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John Quitman

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John Quitman

"No part of the United States holds out better prospects for a young lawyer . . . [The planters] live profusely; drink costly Port, Madeira, and sherry, after the English fashion, and are exceedingly hospitable."

-John Quitman (law partner of Melrose's John McMurran), 1822
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In 1729 the Natchez Indians carried out a massacre against the French settlement at Fort Rosalie.

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