 1880.
Alsey Douglas: Born circa 1814 in Georgia. Carpenter by trade.
Migrated to Mississippi. Married Elizabeth Moore on 6/9/1836 in
Lawrence, Mississippi. Migrated to Texas during the 1840s. Appeared in
the 1850 Anderson County, Texas, census (36 years old). A younger
brother, Anderson Douglas (34 years old) was residing in Alsey's
household in 1850. Father of Louisa Catherine (b. ca. 1836), James A.
(b. ca. 1840), Alsey M. (b. ca. 1842), Susan E. (b. ca. 1844), Margaret
A.M. (b. ca. 1848), and F.D. "Doc" (1856-1953).
The Natchez-Fort Stevens Road crossed Fair River about six or
eight miles west of Tryus. Here John Douglas settled along with his
father-in-law William Walden. The house in which he lived, and so far as
we know built, still stands, as a part of the home of J. Fleet Maxwell,
a direct descendant of John Douglas. It is about one mile from Fair
River Baptist Church, in Lincoln County today. The original logs are
weather boarded on the outside, and ceiled inside. We have no record of
the year he settled here, but he was living in this house when his twin
sons, Elisha and and Elijah were born in 1814.
Benjamin Franklin Douglas: Born 10/7/1836 in Georgia. Migrated to
Mississippi. Died 1919 in Sarepta, Calhoun, Mississippi.
Elijah Putnam Douglas (1838-1899)
was a Baptist Minister, living on his farm in Lincoln County near
Wesson, Mississippi.
The Elisha Douglas Cabin Historical Group
is a non-profit organization which seeks to preserve the legacy of the
Mississippi pioneer, John Douglas, Sr. (1764-1839), and the log cabin
(circa 1856) built by his son, Elisha P. Douglas (1814-1900). Through
education and historical artifact collection and preservation, the group
seeks to promote knowledge, education, and appreciation among the John
Douglas, Sr. descendants and the community at large.
The following were recorded in the 1850 Federal Census for Clarke
County, Mississippi
Douglass, John - 30 - M - W - Farmer - Mississippi - Beat 5
Douglass, Elijah - 67 - M - W - Farmer - Tennessee - Beat 5
Douglass, Nancy - 45 - F - W - - Louisiana - Beat 5
Douglass, Henry - 20 - M - W - Farmer - Mississippi - Beat 5
Douglass, James - 14 - M - W - - Mississippi - Beat 5
Douglass, Samuel - 25 - M - W - Farmer - Mississippi - Beat 5
Douglass, Sarah - 40 - F - W - - Tennessee - Beat 5
Bibliography:
The John
Douglas family of Mississippi. Author, Edgar Lamar Douglas
The
Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory
After the
Revolution, the westward movement of Americans intensified. During the
first two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans moved west in
such great numbers that historians refer to that mass movement as the
Great Migration. In 1800 there were only two states west of the
Appalachians Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1820 there were eight:
Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi,
and Alabama. The population of these eight western states had grown from
386,000 persons in 1800 to 2,216,000 in 1820. Mississippi was a product
of the Great Migration.
The Mississippi country was opened to settlement in
1798 when Congress organized the Mississippi Territory. (Until it became
a separate territory in 1817, Alabama was part of Mississippi.) A few
settlers already lived in Mississippi when it became a territory. They
were concentrated in two principal areas the Natchez District and the
lower Tombigbee settlements above and west of Mobile. Approximately
4,500 people, including slaves, lived at Natchez, considerably more than
the combined free and slave population of 1,250 that inhabited the
Tombigbee settlements in 1800. Outside of these two areas, the territory
was populated only by American Indians.
State
timeline:
1540 - DeSoto with about 1,000 men entered the eastern
boundary of the state.
1682 - LaSalle descended the Mississippi
River, taking possession of the adjacent country in the name of the King
of France, and named it Louisiana.
1700 - Fort Rosalie was builit in
1716. A massacre by the Natchez Indians occured in 1729.
1755 - War
between France and England resulted in France ceding to England that
portion of Louisiana lying east of the Mississippi River, except for New
Orleans.
1763 - France, by a secret treaty, ceded to Spain all that
portion of Louisiana west of the Mississippi, and New Orleans and
Mobile. France also ceded to England all of Florida. The English divided
Florida into East and West Florida.
1765 - Inducements in the form
of liberal land grants were provided by the King of England.
1779 -
Spain, as an ally of France, declared war against England. In the treaty
of 1783, England loses all the Floridas south of the 31st parallel to
Spain.
1785 - The Spanish King ordered liberal grants.
1795 -
Treaty was signed with Spain.
1797 - Col. Andrew Endicott hoisted an
American flag on an eminence near Fort Panmure, within the present
limits of the city of Natchez, and demanded the surrender of Fort
Panmure to the Americans. On 9 June the Spanish seized an American
Baptist minister. The people rose in arms, and within a few hours, the
Spanish authority in Natchez was virtually over thrown. During this
period, Congress erected the territory previously surrendered by Spain,
naming it the Mississippi Territory.
1798 - Winthrop Sargent was
appointed the first governor of the Mississippi Territory.
1818 -
Mississippi Statehood Convention held at Jefferson College, Washington,
Adams Co, Mississippi. Mississippi gains statehood.
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