THE RE-GRANTING OF BRITISH TITLE TO DAUPHIN ISLAND BY THE SPANISH IN 1783

page 263 of HAMILTON'S COLONIAL MOBILE

The first grant near the city was December 18, 1781, to 
Pierre Juzan, his Majesty's commissary for the Indians in the 
Town of Mobile, upon his petition for a tract one league in 
extent on both sides of the river, formerly possessed in British 
times by Henry Lizard and Thomas McGillivray. It is said 
to be bounded on one side by Bayou Cannon and on the other 
by Laprade's Bluff, and thus easily recognized as our Twenty- 
one Mile Bluff. Juzan says that he has no land, and in conse- 
quence of severe losses he desires to go to stock-raising on his 
river tract. 

This is the first instance in these records of re-granting what 
had been British property. The Versailles treaty of peace of 
September 3, 1783, was to allow eighteen months for British 
subjects to sell and leave, and the time was extended six months 
longer ; but this treaty was not yet concluded. While West 
Florida was Spanish in fact, the war continued elsewhere until 
that treaty recognized the independence of the United States, 
and at the same time confirmed East and West Florida to 
Spain. 

The most prominent re-grant was that by Governor Grima- 
rest of Dauphine Island to Joseph Moro, the origin, in fact, of 
the existing title to that historic spot. Moro's petition of July 
31, 1781, is dated at New Orleans, and says that he is an in- 
habitant of that city. Galvez the next day directs Grimarest 
to investigate the matter, and if the land is vacant to put Moro 
into possession and return the proceedings made out "in con- 
tinuation " with the commission, — a substitute for the endorse- 
ments on original papers by officials in our practice. Septem- 
ber 21 of the same year there was a report by Charles Parent, 
Orbano Demouy, Dubroea, and Louis Carriere, who had been 
called on for evidence. 

For some reason the matter was held up over two years, until 
-1 2 White's New Recopilacion, p. 338. 



after peace was declared; for Grimarest's concession to Moro 
bears date December 5, 1783, after J. B. Lamy had made a 
settlement in the centre of the island. In 1785 we find the 
king maintaining there a pilot and four sailors at an expense 
of $696.00.1 

SUMMARY OF GALVEZ' FIRST BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY, JAN.-MARCH 1780

https://books.google.com/books?id=DkgGVTOr2EsC&pg=PA499&lpg=PA499&dq=FEBRUARY+9,+1780+GALVEZ+MOBILE+BAY&source=bl&ots=mw7Kd29C6t&sig=bv7pLaGLTZ0SyWFdHwHDEF2UENs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBGoVChMI-4f0hNzExwIVxHU-Ch0AmwdN#v=onepage&q=FEBRUARY%209%2C%201780%20GALVEZ%20MOBILE%20BAY&f=false

DESCRIPTION OF BATTLE OF FORT CHARLOTTE https://books.google.com/books?id=Fdta5aZmfJIC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=FEBRUARY+9,+1780+GALVEZ+MOBILE+BAY&source=bl&ots=s4_ZXfx7VB&sig=5nfG0aGqBGFnJ9EUFpIVDpH11pQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBWoVChMI-4f0hNzExwIVxHU-Ch0AmwdN#v=onepage&q=FEBRUARY%209%2C%201780%20GALVEZ%20MOBILE%20BAY&f=false

VOLANTE RUN AGROUND FEBRUARY 10, 1780 https://books.google.com/books?id=AXP-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA476&lpg=PA476&dq=volante+battery+1780&source=bl&ots=fVY_HcN3Qs&sig=rq7KpCgNyv8_Zty81bXYNub1OFQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwADgKahUKEwjTlcXs58THAhVKXD4KHQIDB68#v=onepage&q=volante%20battery%201780&f=false

El Volante El Volante.

ND9:930, ND10:717, 718, Spanish Navy frigate, 15 Sep 1777 and later at New Orleans.A2:VI:49, 1776, A2:VII:35, and many others, 1777, and A2:VII:10, 69, c 1778. Beerman:82-85, in Jan 1780, it took part in the Battle for Mobile.http://www.awiatsea.com/Other/Hough%20List%20V.html

declaration of war with britain http://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1614&context=luc_theses