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Kesiah Sally Westly m. Mar 7, 1759 b. 1739? Isle of Wight VA d. Mar 1815 St. Helena Parish LA |
Cato Charles b. 1759? Fairfax Co. VA d. 1819? Jefferson Co. MS |
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Washington Co., previously Washington District, was formed by North Carolina in
1777 and extended west to the Mississippi River, mostly containing land inhabited
by five different tribes of Native Americans, but mostly Cherokee. In 1779, the
Cumberland Settlement was created by the granting of land by the NC government.
In 1783 this settlement was mostly contained in the newly formed Davidson Co. and
surrounded by Indian Lands, and Virginia and Kentucky to the North.
Map of
the Cumberland Settlements showing Forts, known as Stations, in present-day counties. |
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On Apr 9, 1782, William and "Keaih [?] West, his wife," were living in the
Natchez District when they sold to Francois Mesnard, resident of Arkansas, a
slave named "Edith", a Creole, aged 16 years, with a negro child, her son, aged
one year, named "Thomas", for $400 and one barrel of flour [McBee, Book A, p. 12]. |
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In early 1782, it is believed that son Cato West married Martha Wills Green,
the daughter of Thomas Marsten Green, Sr.
(1723-1805) in the Cumberland Settlement in Washington Co. NC. |
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According to the 1792 Spanish Census for Natchez District, a William West was
a head of household in the District of Second & Sandy Creek, as was
"Juan Holladay", both without owning land
or slaves. However William West reported 9 white persons living in the household.
There is also a "Lettle Berry West" Household with 3 white persons living
in the same area. A different translation has a Cato West household in the Villa
Gayoso area that became Jefferson Co. MS. |
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1895 Map
of Natchez from the Ancestral Trackers
website, shows the likely routes of the Second and Sandy Creeks in 1792. |
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Map of
the Natchez District as it may have looked between 1779 and 1799. |
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Map
showing Land Holdings in the Second Creek area in 1810 is an enlargement
of part of the Adams Co. 1810 Land Holdings Map found on the website of the
MS Achives and History. In the center of this map can be seen the land owned
by Joshua Howard and other members of the Howard family. Brother John Howard (Jr.)
tried to claim 165 acres next to D. Ferguson and R. Sessions on May 29, 1804, the
same day that Joshua Howard tried to claim
the 200 acres of land had been surveyed for him in 1777. The latter tract would
be the land that John Holloway was "improving"
and where he was killed. |
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Son Cato West had become "Conservator of the Peace for the Northern District,
Mississippi Territory" by ?Oct 27, 1798 when two men swore to the truth of
statements made re: suit involving
Elizabeth Still Lee lending a slave girl Peg
to her son-in-law Alexander Freeland in the Summer of 1796. She had made her
deposition before Cato West, Joshua Howard's
counterpart in the Northern District [Ragland p.6]. |
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Grandson William married Sarah Kirkland on Feb 10, 1804. They had at least one son,
before William died about 1810. |
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The West and Green families primarity owned land in what became Jefferson Co.,
the part created from Adams Co., Mississippi Territory, in 1796
(see present day map).
In 1802 Claiborne Co. was formed just north of Jefferson Co.
(see present day map
for location). |
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Sources: Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "1792 Census for Natchez District (under Spanish Government control)", 2009, 1792 Census. Cumberland Compact, original document signed May 13, 1780, Washington County NC, website. Clayton, Prof. W.W., History of Davidson County Tennessee, reprod. 1971 by Charles Elder, Nashville TN. Drake, Doug, Jack Masters and Bill Puryear, Founding of the Cumberland Settlements, The First Atlas, 1779-1804, Warioto Press, 2009, pp. 23, map E7. Imbert, J. Leopold, map maker, Carte des Possessions Angloises... 1777, reprinted by the Museum of the American Revolution from map image at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library. McBee, May Wilson, comp., "Land Claims", in Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Book F, p.21. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, p. 12, 541. MS Dept. of Archives & History (MDAH), Jackson MS, rootsweb, Americans Arriving in Spanish-Held Natchez 1788-1790. North Carolina Land Grants, vol. 2, at Morganton NC Library, p. 6, #1476, transcribed by Lisabeth M. Holloway Oct 9, 1987. Rowland, Dunbar, "1816 Census for Franklin Co. Miss.", taken from The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi,Centennial Edition, 1917, rootsweb website. USGenWeb Archives, contr. by Houston Tracy Jr., "Deposition of William Wall, 20 Dec 1780", microfilm folio 458-9. Wells, Carol, Natchez Postscripts 1781-1798, Heritage Books, pp. 101, 144-5, 151, Will Books 3 and 4, Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1811-1848, The Genealogical Society of "Original" Wilkes County), Will Book 3, "Estate of Joahua Howard", Oct 1814, page 89, 120. |
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