Mapmaker and surveyor David Taitt mapped the Mobile-Tensaw Delta for the British government in 1771. The following year he became Superintendent of Indian Affairs to the Creek Indians in what was then British West Florida.

Mapmaker and surveyor David Taitt mapped the Mobile-Tensaw Delta for the British government in 1771. The following year he became Superintendent of Indian Affairs to the Creek Indians in what was then British West Florida.