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Correspondencia dirigida al Gobernador de Luisiana desde varios puestos militares. Correspondencia varia

Legajo 209. 1794, [1777, 1778, 1790, 1792, 1795-1797, 1799]. Correspondencia nacional y extranjera entre los gobernadores de las Floridas y varias autoridades extranjeras. B, 24 cm., 500 documents. The legajo is really of the year 1794, all the months being represented. There are very few documents for the other years noted. The legajo is badly in disorder. Most of the documentation is in french. The legajo contains the following series of correspondence:
(a) Letters to Barón de Carondelet, governor of Luisiana, from Elías Beauregard, Nogales; Anselmo Blanchard, Nueva Feliciana; Miguel Cantrelle, Cabahannocer; Augusto Chouteau, San Luis; Esteban de Lamorandier, Avoyelles; Luis de Milford, Cloaly; Martín Duralde, Attakapas; Juan Filhiol, Fuerte Miró; Nicolás Forstall, Opelousas; Carlos Howard, San Luis (1797); Luis Judice, La Fourche; Valentin Layssard, Rápido; Tomás Portell, Nuevo Madrid; Zenón Trudeau, San Luis; Nicolás Verret, La Fourche; and de Villiers, nación Creek. (b) Drafts of letters of Carondelet to Blanchard, Cantrelle, de Lamorandier, de Milford, Duralde, Forstall, Howard, Layssard, Portell, Trudeau, Verret, and Villiers. (c) Letter-book of Francisco de Vallée, Santa Genoveva, to Luis Lorimier, cabo Girardeau; Tomás Portell, Nuevo Madrid; Zenón Trudeau, San Luis (71 pp., incomplete). (d) Letters to Nicolás de Verbois from Anselmo Blanchard, Nueva Feliciana; Barón de Carondelet, Nueva Orleans; Marcos de Villiers, Galveztown; Nicolás Forstall, Opelousas; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez; Luis Judice, La Fourche; Francisco Rendón, Nueva Orleans; Francisco Rivas, Manchak; Manuel Serrano, Nueva Orleans; José Vázquez Vahamonde, Baton Rouge; and Nicolás Verret, La Fourche (the foregoing are fastened together in the form of a book, and cover jan., 1792-oct., 1794). (e) Letters of Benjamin Fooy to Gayoso de Lemos; Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Fooy; Gayoso de Lemos to Ugulayacabe; Ml. Lacassagne, Louisville; Augusto Lachaise, Danville, Ky., to M. Latour; Lavergne, Charleston and Nueva York, to Mme. Lavergne; Lavergne to Barón de Carondelet; Luis de Milford, Cloaly to Enrique White; Pedro Rousseau, galera la Venganza, to Gayoso de Lemos; Juan Turnbull to Gayoso de Lemos; and Francisco Vallée, Santa Genoveva, to Lorimier. Items of interest: Petitions of individuals who suffered losses in the fire of mar. 21, 1788, asking to be included in list of persons receiving aid; notices regarding the indian congress at Picolata (Florida Oriental, nov. 16-18) ; contracts for furnishing meat to the army; indian affairs; and edict of Juan Ventura Morales regarding land grants (july 17, 1799)

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