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PoDul'-tion of Hancock County vas:
1,59^ in 1320 1,962 in I83O 3,367 in 181+0 3,372 in 1850
.. 3,132JLii....ia6Q-
239 in 1870 6,^39 in 1880 8,313 in 1890
Colored nonulation was 1,186 in 1870
1,76^ in 1880 2,526 in 1890
In i860 there were 1,067 taxable slaves and ^3^ voters in this County.	1—~— ----
The first State Senator representing Hancock vas Isaac R. Nicholson; the first Representative Noel Jordan.
Present Senator in 1891 is H. Bloomfield; the present State Representative Shith Daniel B. Seal.
Besides Bay St. Louis, the principal tovns are Pearlington and Gainesville. Other villages and nostoffices are:	Anner, Gulf Viev, Kiln, Lacey, Logtovn, Nicholson,
Richardson, Stockdale and Waveland.
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In 1850-55, the Yazoo, Pearl and Big Black Vail cys were filled vith the camps of the cynress lumbermen.
At Napoleon, in Hancock County, was the turp~ntinc and camphene distillery, and throughout the pine region were hundreds of tar kilns.
Source:	"BIOGRAPHICAL	&	HISTORICAL	MEMOIRS	OF	MISSISSIPPI"	1891
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