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■T'OO/SOS	5,000	PEOPLE	II’	SOUTH	MISSISSIPPI
composing west Florida counties
OF HANCOCK, MARION, GREENE AND VJAYNE IN
LATE 1813
"History of the Discovery and Settlement of The Valley of the Mississippi by the Three Great European Powers, SPAIN - FRANCE -GREAT BRITAIN, and the Subsequent Occupation, Settlement, and Extension of Civil Goverttment by THE UNITED STATES Until the Year 18U6"
by John W. Monette, M.D.
Harper & Brothers, Publishers, N. Y. (18^6)
Reprinted 1971 by Arno Press, Inc.
T>, 392- Book V
West of Nobile in present day Mississippi were the large
counties of Hancock, Marion, Greene, and Wayne, extending to the
eastern portion of Amite, and containing a sparse population in
the aggregate not exceeding five thousand persons.
As late as the close of the year 1813, the American settlements
within the Mississippi Territory -- the aggregate white population
did not exceed *+0,000 and scarcely ^2,000, including slaves.
The remainder vas occupied wholly by powerful tribes of
Indians, known as the Chickasas, Choctas, Cherokees, and Creeks.
The two latter nations, and especially the last, were numerous and
warlike.