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MISSISSIPPI ARCHAEOLOGY
Started to visit Col. Philip B. Harrison; on the way met with the Rev. John C. Jones, a native of Mississippi; a great grandson of Solomon Swayze, one of the proprietors of the Ogden Mandamus at Kingston, and the grandson of John Griffin, a Settler in Spanish times, and grantee of the land near Selsertown embracing the large indian mound. Mr. Jones has a good store of information as to the early history of the county derived from his more aged connections (3/5/1853; Brown 1996:21).
He similarly reconstructed the genealogy of the first Anglo-American inhabitants ol the Mazique site, known locally in the mid-nineteenth century as the White Apple village (Baca 1989:38; Brain et al. n.d.; Cotter 1948; Frank 1975; Ingraham 1835, 2:180; Phelps and Jennings n.d.:87; Rowland 1907, 1:911; Rowland 1925, 1:45,266-69, 289):
Passed through Natchez to visit Mr John Hutchins now living near The Forest the former residence of Sir Wm Dunbar. Mr Hutchins is the son of Col i^^hony Hutchins, an Officer of the British Army, and the nephew of Thomas ^utcKm?ffie ?EagUj^^^MMDher?. Col Anthony Hutchins the father settled on one of the small mounds at the White Apple village on Second Creek, where his son was born in (John) Jully 1774 (4/5/1853; Brown 1966:17).
Wailes often provided excellent details on the mounds themselves to accompany the historical information, as revealed in his account of the important mound center in the vicinity ofWindsor Ruins in Claiborne County (Brain et al. n.d.):
.. .In the afternoon I attended the funeral of little Robert Buckner, aged about 12 years, proceeding, from the little church near Mrs. Freelands to the plantation of his grand father near Bayou Pierre, where he was interred in the family grave yard on an Indian mound embracing an area of about 1/4 of an acre, about ten or 12 ft high, one of a group of three of considerable size, and the vestiges of one or two others nearly obliterated by the plow. They stand on a plain some 80 ft above the bottom of Jame s Creek, which puts into the Bayou Pierre near Bruinsburg. The larger mound is a parallelogram, between thirty and forty ft high. At the S. W. angle at the top there is a quantity of tile or brick moulded with Spanish moss, which has been burnt out leaving it porus and cellular. Near each mound there is a pond quite deep.
On the smaller of the three mounds that furthest to the N. E. a house formerly stood, in which it is said (iy^y|^jonfom-ierly li^e^whenh^visite^^ the county shortly after his marria^^4/20^^5?TBrown 1996:20-21).