¹Choctaw Indians.

²Chevalier de Verbois.

³Ymatahatchitou was known to the English as Red Shoe.

⁴The Mobilians, a branch of the Choctaw tribe, dwelt in the Indian town of Mobile at the head of Mobile Bay.

⁵De Beauchamps owned and resided on Twenty-One Mile Bluff, the first highland above the French town of Mobile.

⁶Chickasaw Indians.

⁷There was a Choctaw town of Yowani on the Chickasawhay River near the north border of Wayne County, Mississippi.

⁸De Louboey (Lubois) seems to have been in command of Fort Condé at Mobile.

⁹Michel Baudouin, for eighteen years a missionary to the Choctaws.

¹⁰The Tohomes, or Thomez, Indians - who spoke the Choctaw dialect and were closely associated with the Mobilians - had a settlement on the west bank of the Tombigbee, a few miles above the Indian town of Mobile.

¹¹Jean Baptiste Lemoyne, Sieur de Bienville, who in conjunction with his brother, Pierre Lemoyne, Sieur d'Iberville, founded Mobile.

¹²Fort Louis.

¹³Sieur Lemoyne de Chateaugué, a brother of Bienville.

¹⁴Diron d'Artaguiette, author of the second journal of this volume, and at one time commandant of Fort Condé.

¹⁵The Couchas or Conchas were Choctaws inhabiting the town of Coucha or Concha in the northeast district of the Choctaw country.

¹⁶Fort Tombecbé, on the west bank of the Tombigbee River about twenty miles above its confluence with the Black Warrior.

¹⁷Le Sueur, commandant of Fort Toulouse.

¹⁸Upper Creek Indians inhabiting the region of the Coosa River above Hatchet Creek.

¹⁹There is doubt as to the identity of these Indians but it seems likely that they were Upper Creeks inhabiting the town of Pakan-Tallahassee on Hatchet Creek about eighteen miles from its junction with the Coosa.

²⁰The Tallapoosas were Upper Creeks inhabiting the region of the Tallapoosa River.

²¹The Alibamas inhabited the region at and below the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa.

²²Wabash.

²³Shawnee.

²⁴Kawitas, Lower Creeks inhabiting the town of Kawita on the Chattahoochee River.

²⁵Kasihtas, Lower Creeks inhabiting the town of Kasihta on the Chattahoochee River a little below Kawita.

²⁶The principal town of this name - a Choctaw town - was on the site still known as Yazoo Old Town in Neshoba County, Mississippi. There was another town of the same name farther east.

²⁷There was a Choctaw town of Oony on a branch of the upper Chickasawhay River in what is now Newton County, Mississippi.

²⁸These six villages were in the region of the upper waters of Chickasawhay River, within the limits of the present Newton and Jasper counties, Mississippi.

²⁹Ayanabi, a Choctaw town about one hundred miles west of Fort Tombechbé.

³⁰Abéka or Abihka Indians inhabiting the town of Abikudshi on Tallassee Creek, about five miles from its junction with the Coosa River.

³¹A Choctaw town about three miles southwest of the old Choctaw town of Yazoo.

³²A Choctaw town on one of the head streams of Pearl River.

³³The Koasati, Alabamas inhabiting a village near the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers.

³⁴A kind of French cloth much in demand among the Indians.

³⁵Chevalier de Bertel or Bertet was commandant in the Illinois country in 1742-1749.

³⁶Ymatahatchitou, or Red Shoe, was not killed until the summer of 1748 after the more influential chiefs of the nation had decided that he should be sacrificed as a means of restoring peace between the warring factions, and even then his death was of no avail, for the English by means of bribes had a younger brother placed at the head of their faction and the war was continued.

³⁷Chunkey, a Choctaw town in the neighborhood of the "Six Villages."

³⁸Fausser la route.

Source: Travels in the American Colonies