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Chickasaw PoPUfcATio* at Various Periods Prior to 1834 1 
1609. M. de Montigny, 350 cabins. 
1702. Iberville, 2,000 families. 
lmi. De La Vente, "as numerous as the Choctaw," i. e., 700 to 800 cabins. 
1708. South Carolina documents, at least 600 warriors. 
171".. Smith Carolina census, 6 villages, 700men, 1,900 population. 
L722-23. Bienville, 0-7 villages, S00 men. 
L739. Georgia records, 500 warriors. 
17 17. South Carolina public documents, reduced to 200 to 300 warriors. 
1750. Adair, barely 450 warriors. 
1750. An anonymous French memoir, 560 warriors. 
1764. <'apt. Thos. Hutchins, 750 warriors. 
1764. <'<>!. Bouquet, 750 warriors. 
1764. John Stuart, 500 gunmen. 
1768. Rev. Elam Potter, estimated at 300 to 400 warriors. 
1771. Romans, 250 warriors. 
1780. Pun-ell, 575 warriors, 2,290 population. 
L814. Sihermerhorn, 1,000 warriors, 35,000 population. 
1817. Morse, 3,625 population. 
1829. Gen. Peter B. Porter, 3,600. 
1833. Report in Schoolcraft, 4.715. 
Chickasaw Population Subsequent to 1834 
1836. United States Indian Office, 5,400. 
1838. United States Indian Office, 4,176 (in west). 
1839. United States Indian Office, "..000. 
1841. United States Indian Office, ",.000. 
1842. United States Indian Office, 5,010. 
1843. United States Indian Office, 5,010. 
1844. United States Indian Office, 4,130. 
1845. United States Indian Office, 4,211. 
1847. United States Indian Office (in Schoolcraft), 1,166 families, 4,260. 
1847. Another entry in Schoolcraft, 6,500. 
1853. United States Indian Office, 1,709. 
1855. United States Indian Office, 4,787. 
1861. United States Indian Office, 5,000. 
186-5-1870. United States Indian Office, 4,500. 
1871. United States Indian Office, 5,000. 
L872 1875. United States Indian Office, 6,000. 
1876. United States Indian Office, 5,800. 
1877-1878. United States Indian Office, 5,600. 
1879. United States Indian Office, 7,000. 
1880-1889. United States Indian Office, 6,000. 
1890-1891. United States Indian Office, 6,400. 
1 Authorities: Compte Rendu, Int. Cong. Am., 15th sess., 1, p. 35; Iberville in Margry, Dec, iv, pp. 
601-602; S. C. Pub. Rec., MS., \, pp. 207-209; Rivers, A Chapter in the Early Hist, of S. Car., p. 94; Ga.Col. 
Rec., v, p. 191; S. C. Pub. Rec, xxin, p. 75, MS.; Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 353; Hutchins in Schoolcraft, 
Ind. Tribes, m, p. 555: Bouquet, ibid., p. 559; Potter in Mass. Hist. Soc Colls., 1st ser., x, p. 121; Am. Hist. 
Rev., \\,4, p. 825; Romans, Concise Nat. Hist, of E. and W. Ela., p. 69; Purcell in Mass. Hist. Soc Colls., 
1st ser., iv, p. 100; Schermerhorn in Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., 2d ser., 11, p. 16; Morse, Rept. to Sec of War, 
p. 364; Porter in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, m, p. 597; Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes (1S33); Reports U. S. Indian 
Office: Ind. Pop. in U. S., U. S. Census of 1910, p. 15; MS., Lib. Cong 
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