Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . rs shot for killing an Indian, as DErne-ville similarly insisted on the death of an Indian for killing aFrenclunan. It was to Fort Toulouse that the sagaciousPriber, after five years supremacy among the Cherokees, wasgoing, in 1741, on his way to Mobile, when he was captured bythe English and carried to Frederica, Georgia. There he diedin confinement. The Cherokees do not often
Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . rs shot for killing an Indian, as DErne-ville similarly insisted on the death of an Indian for killing aFrenclunan. It was to Fort Toulouse that the sagaciousPriber, after five years supremacy among the Cherokees, wasgoing, in 1741, on his way to Mobile, when he was captured bythe English and carried to Frederica, Georgia. There he diedin confinement. The Cherokees do not often concern us, butthe English suffered from them for eight years in South Caro-lina, and lay the blame on French and Jesuit influence in thatquarter. It was at Fort Alabama that Adair was imprisoneda fortnight for activity among the Indians. He managed toescape an hour before the kings boat left, which was to carryhim down to Mobile to be hanged. And it was from therethat Montberaut captured among the Indians those mutineerswho had killed Duroux of Cat Island in 1758, and sent themdowTi to Mobile under De Beaudin to be executed with 1 Detailed references would be too numerous ; but much of the above is. ^ • • • • ?f* • • •. ^ • • • ? a « «^3- r « • «« .if KSi^ <^ J. -u J ^ J) i\ t i ^ x: S ? V ... - y ri ^ -Hi .9 , . fi ^ ^ .^ ?! / -^ 2^ ^i ^ # ^ i * ^ (^^ FORT TOULOUSE AND FORT TOMBECBE. 191 The earliest church entry (1721) naming the French post isin the baptism by Mathieu of a daughter of Michel Mandreat Mobile, and mentions the grandmother as Mme. Catherine(elsewhere Genevieve) Raymond, wife of Ecuyer Seigneur dePechon, Major des Alibamons. The major signs the minutehimself, and so was in Mobile at the time. Two years laterEcuier Crepin de Pechon and wife, mentioned as noble persons,themselves have a child baptized, Chateaugue, then lieutenantfor the whole of Louisiana, and the wife of commandant Ma-rigny de Mandeville acting as spons
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