TRUDEAU FAMILY OF D.I. http://www.themosttraveled.com/Trudeau-Burel_Line.pdf

 FOUNDING OF NEW ORLEANS 
 Jonathas Darby in his 1719 account states that the initial settlement party “arrived with six vessels, loaded with provisions and men. These were thirty workmen, all convicts; six carpenters and four Canadians. M. de Bienville cut the first cane, MM. Pradel and Dreux the second, and tried to open a passage through the dense canebrake from the river to the place where the barracks were to be.” 

Capt. James B. Wilkinson, son of Maj. Gen. James Wilkinson and Toulmin’s son-in-law, died on Dauphin Island on 7 Sept. 1813 (Thomas Robson Hay, “Some Reflections on the Career of General James Wilkinson,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 21 [1934–35]: 475–76 n. 5; Carter, Territorial Papers, Mississippi, 6:438).

HISTORY OF GULF COAST INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY https://books.google.com/books?id=KQo0IpPC-K0C&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=%22grants+pass%22+alabama+%22john+grant%22&source=bl&ots=WYW5vD0JC8&sig=xNkxttMUURJB9_J5KgaThZG4fIk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZyeC6rZjLAhVC6CYKHR8zBv8Q6AEIIzAD#v=onepage&q=%22grants%20pass%22%20alabama%20%22john%20grant%22&f=false



HISTORY OF THE WATER SUPPLY OF THE MOBILE AREA http://www2.gsa.state.al.us/gsa/water/publications/selected_publications/C92/C92.p

Previous improvements and present condition. — From 1828 to 1830 a channel known m Pass aux Herons was partially dredged by the Government through the shoal tetween Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay. (See Annual Report of Chief of Engi- leers for 1884, page 1227). No further attempt has been made by the United States

The history of Grants Pass is briefly as follows: Under date of Jebruary 2, 1839, the general assembly of the State of Alabama passed an act to authorize John Grant to cut or excavate a channel or canal through the shoal or shell reef obstructing the inland navi gation between Dauphin Island and Cedar Point, in the county of Mobile. This act provided, among other things, that for and during the space of twenty-five years the said Grant should have and enjoy the exclusive right and privilege of constructing a channel or canal for the passage of steamboats or other vessels through the shoal or shell leef above referred to. Said act also authorized John Grant to charge and receive trom all such boats or vessels as may go in or out of said channel a toll or tonnage duty at a rate not to exceed 15 cents for each ton of the registered measurements of such boat or vessel. A copy of the act of February 2, 1839, accompanies this report (Exhibit C), and was furnished through the courtesy of Mr. Harry Pillans, of Pillans, Hanaw & Pillans, Mobile, Ala. The exclusive right to construct a channel through the shoal or shell reef in question expired by limitation February 2, 1864. The right to collect toll was called into question during the year 1865, while the locality was under military jurisdiction. Copies of military orders bearing on the matter (Exhibit D) accompany this report. Final action in the matter by the military authorities seems to be indicated in Special Orders, No. 83, Headquarters Department of Alabama, Mobile, Ala., October 23, 1865, in which, by authority of the Secretary of War, with the approval of the President, Mr. John Grant was reinstated in the possession of Grants Pass and in all the rights and privileges conferred on him in reference thereto by an act of the legislature of Alabama passed in 1839, subject to certain