"[7] Surnames of white families that lived in or near Washington were Bowie, Calvit, Chew, Covington, Dangerfield, Freeland, Grayson, Magruder, Wilkinson, Winston, and Wailes.

[8] According to a 1906 survey of "lost villages of Mississippi":[8] It was a gay and fashionable place, compactly built for a mile or more from east to west, while every hill in the neighborhood was occupied by some gentleman's chauteau.

It was, of course, the haunt of politicians and office seekers; the center of political intrigue, the point to which all persons in pursuit of land or occupation first came.

[8]The Mississippi constitution convention of 1817 met in Washington at the Methodist Meeting House (which was purchased by Jefferson College in 1830).

[10] In the late 1810s there was a yellow fever outbreak in the town, which had previously been considered a "salubrious climate" compared to Natchez, and the disease killed "a number of the best citizens, so that people were restrained from fixing their family residences there.

"[7] The capital was officially moved to Jackson in 1822, in keeping with the Act passed by the Assembly on November 28, 1821, which chose to have a more central location for better accessibility to more residents.

[11] The Natchez Trace fell out of use as a U.S. post road by 1824, consequent to the development of the steamboat, and "from this date (1825–26) a variety of natural causes contributed to its depopulation until for a score of years it has been nothing more than a scattered village.

The gang absconded with $2,000 cash in the second robbery and took shelter in abandoned cabins on the Kemp Plantation south of St. Joseph, Louisiana.

Before the American Civil War, both the national Baptist Association and Methodist Church split over the issue of slavery, and southern congregations established separate organizations.

The college was created by an act of the first General Assembly of the Mississippi Territory in 1802 and was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, then-president of the United States.

[citation needed] Operated as a boys' academy, it continued in this capacity (but for a few brief, temporary closures, due to war, fire, remodeling and the like) for the next 153 years.