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Correspondencia dirigida al Gobernador de Luisiana, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, por los comandantes de los puestos militares.
Legajo 47. 1793-1794. Correspondencia de los comandantes de varios fuertes al Sr. Gayoso. B, 21 cm., 600 letters. The correspondence covers the entire two years. The letters for each year are together, but badly in disorder. The legajo includes the following series of letters:
(a) To Manuel Gayoso de Lemos from: 1793, Manuel García, galera la Verganza; Francisco Godoy, Bayou Pierre; Francisco Gutiérrez de Arroyo, Natchez; Agustín Macarty, Bayou Pierre; J. Poydras, Avoyelles; Antonio Soler, Natchez; 1794, Cristóbal de Armas, Nueva Orleans; Gregorio de la Rosa, Natchez; Juan Bautista Mentzinger, Natchez; Francisco Rivas, Manchak; Pedro Rousseau, Natchez; Zenón Trudeau, San Luis; Carlos de Vilemont, Arkansas; Enrique White, Panzacola; 1793, 1794, Juan Barnó y Ferrusola, Nogales; Elías Beauregard, Nogales; Barón de Carondelet, Nueva Orleans (drafts) ; Ignacio Delinó, Nogales; Carlos de Grand Pré, Natchez; Tomás Portell, Nuevo Madrid; and José Vázquez Vahamonde, Baton Rouge. (b) 1793, Juan Delavillebeuvre, Bukfuka, to Manuel Lanzós; 1794, Francisco Collel, Placaminas, and Antonio de San Maxent, Placaminas, to Barón de Carondelet; and Jerónimo Yébenes, Panzacola, to Manuel Lanzós. The most extensive series is that of Beauregard to Gayoso de Lemos. Important items: 1793 amd 1794, lists of persons, and cargoes of boats, arriving at Nogales from Kentucky and other points up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers (many); 1794, voyage and murder of Owen; M. Mitchell; indian affairs; and transfer of almacenes at Nogales to Miguel Morales by Ignacio Delinó. Mostly routine matters of small interest