This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.

---

agreed to sell their interest to N.L. Mitchell, the same as the purchaser in the previous deed, for $500. (It would appear that Mitchell made transactions with both parties in order to be assured of title.)? Hancock County, Deed Book A.
(More fully detailed below) One year later, one Bates and others sold to N. L. Mitchell the Pearl Town tract for $1,000, property obtained by deed from heirs of Simon Favre, consisting of 1,000 arpens which is now laid out in the town of Napoleon...being an old Spanish grant to Simon Favre.? xx"
Simon Favre eventually owned at least three sections of land along the east bank of the Pearl River, as well as one on West Pearl. In his will, he mentioned land on the river, ?given? to him by the Indians.xx'?xx,v (Location of deed shown on ?Pintado? copy of plat may be plantation on Louisiana side of the Pearl River).
Before turning 30 years old, Simon was already in demand by the Spanish government. For example, in 1787, Joseph Favrot, Acting Commander at Mobile, sent Simon Favre to interdict letters written by the Americans to the Choctaw encouraging the Tribe?s participation in an attack on the Tallapoosas (Favrot Family Papers, edited by Guillermo N. Falcon, Tulane University 1988, volume II 56, 1783-1796; see also Works Progress Administration 1941). During the same year, Simon, acting as the Indian interpreter, confirmed for Spain that the Americans and the French were planning to establish stores and a fort two days journey from the Chickasaw (Favrot papers volume II, page 65, Pierre-Joseph Favrot to Miro).
The letters that follow show clearly how intimately Favre was involved in the politics of the early Spanish period in West Florida, while still a very young man. For example, Favre wrote to Tugean of the Choctaw Nation at Mobile on November 25, 1783
?I have the honor of writing to you to inform you that the savages do not want to go to Galveston. They had rather do without the gifts. This is why I have decided to go immediately
14