On 17 Oct. James Wilkinson had signed a convention with the Choctaw Indians agreeing to mark and establish the boundary line between the Choctaw Nation and the U.S. (
2To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 14 May 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...takeover on 15 Apr. of the post and district of Ouachitas, along with the archives and public papers. Bowmar estimated the population of the district at 150 heads of families and noted that a village of about one hundred Choctaw Indians was located “eight or nine leagues from this place.”