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CHRONOLOGY
Louisiana, builds Forr Rosalie, where the city of Natchez now stands.
Crozat surrenders his charter to the King. The Mississippi Company (Compagnie des Indes Occidentales) is chartered, with exclusive privilege of developing Louisiana, but is obligated to introduce within 25 years 6,000 white colonists and 3,000 black slaves.
The Mississippi Company grants land for settlements on the Yazoo, at Natchez, on the Bay of St. Louis, and Pascagoula Bay.
Three hundred settlers locate at Natchez.
Collapse of the "Mississippi Bubble.”
Three hundred colonists, destined for the lands of Mme. de Chau-mont, arrive at Pascagoula.
Seat of government of Louisiana is removed from Biloxi to New Orleans.
Bienville is recalled. Perier becomes commander-general of Louisiana. French settlers and soldiers are massacred at Fort Rosalie; 237 are killed and 227 made prisoners.
French soldiers and Choctaw warriors practically annihilate Natchez tribe in retaliation for the 1729 massacre.
Mississippi Company surrenders its charter. The English proprietary charter is included in that of Georgia.
Bienville reinstated as Governor.
Governor Bienville fails to subdue the warlike Chickasaw.
France cedes New Orleans and territory west of the Mississippi River to Spain.
An English Province. 1763-1779
By treaty with France, West Florida, including Mississippi Territory south of 31st parallel, becomes an English province, Captain George Johnstone, Governor.
King in Council, in a second decree extends the boundaries of the province of West Florida north to the mouth of the Yazoo, thus including the Mississippi settlements.
70 Scotch Highlanders from North Carolina and Scotland establish Scotia, about 30 miles eastward from Natchez.
Richard and Samuel Swayze, of New Jersey, purchase land on Homochitto River (within present Adams County), and form a permanent settlement. It is claimed that Samuel Swayze, a Congregational minister, built the first Protestant church in Mississippi. Revolution of American Colonies begins. British West Florida remains loyal to Crown.
Continental Congress grants to James Willing authority to descend the Mississippi and secure the neutrality of tht colonies at Natchez, Bayou Pierre, etc.
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By order of the Governor of West Florida, Fort Panmure, formerly Rosalie, is garrisoned by a company of infantry under Capt. Michael Jackson of the British Army.
A Province of Spain. 1779-1798
1779 The Spanish general, Don Bernardo de Galvez, storms Fort Bute (September 7), captures Baton Rouge from Lt. Colonel Dickinson, who surrenders West Florida (September 21) including Fort Panmure and the District of Natchez.
1781	The people of the Natchez District rebel against Spain, capture Fort Panmure, and raise the English flag (April 30). Don Carlos de Grandpre, appointed Spanish commander of the Natchez District (July 29), recaptures fort and inhabitants but drives many colonists from the territory.
1782	September 3. By definitive treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain the southern boundary of the United States is fixed at the 31st parallel N. lat., from the Mississippi to the St. Mary’s River. But in ceding Florida to Spain England specifies no boundary on the north; therefore Spain claims north to the mouth of the Yazoo River.
1785	Georgia organizes the County of Bourbon, which includes all lands
east of the Mississippi, between latitude 31° and the mouth of the Yazoo River, to which the Indian title had been extinguished.
1788	February 1. Act erecting Bourbon County is repealed.
1795	The State of Georgia sells to four companies the territory in dis-
pute, consisting of approximately 40,000,000 acres, at the rate of 2Vi cents per acre. This act is known as the "Yazoo Fraud.”
A Negro mechanic belonging to Daniel Clarke of Fort Adams, Wilkinson County, makes a cotton gin from a crude drawing and verbal description of the Whitney Gin, and Clarke introduces its use to county.
By treaty with Spain, the southern boundary of the U. S. is fixed at 31° latitude; the western boundary is fixed at the middle of the Mississippi River, and free navigation is agreed upon.
179o	Sale of land by Georgia rescinded.
1797	February 24. Andrew Ellicott, commissioned by the	U.	S.	to	fix	the
boundary line, with the Spanish commissioner, Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, arrives at Natchez.
July. Col. Ellicott secures the election of a permanent committee of public safety.
Andrew Marschalk, a soldier of the garrison at Walnut Hills, first uses the printing press in the Mississippi territory.
1798	January 10. Col. Ellicott is notified by Governor-General	of	New
Orleans that the King of Spain had ordered the surrender of the territory.