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

---

Some of their problems are evident in a letter of May 16, 1806, in which Joseph Collins, Captain of the Militia Dragoon in 1809, reported to Governor Folch:
Since my takeing <sic> the command of this place, I find it has been a custom of the people on this coast, to ship cattle, for beef, to Orleans.
They are in the habit of cuting, & carrying off, to the same place, the best of the ship timber: from Valuxi to the bay of Mobill, <?? in Bonsecure; and some, even without pasport. A few days previous to my taking the command, an American guard was sent from fort Stodert, who ware permited to Sarch for, & take away, 2 men whom they Said ware deserters, without producing proof... Upwards of 30 cannon, was beared 2 days past, outside of Ship Island.
...Also Taffia is sold here, which continually Keeps a gang of drunken Indians, Negroes.
&	some whites in disorder, & neglecting their business. ?
Check relationship to Joseph Collins who surveyed Mobile, Pascagoula claim and served as representative of Simon Favre claims. Relationship may extend to when Collins was head of Pascagoula fort during last days of Spanish rule in West V\ov\A&\[ American State Papers 1815-1824	3:9, Mobile; 14 and 16 Surveyed by Collins; 449 deed revived Administrator of Joseph
Collins, inhabited and cultivated 1800-1806; 1827-1829 5: 495, 498; 502,775, 778; 1834 7:388, 423, 425, 426, 440, 441, 445, 480], (to do)
Trouble from pirates or corsairs was not unusual, as shown by the following letters from this period:
In a letter dated October 17, 1806 Joseph Collins advised Francisco, Maximiliano de St. Maxent of the shipment of 40 shots of 4-pounder by don Francisco Collantes, commander of the balau [Caribbean schooner] Vivora which was unloaded into the house of Francisco Krebs. When going to New Orleans people are ?exposed to the frequent invasion of Boats and Launches of the enemy corsairs that sail for these passages?. He further warned the inhabitants that when going to Horn, Round or any other island, not to take a passport.?xxvm
Contained in the official Spanish correspondence from this period is a mention of a personage whose name remained on the Hancock County land deeds well into the 20th century.
On the Drake survey map (date) we note that in the area of Logtown there is a section of land
21