The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-01-02
]. HORN.
Nafs6ifoeke,, Set,.s,t.r esd, 1895.

Nafe6ifoekss, Sefi.1st.r esd, 1895.
Perional'y appeared before me, jain Sbley. Of
the uieea of he peace for the county Of Naschito-
ches Frcs Grape. cs Canpte, in faii county, aged
6fyieven who being duly iworn, depoeth and faith,
that TO che beit of his knowledge and belief, he was
born Rear the ancient Caddo village the Red river,
which by the courfe of the river he believes tn be up
wards Of Eve hundred miles above Natehitoches,
where his pare then lived, and had lived, ne be-
ieves, number of years before he was bornv and
where they continued to live until he 6xteen
feven,een years ri age. AS long ago As he can re-
member he recol,eas MIR. Francois Hervey, .
Frenth gentleman, who lived there, and who he un-
der,tood was the fra white that fetiled there,
and tina, his father ettled there about years after,
but hs always underhood there had been company
Of French traders etted for number OF years about
forty miles higher up the river, and that MIR. Hervey
was one Of them, but they were broke up before he
was horn; it was always called the Company, ami
that during the whole time he lived az the ancient
Caddo village there three frttled families, be-
des number Of Jingle perfons and detachment OF
folders, and that the number Of folders aligned by
the French government for that poa was always
Fifteen, blu, he never knew she nuu,bsr complete, &
that his father couan6ant OF the place tor ma
ny years, and ras fucc.eded by Mr.. Clolo, who
continued 20 he commandant till it was abandoned
after the eeion of Louiiiana to Spain, and thar hts
| father, by order OF the then governor of Loaiana
bull, fmaii fort there, in which were two FINAL pie
css Of csIuon, andin which Aag ftaif which
the Frenel Gag was occaGunally hoihed. He be-
ieves che whole time tst thar place was occupied by
the French IS military pen aud fettement OF IA
miles, was about thirty years, and that the inhabi
tants purified the fame agriculture that was then
COMMON in other parts OF the French fettlenrnt of
Louiiiana, viz. corn, tobacco indigo, cotton and
garden vegetables, with fome wheat, which grew
well, but having no way Of manuia Curing flour,
here ht,ti, h,,e
pair oeexcelent EufoPeap mill Tones and mill irons
there, but were in ulc in his time the Zones he
himieif brought down in the year l77S, and they
were carried TO Ospeloulas he underfooa they had
been carried TO the Caddo country by the Company,
as It was called; and that he has knowledge of a
French trading Establishment being at the place cal
led the Dous. on the Sabine river, where the
Mandaco Indians now live, and that it was an anci-
ent Establishment, and place of great trade and re-
fort at the time his fathers family lived rhe Cados,
and thar he has feveral times been the place the
French flag ued 20 be hoilted there and there are
| the remains IF che buildings ard works be
feen; and that the bout is about so miles north
wea from Natchitoches; and that there at the
tame time iinlar trading eaablifhment and num-
Der OF feted French families the Ya,ae Point,
the fouth we1 divifion of Red river, about twenty
five leagues above Natchitoches, on what is now cal
led the Bayou Pierre fettlement, which is now under
the juriidaion of Spain, and which place is now,
aud ever has continued to be, occupied by french
inhabitants, and that fune of whom have aneicn.
French grants titles for their lands, and that Mr..
Verge, who lived there for many years befor. Loui
ana was coded to Spain, had the exeuive indian trade
granted him by the French governor of Iouiiaua OF
the rroifcannes, or Tauacauos, the Kevekies, Vat
taes, and evera other tribes that then lived the
river Sabine, and fouthward and weitward of r, in
what is now called the province of Taxus. 20,
Signed, FRANCOIS Grape.
Sworn to before me the 3O,h September, 1905.
Signed, JOHN SIBLEY, l. p.
The iublcriter. being duly f~orn interpreter OF
the French language, doth hereby certify, sat the
foregoing declaration of Francois Grape is truly in
terPreted ard translated.
Signed, JOHN HORN.
/To be ssniisneI.J