[41] He retained his English citizenship until Natchez passed into the possession of the United States, when he took the oath of allegiance to this government.
[42] Sixteen letters from Gayoso to Dunbar are now in the possession of Mrs. George T. Green, of Natchez, Miss.
[43] March 9, 1787.
[44] Letter written at New Orleans, Dec. 20, 1797.
[45] Letter written at New Orleans, May 12, 1798.
[46] This was the limit of the cultivated lands at that time.
[47] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. V., 216, Footnote.
[48] They separated ten miles east of the point of starting.
[49] Manuscript copy of Dunbar's Report, presented to the writer by Major William Dunbar Jenkins, of Natchez, Miss.
[50] Transactions of the Amer. Phil. Soc. V., 203.