William Lattimore (1774-1843) was the delegate to Congress from Mississippi Territory from 1803 to 1807 and again from 1813 to 1817. Born near Norfolk, Virginia, and trained as a physician, he had been recommended to TJ by William C. C. Claiborne as “a well informed, modest man” with “purely republican” political principles (Biog. Dir. Cong.; DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928-36, 20 vols. description ends ; Vol. 41:227).

Brothers William and John Peirce were early inhabitants of the Tensaw settlement. They resided near Nanna Hubba Island, located at the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers (David Mathews, Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools? What Early Communities Have to Tell Us [Montgomery, Ala., 2002], 49-53; Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934-75, 28 vols. description ends , 5:254, 284, 294).