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Correspondencia y documentación oficial de Gobernador de Luisiana, Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga. - Correspondencia de oficio de Bernardo de Gálvez y José de Ezpeleta. - Bandos y documentos varios.]

Legajo 81. 1769-1776, [1780, 1783-1785]. Correspondencia del Sr. Unzaga a varias autoridades. B, 25 cm., 400 documents. There are documents of all the years indicated except 1769. The legajo is unorganized. The chief part is the correspondence of Unzaga with Cruzat, Mézières, and Piernas. The legajo consists of the following series of correspondence:
(a) Letters to Luis de Unzaga, governor of Louisiana, from his subordinates:
1770, 1772, Atanasio de Mézières, Natchitoches; 1771, 1773-1775, Pedro Piernas, San Luis; 1772, José de la Peña, Natchitoches; 1774, José Melchor de Acosta; 1775, Tomás Acosta, Manchak; 1776, Francisco de Cartabona, Sta. Genoveva; and Francisco Cruzat, San Luis. (b) Letters of Luis de Unzaga, Nueva Orleans, to: 1770, 1773, 1774, Atanasio de Mézières; 1772, Antonio José Aguiar; 1773, Fernando Leyba; 1773, 1774, Baltasar de Villiers; 1773, 1776, Martin Navarro; and, 1783, Esteban Miró, Habana (mar.-sept., 16 letters). (c) Letters of José de Ezpeleta, Habana, to: 1780, Bernardo de Gálvez; 1783-1785, Esteban Miró; and 1784, Enrique Grimarest. d) Letters of Enrique Grimarest, Mobila (1780), to Bernardo de Gálvez. Items of interest: 1768, copy of the sentence pronounced against the leaders of the revolt of oct. 29; 1770, reports of Eduardo Nugent and Juan Kelly on the number of inhabitants and live-stock in the districts of Atakapas, Natchitoches, Opelousas, and Rápido; 1775, inventory of the house of father Valentin of San Luis, after his escape to english territory with his slaves; correspondence regarding the conduct of Padre Hilario; remittance of census reports; and indian affairs. The greater part of the legajo deals with the airs of the posts of Natchitoches and San Luis