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 . nthe Missouri. The Company in turn bought colonial produceat its warehouses in Mobile, Ship Island, New Orleans, For Biloxi (on the new site) was again important. At theclose of 1720, the headquarters of the company were removedthere,2 as nearer the Mississippi, whose fertile shores werel)eing peopled. Mobile was for a time to continue to be thelargest city, but cea
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 . nthe Missouri. The Company in turn bought colonial produceat its warehouses in Mobile, Ship Island, New Orleans, For Biloxi (on the new site) was again important. At theclose of 1720, the headquarters of the company were removedthere,2 as nearer the Mississippi, whose fertile shores werel)eing peopled. Mobile was for a time to continue to be thelargest city, but ceased to be the capital. For a while it kept on as usual under the old inertia. Thefort was renamed Fort Conde by an order of the Company ofOctober, 1720,^ that arrived on the Mutine. Early the nextyear, M. De Pauger set out from Biloxi to make a plan ofMobile and a survey of Mobile River to the white bluffs thirtyleagues from Mobile and six from the Chicachas River.* La ^ 1 Martins Louisiana, p. 218. 2 Picketts Alabama, p. 257. 3 La Harpe, Historical Journal, pp. 82-84 (3 Frenchs Historical Collec-tion). ? La Harpe, Historical Journal, pp. 84, 85 (3 Frenchs Historical Collec-tion) ; 1 Martins Louisiana, p. THE TIME OF LAWS COMPANY. 103 Harpe goes on to say tliat they are similar to those of St. Lukeat Paris, and are two huiulrod feet high, being a continuationof iut<.rit)r mountains. From this it woukl seem the Tomhigbeewas called for the Chiekasaws and the Alabama the Mobile, asindeed is shown by some mai)s, for the reference must be tothe bluffs at Claiborne. As late as 1723, when the Spaniardswere assisted with provisions, it was from Mobile, In Jaiuiary, 1721, came three hundred colonists for thegrant of Mme. Chaumont at Pascagoula, and then anotherwith twenty-five prostitutes from the Salpetriere, a house ofcorrection at Paris, sent as wives for the colonists. In Marcharrived one hundred and twenty negroes from Guinea in theAfricaine, a warship, and also three
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