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  HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
  

  

  John 
  Smith, 
  sent 
  to 
  New 
  Orleans 
  as 
  " 
  rebels," 
  and 
  im- 
  

   prisoned, 
  the 
  rights 
  of 
  their 
  wives 
  to 
  a 
  separate 
  property 
  

   in 
  their 
  estates 
  were 
  recognized, 
  and 
  such 
  property 
  was 
  

   left 
  in 
  their 
  possession. 
  The 
  families 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  fugitives, 
  

   it 
  seems, 
  were 
  regarded 
  with 
  indulgence, 
  and 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  

   the 
  property 
  held 
  by 
  them 
  at 
  least 
  was 
  assigned 
  for 
  

   their 
  support. 
  

  

  The 
  large 
  British 
  grant 
  to 
  Lyman 
  of 
  twenty 
  thousand 
  

   acres 
  was 
  confiscated, 
  but 
  upon 
  application 
  to 
  Grand 
  

   Pre, 
  the 
  sale 
  of 
  one-half 
  of 
  the 
  tract 
  was 
  arrested, 
  and 
  

   it 
  was 
  granted 
  to 
  Salome, 
  the 
  daughter 
  of 
  Thaddeus 
  

   Lyman, 
  left 
  destitute 
  in 
  the 
  country 
  with 
  her 
  grandfather 
  

   Waterman 
  Crane. 
  

  

  Butler, 
  who 
  derives 
  his 
  information 
  chiefly 
  from 
  the 
  

   oral 
  account 
  given 
  him 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Calvin 
  Smith, 
  states 
  

   that 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  insurgents 
  joined 
  with 
  Colbert, 
  a 
  

   Scotchman 
  who 
  was 
  living 
  with 
  an 
  Indian 
  family 
  among 
  

   the 
  Chickasaws, 
  and 
  established 
  themselves 
  at 
  the 
  

   Chickasaw 
  Bluffs, 
  now 
  Memphis, 
  and 
  became 
  quite 
  

   formidable, 
  stopping 
  and 
  plundering 
  the 
  passing 
  boats 
  at 
  

   pleasure. 
  To 
  prevent 
  the 
  other 
  refugees 
  among 
  the 
  In- 
  

   dians 
  from 
  joining 
  these 
  predatory 
  parties 
  on 
  the 
  river, 
  

   they 
  were 
  invited 
  by 
  proclamation 
  to 
  return 
  to 
  their 
  

   homes 
  in 
  peace. 
  

  

  In 
  September, 
  1782, 
  Don 
  Estevan 
  Miro, 
  Governor- 
  

   General 
  of 
  Louisiana, 
  ad 
  interim, 
  was 
  at 
  Natchez 
  in 
  the 
  

   capacity 
  of 
  civil 
  and 
  military 
  commandant. 
  He 
  was 
  

   succeeded 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  office 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  November 
  

   by 
  Don 
  Pedro 
  Piernass. 
  

  

  The 
  war 
  of 
  the 
  Revolution 
  was 
  now 
  terminated, 
  and 
  

   by 
  the 
  preliminary 
  articles 
  of 
  peace 
  between 
  Great 
  Brit- 
  

   ain, 
  France 
  and 
  Spain, 
  of 
  the 
  20th 
  of 
  January, 
  1783, 
  

   the 
  King 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  acknowledged 
  the 
  indepen- 
  

   dence 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  and 
  recognized 
  as 
  their 
  

  

  