![]() Catharine’s creek, in Adams County, one tract bearing date of 1784, the other 1788. He also acquired two tracts of land on St. C, show that in October, 1777, he obtained from the British authorities, then in power here, a grant of land on Boyd’s (now Cole’s) creek. The records in the national land office at Washington, D. ![]() Gibson came to Mississippi in 1772, at the age of twenty- four, and first settled in what is now known as Jefferson County. who was a native of South Carolina, born August 1, 1748. Port Gibson, the beautiful county seat of Claiborne County, was first founded and laid out by Samuel Gibson, Esq. Lying almost in the center of Claiborne County, occupying an advantageous and beautiful location in the midst of a fine cotton, corn, fruit, vegetables and grass-growing section, is found the pretty little city of Port Gibson, one of the state’s oldest municipalities, as the county also is one of the oldest, having been organized in the beginning of the present century, or in 1802, on January 27. ![]()
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