-----Original Message----- From: Marcia Lee [mailto:mlee@uwf.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 7:57 AM To: 'CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootaweb.com' Subject: Choquopoulou, Mississippi Good morning all, I think I've found it (Choquopoulou, MS)! In a book by S.G. (Grady) Thigpen called "Next Door to Heaven" about Hancock/Pearl River Cos. in MS there is a piece entitled "Achoucoupoulousians" . It has to do with a couple of the largest land claims in south MS. In April of 1783 Louis Boisdore asked Governor Miro for a land grant for Achoucoupoulous in the vicinity of what is now Bay St. Louis, MS. The description was as follows: running from the Philip Saucier plantation on the east up to the Bayou Mosquito Village, formerly inhabited, & running down the length of the Pearl River on the west. The application was approved 26 April 1783. Boisdore said he wanted raise cattle there. In 1808 Boisdore died & his widow tried to get the land surveyed but the surveyor never got it done. The Boidore heirs held onto the land claim. This land was a fifteen mile wide strip running north from the Gulf of Mexico for about forty miles to the 31 degree latitude which runs through Lumberton, MS. With the eastern boundary running through Bay St..Louis, MS, and the western boundary running north from Pearlington, MS to the east of Picayuane, MS. The case of the claim was argued through the MS State Supreme Court & in 1850 it reached the US Supreme Court where it was denied. Nowhere does it say the name was Choctaw or what it meant. Hope this helps, John. Marcie