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loSS , d'Iberville placed a ^'ew families here in (:?ey Stl Louis) ritfc a sergeant and 15 ten, in a small fort, near where the To line* Mansion (Judge Chandler’s ) nov; stands."
(Toulme Mansion ras located where the Horton residenc-e is now.
On January 3, 1721,, two. ships, La'Gironde and La Volage, arrived with about ZCC persons for concessions ofM. LeBlanc and Court! ^ellville on the Yazoo Riverr and Madame Mezieres on the Bay of St. Louis, and Madame Chaumont of Pascagoula Bay. From the record of lana ? rants it would tppear that the colony of ^.adame :.,ezieres settled on a 17,084 acre grant north of Felicity Street. The coloni.sts ser.t over by d'Iberville and Madame Mezieres, were the pioneed- settlers of Bay St. Louis,
Durin. this period the Gaskert Girls arrived from France, These women v:ere imported to furnish bric.es for the colonists. Some were sent by force,, others c&ne willingly; seme were of questionable moraE-s, others were of irreproachable character. Each young lady, earring- a tronsseau packed in a little chest, anxiously waited as representative of the Ursu-iinesarranged a suitable marriage. The descendents of the Casket Girls are still found on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi,
The treaty of Paris, February 1C, I7o5, brought to an end' the long, c;T'	fight between France and Imgland for supremacy in North America. The Mo£t
V	Christian King of France ceded to Li s 3rittan&c Majesty, the L'issi ssippi
^	River, the fort of Mobliexx: and all the possessions on the left side of
'	the i..i ssi ssippi* with the exception of New Orleans, which he ceded to
, /'-■+>	Spain. The lilies of France oyer fort Conde at Mobile were lowered and
the British Flag was raised to the music of bagpipes,
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The British were nov/ in possession of the coast; but their rule was destined to be of short duration. On May S, 1779,. His Catholic Majesty of Spain declered war against ilngland; and Galvez forced the capitulation of ever.’. English stronghold on the River and along the Gulf Coast. Spain again came into possession of the territoty of West Florida.
In the fall of 1800, Spain secretly ceded Louisiana to Napoleon, by the Treaty of San Ildephonso, Spain, However, remained in actual possession of this territory. A diplimatic triple play was executed at New Orleans in 'he fall of 160S,, when Louisiana went fr m Spain to France to the United States within the space of twenty days.
When the war of 1812 was on the horizin, Gov, Claiborne sent Dr. William Folld to organfeexx the parishes of -iloxi and Pascagoula. On tine banks of the Pearl River, Flood chose Simon Favre^ an educated a&xxja and prosperous farmer to serve as justice of the peace. He then moved to Bay St, Louis where he commissioned Philip Saucier, a venerable gentleman of prepossi ssing manners with a patriarchal influence. The flag of the Xxii U. S. e&s raised over the Bay on the 9th of January,.1811. Similar appointments were made at Biloxi and Pascagoula; but it was impossible to find any inhabitant of these places "ho could read or 1 rite,
Floodfes report slows that he w; s a keen observer with a judgment borderinf on t he prophetic. Let us quote art of his report: "They ar?, all alomg this beautiful coast, a primitive people of mixed origin; retaining the gaiety and politeness of the French, blende ', wi \ h the abstemlious ness and indoence of the Indian. The people are universally honest... a more innocent ana inofi ei-si ve people may no • be found. ...I am greatly