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seventy beasts. In addition, he has begun to farm with the heln of Indi?r. an^ Negro slaves.
There are five other small farrrs in th? vicinity but because of the l?ck of assistance, very little can be done and their owners live from hand to mouth.
In February, 1721, M. de Reveillon established a farm.
It is one of the best stocked farms in Louisiana and there are about 55 to 60 persons, black and white, living on it. The Reveillon farm is only 18 miles by land from Old Biloxi; by wat-~r, however, it is 15 miles by sea to the entrance of the river and ^5 miles up the river to the farm.
At Biloxi, both Old and New, is to be found the commander of the province, Bienville, along with the major officers and subalterns, 250 soldiers, and the Swiss Company of M. de Merveilleux.
Also at Biloxi is the director-general of the Company, the head storekeeper, some clerks and other employees. The four engineers, their families and their 'workers also live at Biloxi.
In addition, there are the girls from La Salpetriere of Paris, but 8 or 10 of them have already married.
There are about-200 prisoners and	other	persons	of	both	sexes
who are incapable of working because of illness, injuries or age.
There are k carpenters and caulkers employed by the Company.
Finally-, there are about 150 men who serve on the transport boats between Ship Island and Biloxi.
The following groups of colonists	are	presently	at	Biloxi
awaiting transportation to their lands:
(1)	The group being conducted by F. (Jean-Baptiste) Faucon-Dumanoir, who has come to take his people and their belongings to Natchez.
(2)	The group being conducted ?by Elias Stultheus (Louis-Elias Stutheus) (K. Law?s group) who will take his people to the Arkansas River.
(3)	The group being conducted by K. de Guiche, who is to go with K. Stultheus.
(^) The group being conducted by M. Du Rost who will take these people to the Yazoo. They will be joined by a company of soldiers being sent to M. LeBlanc under the command of K. Bizard.
(5) That group conducted by M. Ceard. No plans for this group can be made now because of the' illness among his people.
(6)	Also that of M. d'Artaguiette and L'F.pinay.
Thus we count that there are at Old and New Biloxi more than 2500 people on Company rations.
(M. James Stevens)