THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, CLAIBORNE COUNTY: I, WILLIAM DAVIS, A DEPUTY SURVEYOR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI AFORESAID, DO CERTIFY THAT I HAVE SURVEYED BY THE DIRECTION OF WM. DOTSON, JAMES A. HUTCHINSON, DANICE WILLIS, RAYNARD TURPIN AND ELBERT SHELBY... A MERIDIAN LINE... TO THE SOUTH BOUNDARY OF SECTION NO. 55. IN THE SAME TOWNSHIP REPRESENTED BY A DOUBLE LINE IN THE ABOVE DIAGRAM, AND WHICH IS INTENDED TO REPRESENT THE EAST BOUNDARY OF MRS. HANNAH KENNISON'S DOWER OUT OF LANDS HER LATE HUSBAND ONCE OWNED WHICH SAID DOWER IS BY SAID COMMISSIONERS ESTIMATED TO CONTAIN ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ACRES. 19TH DAY OF MARCH, 1845. | WM. DAVIS, SURVEYOR, H. [On verso: PLAT OF MRS. KENNISON'S DOWER, &C., FEES, SURVEYING & PLAT, $16.00.
Claiborne County, MS: 1845. Folio manuscript broadside, 8" x 13", in a neat, legible hand. With a detailed plat drawing at head. Lightly tanned and worn. Small corner tear costing a couple of letters. A few expert tape repairs to fold splits [no text loss]. Good+.
The document shows several tracts along Kennison's Bayou, which is likely what is now known as Kennison Creek, running between Bayou Pierre River and Big Black River. Kennison's Creek was the site of a Civil War skirmish on May 3, 1863, between Grant's Union forces and Bowen's Confederate forces.
The 1850 Federal Census for District #3 of Claiborne, Mississippi, lists James A. Hutchinson as a planter aged 53, born in Georgia; and Wm. Dotson as a planter aged 55, born in South Carolina. Dotson, Hutchinson, Turpin and Shelby were all listed in the 1850 Federal Slave Schedules as owning slaves, with Hutchinson and Turpin each owning more than thirty such. Shelby and Dotson are also listed in the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database as having served with the 1st Regiment, Mississippi, during the War. Item #28130
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