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Correspondencia del gobernador de Natchez, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos.

Legajo 41. 1789-1792. Correspondencia del Sr. Gayoso al Barón de Carondelet. B, 19 cm., 350 letters. There are no letters for 1789, and some months of the remaining years are missing. The legajo is in disorder. The legajo comprises the letters of Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, governor of Natchez, to Elias Beauregard, Barón de Carondelet (1792), Martín Ibañez (drafts), Valentin Leblanc, and Esteban Miró (1790-1791). Also Governor of Luisiana to Pedro Foucher (drafts). The bulk of the letters are those to Carondelet and Miró. There is an index. Important items: Boats arriving at Natchez from United States-lists of crews, with indication of those who settled and those who returned, cargoes; recommendation of Stonahuma for grand medal; suspension of O?Fallon?s project; relations choctaws; petition of inhabitants of Cole?s Creek requesting that new town be named in honor of Gayoso de Lemos, and permission to call the town Villa Gayoso granted by Carondelet; petition of sons of Tomás Green requesting that their father be permitted to move from Nueva Orleans to Baton Rouge (1792) ; lists of persons included in the militia companies formed at Natchez (1792) ; and broadside directed 'to the inhabitants of the United States West of the Alleghany and Apalachian mountains??, signed by John Breckinridge (dec. 13, 1793). Especially important for immigration to Natchez from the United States