"Appointed to the Mississippi Territory with the powers of governor by President James Madison."
After the expiration of his second term he was appointed a judge in Mississippi territory (this being in the year 1817) by President Monroe, and was commissioned by Governor Holmes, and held his courts at St. Stephens, near Mobile, while Alabama was a part of Mississippi territory. Judge Archer came through to old Washington, Miss., from Maryland on horseback, for the purpose of discharging his duties, and his career as a jurist was marked by extreme fairness, mildness and forbearance. He returned to Maryland, and was reëlected to congress and served two terms more, eight years in all, when he was appointed chief justice of Maryland, and during the fifteen years that he filled this responsible position he dis played very superior mental endowments. Being of a quick perception, what might have cost others hours of study and research he reached at a bound, and the reasons for his convictions were always clear and well defined, as a reference to the Maryland reports will show. He occupied the front rank in his profession for many years, and, like his talented and eminent father before him, his winning manner, his power of bringing forth all that was good in others, his charity and honesty, won for him unbounded respect, confidence and esteem, and his death, which occurred in 1848, in the very zenith of his powers, was a fact deeply lamented by the citizens of his native state, to whom he had endeared himself. He and his father represented the one district in congress for sixteen years, and his son, Stevenson, eight years, twenty-four years in the three generations, which is the highest tribute that could be paid to their merit, popularity and ability.
from STEVENSON ARCHER'S wikipedia article " United States judge for the Territory of Mississippi, with powers of Governor, holding court at St. Stephens. Archer resigned within a year, and returned to Maryland to continue his law practice."
ARCHER, Stevenson (son of John Archer and father of Stevenson Archer [1827-1898]), a Representative from Maryland; born at ‘Medical Hall,’ near Churchville, Harford County, Md., October 11, 1786; attended Nottingham Academy, Maryland, and was graduated from Princeton College in 1805; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Harford County in 1808 and commenced practice the same year; member of the State house of delegates 1809-1810; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Montgomery; reelected to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses and served from October 26, 1811, to March 3, 1817; chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirteenth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fourteenth Congress); paymaster to the Fortieth Maryland Militia during the War of 1812; appointed on March 5, 1817, by President Madison as United States judge for the Territory of Mississippi, with powers of Governor, holding court at St. Stephens; resigned within a year and returned to Maryland and practiced law; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Sixteenth Congress); appointed chief judge of the judicial circuit court of Baltimore and Harford Counties and Baltimore city in 1823; in 1844 was appointed by Governor Pratt as chief justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals and served until his death at ‘Medical Hall,’ near Churchville, Harford County, Md., June 26, 1848; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Churchville, Md.
To the Senate of the United States: I nominate Richard Cutts, late Superintendent General of Military Sup plies, to be Second Comptroller in the Treasury Department, under the act of the 3d March, 1817, to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts; William Lee, late Accountant of the War Department; Peter Hag- ner, late additional Accountant of the War Department; Constant Freeman, late Accountant of the Navy Department; and Stephen Pleasonton, of the State of Delaware, to be Auditors in the Treasury Department, under the- act aforesaid.
John Coffee, of Tennessee, to be Surveyor of the lands in the northern part of the Mississippi Territory, under the act of 3d March, 1817.
Israel Pickens, of North Carolina, to be Register of the Land Office in the Mississippi Territory, east of Pearl River.
Alexander Pope, of Georgia, to be Register of the Land Office to be open ed in the Mississippi Territory, under the act of 3d March, 1815.
John Taylor, of South Carolina, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at the Land Office to be opened in the Mississippi Territory, under the act of the 3d March, 1815.
Stephenson Archer, of Maryland, to be additional Judge in the Mississippi Territory, to reside in the eastern part thereof, under the act of the 3d March, 1817. JAMES MONROE. March 5th, 1817.
http://jeffersoncountyms.org/hunt_family.htm
Stevenson Archer's resignation letter to John Calhoun
https://books.google.com/books?id=v19nwcfWd-oC&pg=PA323&lpg=PA323&dq=%22stevenson+archer%22+1817+%22alabama+territory%22&source=bl&ots=u8qMCkkUBG&sig=FY5xO2tjy0R32RF593fKyP8dkpA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwios4uOy_fQAhUDWRoKHTjbBuUQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=%22stevenson%20archer%22%201817%20%22alabama%20territory%22&f=false
After the expiration of his second term he was appointed a judge in Mississippi territory (this being in the year 1817) by President Monroe, and was commissioned by Governor Holmes, and held his courts at St. Stephens, near Mobile, while Alabama was a part of Mississippi territory. Judge Archer came through to old Washington, Miss., from Maryland on horseback, for the purpose of discharging his duties, and his career as a jurist was marked by extreme fairness, mildness and forbearance. He returned to Maryland, and was reëlected to congress and served two terms more, eight years in all, when he was appointed chief justice of Maryland, and during the fifteen years that he filled this responsible position he dis played very superior mental endowments. Being of a quick perception, what might have cost others hours of study and research he reached at a bound, and the reasons for his convictions were always clear and well defined, as a reference to the Maryland reports will show. He occupied the front rank in his profession for many years, and, like his talented and eminent father before him, his winning manner, his power of bringing forth all that was good in others, his charity and honesty, won for him unbounded respect, confidence and esteem, and his death, which occurred in 1848, in the very zenith of his powers, was a fact deeply lamented by the citizens of his native state, to whom he had endeared himself. He and his father represented the one district in congress for sixteen years, and his son, Stevenson, eight years, twenty-four years in the three generations, which is the highest tribute that could be paid to their merit, popularity and ability.
from STEVENSON ARCHER'S wikipedia article " United States judge for the Territory of Mississippi, with powers of Governor, holding court at St. Stephens. Archer resigned within a year, and returned to Maryland to continue his law practice."
ARCHER, Stevenson (son of John Archer and father of Stevenson Archer [1827-1898]), a Representative from Maryland; born at ‘Medical Hall,’ near Churchville, Harford County, Md., October 11, 1786; attended Nottingham Academy, Maryland, and was graduated from Princeton College in 1805; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Harford County in 1808 and commenced practice the same year; member of the State house of delegates 1809-1810; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Montgomery; reelected to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses and served from October 26, 1811, to March 3, 1817; chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirteenth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fourteenth Congress); paymaster to the Fortieth Maryland Militia during the War of 1812; appointed on March 5, 1817, by President Madison as United States judge for the Territory of Mississippi, with powers of Governor, holding court at St. Stephens; resigned within a year and returned to Maryland and practiced law; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Sixteenth Congress); appointed chief judge of the judicial circuit court of Baltimore and Harford Counties and Baltimore city in 1823; in 1844 was appointed by Governor Pratt as chief justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals and served until his death at ‘Medical Hall,’ near Churchville, Harford County, Md., June 26, 1848; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Churchville, Md.
To the Senate of the United States: I nominate Richard Cutts, late Superintendent General of Military Sup plies, to be Second Comptroller in the Treasury Department, under the act of the 3d March, 1817, to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts; William Lee, late Accountant of the War Department; Peter Hag- ner, late additional Accountant of the War Department; Constant Freeman, late Accountant of the Navy Department; and Stephen Pleasonton, of the State of Delaware, to be Auditors in the Treasury Department, under the- act aforesaid.
John Coffee, of Tennessee, to be Surveyor of the lands in the northern part of the Mississippi Territory, under the act of 3d March, 1817.
Israel Pickens, of North Carolina, to be Register of the Land Office in the Mississippi Territory, east of Pearl River.
Alexander Pope, of Georgia, to be Register of the Land Office to be open ed in the Mississippi Territory, under the act of 3d March, 1815.
John Taylor, of South Carolina, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at the Land Office to be opened in the Mississippi Territory, under the act of the 3d March, 1815.
Stephenson Archer, of Maryland, to be additional Judge in the Mississippi Territory, to reside in the eastern part thereof, under the act of the 3d March, 1817. JAMES MONROE. March 5th, 1817.
http://jeffersoncountyms.org/hunt_family.htm
Mary Ann Hunt
Mary Ann Hunt (born in 1817), was the daughter of Ann and David Hunt. She probably grew up on Woodlawn Plantation in Jefferson County. She married James Archer (born December 23, 1811) on May 16, 1836.[cxii] James was born near Belair, Hartford County in Maryland to Chief Justice Stephenson Archer (Princeton College Graduate, class of 1805). James graduated from Yale University and studied law with his father, becoming a practicing attorney in Hartford County, MD. He moved to Mississippi in 1835 and to Oakwood Plantation (his family residence) in 1837 after his marriage. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.[cxiii]
Oakwood Plantation (T10N-R1E section 20 and 27)[cxiv] was in Jefferson County, MS, fifteen miles north-east of Natchez. James Archer had 98 slaves in the 1860 census in Jefferson County.[cxv] Oakwood was considered a large-sized plantation. The plantation adjoined Robert Y. Wood’s Woodland Plantation in the Church Hill area of the county – south toward Natchez from Woodlawn Plantation. The land today is on Miss 533 south of the Church Hill (Maryland Settlement) off of U.S.61. It was probably on the west side of Miss 533 across from Woodland Plantation which was on the east side of Miss 533. The Civil War caused Mary Ann and James Archer to lose everything except the house and land. They operated a school for income after the war. They had 14 children – 4 sons and 3 daughters survived to adulthood.[cxvi] Mary Ann Died in March of 1885 at age 67 or 68, and James died in 1898 at age 86 or 87.[cxvii] They are buried in the Oakwood Plantation garden.[cxviii]
Stevenson Archer's resignation letter to John Calhoun
https://books.google.com/books?id=v19nwcfWd-oC&pg=PA323&lpg=PA323&dq=%22stevenson+archer%22+1817+%22alabama+territory%22&source=bl&ots=u8qMCkkUBG&sig=FY5xO2tjy0R32RF593fKyP8dkpA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwios4uOy_fQAhUDWRoKHTjbBuUQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=%22stevenson%20archer%22%201817%20%22alabama%20territory%22&f=false
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