Everything about Orleans Territory totally explained
Orleans Territory was a historic,
organized territory of the
United States formed out of the first subdivision of the
Louisiana Purchase. All of the Louisiana Purchase south of the
33rd parallel became the
Territory of Orleans, and the remainder became the
District of Louisiana. (The District of Louisiana was later renamed the Territory of Louisiana, and still later, when the Territory of Orleans became the
U.S. state of
Louisiana, the Territory of Louisiana was renamed the
Missouri Territory.) Orleans Territory was created on
October 1,
1804 by the Organic Act of
March 26,
1804, and became Louisiana, the 18th state on
April 30,
1812.
On
April 10,
1805, the Territorial Legislature organized 12 counties (starting from the southeast corner moving west and north): Orleans County, LaFourche County, German Coast, Acadia County, Iberville County, Attakapas County, Pointe Coupée County, Opelousas County, Rapides County, Concordia County, Natchitoches County and Ouachita County. The
Florida Parishes on the east bank of the Mississippi were not included in Orleans Territory at this time, as they were in the
Spanish territory of
West Florida until they were annexed in
1810. The western boundary with
Spanish Texas wasn't fully defined until the
Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819. A strip of land known as the
Sabine Free State just east of the
Sabine River served as a neutral ground buffer area from about 1807 until 1819.
Leaders and representatives
William C. C. Claiborne was appointed the first and only governor of the Orleans Territory. He later became the first governor of the state of Louisiana.
There were two Territorial secretaries,
James Brown (
1804–
1807) and
Thomas Bolling Robertson (
1807–
1811).
Daniel Clark became the first Territorial Delegate to the
U.S. Congress, in December
1806.
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