MUSKIIOGEAN LANGUAGES. 



71 



Pitchlynn (P. P.) — Continued. 



Col. Pitclilyuu in 1810 in stoambo.at travel on 

 the Mississippi, when he was acting as inter- 

 preter and helper to Major Armstrong in tho 

 removal of two hundred of his peoi)le from 

 Mississippi to the Indian Territory. I was 

 greatly pleased to see what iulluonco his kind 

 and gentlemanly bearing had given him among 

 thoni; and it was needed in inducing them to 

 trust themselves in a boat on a river too wide, 

 they thought, to allow them to swim to land in 

 case of accident. — 2rrs. Hobertson. 



Poison tree [Choctaw] . See Wright (A. ) 



autl Byington (C.) 

 [Pomeroy (James Margarum).] Cliarter | 

 of the I Choctaw and Chickasaw | Cen- 

 tral [ Railroad Company. Published for 

 the information of the Choctaw and 

 Chickasaw iieoples. | Chahta Chikaska 

 itatuklo j Chata | iklvua tvli hiua kvm- 

 peni oke. | Chahta mikmvt Chikasha 

 okla nana akostenecha chi pulla kuk o 

 holisso illvpvt toba hoke. 



Little Eock, Ark. : [ Woodruft' and 

 Blochcr, printers, binders and station- 

 ers, Markhani street. [ 1870. (*) 

 Pp. V, 21 and 24 (double numbers), alternate 

 English and Choctaw facing each other, royal 

 8°. Marginal notes in English and Choctaw. 

 On p. iii Mr. Pomeroy is named as editor. 



[ ] Charter of tho Choctaw and 



Chickasaw j 35th Parallel Railroad 

 Company. Published by the company, 

 for tho information of the Choctaw and 

 Chickasaw peoples. | Chahta Chikasha 

 itatuklo i Chata Palelil pokoletnchena 

 akocha tvlhapo bachaya ka tvli hina 

 kvmpcni oke. I Chahta mikmvt Chika- 

 sha okla nana akostanecha chi pulla 

 kuk o kvmpcni illvpvt holisso ha ikbo 

 tok oke. I 



Little Rock, Ark. : | Woodruff and 

 Biocher, printers, binders and station- 

 ers, Markham street, j 1870. (*) 

 Pp. V, 24 and 24 (double numbers), alternate 

 English and Choctaw facing each other, roy.il 

 8°. Marginal notes in English and Choctaw. 

 On p. iii Mr. Pomeroy is named as editor. 



The two titles above are from a bibliography 



of the writings of the alumni and faculty of 



Wcsleyau University, Middletown, Conn, by 



G. Brown Goodc and Newton P. Scudder. 



Poor Sarah [Choctaw]. See Wright (A.) 



and Byington (C.) 

 Pope (John). A ] tour [ through the [ 

 southern .and western territories | of 

 the I United States | of | North-America ; I 

 the I Spanish dominions | on the river 

 Mis.sissippi, | and tlic | Floridas ; j the 



Pope (.J.) — Continued, 

 countries of tho [ Creek nations; | and 

 many | uninhabited parts. | By John 

 Pope. 1 Multorum, paucorum, phirinm, 

 omnium, interest. | 



Richmond: printed by John Dixon. | 

 For the author and his three children, 

 Alexander D. | Pope, Lucinda C. Pope, 

 and Anne Pope. | M,DCC,XCn. C) 



Title reverse blank 1 1. pp. iii-iv, 5-104, 8^. 

 Title from Mr. W. Eames, from a copy belong- 

 ing to Chailes L. Woodward, Now York, which 

 he sold for $30. 



"June 20th. The Litlh' Kinu o( thc> Broken- 

 Arrow returned, a d furnished me with the fol- 

 lowing catalogue of Indian "Words, with a lit- 

 eral tr.anslation to each by Mr. Darisoux, Lin- 

 guist to tho Lower Creeks." 



This consists of a list of about 78 Creek words 

 with English detiuitions, and an explanation of 

 four local names, pp. 65-GG. 



Literally " reprinted, with index, for Charles 



L. Woodward, New York. 1888." Tho index 



occupies pp. i-iv at the end. (Eamcs, Pilling.) 



Porter (John Suodgrass), jr. [Letter 



from Ockmulgee.] 



In Indian Journal, vol. 4, no. 31, Muscogee, 

 Ind.T.AprilS, 1880, folio. (*) 



In the Muskoki language. 



John Snodgrass Porter, jr., is the third in 

 line of that name, and is first cousin to lion. 

 Pleasant Porter. J. S. Porter, his grandfather, 

 was from Norristown, Pa., educated at tho 

 Military Academy, and served under Jackson 

 as first lieutenant, afterwards brevctted cap- 

 tain. At the cl;:se of the war ho resigned at 

 Fort Mitchell, among the Creoka, by whom 

 he and his family were adopted, as he had iden- 

 tified himself to such an extent with their in- 

 terests. His son, John S., married a "half- 

 breed," and his grand.sou, John, was born about 

 the year 18.'51, and educated chielly at Boona- 

 borough Academy, Ark. lie was for some time 

 "National .auditor " for tho Creeks, .and is now 

 an influential member of their council.— J/;'*. 

 Robertson. 



Porter {Geii. Pleasant). Sec Gatschet 

 (A. S.) 



Gen. Pleasant Porter was born in the Creek 

 nation, on the Arkansas lliver, September 2C, 

 1840. His father, Benjamin E. Porter, of Nor- 

 ristown, Pa., was a white man ; his mother, a 

 nearly full-blood Creek, was tho daughter of 

 T.artope Tu.stonuggi, chief of the Okmulgees. 

 His grandmother was a sister of Samuel and 

 Benjamin Perryman. 



When ten years of .ago he was sent to tho 

 Presbyterian mission school at TuUahassoe, 

 which he attended for five or six years, after 

 which he engaged in farming, which has .always 

 been his occupation. lie served four years as 

 a Confeder.ato soldier, enlisting as a private 



