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designated as the Babin claim. On June 8th, 1810, Francisco Hemeterio de Hevia wrote from Pascagoula (I think he replaced Joseph Collins as the commandant there) to Francisco, Maximiliano de St. Maxent:
?Maturen Babin master of the Spanish Schooner the Eugenia has informed me that the 6th of the present month, there was a french Corsair, on the outside of the Ship Island tacking back and fore according to information supplied by the inhabitants of Biloxi that forced to put into that Place the Master Laeost, and yesterday the 7th at 12 in the day they anchored outside of Horn Island a Large Schooner of two Topsails which allows it to remain in that Passage until the night, not having seen it today at sunrise, which leads me to believe it sailed in the Night.?
In June of 1810, Simon Favre and Ambrose Gaines (As this is first mention of Gaines; do you want to show where he settled, etc?) were called as witnesses to the Claims of Maturin Babin and Nathan Smith, both located along the Pearl River (Lowrie 1834:202). June 18, 1810 Maturin Babin; 202: Land Claims East of Pearl, GLA Evidence book A
According to this document, Pellerin, through Favre, gave permission to Maturin Babin ?...to settle right (dereche) of Pearl River on a place which was inhabited by Castillon, according to the information of don Simon Favre and don Ambrose Gaines, the said Castillon three years ago abandoned the aforesaid place and passed over to the American Dominions, where he now resides, wherefore I give him this, on Pearl-river the 18th of June 1810,? signed Pellerin; inhabited and cultivated since 1809, no survey, 202: Land Claims East of Pearl, GLA Evidence book AXXIX The Spanish government attempted to hold on to its territory by commissioning several prominent settlers to work for the government. Simon Favre, Philip Saucier and Jean Baptiste Pellerin, Civil and Military Commander of Bay St. Louis and its Coast, representative of the Governor of Pensacola are among those who figure prominently in the Spanish plan. Simon Favre provided intelligence to the Spanish government as rebel troops from the West began to increase their pressure on the Spanish outposts. In one particular letter Cayetano Perez, the Commandant at Mobile wrote to Vicente Folch, on October 20, 1810:
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