The United States took possession of the Mississippi Territory from Spain in 1798. Mississippi became a state in 1817. "The primary settlements in Mississippi during the 1800's were along the Mississippi River and the Natchez Trace, a route over land from Natchez to Nashville Tennessee. Therefore, most newspapers available at the State Archives for the period 1801 to 1850 were in these areas." The people named lived primarily in southern Mississippi,...

Traces ancestors from the American coast to a particular place in Germany.