19-1-1 - Adams County. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 19-1-1. Adams County.
 

Adams County is bounded by beginning on the Mississippi River, bounding on Jefferson County, at the upper side of Rose's old settlement, and thence easterly in a direct line to Strover's mound, near Fairchild's creek; thence up the south branch of said creek, with its meanderings, to a place once known as Griffin's stillhouse, and afterward George Selser's springs; thence in a direct line to the northeast corner of what was once Edmond Andrews' cotton gin; thence in a due east course to the basis meridian line; thence south with said line, on Jefferson and Franklin Counties, to the River Homochitto; thence with said river, bounding on Wilkinson County (to leave Tansy Island in Wilkinson County), to the Mississippi River; and thence northerly along the same to the place of beginning. The county site is Natchez. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1871, § 20; 1880, § 24; 1892, § 348; 1906, § 411; Hemingway's 1917, § 3825; 1930, § 3888; 1942, § 3023; Laws,  Apr. 2, 1799.