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agent would be in order, and that he should be Colonel Simon Favre, ?who resides on Pearl River, not very far from the Choctaw boundary.-Colonel Simon Favre was agent for the Choctaws under the Spanish Government, and has more influence with these Indians than any man in existence.?xxxiv
WCC Claiborne, Dr. Flood and JFH Claiborne
In 1811, Governor Claiborne dispatched Dr. William Flood to the region east of the Pearl River in an effort to extend the administrative control over what would soon become the Parish of Biloxi comprising the area between the East Pearl River and Biloxi Bay.
There was an important exchange of letters between Gov. WCC Claiborne and Dr. Flood. The first records the details of Flood?s assignment:
To Dr. William Flood'
New Orleans January 5. 1811.
Sir,
Having understood that the good Citizens inhabiting a tract of Country situated on the Bay St. Louis; the Rivers Viloxy and Pascagoula and the Bayou Batin were in a state of Anarchy, acknowledging no authority, but that of a Commandant appointed by the late Florida Convention, or some individual acting under their orders; I have passed an Ordinance by which the Tract of Country aforesaid is divided into two distinct Parishes, and am desirous to enforce within the same as soon as possible the laws of the Territory of Orleans: You will therefore proceed from hence by the Bay St. Louis, and the Bay Viloxy to the Mouth of Pascagoula. On your arrival at Bay St. Louis, you will cause the American Standard to be reared; and to be circulated among the Inhabitants, copies of the enclosed Ordinance establishing the Parish of Viloxy.
You have two commissions for Justices of the Peace also enclosed the one for Simeion Favre and the other for Fortesque Coming, which you will be pleased to have delivered.
Dr. Floodxxxv
There exist two versions of Dr. Flood?s reply one found in the papers of Governor Claiborne and on one provided by his famous nephew and inhabitant of Hancock County, John F.
H.	Claiborne.
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