﻿HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
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  But 
  in 
  the 
  long 
  period 
  of 
  thirty 
  years 
  after 
  the 
  

   Natchez 
  were 
  driven 
  from 
  the 
  country, 
  were 
  not 
  those 
  

   favorite 
  and 
  desirable 
  settlements 
  reoccupied? 
  We 
  

   must 
  infer 
  not, 
  or 
  to 
  a 
  very 
  limited 
  extent. 
  We 
  glean 
  

   that, 
  after 
  the 
  massacre, 
  the 
  erection 
  of 
  a 
  fort 
  at 
  Natchez 
  

   was 
  commenced 
  by 
  Perrier 
  and 
  garrisoned; 
  but 
  it 
  ap- 
  

   pears 
  also 
  that 
  the 
  troops 
  from 
  all 
  such 
  interior 
  posts 
  

   were 
  drawn 
  off 
  wholly 
  or 
  in 
  part 
  to 
  be 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  

   Chickasaw 
  wars. 
  That 
  no 
  new 
  settlements 
  had 
  been 
  

   made 
  inthat 
  quarter, 
  may 
  be 
  inferred 
  from 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  

   the 
  most 
  recent 
  attacks 
  by 
  the 
  disaffected 
  Choctaws 
  and 
  

   other 
  hostile 
  Indians 
  were 
  made 
  as 
  low 
  down 
  as 
  the 
  

   settlements 
  of 
  Point 
  Coupee, 
  at 
  the 
  German 
  coast, 
  and 
  

   even 
  on 
  the 
  lakes 
  near 
  New 
  Orleans. 
  

  

  In 
  a 
  census 
  of 
  the 
  colony, 
  taken 
  in 
  1745, 
  it 
  appears 
  

   that 
  there 
  were 
  only 
  eight 
  white 
  males 
  and 
  fifteen 
  ne- 
  

   groes 
  at 
  Natchez. 
  Baluxi 
  and 
  Pascagoula 
  are 
  not 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  at 
  all 
  in 
  the 
  returns, 
  although 
  it 
  is 
  difficult 
  to 
  

   suppose 
  that 
  these, 
  the 
  earliest 
  and 
  once 
  most 
  populous 
  

   settlements, 
  had 
  been 
  wholly 
  broken 
  up. 
  

  

  In 
  1751, 
  when 
  Governor 
  Vaudreuil 
  had 
  received 
  an 
  

   accession 
  to 
  the 
  military 
  force 
  of 
  the 
  colony, 
  fifty 
  sol- 
  

   diers 
  were 
  stationed 
  at 
  Natchez. 
  

  

  AS 
  A 
  BRITISH 
  PROYINCE 
  ; 
  1^63— 
  m9. 
  

  

  Great 
  Britain 
  had 
  acquired, 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  that 
  the 
  

   French 
  possessions 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  had 
  been 
  ceded 
  

   to 
  her, 
  the 
  possessions 
  of 
  Spain 
  in 
  Florida 
  also. 
  

  

  The 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  extent 
  and 
  geographical 
  fea- 
  

   tures 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  by 
  the 
  English 
  at 
  least, 
  was 
  then 
  

   exceedingly 
  imperfect, 
  as 
  may 
  be 
  seen 
  by 
  a 
  reference 
  to 
  

   the 
  early 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  published 
  by 
  Eman 
  Bo 
  wen, 
  

  

  