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Correspondencia del Gobernador de Luisiana y Florida Occidental, Esteban Miró.
Legajo 117. 1784-1786, [1787, 1788, 1800, 1805, 1806]. Correspondencia al Gobernador de la Luisiana. B, 46 cm., 1200 letters. Most of the letters are of the years 1784-1786, with a number of 1781-1783. Items were also noted for the years 1787, 1788, 1800, 1805, and 1806. The legajo is unorganized. The legajo contains the following series of correspondence:
(a) Drafts of Esteban Miró, governor of Luisiana, to his subordinates, Ignacio Balderas, Francisco Bouligny, Michel Cantrelle, Francisco Cruzat, Luis Declouet, Jacobo Dubreuil, Jean Filhiol, Enrique Grimarest, Antonio Maxent, Martín Navarro, Jacinto Panis, José Petely, Francisco Rivas, and Pedro Rousseau. (b) Letters, with drafts of replies, to Esteban Miró, from Francisco Deverges, Baton Rouge, and Maximiliano de San Maxent (Galveztown). (c) Letters of Ignacio Balderas to Esteban Miró; Francisco Bouligny, Nueva Orleans, to Jacobo Dubreuil; Marqués de Camacho, Habana, to Enrique Grimarest; Francisco Collell, Nueva Orleans, to Jacobo Dubreuil; Francisco Cruzat, San Luis, to Antonio de Oro; Jacob Nash, to Francisco Deverges; Martin Navarro, Nueva Orleans, to Nicolás de Verbois; Antonio de Oro, Santa. Genoveva, to Esteban Miró; José Petely, Baliza, to Francisco Bouligny; Nicolás de Verbois, Iberville, to Esteban Miró; and Enrique White, Nueva Orleans, to Jacobo Dubreuil. Important items: 1783, census of Bahia Honda; 1783, nov., 1784, june, 1785, june, dec., 1786, june, inventories of arms and ammunition at Panzacola; 1784 (?), census of the German Coast; 1784, tariff settled for the trade with the Creek nation; licenses to trade with indians granted by Miró; 'Diario de Villebeuvre en su viage a Galveztown¿¿ (apr.) ; letters treating of the treaty of peace with England; cédulas and royal orders providing for reduction of import duty on slaves, prohibition of marking slaves, manner of filling vacancies in the office of chaplain, and method of writing letters; 1785, mission of Tomás Green at Natchez; lists of persons arriving at Baliza from Guarico; 'Relación de entradas y salidas de embarcaciones en las Pasas del Misisipi ¿¿, by Petely; royal order regarding the use of the national banner; indian affairs; recommendations of the governor on various petitions; index of letters of the acting governor of Luisiana to Gálvez, regarding the Bourbon County affair; and a proclamation of Piernas regarding commerce

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