Yazoo

9.10.1773Staten IslandCaptain William McLeod sells 109 acres to Alexander McDonald.
5.22.1775New York CityThe Provincial Congress announces that William McLeod, a British officer, is not permitted to embark for Boston.
11.3.1776United StatesWilliam McLeod, prisoner of the 59th regiment, receives allowances and provisions per Congress.
1779South CarolinaCaptain William McLeod is captured by forces under Francis Marion during irregular warfare.
9.30.1779East FloridaWilliam McLeod is commissioned as Captain of the Florida Battalion.
Sep. 1780St. AugustineWm. McLeod’s land is used as a marker on a property deed.
4.4.1781Wilmington NCLieutenant McLeod is tasked with overseeing artillery resources following the Battle of Guilliford Courthouse.
4.10.1781United StatesWilliam McLeod is paroled.
5.26.1781CharlestonWilliam McLeod marries Miss Mary Alexander in British occupied Charleston.
5.3.1782United StatesThe Duke of Richmond asks Benjamin Franklin to resolve the discharge of Captain McLeod.
April 1783East FloridaWilliam McLeod of St. Augustine appoints an attorney to address unresolved debts with various Charleston merchants.
3.1.1784East FloridaJohn Imrie, a planter from East Florida, enters into a bond agreement with William McLeod.
2.7.1785SavannahThomas Green and others sign an act for the creation of Bourbon County.
7.10.1786CharlestonWilliam McLeod of Charleston appoints a London based law firm to manage financial transactions on his behalf.
7.9.1788Franklin GAMicajah Williamson and his wife Sally convey 6640 acres to John Swepson for one thousand pounds sterling, as documented in an indenture. The land boundaries and details refer to a grant initially signed by the Governor on July 25, 1787.
8.16.1788CharlestonWilliam McLeod, a subject of Great Britian, takes the oath of allegiance to South Carolina.
1789GeorgiaA company in Carolina purchases 10 million acres for $66,669 in Georgia along the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers.
3.11.1789NassauKing George III grants Wm. McLeod a tract of 100 acres in the Bahamas, with specific conditions for land improvement and maintenance.
8.27.1789CharlestonWilliam Clay Snipes and Thomas Washington borrow $5000 from William McLeod.
Dec. 1789PhiladelphiaAlexander Moultrie and William Clay Snipes, acting as heirs and representatives of the deceased Isaac Huger, petition the Georgia Legislature for purchase rights.
1790CharlestonWilliam McLeod vs. William Clay Snipes
8.13.1790GeorgiaAlexander Moultrie, Isaac Huger, William Clay Snipes and Thomas Washington pay the Georgia government $66,964 for 5 million acres on the MS River per resolution of the General Assembly 12.21.1789.
11.12.1790CharlestonWilliam Clay Snipes enters a financial arrangement with William McLeod.
3.31.1792United StatesJames O’Fallon publicly states that Wm. Clay Snipes, Alexander Moultrie, Thos. Washington and Isaac Huger were original interest holders in an Indian land claim later administered through a land company. The House of McCleod in Charleston provided supplies.
April 1792AntwerpRobert Morris proposes to Anthony Wouters of Antwerp the sale of shares in uncultivated land in New York known as the Genesee lands.
4.21.1792United StatesJames O’Fallon publicly condemns the South Carolina Land Company for unscrupulous business practices.
12.5.1792CharlestonThe South Carolina court of Admirality orders Marshal Isaac Huger to summon all parties with potential claims of the abandoned schooner Precilla.
1793GeorgiaAlexander Moultrie, William Clay Snipes and Isaac Huger purchase land with proprietary interests in the South Carolina Yazoo Company.
4.13.1793CharlestonIsaac Huger, CC Pinckney and William Moultrie are listed as officers in the South Carolina chapter of the Society of Cincinnati.
8.26.1793CharlestonIsaac Huger declines George Washington’s appointment for the office of the General Marshall for the District of South Carolina.
9.23.1793Augusta GAConstant Freeman reports to Henry Knox that GA militia men threaten Seagrove’s life if he interferes with Telfair’s offensive designs against the Creeks.
3.27.1794New York CityJames Greenleaf, Robert Morris and John Nicholson establish the Columbian Society for land sales and construction planning.
7.28.1794PhiladelphiaJames Greenleaf, John Nicholson and Robert Morris arrange bills of exchange with Sylvanus Bourne.
7.29.1794United StatesEdmond Randolph writes Dutch diplomat John Quincey Adams outlining his priority to secure an $800,000 loan for the ransom of American citizens in Algiers. Key diplomatic personnel are James Greenleaf are Sylvanus Bourne.
9.3.1794United StatesA set of Bills drawn by James Greenleaf is endorsed by John Nicholson and Robert Morris on Sylvanus Bourne to Thomas Pinckney.
1.7.1795HollandA map is produced to investors displaying the partitioning of Yazoo lands among MS, GA and SC Land Companies.
3.5.1795Effingham GARobert Morris, John Nicholson, James Greenleaf and John Barclay convey 107,000 acres to Robert Pell.
10.30.1795PhiladelphiaWilliam McLeod settles notes with John Holland.
5.28.1796United StatesIsaac Huger sends a letter of introduction for his nephew to Horatio Gates.
7.2.1796White TNA Knoxville land speculator conveys a 44,000 acre tract of land in Tennessee to a New York land speculator, which was then partitioned with multiple investors, among them Timothy Green.
1798United StatesTimothy Green has correspondence in regard to the Holland Land Company.
2.17.1798New OrleansDaniel Clark writes William McLeod.
Feb. 1799HollandThe Holland Land Company releases investor dividends for large purchases in Cumberland NC and Franklin GA.
4.12.1799ManhattanAaron Burr and others seek funding for the Manhattan Water Company.
8.22.1800United StatesCatherine Duer corresponds with James Greenleaf.
10.1.1814New OrleansMary Green, executrix of Timothy Green, files suit against Thomas Lilly and Logan Percy for $3094.