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  HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
  

  

  were 
  considerable 
  settlements 
  on 
  the 
  left 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  

   Mississippi 
  above 
  the 
  thirty-first 
  degree 
  of 
  north 
  lati- 
  

   tude, 
  by 
  the 
  commission 
  of 
  Governor 
  Johnston, 
  dated 
  

   the 
  10th 
  of 
  June, 
  1764, 
  the 
  northern 
  boundary 
  of 
  the 
  

   province 
  of 
  West 
  Florida 
  was 
  extended 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  embrace 
  

   them, 
  the 
  line 
  being 
  drawn 
  due 
  east 
  from 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  

   the 
  Yazoo 
  River. 
  

  

  Durjng 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1764, 
  a 
  large 
  detachment 
  of 
  

   British 
  troops 
  occupied 
  Fort 
  Rosalie 
  at 
  Natchez, 
  which 
  

   was 
  thenceforth 
  known 
  as 
  Fort 
  Panmure. 
  

  

  In 
  1765, 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  families, 
  chiefly 
  from 
  the 
  Roan- 
  

   oke 
  River 
  in 
  North 
  Carolina, 
  came 
  to 
  West 
  Florida 
  and 
  

   settled 
  above 
  Baton 
  Rouge 
  ; 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  families 
  sub- 
  

   sequently 
  removed 
  to 
  the 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  Natchez. 
  

  

  In 
  December, 
  1766, 
  a 
  small 
  stockade 
  fort 
  was 
  built 
  at 
  

   the 
  Bayou 
  Manchac, 
  the 
  extreme 
  southwestern 
  point 
  of 
  

   the 
  British 
  possessions, 
  which 
  was 
  named 
  Fort 
  Bute. 
  

   This 
  post 
  being 
  on 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  the 
  Spanish 
  dominions, 
  

   and 
  convenient 
  to 
  New 
  Orleans, 
  became 
  a 
  place 
  of 
  illicit 
  

   trade, 
  which 
  was 
  carried 
  on 
  with 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  

   Louisiana 
  on 
  a 
  considerable 
  scale, 
  as 
  it 
  was 
  also 
  at 
  

   Natchez. 
  This 
  trade, 
  profitable 
  as 
  it 
  was 
  to 
  the 
  English, 
  

   was 
  so 
  convenient 
  and 
  advantageous 
  to 
  the 
  colonists 
  of 
  

   Louisiana, 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  indulged 
  in 
  with 
  little 
  restraint 
  

   on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Spanish 
  authorities. 
  Supplies 
  of 
  

   goods 
  were 
  accumulated 
  at 
  those 
  posts, 
  and 
  in 
  " 
  floating 
  

   warehouses" 
  which 
  traded 
  along 
  the 
  coast, 
  and, 
  with 
  the 
  

   connivance 
  of 
  the 
  public 
  ofScers, 
  even 
  supplied 
  the 
  

   French 
  boats 
  trading 
  to 
  Illinois 
  and 
  up 
  Red 
  River 
  and 
  

   the 
  Arkansas. 
  

  

  The 
  proclamation 
  of 
  the 
  7th 
  of 
  October, 
  1763, 
  by 
  the 
  

   king 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain, 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  first 
  offi- 
  

   cial 
  act 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  government 
  in 
  reference 
  to 
  its 
  

   newly-acquired 
  possessions 
  on 
  the 
  Mississippi. 
  By 
  that 
  

  

  