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The following table contains the figures upon which this discussion 
is based : 
Population of the Choctaw at Various Periods Prior to 1834 J 
Authority. 
Year. 
Warriors. 
Total population. 
1702 
3, 800-4, 000 
2 [13, 300-14, 000] 
1704 
3 7, 000-8, 000 
[2, 450] 
1715 
700 
172.-) 26 
8, 000 
[28, 000] 
1730' 
+3, 000 
[+10,500] 
1732 
1, 466 
[5, 131] 
1738 
16, 000 
[56,000] 
1739 
5,000 
4 [17, 500] 
1750(?) 
+3,610 
5 +12, 635 
1750(?) 
6 4, 500 
[15, 750] 
1758 
3, 500^, 000 
7 [12, 250-14, 000] 
1764 
4,500 
[15, 750] 
1764 
21, 500 
1764 
5,000 
[17, 500] 
1768 
800-900 
[ 2, 800-3, 150] 
1771 
2,600 
9,100 
1780 
4,141 
13, 423 
1785 
4,500 
[15, 750] 
1814 
4,000 
15, 000 
1820 
15, 000-20, 000 
25, 000 
1822 
8 1831 
19, 554 
Iberville 
De la Vente 
Moll map 
Bienville 
Regis du Roullet 
Pere Baudoin 
Colonial Records of Georgia . 
Colonial Records of Georgia . 
Anonymous French MS 
Adair 
De Kerlerec 
Bouquet 
Hutching 
Letter of John Stuart 
Potter 
Romans 
Ramsey 
Smith 
Schermerhorn 
Hodgson 
Morse 
Armstrong (a census) 
i Authorities: Ibervillein Margry, D(5c.,iv, pp. 601-602; Compte Rendu, Int. Cong. Am., XVsess.,i,p.35; 
Mollmap; Ga. Col. Rec, v, pT 56; Ibid., p. 191; Mem. Am. Anth. Ass'n, v, No. 2, pp. 71-72; Adair, Hist. 
Am. Inds., p. 282; De Kerlerec in Compte Rendu, Int. Cong. Am., XV sess., i, p. 76; Bouquet in 
Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, p. 559; Hutchins, ibid., p. 555; Am. Hist. Mag., vol. xx, 4, p. 825; Potter in 
Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., lstser., x, p. 121; Romans, Concise Nat. Hist, of E. and W. Fla., p. 74; Ramsey 
in Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., 1st ser., IV, p. 99; Smith in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, m, p. 555; Schermerhorn 
in Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., 2d ser., II, p. 17; Hodgson, Journ. N. Amer., pp. 274-275; Morse, Rept . to Sec. of 
War, p. 364; Reports TJ. S. Ind. Office; Ind. Top. in U. S., U. S. Census of 1910, p. 15. 
2 Figures in brackets are derived by multiplying the number of warriors by 3?,; the rest are as given in 
the originals. 
3 More than 700-800 cabins. 
* 46 towns. 
5 45town^. 
6 Not above, this figure. 
'52 towns. 
« Correspondence on the subject of the Emigration of Indians, Ac, Senate Document No. 512, 1833, Wash- 
ington, 1835, m, p. 149 
