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 . vernor,$2,000; chaplain, $360; sacristan, $180; chapel, $50; Englishinterpreter, $180; storekeeper, $600; adjutant, $300; guard,$180; adjutant of artillery, $300; armorer, $360; surgeon, mate,and nurses, $1,140; patron and hands, $1,296; besides $1,080also mentioned for commissary and armorer.^ The Choctaw and Chickasaw trade amounted to $60, was part of a large system ex
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 . vernor,$2,000; chaplain, $360; sacristan, $180; chapel, $50; Englishinterpreter, $180; storekeeper, $600; adjutant, $300; guard,$180; adjutant of artillery, $300; armorer, $360; surgeon, mate,and nurses, $1,140; patron and hands, $1,296; besides $1,080also mentioned for commissary and armorer.^ The Choctaw and Chickasaw trade amounted to $60, was part of a large system extending even to the Illinois,organized by Miro, and carried on at a profit of twenty-five On the whole, therefore, the change to Spanish rule and in-stitutions was accomplished in the first five or six years. Thegovernment land system and Indian trade had been names and customs almost disappeared from Mobile,although they survived upon the rivers; but, after all, the socialsubstratum remained French, as it always had been. Practi-cally the Spaniards were little more than the governing class ofa French community. 1 2 Martins Louisiana^ pp. 81, 83. 2 Winsors Westward Movement, p. CHAPTER XXXVn. UNDER FOLCH AND LANZOS (1787, 1791). In three years since the last census the population of Mobiledoubled, for in 1788 it is given as 1,468, against only 265 atPensacola, which had fallen off one half. This should indicateprosperity, but at all events land was not dear even in , a free negro, in 1788 sells John Joyce a house and loton the corner of St. Charles (St. Joseph) and St. Francis (), opposite Mr. Orbannes, for 1100. Joyce in thesame month of April buys a lot ten toises front on Royal, andextending twenty-six toises to the river, for $25 cash, and hasa house thrown in. This was situated second north of ourSt. Michael, opposite Narbonnes lot, and south (north?) ofDubuissons. Next year the heirs of Jean Baptiste de Lusser, deceas
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