[279] See Hinsdale, _The Old Northwest_, etc., revised edition, p. 347; Monette, _op. cit._, pp. 199–200; _Wisconsin Historical Society Collections_, 1856, iii, pp. 256 _et seq._ [280] Cramoisy, _Journal de la Guerre du Micissippi contre les Chicachas_, p. 53. [281] _Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings_, xlvi, p. 141. [282] Bienville ordered one of the Indian prisoners, who had assisted in the murder of St. Cosmé, to be placed on a wooden horse, and his brains to be beaten out with a club. His scalp was then cut off, and his body thrown into the river. [283] Parkman, _The Pioneers of France in the New World_, pp. 217, 244. [284] Lescarbot, _op. cit._, iii, p. 612; Parkman, _The Pioneers of France in the New World_, p. 279; Marshall, _op. cit._, p. 127. [285] The following records are from a transcript in the library of Tulane University. 1724, Feb. 4, est né un fils d’une esclave Indienne appt—le père est inconnu. (p. 26). 1724, May 2—autre fois esclave de la nation des Panis marié avec Francarte de la nation de Chat—(p. 33). 1728, Sept. 13—ai inhumé dans la cimetière de cette paroisse—le corps de sauvagesse apport à—(p. 280). 1729, Feb. 26—ai baptisé—sauvage appt. à M. Roquet, (p. 371). 1729, June 20—ai baptisé—sauvage appt. à M. Villevalle (p. 389). 1730, Janvier 30—ai inhumé dans la cimetière de cette paroisse avec les ceremonies ordinaires de l’église, le corps de Jean Baptise, sauvage, age de deux ans, appt. à M. de Ste. Cheuse (p. 424). au fay de quoy j’ai signé, Fr. Hyacueltre. [286] Tanguay, _A Travers les Registres_, pp. 88, 111, 157 (instances cited). [287] _Jesuit Relations_, lxx, p. 232. [288] Dunn, _Indiana_, p. 127. _Parkman Club Papers_, p. 210, gives an account of the marriage of two Indian slaves in 1754. About 1750 half the baptisms and marriages recorded in the church register of Vincennes were “red or Indian slaves,” belonging to the commandant or to the inhabitants. Law, _The General History of Vincennes_, etc., p. 145. [289] This register is now kept in the Mobile cathedral under the care of the Bishop of Mobile. It was presented for examination through the kindness of Father Hacket. [290] Margry, _op. cit._, iii, p. 66; Godwyn, _The Negro and Indian’s Advocate_, etc., p. 30. When arrangements for an expedition to New Biscay were being made, a memorial on America, February, 1684, called attention to this state of affairs, and urged the king to enforce it in order to attract to the side of the French the numerous negro, Indian and mulatto slaves of that country. Margry, _op. cit._, iii, p. 66. [291] Fortier, _A History of Louisiana_, i, p. 87. [292] _Archives Nationales, Colonies_, C. 13, _Louisiane, Correspondance Générale_, 1673–1706, i, p. 168. [293] French, _Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida_, new series, i, p. 99; Pickett, _History of Alabama_, etc., p. 179. [294] Martin, _The History of Louisiana from the Earliest Period_, i, p. 173.