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visited them. Iberville also visited them in the spring of 1700 and 

 communications continued friendly and intimate, but the attention of 

 the French was soon drawn off in other directions. If we may trust 

 Du Pratz, they moved to the Gulf coast some time afterward. In 

 1764 they crossed the Mississippi and settled for a short time on the 

 great stream itself not far from the mouth of Red River, but in 

 1787 permission was granted them to locate at the confluence of the 

 Rigolet du Bon Dieu and Red River, and they probably moved at 

 about the same time, their territory lying between Bayou de la Coeur 

 and Bayou Philippe. In 1795 they removed to lands granted them by 

 a body of Choctaw Indians on Bayou Boeuf, and they continued to 

 reside here until early in the nineteenth century when they and the 

 neighboring Biloxi sold their lands to Miller and Fulton. Morse, 

 writing in 1822, reports three bodies of Pascagoula, two at different 

 points on Red River and a third on Biloxi Bayou, a branch of the 

 Neches in Texas. Some of them probably died out here while others 

 no doubt accompanied the Biloxi to Oklahoma. In 1908 the writer 

 met two Indians living among the Alabama of Texas who claimed 

 that their mother was a Pascagoula Indian. 



Pascagoula population. — In 1699 the village of the Pascagoula, 

 Biloxi, and perhaps one other tribe consisted of less than 20 cabins, 

 and they had about 130 warriors. In 1700 Iberville reported 20 fami- 

 lies of Pascagoula, but some years later Du Pratz said they occupied 

 30 cabins. In 1758 Governor De Kerlerec tells us there were more than 

 100 united Pascagoula, Biloxi, and Chatot. In 1805, according to 

 Sibley, there were 25 Pascagoula warriors, but in 1822 Morse's in- 

 formants estimated a total population for the tribe of 240, which an- 

 other writer in 1829 reduces to 111. (See Biloxi.) 



PAWOKTI 



The earliest mention of this town or tribe seems to be on the Lam- 

 hatty map, where it has the form Pouhka. This applies to the year 

 1707 and as Pawokti afterward appears beside Tawasa as one of the 

 Alabama towns, it seems probable that it followed the fortunes of the 

 Tawasa, moving first to Mobile after the attack by northern Indians, 

 which uprooted the latter, and then passing to the upper Alabama 

 about the time when Fort Toulouse was established, which would be 

 in 1717. Hawkins gives a description of the town as it appeared in 

 1799, but this is about the last separate notice we have of it, and it 

 evidently fused with the rest of the Alabama settlements. 



Pawohti population, — We have no separate figures. (See Alabama 

 and Tawasa.) 



