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Louisiana Historical Center, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans; 4 Giraud, Histoire etc. (1974). The version of this census appearing in C. Maduell, The Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1669 through 1732 at 30 (1972) is misleading and contains erroneous information. 6. 1 Jan., 1726. The population by this time had dropped to only 15 habitants. It included Le Sieur Dufresne and one indian slave. 7. 1727. In this year Father du Poisson estimated the European population at the Arkansas at 30. J. Delanglez, French Jesuits in Lower Louisiana 436 (1935). 8. 1746. In this year there were said to be a dozen white male inhabitants and 10 black slaves at the post. Assuming an average family size of four persons, the total population at this time would have been 58. See Memoire Sur l'Etat de la Colonie de la Louisiana en 1746, ANC, C13A, 30: 242 at 249. 9. 1749. Arkansas Post contained at this time 31 whites 14 slaves, three horses, 29 bulls and steers, 60 cows, and 29 pigs. See Resencement General des habitants, voyageurs, femmes, enfans