Burwell Rouse

Note: Many genealogies show his first name as Henry, but there are no primary sources showing this name.

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Inhabitants of Mississippi in 1816:

Burrell Rouse - Males; 1 over 21, 5 under 21

Females: 1 over 21, 2 under 21

https://archive.org/stream/officialstatisti01miss_0/officialstatist...

https://archive.org/stream/autobiographyofa00rams/autobiographyofa0...

See also The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 4, by Dunbar Rowland, 1917

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"Here he was thrown among a kind, hospitable people such as Jacob Neely and family, Burwell Rouse, Mrs, Roberts, Mrs, Morrison, Henry Roberts and many others."

[It is not altogether clear where the author was at this time. Somewhere south of Greene County, which could place him in Jackson County.]

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A. C. RAMSEY [Abiezer Clark Ramsey], 1879 (a first-hand account of life in 19th-century southeastern Mississippi).

https://archive.org/stream/autobiographyofa00rams/autobiographyofa0...

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The 1820 Census of Jackson County, Mississippi has Burrell Rouse over 45 years old with 3 males under 10, 2 males 10 to 15 years old and 1 male 18 to 25. Females 1 under 10 years old one female 16 to 25 years old and 1 female 25 to 44 years old. 3 were involved in agriculture.

The 1840 Census of Jackson County MS has this family with males 16-20 as , males 20-30 as 1, females 15-20 as 2 and one female 50 to sixty. This was probably Mary Byrd Rouse. Burwell had died before this time.

There is some indication that Burwell and Mary Jane and their family were chased out of Orangeburg, South Carolina by Indians about 1809. This is when they came to Mississippi, and settled in the Pascagoula River Area in a community now called Buzzard Roost.

http://www.spiers.net/mstree/note_780.htm

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American State Papers : Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States In Relation to the Public Lands, from the First Session of the First Congress to the First Session of the Twenty-Third Congress, March 4, 1789 to June 15, 1834, Selected and Edited by Walter Lowrie, Secretary to the Senate. Vol III.

A list of actual settlers in the district east of Pearl river, in Louisiana, prior to the Sd of March, 1819, who have no claims derived from either the French, British, or Spanish Governments.

Present claimant: Burwell Rouse

Original claimant. Burwell Rouse

Date of present settlement: Mar. 1820

Date of original settlement: March, 1809

Where situated: East side of Pascagoula river.

http://www.mocavo.com/American-State-Papers-Documents-Legislative-a...