White Apple Village Adams Mississippi United States

The villages of the pro-English Natchez faction lie to the northeast, closer to the Chickasaw and English contact, and further from the Mississippi River.

The pro-English villages include White Apple, Jenzenaque, and Grigra.

The Great Sun and Tattooed Serpent leaders live in the Grand Village of the Natchez and are generally friendly toward the French.

When violence breaks out between the Natchez and the French, the village of White Apple is usually the main source of hostility.

French presence and settlement in Natchez territory during the 1710s and 1720s has increased from a handful of traders and missionaries to nearly a thousand settlers (mostly French colonists and enslaved Africans), who cultivate several large tobacco plantations, and maintain the military post of Fort Rosalie.

The Natchez had at first welcomed the French settlers and assigned them land grants.

War breaks out again in 1722 and 1723.

Called the Second and Third Natchez wars by the French, they are essentially two phases of a single conflict.

It had begun in White Apple, where an argument over a debt resulted in a French trader's killing one of the Natchez villagers.

The French commander of Fort Rosalie had reprimanded the murderer.

Unsatisfied with that response, Natchez warriors of White Apple had retaliated by attacking nearby French settlements.

Tattooed Serpent's diplomatic efforts had helped to restore peace, but within a year, Bienville leads a French army into Natchez territory, intent on punishing the warriors of White Apple.

Bienville demands the surrender of a White Apple chief as recompense for the earlier Natchez attacks.

Under pressure from the French and other Natchez villages, White Apple turns the chief over to the French.