Land Claims in the Mississippi Territory

By: Walter Lowrie, Editor, Orig. Pub. 1834, Reprinted 2021, 304 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-583-9. Mississippi was formed from land ceded to the United States by South Carolina and Georgia. Part of the British Province of West Florida and part of the land ceded by the French made up the rest of the Territory of Mississippi in 1798. The Territory of Alabama was formed from the Territory of Mississippi in 1817. In 1817, statehood was granted to Mississippi. In these reco