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Correspondencia dirigida al gobernador de Luisiana, Manuel de Salcedo, por varias autoridades.
Legajo 77. 1801-1802, [1803]. Correspondencia de varias autoridades dirigida al Sr. Salcedo. B, 40 cm., 1900 letters. There are letters in the legajo of the last six months of 1801, all of 1802, and may, july, and aug. of 1803. Most of the legajo is for 1802. The letters for each month are fairly well together, otherwise the legajo is badly disorganized. The legajo is made up of letters directed to Manuel de Salcedo, governor of Luisiana, by his subordinates, together with a few drafts of the replies. The list of persons writing the letters includes: 1801, Miguel Cantrelle, Cabahannocé; José de Hevia, Nueva Orleans; Pedro Marin, Nueva Orleans; Juan Bautista Pellerin, San Marcos de Apalache; and Félix Trudeau, Natchitoches; 1801-1802, Gilberto Andry, Nueva Orleans; Nicolás Daunoy, Nueva Orleans; Carlos Dehault Delassus, San Luis de Ilinois (San Luis) ; Jacobo Dubreuil, San Marcos de Apalache; Pedro Favrot, Placaminas; Pedro de Lafora, Nueva Orleans; Joaquin de Osorno, Mobila; Francisco Rivas, Iberville; Joaquín de la Torre, Nueva Orleans; and Tomás de Villanueva Barroso, Valenzuela; 1801-1803, Pedro Palao, San Juan; 1802, Francisco Caso y Luengo, Arkansas; Luis de Clouet, Costa de Abajo; Rafael Croquer, La Fourche; Tomas Esteban, Galveztown; Barón de Feriet, galera la Luisiana, at Apalache; Vicente Fernández Tejeiro, Ouachita; Vicente Folch, Panzacola; Manuel García, Nueva Orleans; Agustín Grande, Esperanza; Gilberto Guillemard and José Rofiñaco, Nueva Orleans; Tomás Hasset, Nueva Orleans; Pedro de la Ronde, San Bernardo; Bernardo Molina, Nueva Orleans; Juan Maria Perchet, San Marcos de Apalache; Cayetano Pérez, Mobila; Pedro de la Roche, Nueva Orleans; Pedro Rousseau, goleta Santa Catalina, Panzacola; José Vidal, Concordia, and Carlos de Vilemont, San Esteban de Arkansas; and, 1803, Juan Forbes, Panzacola; José Rofiñaco Nueva Orleans ; and Nicolás Maria Vidal, Nueva Orleans. Items of interest: 1801, entrance of Salcedo into governorship; lists of arrivals and departures of vessels at mouths of the Mississippi (Favrot) ; indian relations; and declaration of war against Portugal; 1802, indian relations; Bowles; relations with the United States; church matters (Hassett) ; and copy of oath of allegiance taken at Concordia. Most of the legajo treats of routine affairs