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seizures and exacted contributions and free quarters forever they rent. one occasion the inhabitants of Pascagoula attempted to. rescue a heavy seizure of negroes, horses end merchandise, but -rare driven bade by the superior forces of the convention, uith the loss of Samuel -Uavis killed, and Allen Goodin and others, ?H>unded.
T-;r>RtgT» FpTTp^it. commanding the sloop Alligator, in the service of the United States, sent the follciring statement to Governor Claiborne*
"On the 2nd December, 1801, i arrived in the bay of Pascagoula. On going ashore next day, a number of men gathered around, and said Majors liar croves and Dupree u is hod to see me. L said I uould call • the folloiTing morning. Accordingly on the 4th, 1 found than at the house of the lats «John 3t. &icolet. °n my arrival they^ran uo the flag of the Convention, I'ext day they passed John 3, Eoudro^s schooner, and two others o;?nsd by Anthony ^rebs and Augasiine, a mulatto. These they brought before &r. ^icolet*s house, and locded uith negroes, dry goods, liquors, provisions, furniture, etc;--the personal property of-deceased. They even removed the locks from the • JLdots. i-ozt day tiay proceeded up the river, the destination being the residence of their leader, -lAipree, tiro miles south of the 31st degree, the line of demarcation. iJeter *«icola, vdth the commission of captain, vras appointed commandant at Pascagoula, T?ith orders to compel trs inhabitants as far as -earl ->iiver, to srjear allegiance to the Convention. «aturning vrestv/ard, 1 fell in "ith said ^icola, James bavins and ti;o other men, names unlcnot/n, at the -'ass of • Christian. They v;erc ordering the people to Pascagoula to t a Is the oath. There rare no Spanish authorities on the coast. They had re- • tired to Mobile.
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.On receiving this information Gov. Claiborne dispatched ^r. um. Flood, a prominent citzen of £iov Orleans-,"as commissioner to the sea coast, v?ith special instructions, -a-nd on the 25th. of January, 1811, he made a long and interesting report, from v/hich the follcT/ing passages are extracted**
.compliance with your instruct!oil5 I" IfcflI W" ©I'iasurs'i.-ir"'' on the felucca Alligator, and proceeded to the residence of Simeon Fayre, on the east bank of Pearl •‘•Uver, and delivered to him your commission as Justics Qf ihe Peace,' for the parish of Biloxi, uith a copy of the Constitution of ^he United States, the Civil Code and the acts of the Territorial Legislature. I next landed at Bay St. Louis and ths Pass of Christian, displaying the Unitec States flag at each place at 2 II. At the ^ass I presented to Philip Saucier your commission as Justice for Biloxi parish, rith copy of ths*~Tav:s, etc. Then proceeded to~bay of Biloxi, uhere J-handed the commission of Justice to ^acue La&nier. ■‘-■anded near tis mouth of Pascagoula tfiver on the 13th, and hoisted the United °tates colors. Here I overtook -t'ortesoue coming, rho had preceeded me to distribute the proclamation. x fell in 'vrith several men Mho had left Dupree a fer days before. ‘1‘hey informed me that Col.
L-emper, commanding the Convention fcrces, had disbanded, telling his non that in getting under the jurisdiction of the °nited ^tates their object had been accomplished. I filled up a commission for ^r. Coming as Justice for Pascagoula, end dispatched him up the river to endeavor to recover from i>upres the property he had carried off. And. at tbe snecial request of the citizens, by vrhon