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|Toney's passage from Africa to America on a slave ship| The men
and women who settled Natchez country in the late 1700s traveled
here from distant places. The last European governor of Spanish
Natchez, Manuel Gayoso, was a passenger on a Spanish vessel that
sailed the Atlantic before being blown off course in a hurricane
for nine days in the Gulf of Mexico. After arriving in New
Orleans, Gayoso was later transported to Natchez in 1789 on a
galley propelled against the Mighty Mississippi current by
oarsmen. Many American-born British loyalists first settled
Natchez in the 1770s, almost a half century after the Natchez
massacred the French and fled westward never to return. These
families arrived on flatboats, having followed downstream
currents of the Ohio to