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John Pitchylyn was an interpreter for the Choctaws near Natchez in 1802. He is identified as ?a son of an English officer who died in the Choctaw nation. He was adopted by the tribe, married among them, and was very influential.? Letter Books of W.C.C.Claiborne, footntote, Vol. I, p. 162. xll? Claiborne, JFH, Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State, p. 328. xliv Ibid
xlv Sons of the South, p. 39.
xlv? Pearson, Charles, and Saltus, Allen Jr., Underwater Archaeology on the Lower Pearl and West Pearl Rivers, p.25.
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