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THE
HISTORY
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LOUISIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD.
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BY FRANÇOIS-XAVIER MARTIN.
Hæc igitur formam crescendo mutat, et olim Immensi caput orbis erit. Sic dicere vates. Ovid. Metam. xv. 434 & 435.
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THE HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.
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Martin, François Xavier, 1762 ?- 1846. The history of Louisiana, from the earliest period. By François-Xavier Martin ... New-Orleans, Printed by Lyman and Beardslee, 1827-29.
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BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-seven, and of the Inde- pendence of the United States the Fifty-first. FRANCOIS-XAVIER MAR- TIN, of the said district, hath deposited in the Clerk's office for the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor and Publisher. to wit-
"The History of Louisiana, from the earliest period. By François-xavier Martin.
Hær igitur formam crescendo mutat, et olim Immensi caput urbis erit Sic dicere rates. Ovid. Metam. xv. 434 & 435." ,
In conformity to an act of Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps. Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ;" And also, to an Act entitled " An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies. during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints."
W. F. LEA, DPT. CLERK, U. S. COURT. Eastern District of Louisiana.
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PREFACE.
THE country, covered by the state of Louisia- na, was within the short span of a century and a half, exclusively occupied by savages and wild beasts. A knowledge of the means, used by providence, in sub- stituting to these the vassals of the monarchs of France and Spain, and finally to the latter, the race. of freemen by whom the state is rapidly to be brought to the acmé of political felicity, cannot be a matter of indifference to any contemplative mind, and must be ardently sought after by her youthful citizens. To exhibit those means to them, is the object of this work; for the writer had not the vanity to believe he had aught to impart to those of mature years.
WHAT theme, indeed, can be more interesting to a young Louisianian, than the contemplation of his more remote progenitors, a handful of men, left on the sandy shore of Biloxi, harrassed during the day by the inroads, disturbed at night by the yells, of ho- vering Indians-to mark the incipient state of civil government, under the authority of the crown, the tardy progress of agriculture and trade, under the mo- nopolies of Crozat and the western company, the
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massacre of the French among the Natchez, the des- truction of that nation and the subsequent war with the Chickasaws-to notice the slow advances of the colony, after the crown resumed its government, the cession to Spain and the languishing state of his coun- try, while a colony of that kingdom-afterwards to · behold the dawn of liberty on his natal soil, under the territorial government of the United States, and final- ly, the rise of Louisiana to therank of asovereignstate!
A VERY jejune performance would have been pro- duced, if the work had been confined to events, of which the tract of country, now occupied by the state, was the theatre. The discovery of the northeast shore of the gulf of Mexico, the traverse of Florida by a Spanish army under Soto, and the abortive attempt of the French at colonization in Caroline, are events too intimately connected with the history of Louisia- -
na to have remained unnoticed.
MUCH would have been left to be desired, if the work had abruptly begun at the landing of the colo- nists, brought over by Iberville. The settlement of Canada, through which the French discovered the Mississippi, the descent of that stream by Lasalle, his fruitless efforts to plant a colony on its shores, are also events the knowledge of which is necessary to a correct understanding of those which followed, in Louisiana.
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a chronological order, the settlement of each of the English provinces, which afterwards formed the con- federacy of North America, with that of the colonies which the Dutch and Swedes planted in their neigh- bourhood.
THE attention of the reader has, at times, neces- sarily been drawn to transactions on the opposite side of the Atlantic. A colony is always more or less af- fected by the wars, in which the mother country is engaged. Accordingly, hostilities between France, Spain and England, with the treaties by which they were terminated, have been related : and for a reason nearly similar, the mutations of the crown in these kingdoms are stated.
THE writer has availed himself of every publi- cation of merit, that has any relation to the country the history of which he now presents, and he has found in the archives of the state many important do- cuments.
HE has to lament that, although for almost a score of years, his attention has been given to the collection of materials, public duties have prevented . his bestowing much time on the revision and correc- tion of what he has written. Age has crept on him, and the decay of his constitution has given more than one warning, that if the sheets now committed to the press · were longer withholden, the work would probably be & posthumous one.
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As he does not write in his vernacular tongue, elegance. of style is beyond his hope, and consequent- ly without the scope of his ambition.
GENTILLY, near New Orleans, June 20th, 1827.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.
A Topographical view of the State of Louisiana, p. XXV.
CHAPTER .I.
. Discovery of America. Charles VIII. Henry VII. Ferdinand and Isabella. Cabot. Prima vista. Lewis XII. Denys. Aubert. Gulf of St. Law- rence. Indians carried to France. Henry VIII. Francis I. Ponce de Leon. Florida. The Ba- ron de Levy. Sable Island. Vasques de Aillon. Velasquez. Veranzany. Narvaez. Apalachians. The peace of Cambray. Cartier. River of St. Lawrence. Hernandez de Soto. Chickasaws. Alabamas. Mobilians. Choctaws. The Missis. sippi. Red River. Robertval. Canada. Luis de Muscoso. Los Vaqueros. Edward VI. Hen- ry Il. Mary. Philip II. Elizabeth. Charles IX. Coligny. Ribaud. Caroline. Albert. Barre. Laudoniere. Sir John Hawkins. Pedro de Me. nendez. St. Augustine. Destruction of the French Colony. De Gourgues. Henry III. Sir Humph- rey Gilbert. Sir Walter Raleigh. Ocracock. Virginia. Sir Richard Grenville. De la Roche. Acadie. p. 1
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The Bourbons. Henry IV. Philip III. Pontgrave and Chauvin. Trois rivieres Gosnold. Cape Cod. James I. Commandeur de la Chatte.
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Champlain. Hochelaga. Dumontz. Acadie. Port Rossignol. Port Mouton. Penobscot. Pen- tagoet. Port Royal. Poutrincourt. Earls of Southampton and Arundel. Captain Weymouth. Ill success of a colony sent to Acadie. Pontgrave sails with the colonists for France ; he is met by Poutrincourt and returns. The Marchioness of Gu- ercheville: James' patents to the northern and southern companies. Abortive effort of the north ern. First attempt of the southern. James Town. Quebec. Expedition against the Iroquois Hen- ry Hudson. Chauvin. New France. Prosperous state of the colony. Second expedition against the Iroquois. Louis XIII. Jesuits sent to Acadie. Lake Champlain. Nova Belgica. New Amster- dam. Lasausaie. Acadie. La Heve. Port Roy- al. Becancourt. St. Sauveur. Argal drives the . French from Acadie. The Earl of Soissons. Prince of Conde. Montreal. Company of St. Ma- loes. New England. Third expedition against the Iroquois. They murder three Frenchmen, and plot the destruction of the colony. Brother Paci- fic. Marshal of Montmorency. New Plymouth. Philip IV. Sir William Alexander. First irrup- tion of the Iroquois. William and Edward de Caen. Fort of Quebec. Jesuits sent to Canada. Charles I .- Swedish colony. Company of New France. Kertz. Capture of a French fleet. Fa- mine and dissentions. The capture of Quebec. Sir Robert Heath. Carolana. New Hampshire. Peace of St. Germain. Canada and Acadie resto- red.
CHAPTER III.
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Emery de Caen. Maryland: Acadie. Comman. deur de Razilly. New Hampshire. Maine. Rhode
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Island and Providence plantations. Connecticut.
College of Quebec. Montmagny. The Dutchess of Aiguillon. Ursuline Nuns. Sisters of the Con- gregation. Fort Richelieu. Louis XIV. Union of the New England colonies. Their treaty with Acadie. D'Aillebout. Offer of a treaty to Cana-
da. Oliver Cromwell. Commissioners of New England. Indians. Missionaries among them. /
Godefroy and Dreuillettes sent to Boston. , De Lau- son. Irruption of the Iroquois. Swedish colony
abandoned. D'Argenson. Bishop of Petrea. Vi- car general. Seminary of Montreal. The English from Virginia discover the Ohio. Charles II. pro- claimed in Virginia. Irruptions of the Iroquois near Quebec. Epidemic. Meteors. D'Avaugour. Dissentions among the chiefs. Sale of ardent spirits to the Indians. Earthquake. Vision of a nun. The charter of the company of New France surren- dered. De Gaudais. Superior and inferior courts of justice. Grant to the Duke of York. The Dutch driven from New Belgica. New York. Albany. New Jersey. Fresh dissentions among the chiefs. De Courcelles. De Tracy. Viceroy of New France. Regiment of Carignan Salieres. New colonists. Horses, oxen and sheep brought from France to
Canada. Fort Sorel.
Fort St. Theresa. Expe-
dition against the Iroquois. Another earthquake.
Carolina. Charles II. of Spain. West India Com- pany. Quebec erected into a Bishop's See. French and English Plenipotentiaries in Boston. Fron- tenac. Fort at Catarocoui. Salem. Father Mar- quette. Joliet. Lake Michigan. Outagami river. Quisconsing. Mississippi. Illinois. Missouris. Arkansas. Great rejoicings in Quebec on the dis- covery of the Mississippi. 59 ·
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CHAPTER IV.
The French are driven from Acadie. Complaints of the Canadians against their Governor. The Abbé de Fenelon. Sale of spirituous liquors to the In- dians. Representations of the Clergy. The Arch- bishop of Paris and Father de la Chaise. Lasalle proposes to explore the course of the Mississippi. He goes to France. The Prince of Conti. The Chevalier de Tonti. Lasalle returns. Fort Fron- tenac. Adveturers from New England cross the Mississippi and visit New Mexico. Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron and Michigan. Little Miami river. Illinois. Lasalle's men endeavour to indispose the Illinois against him. He defeats their plan. The intrigue of a Mascoutan Indian. Attempt to poison Lasalle. Arkansas. Dacan. · Hennepin. Mississippi. Falls of St. Anthony. Sioux. Penn- sylvania. Miamis. Outagamis. Ainous. Mas- coutans. Fort Crevecoeur. Irruptions of the Iro- quois into the country of the Illinois. Acadie res- tored to the French. Fort Penkuit. Chicagou. Illinois. Mississippi river. The Miami. Chicka- saws. Fort Prudhomme. Cappas. Arkansas.
Alligators. Tarsas. Red River. Quinipissas. Tangipaos. Gulf of Mexico. Lasalle takes pos- session of the country, at the mouth of the Missis- sippi. He calls the river St. Louis. and the coun- try Louisiana. He is visited by Indians from seve- ral tribes. He returns. His party is attacked by the Quinipissas, who are routed. The Natchez. Taensas. Arkansas. Chickasaw Bluffs. Lasalle is detained there by sickness. The Chevalier de Tonti proceeds with part of the men. They meet at Michillimackinac. The Chevalier goes to Fort St. Louis, and Lasalle to Quebec. Count de Fron- tenac. Lasalle sails for France. 79
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CHAPTER V.
Le Febvre de la Barre. De Meules. Lasalle ar- rives in France. The Marquis of Seignelai. Ex- pedition for the Mississippi. Volunteers, soldiers, colonists, mechanics and priests. The fleet weighs anchor. Beaujeu. Hispaniola. Cuba. Beaujeu misses the mouth of the Mississippi, and is driven westwardly. Bay of St. Bernard. Lasalle at- tempts to find the Mississippi by land. Indians. One of the vessels is cast ashore. James II. Com- merce of Canada. Champigny de Norroy. Card money. Beaujeu sails for France. A fort built at the western extremity of the bay of St. Bernard. Another attempt to find the Mississippi. Point Hurier. An establishment commenced on the banks of Rio Colorado, or Riviere aux vaches. The fortifications on the gulf are demolished, and all the colonists remove to Colorado, where they build a new fort. The Chevalier de Tonti des- cends the Mississippi, in search of the colonists. They are distressed by disease, Indian hostilities and famine. Last attempt to find the Mississippi. Irruptions of the Iroquois in Canada. The Mar- quis de Denonville. His correspondence with the Governor of New York. Pasteboard money. La- salle loses his last vessel, and sets off for the Illi- nois. Buffaloes. Biscatonge Indians. Chinono-
as. Rattle Snake. Cenis. Nassonites. Sickness
. and return of Lassalle. State of the colony. La- salle determines to return to France, by the way of Canada. One of his party falls sick, is sent back and killed by the Indians. Resentment of his brother. The party stops to kill Buffoloes, and cure the meat. Mutiny. Lasalle and his nephew are murdered. Division of the party. The
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murderers quarrel and some of them are killed, the others scek refuge among the Indians. La- salle's brother, Father Athanase and five others, reach the Arkansas. Couture and Delaunay. La- salle's brother and his companions go to the Illi- nois, and from thence to Quebec, and embark for France. 103
CHAPTER VI.
The English excite the Iroquois against the Indian' allies of the French. Proposals of James II. to Louis XIV. for the neutrality of their American do- minions. Instructions to Denonville. The English attack Iberville, in Hudson's Bay, and he repels them. Iroquois Chiefs decoyed, made prisoners and sent to the galliesat Marseilles. Vaudreuilleads the Canadian forces against the Iroquois. Corres- pondence between Denonville and the Governor of New York. The French are attacked in a de- file. Good conduct of their red allies and the militia. The Iroquois are routed, one of their vil- lages is burnt and their plantations laid waste. Denonville marches back to Niagara and builds a fort. Epidemic disease. The Iroquois ravage the plantations Hear Fort Frontenac. They sue for,
and obtain peace. Population of Canada. Abdi- cation of James II. William and Mary. Distress of the Colony on the Gulf of Mexico. Alonzo de Leon scours the country. Province of Texas. Frontenac returns to New France. Commission- ers for settling the boundaries of the French and English Colonies in North America. Frontenac's instructions. De Calliere. La Caffiniere. Pro- jected attack of New York. Irruptions of the Iro- quois. Declaration of War between France and
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England. Corlaer, Sermentel and Kaskebe. Medal. Famine. Vaudreuil takes possession of Acadie. Du Palais. The English possess them- selves of Hudson's Bay. Iberville retakes it and
winters there. Scurvy. Iberville reduces the Fort ot Pentagoct. The English land in Acadie and distress the planters. Iberville's success in New Foundland. The Fort in Hudson's Bay taken by the English, and retaken by Iberville. Peace of Riswick. De Calliere. 122
CHAPTER VII.
Iberville's offers to plant a French colony in Louisi- ana are accepted. Anexpedition is prepared, sails from La Rochelle, and touches at Hispaniola. An- dres de la Riolle. Pensacola. Massacre, Horn, Ship, Chandeleur and Cat Islands. A settlement begun on Ship island. Bay of Pascagoula. Biloxi and Bayagoula Indians. Iberville and Bienville enter and ascend the Mississippi. Fork of Cheti-
Bayou Man- machas. Washas. Plaquemines.
shac. Oumas. Point Coupée. Portage de la Croix. Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain. Bay of St. Louis. A fort built on the Bay of Biloxi. Iberville leaves Sauvolle in command and sails for France. Scotch: colony at Darien. Sauvolle sends a small vessel to Hispaniola for provisions. Cola- pissas. Chickasaws. Missionaries among the Yazous and Tunicas. Mobile and Thome Indians visit Sauvolle. English Turn. French Protes- tants. . Return of Iberville. Boisbriant. St. Denys. Malton. A fort built on the Mississippi. The Chevalier de Tonti. The Natchez and Ta- ensas. St. Come. Rosalie. Yatassees, Pro- test of the Governor of Pensacola. Washitas.
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Red River. Iberville sails for France. Philip V. War of the Spanish succession. St. Peter and Green Rivers. Fort Thuillier. Sagan. Sauvolle dies. Choctaws, Chickasaws and Alibamons, Return of Iberville. Head Quarters removed to Mobile. Dauphine Island. Iberville departs for France. Queen Anne. Declaration of War. Irruption from Canada into Massachusetts and New Hamp- . shire. Attack of St. Augustine. Wabash. Apa- lachian Indians. Bienville chastises the Alibamons. Recruits. Grey Sisters. Fire at Biloxi Disease .. Destruction of the French settlement on the Wa- bash. Chickasaws and Choctaws. Cherokees. Illinois. Father Gratiot. Bayagoulas. Hurons. Arkansas. Iberville's death. Tunicas. Taensas. Attack on Pensacola. Touaches. Abikas. Ali- bamons. Another attack on Pensacola. Irrup- tion from Canada into Massachusetts. General Nicholson. De Muys and Diron D'Artaguette. The English take Port Royal in Acadie. The set- tlement on Mobile River removed higher up. The Chickasaws attack the Choctaws. Failure of the English in an attempt against Quebec and Montre- al. La Ville Voisin. Anthony Crozat. Peace of Utrecht. 139
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Charter. Lamotte Cadillac. Duclos, Lebas, Dirigoin, Laloire des Ursins. Superior Council. Arrange- ments with Crozat. His plans. Misunderstand- ing between the new governor and Bienville. In- dians. Card money of Canada. Part of the Choc- taws drawn to the British. Fort Toulouse. St. Denys. George I. Lamotte Cadillac goes to the Illinois in search of a silver mine, and is disappoin-
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ted. The Choctaws are prevailed on to drive the British traders from their villages. Massa- cre of the Indians in South Carolina. Bienville re- conciles the Choctaws. Arrival of two companies of infantry. Marigny de Mandeville. Bagot. Rouzant. Bienville commandant general on the Mississippi. Ships from La Rochelle and Martin- ico not allowed to trade. Louis XV. The Duke of Orleans. The Cherokees attack the French on the Wabash. Bienville goes to the Mississippi. Has a conference with the Chaouachas. Reaches Natchez. Is informed of the murderof two French- men, and demands the head of a sun. An Indian - consents to die in his room, and his head is brought to Bienville, who refuses to receive it. The same deception is attempted, with as little success on the next day. Six pirogues from the Illinois are pre- vented from falling into the hands of the Indians. The Natchez kill one of their chiefs, who partici- pated in the murder. Bienville goes to their vil- · lage. He builds Fort Rosalie, and leaves a garri- son in it. One of Crozat's ships arrives at Mobile. St. Denys returns from Mexico. Re-establishment and new modelling of the Supreme Council. Or- dinances relating to redemptioners and muskets. Delery, Lafreniere and Beaulieu go on a trading journey to the Spanish provinces. Dutisne goes with a detachment to build a fort at Natchez. L'Epi. nai and Hubert and three companies of infantry arrive. New colonists. Trefontaine, Gimel, Dubreuil and Mossy. The bay of Ship Island is stopped up. Misunderstanding between Bienville and L'Epinai and Hubert. Crozat's agents make a last but un- successful attempt to trade with Vera Cruz. He surrenders his privilege. 107
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CHAPTER IX.
Charter of the Western Company. Card money of Canada. Bienville. Hubert and Boisbriant. New Leon. Bay of St Joseph. New Orleans. Large grants of Land. New Settlers. Richbourg, Grand- val. Accession of population. Laharpe. Bizart. Desertion. Spaniards defeated on the Missouri. L'Archambault. St. Denys. Bay of St. Bernard. San Fernandes. New Philipines. War between France and England. Pensacola taken and re- taken. Dauphine Island. Champmeslin. Pensa- cola taken again. Superior Council and inferior Tribunals. A Mineralogist sent to the Illinois. New Biloxi. Dustisne. Delochon. Mine. Union of the Western and Eastern Companies. Procla- mation fixing the price of goods and produce. La- harpe. Chickasaw hostilities. Illinois. Repeal of the edict respecting the transportation of Con- victs to Louisiana. Plague. Father Laval. Natch- itoches. Negroes. Mines. Choctaws and Ali-
bamons.
Accession of population. Beaumonoir.
Bouteux. Laloire. Boispinel. Bay of St. Ber- nard. Head Quarters removed to New Biloxi. Girls from the Salpetriere. Deserters. German Settlers. Bellisle. Survey of the passes of the Mississippi. Guincaman. Irruptions of the Span- iards from Santa Fe. Marigny de Mandeville. D'Arensbourg. German passengers. Failure of Law. Another Guineaman. 198
CHAPTER X.
Duvergier. Bernard de Laharpe. Bay of St. Ber- nard. De Masilliere, Dudemaine and Duplesne. A Guineaman. Principal establishment ordered
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to be removed to New Orleans. Survey of the river of the Arkansas. The Marquis de Gallo. Chickasaw hostilities. Father Charlevoix. Tou- louse Island. Loubois. Latour. Price of negroes, tobacco and Rice fixed. Copper coinage. Mili- tary, civil and religious divisions of the Province. Larenaudiere. German Coast. Peace with Spain. Pensacola restored. Chickasaw hostilities among the Yazous. Fort on the Missouri. Capuchins. A hurricane. Hostilities committed by the Natch- ez. An unexpected crop of rice. The Directors remove to New Orleans. A Swiss company de- serts to Charleston. Large grants of land. Indigo. St. Joseph abandoned. Spanish force in the pro- vince of Texas. The Choctaws defeat the Chick-
asaws. Alterations in the value of coin. Jesuits. The Catholic, the only religion tolerated. Expul- sion of the Jews. Black Code. Edict relating to correspondence. Edict relating to horses and cat- tle. De la Chaise and Perrault. Philip V. abdi- cates the throne. Louis ascends it and dies. Philip resumes the crown. Superior Council. Treaties with the Jesuits, Capuchins and Ursuline Nuns. Perrier. George II. Girls de la Cassette. Improvement in New Orleans. Land regulations.
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The Chickasaws meditate the overthrow of the colo- ny. they engage other nations in the plot. The Choctaws discover it. Perrier sends for some of the chiefs. They deceive him. He represents the helpless condition of the province. His repre- sentations are disregarded. The Chickasaws a- bandon or delay their plan. Ill conduct of Che- par. at the Natchez. They determine on the
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slaughter of the French, and engage the neigh- bouring tribes in the plot. A female discovers and
. discloses it. Boats arrive from New Orleans.
Massacre at Fort Rosalie and Fort St. Peter. Father Doutresleau. Perrier sends a vessel to France and two up the Mississippi. He despatch- es Courriers to the Illinois and his Indian allies. He fortifies New Orleans and collects a small force. Apprehension from the negroes. Loubois. Mispleix. The Natchez make propositions of peace. Their high pretentions. Lesueur arrives with the Choc- taws. They cannot be restrained, and make a bold charge with some success. The army arrives; the trenches are opened. Loubois is compelled to accept the propositions of the Natchez. He builds a Fort and returns. The Chickasaws afford an asylum to the Natchez and endeavour to gain the Illinois. Fidelity of the latter. The Chouachas, influenced by the Chickasaws. attempt to rise against the French. The negroes are employed todestroy them. Succour from France. Perrier goes to Mobile. His call on the Militia. Some of the Natchez cross the Mississippi. Symptoms of in- surrection among the negroes. Perrier goes with a small army to Black river. He reaches an In- dian fort. Opening of the trenches. A parley. The Great Sun and two other chiefs come and are detained. One of them escapes. Part of the In- dians leave the Fort. The Wife of the Great Sun comes to the camp. Part of the remaining In- dians surrender ; the rest leave the Fort. They are pursued and some prisoners taken. The army returns to New Orleans. Four hundred prisoners shipped to Hispaniola. Surrender of the Compa- ny's Charter. State of the province. 244
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