Claims East of Tombigbee River
Notice | Claim | Title | Commissioners’ description
Number presented: March 20, 1804
No. 14
By whom claimed: Hardy Perry
Names of original grantees, or claiments: Hardy Perry
Quantity claimed in acres, or arpents: 800
Situation: Tombigbee River
Whence derived: Spanish warrant of survey
Date of Warrant: February 9th, 1778
Commissioners’ description: Not received by the Board, being on Indian land.
N. PERKINS, Register of the Land Office east of Pearl River, Mississippi Territory.
Note: St. Stephens, Alabama (the district east of the Pearl River) was the first opened land office district (26 December 1806–17), and it was also the first closed. The district was located in what is now Washington County, Alabama. Transactions covered those for the southeastern district, including land Georgia ceded to the federal government in 1798 and 1802 Yazoo lands. Augusta became the land office serving the area.