The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-08-12

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his daughter, who trembled with hap
piness and surprise, and, placing it in that
of the jew 'aia
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From the Petrel.1 Gr
A History Of Chickasaw County.
NUMBER Z.
RoADs.--Heretofore the citizens Of the
county had followed either the Indian
trails which had been used by the Abort
gines, or they had been under the more
primitive necessity, in the parlance of the
backwoods, of bushing it, or Of following
the range, township or section lines when
they were obliged to pass from one por-
tion of the county to another. And more
than once have we been told Of instances
in which persons enquiring for the set
tlement of Mr.. A., have been told that he
lived to the N. w. quarter of section ~,
township =, range -, east or west, ss,
the case may have been, and the enquirer
not being fully acquainted with that par
ticular mode of arriving at definite
course, much less of precise and definite
locality, has anxiously petitioned his in
former to point out the direction in which
the cabin of his friend was situated from
his then locality, &c.
The county having been organized
and the location of the county site being
determined, we find that the Board of Po-
lice, at its session on the 6th Of July, '36,
passed the following order, which was the
first jury Of review ever appointed in the
county. viz lsrs .tv Iurs-- ....-.~ss4s-4
"Ordered-tnat Charles Gates, jr., r.
Ivy, T. B. Reid, Claiborn Williams,
Matthew Knox, j. G. Tanner, and G.. w.
Werner be appointed Commissioners to
review and lay out road from the town
Of Houston to the nearest and best route,
as far as the county line, in the direction
of the town of Pontotoc and that the
said commissioners meet at the house of
Claiborn Williams on the ed inst, in
order to confer with the Commissioners
of Pontotoc county, in relation to said
road, and that the said Commissioners re-
port at the next meeting Of the Board.d
At the same time IL w. Norton. Bar
nett Seay, Francis Carson, John /. Fort
son, Benjamin Love, John Dulaney and
John Parker were appointed commission
ers to renew and lay out a road from the
town Of Houston, !" the nearest and most
eligible route as far as the country line, in
the direction of the town of Aberdeen;
and that they meet at Norton's Store on
the lst day Of August
The commissioners on the above NAM
ed road, made their report at the meeting
of the Board held on the 23d of August,
following. and the following persons were
appointed overseers, viz
Pont0toc Road, First Division Chas-
Gates, jr., from Houston to the line be-
tween sections 9 and A, in township IS,
range 3, east, with the following hands:
I. D. Wooldridge's hands, Thos, Gates
hands, Thos. Reds hands, N.fubby and
hands, She-wn quah and hands. VIM. VIII
lington, Philip Hoffman, james Waters,
S. G. Tanner, James Shaw and hands,
Smith Shaw and hands, Chas. Gates, jr.,
and hands, Ish-coon- and hands,
Mrs. Frazer's hands, Robert AldTidge
and hand, Benjamin Bugg's hands, SamI
Evans, James Evans, Matthew Knox,
John Reid, Thompson Austin, Pon-shish-
tubby, Ishla-ache, Okla, Stephen Fra
ger, George Harris, James R. Gates, y.
B. Liverman, JAS Potts, j. E. Harrison,
G. w. Werner and all persons liable to
road duty within these bounds.
Second Division.-ThOs. Ivy, overseer
to the county line and to have the follow
ing hands Thos. Ivy's hands, VIM. Gin
DER J. Thompson, Tun-na- -pi-ah's hands,
David Brown, Claiborn Williams hands,
T. G. Williams, N. G. Williams, John
Strickland and hands, Josiah Sealy, SUI
nu-chi-tubby, Le-tho-ka, Ebenezer Sealy,
Weaver, w. B. Reid, Lewis Webb, VIM.
Webb, Edward Garrett, Willis, Webb,
VIM. G. Goodman, Thomas Webb,
VIM. Webb, jr., VIM. Goodman, II, Lit
tleberry Gilliam's hands. Noah Watkins.
Negroes-Cyrus and Aleck, Peter Title
Thad's Watkins, M. G. Smith, VIM. M.
Sample, VIM. Cunningham, and all 9th
ers liable to road duty in these bounds.
Toxish Road Commissioners.-Ciai-
born Williams, VIM. Cunningham. Vim.
Webb, VIM. B. Reid, Peter Title, Dam
iel Williams and Thos. Webb, sr., an
pointed Sept. 5th. '36. T''ff
Starkville Road Commissioners.-C.
Hightower, Benz. CLARK. Sam'l Rsydon
George w. Thornton, VIM. Bingham,
Reuben Hightower, W. B. Foster, Chs.
d. Dfbrell. A. X Kraip. James Tou0h.