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- Carson, Joseph, of the Tombigbee settlements, was one of the prominent men of the later Territorial period. He married a daughter of Abner Green of Adams county, and subsequently influenced connections in the Natchez district. He was commissioned as an attorney-at-law in 1807, was a member of the Territorial council from 1809 to 817, was attorney-general of the eastern district for many yers, a militia officer, in 1813 was colonel of the First Mississippi regimen, United States volunteers, on duty in the Alabama region. He forced the evacuation of the Spanish post on the Perdido river, April 27, 1813. In 1818 he was urged by his section as candidate for congressional delegate.
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