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 (14773961674)

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Title: 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
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hamilton, Peter J. (Peter Joseph), 1859-1927
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Hougthon Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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0 COLONIAL MOBILE. same extent of territory down the rivers that they had in earlydays, when the Alibamons kept the Spaniards confined to thepalisades of Pensacola.^ The wording of the Pensacola treaty of1765 was not entirely clear. Certain it is that the Council ofWest Florida made grants even on the lower Alabama, probablyabout modern Tensaw, and that the Indians opposed aU suchsettlements. The Choctaw treaty at Mobile was confirmed by a subse-quent congress in 1772, and within its broad limits there weresoon many settlers; while, on the other hand, the Creek treatyat Pensacola led to little immigration. They were both impor-tant, however, in creating friendly relations between the incom-ing British and Indians who had so long been the allies of theFrench. There were to be Indian wars, but they were to bebetween the Indian tribes, and never in British times betweenthe Indians and the whites. The Teutons had established a Koman Peace. * As Bienville reported to Pontchartrain in 1709.
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