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Autos, diligencias, informaciones sobre causas, en su mayoría militares.
Legajo 166. 1803-1814, [1783, 1793, 1794, 1797-1802, 1817, 1818]. Causas militares. A, 18 cm., 50 documents. The legajo is made up of the following expedientes, formed at various points in Luisiana and Florida Occidental in criminal cases, mainly against soldiers and officials. The documents are not in chronological order. (a) 1783, 1793, 1797-1802, 1804, 1805, 1809, 1811, 1813, 1814, 1817, 1818.Forty-six expedientes, formed in equal number of criminal cases, all of which are of minor interest. (b) The following four documents of especial interest are also present:
(1) 1794. Florida. Criminal case against Juan Maclntosh, Ricardo Lang, Juan Pedro Wagnon, Guillermo Jones, and Guillermo Plowden, for complicity with the americans and french in the projected attack on Luisiana and the Floridas. spanish and english. 265 + 17 ff. (2) 1804, nov. 10. Habana. Defensa del capitán D. Tomás Portell, comandante que fué del fuerte de San Marcos de Apalache. Su procurador el capitán del regimiento de infantería de la Habana D. Jaime Garciny. 73 pp. For surrender of San Marcos to William A. Bowles. (3) 1804, nov. 24. Habana. Defensa que hace el Subteniente D. Gabriel Mª O-Ryan en favor del teniente D. Bartolomé Pellerín, juzgado por la entrega del fuerte San Marcos de Apalache a los indios Maskoques y caudillo de éstos Guillermo Augusto Bowles. 42 pp. (4) 1805, sept. 6. Habana. Defensa del teniente del ejército D. Juan Bautista Metzinger pronunciada por Dn. Manuel Zequiera. 14 ff. For his part in surrender of San Marcos to Bowles in 1800