Book T, pages 301-302-303 of Deed Books of Perry County, Mississippi, portions as follows:

The United States of America

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting.

Whereas John Mixon, Senior, assignee of Hoob-bah-Tubbe has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Augusta, whereby it appears that ChOct.aw Certificate No 790 in the name of Hoob-bah-Tubbe for 320 acres of land issued by the Secretary of War in Pursuance of the provision of the Act of Congress of the 23rd. of August 1842, Entitled, An Act to provide for the satisfaction of claims arising under the 14th and 19th articles of the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, concluded in September 1830:- of the Act of Congress of the 3rd. of March 1845, Entitled: An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian Tribes for the fiscal year commencing on the 1st day of Jul. 1845, and ending on the 30th day of Jun. 1846, and of the joint resolution of Congress of the 3rd. August 1846, Entitles: Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to adjudicate the claims of the See-quak-Natch-ah and other claims of Choctaw Indians whose cases were left undetermined by the commissioners for the want of the township maps, had been surrendered by the said, John Mixon, Senior, in full satisfaction for the land which are herein after described as located by him, Viz:

First             NE¼   NW¼    Sec 28   T4N R11W           40.05 acres          John Mixon

Second         E¼      NW¼    Sec 28   T4N R11W           40.05    "              Reuben Mixon

Third            NE¼   SW¼     Sec 8     T7N R18W           39.96    "              Hartwell H. Tyrone

Fourth          NW¼  SE¼      Sec 10       "       "                40.00    "              James Miller

Fifth             NW¼  SE¼      Sec 9         "       "                40.14    "              John W. Dyess

Sixth            SE¼    NE¼      Sec 31   T8N R18W           37.50    "              Armstrong B. Cole

Seventh        NE¼   NE¼      Sec 9 &

                              NE¼    SW¼     Sec 4     T7N R19W           82.07    "              Simon Polk

In testimony whereof I: Millard. Fillmore, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made patent and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed Given under my hand at the City of Washington the first day of May in the year of our Lord. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, and of the independence of the United States the seventy sixth. (Recorded Volume 1, page 278)

An Act of Congress passed September 28, 1850, allowed Bounty Land to veterans of the War of 1812. John Mixon, Sr., made application for Bounty Land dated July 2, 1852, in which he states he is sixty years of age, a resident of the town of Augusta, that he is the same John Mixon who was a private in a Company of Mounted Riflemen commanded by Capt. John Bond in the 13th Regiment of the Militia commanded by Col. George H. Nixon, deceased. He volunteered in Marion County, Miss., about December 1814 and was honorably discharged in same county about March 1815, as would appear by the Muster Roll of the Company, his discharge had been lost by time or accident. John Bond made affidavit stating John Mixon was the John Mixon in his Company of Mounted Riflemen during the War of 1812. John Bond signed the affidavit with a cross mark as his eyesight was defective due to age, and affidavit was dated July 2, 1852. Company Pay Roll for 3rd January to 2nd April 1815 (roll not dated) shows John Mixon served during that time. Term of service charged-3 months; pay per month $8.00; amount of pay $60.00. Company Muster Roll for 3rd January 1815, when rendezvoused, to 2nd April 1815; roll dated Marion County Court House, Mississippi Territory, 31 May 1815; date of enlistment, 3rd January 1815; for time enlisted, 3 months; present; 1 horse. Warrant No. 77,119 for 40 acres of Bounty Land was issued to him which he used to enter: SE¼ SE¼ Sec 21 T4N R11W 40.00 acres on December 31, 1852.

Original Tract Land entries, Perry County, Mississippi, page 32:

SE¼ NE¼: NE¼ SE¼ Sec 22 T3N R11W 79.78 acres .12½₡ $9.97 John Mixon, Sr. Sept., 19, 1854 Receipt No. 9705

SE¼ SE¼: W½ SE¼ SW¼ NE¼ Sec 22 T3N R11W 239.58 acres .12½ $29.95 John Mixon, Sr. Nov. , 5, 1854 Receipt No. 11324-11329 (Corrected Jun. 21, 1897)

Evidently these two entries were totaled in the second entry. This 239.56 acre tract with the Military Warrant 40 acres, and the 40.05 acres in Section 28 add. up to the 320 acres he was said to have had at the time of his death. It was on this larger tract of land John had a grist mill built. There was also a small saw mill and a cotton gin nearby.

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