Alcance y Contenido:

Correspondencia dirigida a los gobernadores de Luisiana (en su mayoría a Esteban Miró) desde diversos puestos militares.

Legajo 204. 1791, [1767, 1770, 1778, 1792, 1797]. Correspondencia nacional y extranjera entre los gobernadores de las Floridas y varias autoridades extranjeras. C, 26 cm., 500 documents. Most of this legajo is of 1791, covering all the months of the year. There are only a very few documents for the other years indicated. The legajo is badly in disorder. Most of the papers are in french. The legajo contains the following series of correspondence: (a) Letters to governor Esteban Miró, together with the drafts of his replies, from his supordinates, Anselmo Blanchard, Nueva Feliciana; Miguel Cantrelle, Cabahannocer; Juan Bautista Darby, Nueva Iberia; Louis Declouet, Attakapas; Juan Delavillebeuvre, Attakapas; Nicolás de Verbois, Iberville; Luis de Villars, Opelousas; Juan Filhiol, Ouachita; Nicolás Forstall, Opelousas; Luis Judice, La Fourcha; Valentin Layssard, Rápido; Santiago Masicot, Alemanes; Mauricio O?Conor, 2ª costa de Allemanes; Enrique Peyroux, Santa Genoveva; Miguel Saint Armand, Alemanes; Noel Soileau, Avoyelles; Nicolás Verret, La Fourcha; and James Wilkinson, Frankfurt. (b) Letters of Alejandro McGillivray, Pequeño Talassie, to Vicente Folch, Esteban Miró, Arturo O?Neill, Barón de Carondelet (1792), and William Panton (1792). (c) Letters of: 1778, Pedro Chester, Panzacola, to Bernardo de Gálvez; Juan Delavillebeuvre, Manchak, to Bernardo de Gálvez; 1791, Elias Beauregard, Nogales, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; William Blount, territory of the United States south of the Ohio, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Luis Favrot (drafts); William Panton, Panzacola, to Arturo O?Neill; 1792, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to various indian chiefs; 1797, Carlos Dehault Delassus, Nueva Bourbon, to Barón de Carondelet; and Francisco Vallé, Santa Genoveva, to Gayoso de Lemos. Subjects treated: indian affairs; Bowles agitation; and relations with the United States. Special items: 1767 (?), memoir of Honoré Laugier regarding the education of young creoles, which was presented to governor Ulloa; 1770, inventory of documents delivered by O?Reilly to Unzaga (feb. 22) ; 1791, 'Réglement concernant la police générale; l?entretien des ponts, chemins et levées; et la police des esclaves; à l?usage des commandants des postes et côtes, ainsi que des sindics de la province de la Luisiane??; Plan de Fort Miró au Oüachita; Indice de varios documentos desde 1721 á 1751, by Miró (dec. 30) ; investigation made by Louis Declouet of complaints made against Juan Delavillebeuvre at Attakapas; fifty-six original lists of debts due to an equal number of individuals at Natchez, which were presented to the governor (feb.); 1792, census of post of Arkansas for 1791, by Ignacio Delinó; and, 1797, proclamation of Gayoso de Lemos for the purpose of establishing the peace of the Natchez district