Phillip Marcellus JAMES

                   Philip James is listed on the 1800 census roll in Richmond County, N C with wife and 2 daughters.
Phillip James apparently came to Washington County, Mississippi Territory around 1804 where he owned property and is listed on the tax rolls in 1804. Washington County Mississippi Territory stretched from the Chattahoochee River to the Pearl River. Mississippi Territory was created by act of Congress in 1798. Washington County Mississippi Territory was created by Gov. Winthrop Sargent on June 4, 1800.
Baldwin County, Al and Wayne County, Ms were created in 1809 from Washington County, Mississippi Territory. Greene County, Ms. Greene County, Ms., was created in 1811, Clarke County, Al., was created in 1812, and Monroe County, Al., was created ion 1815. Thus Washington County, Mississippi Territory became the mother County of all these counties in Southeast Ms., and Southwest Al.
Phillip James is in Greene County, Ms., and listed on the census in 1816.