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?Seditious speeches are beginning to die down among the Choctaw nation, although the worriers <sic> are still very impertinent. But this is caused by drink and it is not very feasible to deprive them of it. However, a rather timely threat made by one of our great medal; chiefs named Totehouman, to kill all the animals of the traders living in that nation if Favre?s animals at Tombecbe ? were killed, has been sufficient to restrain them. The others are not saying anything and besides, I hope the food which we give them will cause them to think. I do not know where we are going to put the armourer. I suppose he ought to be lodged in the fort as is the surgeon [Broutin], The fort is so small and the buildings so much one on top of the others that there is not much leeway for such lodgings. The oven touches the storehouse and without a chimney is likely to set fire to it whenever sparks fly from it. The storekeeper also asks for a lodging and requested me to
speak to you about it.
I have also told you in one of my previous letters how necessary it was to have a shedfor the Indians. The interpreter requested an apartment at the far end of it. ? (:317).
Volume IVpages 340-341.
Delavillebeuvre to Carondelet September 14, 1794
?I think that the Talapoosas and the Alibamons are going to start their usual trouble because they have already stolen two horses belonging to Favre and I believe one of mine which cost me fifty piastres. I cannot locate it anywhere, so here I am without a horse. I shall be very much put out when I have to go into the nation.? (:340).
Volume IV, page 56-57
Simon Favre in the 19th Century
When Thomas Jefferson led the United States into the Louisiana Purchase, the eastern boundary of the newly acquired territory was set at the East Pearl River. Consequently, the area that would become Hancock County assumed an increased strategic role. Thomas Jefferson, upon receipt of the Declaration of Independence from the Commonwealth of West Florida, claimed the whole district for the United States and directed Governor Claiborne to take possession of the area and include it in the Orleans Territory (Claiborne, Mississippi A province, Territory and State: 304-305).
In the 1782 Spanish cedula, trade was subject to a six percent import and export tax but Negro slaves were allowed to enter duty free. In 1803, when the U.S. Government prohibited importing of slaves in Louisiana, the region east of the East Pearl River, still officially under Spanish control, was not covered by such a restriction. It may not be a coincidence that it was during the first few years of the 19th century that several large plantation houses were erected
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