128 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
The last Apalachee baptismal notice in the registers of the parish 
church at Mobile is under date of 1751. * 
In his report of 1758 De Kerlerec says under the heading "Apata- 
ches," which is of course a misprint for Apalaches: 
This nation of about 30 warriors is situated on the other (i. e., east) side of Mobile 
Bay. They are reduced to this small number on account of the quantity of drink 
which has been sold to them in trade at all times; they are Christians and have a 
curacy established among them administered by a Capuchin, who acquits himself of 
it very poorly. 
This nation has been attached to us for a long time. It is divided into two bands, 
one of which is on Spanish territory, a dependence of Pensacola. The warriors who 
are allied with us {dependent de nous) are equally of great use in conveying the dis- 
patches of Tombigbee and the Alabamas, especially this latter, where we send soldiers 
as little as possible on account of the too great ease with which they can desert and 
pass to the English. 2 
In 1763 all Spanish and French possessions east of the Mississippi 
passed under the government of Great Britain. This change was 
not at all to the liking of most of the small tribes settled about 
Mobile Bay, and a letter of M. d'Abbadie, governor of Louisiana, 
dated April 10, 1764, informs us that the Taensas, Apalachee and 
the Pakana tribe of the Creeks had already come over to Red 
River in his province, or were about to do so. 3 We know that such a 
movement did actually take place. Probably the emigrant Apala- 
chee included both the Mobile and the Pensacola bands. Sibley, 
in his "Historical sketches of several Indian Tribes in Louisiana, 
south of the Arkansas River, and between the Mississippi and River 
Grand," written in 1806, has the following to say regarding this 
tribe : 
Appalaches, are likewise emigrants from West Florida, from off the river whose 
name they bear; came over to Red River about the same time the Boluxas did, and 
have, ever since, lived on the river, above Bayau Rapide. No nation have been 
more highly esteemed by the French inhabitants; no complaints against them are 
ever heard; there are only fourteen men remaining; have their own language, but 
speak French and Mobilian. 4 
From the papers on public lands among the American State Papers 
we know that they and the Taensa Indians settled together on a 
strip of land on Red River between Bayou d'Arro and Bayou Jean 
de Jean. This land was sold in 1803 to Miller and Fulton, but only 
a portion of it was allowed them by the United States commissioners 
in 1812 on the ground that the sale had not been agreed to by the 
Apalachee. 5 Nevertheless it is probable that the Apalachee did not 
remain in possession of their lands for a much longer period, though 
they appear to have lived in the same general region and to have 
» Hamilton, op. cit., p. 1 12. ; Am. Antiq., xm, 2.32-253, Sept., 1891. 
2 Internat. Congress Am., Compte Rendu, xv * Sibley in Ann. of Cong., 9th Cong., 2d sess., 1085. 
sess., I, p. 86. 5 Am. State Papers, Ind. Aff., u, pp. 796-797. 
