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Correspondencia dirigida al Gobernador de Luisiana desde los diversos puestos. Correspondencia varia.
Legajo 208. 1793, [1773, 1780, 1788, 1789, 1792, 1794-1797, 1800, 1804, 1816]. Correspondencia nacional y extranjera entre los gobernadores de la Floridas y varias autoridades extranjeras. B, 36 cm., 900 documents. The legajo covers the year 1793, with only a few odd documents for the other years noted. The documentation is badly in disorder. Most of the documents are in french, with a few in english and spanish. The legajo contains the following series of correspondence:
(a) Letters to Barón de Carondelet, governor of Luisiana, from Francisco Allain, Punta Cortada; Manuel Andry, Alemanes; Domingo de Assereta, Galveztown and Avoyelles; Juan Bautista Darby, Nueva Iberia; Juan Delavillebeuvre, Boukfouka; Luis de Milford, Cloali and Tuquebachet; Guillermo Duparc, Punta Cortada; Juan Filhiol, Fuerte Miró; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez; Grisey, Avoyelles; Evan Jones, Nueva Orleans; Luis Judice, La Fourche; Esteban de Lamorandier, Avoyelles; Le Bretton d´Orgenoy, Chapitoulas; John McDonald, Cherokees; Santiago Masicot, Alemanes; Enrique Peyroux, Nuevo Madrid and Santa Genoveva; J. Poydras, Avoyelles; and Zenón Trudeau, San Luis. (b) Drafts of letters of Carondelet to Allain, Assereta, Darby, de Milford, Duparc, Filhiol, Grisey, Judice, and Masicot. (c) Letters of Elias Beauregard, Nogales, to Gayoso de Lemos; Juan Dela villebeuvre, Boukfouka, to Gayoso de Lemos, and to Manuel Lanzós (1792); Luis de Milford, Tuquebachet, to Enrique White (also 1794); M. Mitchell, Natchez, to Gayoso de Lemos; Nicolás Forstall, Opelousas, to Esteban Miró (1789, with drafts of replies); Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to chiefs of the Chickasaws and Choctaws; and Baltasar de Villiers, Natchitoches, to Luis de Unzaga (1773, with drafts of replies). Subjects treated: General routine affairs of the various posts, and especially indian affairs; relations with the Creeks, Chickasaws, and Choctaws. Special items: Plan of La Fourche; instructions for the establishment of the post at Escores de Margot [Écores à Margot]; sketch of life of M. Mitchell by himself; expulsion of french residents, their protests, and certificates of good character signed by other residents; 'A royal invitation to the industrious´´, being a statement of inducements offered by Spain to settlers in Luisiana; census of Nueva Feliciana; copy of 'Le Radoteur of Philadelphia' for july 16; declaration by Carondelet of the advantages offered to german, flemish, and irish settlers in Luisiana; and 'Journal des voyages de L´Amerique Septentrionale en 1793´´, being a diary of a voyage down the Ohio from Pittsburg (dec. 11, 1793-feb. 1, 1794)

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