The Natchitoches enterprise., 1914-02-05
they differed in no essential of custom,
or of ceremonial or social organization. ,"
Bureau Of American Ethn0iogy--BCiletIn
43. indian Tribes of the Lower
MisSissippi Valley.

43. indian Tribes of the Lower
Mississippi Valley.
See account of Natchitoches and Acoapissa,
F. IS POI, 2s3, 2S3 2o4
Page 1868:
SIN TIA st. Denis. was sent to Texas
to examine the Spanish settlements in
that quarter, and in order to aid him
in the undertaking, Penicaut was sent
to the Acolapissa to bring back the
Natchitoches and re-estabish them in
their former seat"
A History of Louisiana (1904) four vol
umeS.
By Prof. AIcee FOrtier.
Vol. l, page 81.
"The Governor, Cadillac sent ioomy
reports about everything in the settle
ment, and had visions of mineral
wealth continually before his eyes.
Nothing of great Importance occurred
during his administration, except the
first Natchez war in 1716. We may
mention, however, the expedition of
st Denis to Mexico in TIA and ZIG,
during which he founded Natchitoches
in IT'S.
The adventures of Juchereau de St.
Denis were wonderful; but that officer
was, nevertheless, brave and capable
man who rendered great services to the
colony"
'The colony, at that time, March
I717, contained 700 souls Of all ages,
sexes, colors.' "The settlements, "
says Monette, increased slowly, and
were confined chiefly to the river and
bay of Mobile, and other parts Of the
coast from Biloxi. Two small settle
ments had been commenced on Red
River, near Natchitoches and at Alez-
andria." Several small forts had been
creased.
Charles Gayane's History of Louisiana
Four Volumes
The French Domination.
Vol. l. page 165.
In August, 1716, short time be-
fore the recall of Cadallac, there had
returned to Mobile young man named
st. Denis, who was relation of Bien-
vile, and whom two years before Cad
lilac had sent to Natchitoches to oppose
the Spaniards in an establishment
which it was reported they intended to
make in that part Of the country"
When ST. Denis arrived at the village
of the Natchitoches, hearing no tidings
of the supposed expedition of the Span
iards, he left there a few Canadians,
whom he ordered to form settlement.
Bulletin of the University of Texas
Dec. I. 1907
The Beginning of Texas, 1684-1718
BY Robert Carlton Clark.
" It was probable in the latter part
of September 1913 that Saint Denis
set out for Mobile, with his men and
and goods, in five canoes. At Fort St.
John, Biloxi, they halted, while Peni-
caut, our historian, with several other
men, proceeded up the Mississippi 20
secure for guides some Natchitoches
Indians who lived with a tribe on the
eastern side of the river. They were
detained at Biloxi several months, on
account of the difficulties with the In
dians, and it is probable that the jour-
ney was not resumed until the follow
ing year.
At the village of the Tonicas, two
leagues above the mouth of the Red
River, the company halted again to col
lect provisions, and to induce the chief
of the Tonicas and several of his men
to accompany the party on the journey
west"
"From this point they propelled their
canoes go leagues up the river to vii
Iage of the Natchitoches.
:'Here they built store houses where
in to store their merchandise, and leav-
ing guard of ten men to protect the
new post, with an additional contingent
of 80 Natchitoches, they proceeded to
the village of the Asinais, where the
Spanish formerly had mission
La Harpe, in an extract from his
journal, Margry 6, 1913, says that Saint
Denis set out from Mobile Angus %,
TIA The patente is dated Sept. IL,
1713. Penicaut has the expedition be-
gin soon after the arrival of Cadallic at
Mobile. Saint Denis in his Declare ton
dated June %, 1715, does not give the
date of his departure. but says that he
set out from Mobile about a y ar and
nine months before, 1t seems proba-
BILE that lie left Mobile in September
IT'S, the detention at Biloxi preventing
real departure until some time in the
early months of TIA. This view is sus-
tanned by the fact that he stopped six
months or more among the TEXAS In
dams, and reached the Rio Grande be-
fore February Is, IT'S.
Louisiana. A Record of Expansion
American Commonwealth Series
Arson PheIps--19O5
Page 81.
EST. Denis had been sent by Cadillac
in TIA to take possession of the Match
itoches country, in order to anticipate
a rumored Spanish advance in that d.
rection and to establish, if possible, a
contraband trade with Mexico by the
Overland route through Texas; but west
of the bay of Biloxi. the French had at
this time only one establishment, the