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Farther on we learn that the Spanish governor had offered the 
chiefs of the Apalachee and Chatot very considerable presents to 
return to Florida, but they refused, 1 stating that the French pro- 
tected them better. This was written July 28, 1706, which tends 
to confirm Penicaut's statement that the removal occurred toward 
the end of 1705. 2 He adds that Bienville furnished them with corn 
with which to plant their first crop. The first mention of Apalachee 
in the register of the old Catholic church in Mobile records the bap- 
tism of a little Apalachee boy on September 6, 1706. 3 
Penicaut has the following to say regarding these Apalachee: 
The Apalaches perform divine service like the Catholics in France. Their grand 
feast is on the day of St. Louis; 4 they come the evening before to ask the officers of 
the fort to come to the fete in their village, and they extend great good cheer on that 
day to all who come there, especially to the French. 
The priests of our fort go there to perform high mass, which they listen to with 
much devotion, singing the psalms in Latin, as is done in France, and, after dinner, 
vespers and the benediction of the Holy Sacrament. Men and women are there 
that day very well dressed. The men have a kind of cloth overcoat and the women 
cloaks, skirts of silk stuff after the French manner, except that they do not have 
head coverings, their heads being uncovered; their hair, long and very black, is 
braided and hangs in one or two plaits behind after the manner of the Spanish 
women. Those who have too long hair bend it back as far as the middle of the 
back and tie it with a ribbon. 
They have a church, where one of our French priests goes to say mass Sundays 
and feast days; they have a baptismal font, in which to baptize their infants, and a 
cemetery side of the church, in which there is a cross, where they are buried. 
Toward evening, on St. Louis's day, after the service is finished, men, women, 
and children dress in masks; they dance the rest of the day with the French 
who are there, and the other savages who come that day to their village; they have 
quantities of food cooked with which to regale them. They love the French very 
much, and it must be confessed that they have nothing of the savage except their 
language, which is a mixture of the language of the Spaniards and of the Alibamons. 5 
Meantime the Apalachee carried away by Moore had been settled 
near New Windsor, South Carolina, below what is now Augusta, 
Georgia, where they remained until 1715, the year of the Yamasee 
uprising. When that outbreak occurred, the Apalachee, as might 
have been anticipated, joined the hostiles, and from then on they 
disappear from English colonial history. 
However, the greater part of these revolted Apalachee evidently 
settled first near the Lower Creeks, a faction of whom opposed the 
English. In the following letter to the crown from Gov. Juan de 
Ayala of Florida we get a view of the struggle between these two 
factions, and the apparent victory of tha,t in the English interest, 
1 Louisiane: Correspondence G6ne>ale, MS. vol. in Library Louisiana Historical Society, pp. 621-622. 
'Margry, Dec., v, pp. 460-461. 
•Hamilton, Colonial Mobile, 1910, p. 109. 
4 It will be remembered that St. Louis was one of the leading Apalachee towns and one of those which 
escaped destruction. 
* Penicaut, in Margry, v, pp. 486-487. 
