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Lee County was created by acts of June 9, 1825, and Dec. 11, 1826, from Creek cessions of Jan. 24, 1826, and March 31, 1826. Originally it contained all the land in Randolph, Stewart, Quitman, Sumter, Terrell, and Webster counties and part of Marion and Clay counties. The county was named for Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), a Virginia Congressman who on June 7, 1776, moved “that the colonies declare themselves free and independent.” Its first officers, commissioned May 14, 1827, were Nathan Powell, sheriff, and Joseph White, clerk of Superior and Inferior Courts. Commissioned August 26, 1828, were Abner Holliday, surveyor, and Gabriel Parker, coroner.
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