136 BUREAU OF AMERICAN KTl I NOLOl! V [bull. 73 
fort; that they had killed ten Spaniards and a Frenchman, and made twelve slaves of 
[Indians of | the Apalache and Chacta Nations. 1 
On the 20th [of November] two hundred Chacta arrived with four slaves and 
thirteen scalps of Cahouitas and Hiltatamahans. 1 
Bienville's account of the Chatot migration to the neighborhood of 
Mobile and its causes has already been given. 2 It seems strange that 
La Harpe nowhere mentions it, but from what Bienville tells us, it is 
apparent that it followed upon the attack of which news had reached 
Mobile January 7, 1706. The Lamhatty narrative merely says that 
three "nations" of the Tawasa were destroyed first, and that in a 
second expedition in the spring of 1 707 four more were swept away. 3 
Penicaut, usually much inferior to La Harpe in his record of events, 
describes the removal at some length, though he places it in the year 
1708, at least two years too late. He says: 
Some days afterward, the Chactas, who were a nation repelled from the domination 
of the Spaniards, arrived at Mobile with their women and children and begged MM. 
d'Artaguiette and de Bienville to give them a place in which to make their.dwelling. 
Lands were assigned them at a place lower down on the right, on the shore of the bay, 
in a great arm about a league in circuit. It is still called to-day l'Anse des Chactas.' 1 
Hamilton says that this Anse des Chactas extended "from our 
Choctaw Point west around Garrow's Bend." He adds: 
They occupied the site of the present city of Mobile and were its first inhabitants. 
. . . When Bienville selected this very ground for new Mobile he had to recompense 
these Choctaws with land on Dog River. Maps of 1717 and later show them on the 
south side of that stream, sometimes near the bay, sometimes several miles up. 
He notes that their name seems to survive in the Choctaw Point 
just mentioned and in an adjacent swamp known as Choctaw Swamp. 
Hamilton also cites several entries referring to members of this 
tribe in the baptismal registers between 1708 and 1729, but one or 
two of these may be true Mississippi Choctaw, since Hamilton fails 
to distinguish the two peoples. 5 
In speaking of the tribes about Mobile Bay Du Pratz says: 
Nearest the sea on Mobile River is the little Chatot Nation, consisting of about 
forty cabins; they are friends of the French, to whom they render all the services 
which can be paid for. They are Catholics or reputed to be such. 6 
He adds that the French post, Fort Louis, was just to the north 
of them. His information would apply to about the year 1738. 
According to the late H. S. Halbert, of the Alabama State Depart- 
ment of Archives and History, the Choctaw of Mississippi until lately 
remembered this tribe, and stated that the Chatot language was dis- 
'La Harpe, Jour. Hist., p. 103. * Margry, v, p. 479. 
2 Araer. Anthrop. n. s. vol. x, p. 568. See p. 138. 6 Colonial Mobile, pp. 113-114. 
a See p. 123. 6 Du Pratz, Hist, de La Louisiane, u, pp. 212-213. 
