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Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula, Miss., Sunday, July 11, 1976
May 20, 1699, must have been a frightening day for two young cabin boys who had sailed with the French to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
It was on this day that Pierre LeMoyne, sieur d'Iberville, leader of the expedition, sent the two cabin boys away from the rest of the French at Fort Maurepas to live with the savage Indians.
The French youths were ordered to live with the Indians so they might learn the Indian language and become interpreters.
One of the cabin boys, who was named Le-Favre, was sent to live with the Bayou Gou-las, a Choctaw tribe which lived between the Pearl and Mississippi Rivers, probably where New Orleans is today.
History shows that LeFavre not only became one of the principal interpreters between the French and the Indians, but three generations of this family served as interpreters.
When LeFavre matured, he married an Indian and settled on the Pearl River near the Acolapissa Indians. This place today is Pearlington.
A son of LeFavre, who lived in Mobile, became an intepreter for the Spanish, French, English and Choctaws, and eventually owned almost half of the land which is now Har.cock County, which was given to him for his services as an interpretor.
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His son, Simon Favre, eventually owned the land. He was also an interpreter. He served as > ji an interpreter between Andrew Jackson, G;n-'S|* eral Hines and the Choctaw Chief Pushma- |] taha during the Indian treaties from 1802 tb,/;j,
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1831. Simon Favre became a great friend of Pushmataha.
Simon Favre permitted the Indians to camp ? j on his land and to use it as a trading place for
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