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1948 postage stamp depicting the Mississippi Territory. The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by both upper and lower chambers (the Senate and House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States, meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill, in the federal national capital city ...
The Mississippi Territory was organized on April 7, 1798, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina to the United States. Their original colonial charters theoretically extended west to the Pacific Ocean. The Mississippi Territory was later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain.
On December 10, 1817, that western portion of the Mississippi Territory became the State of Mississippi, the 20th state of the federal Union, in an organic act passed by both upper and lower legislative chambers (the Senate and the House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol ...
Natchez District c. 1800. Pickering County was one of the original counties of Mississippi Territory in the United States. Together with Adams County, Mississippi Territory, Pickering County was a first-level subdivision of the land that had been known as the Natchez District under the British and Spanish. [1]
The U.S. state of Mississippi has 82 counties. The first two counties, Adams County and Pickering County (renamed Jefferson County later), were established in 1799 in the Mississippi Territory. [1] 14 counties, all in the southwest, were created before the Mississippi Territory became a state in 1817. [1]
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
The area of Mississippi Territory was increased in 1804 and again in 1812. On December 10, 1817, Mississippi was admitted into the Union as a state and Alabama Territory to the east was spun off. List of delegates representing the district
Pickering County, Mississippi Territory This page was last edited on 1 January 2014, at 11:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...