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Correspondencia dirigida al Gobernador de Luisiana desde diversos puestos militares. Correspondencia varia.
Legajo 211. 1795, [1788, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1796, 1797]. Correspondencia nacional y extranjera de los gobernadores de las Floridas y varias autoridades extranjeras. B, 37 cm., 800 documents. Most of the legajo is of the months of mar. to dec., inclusive, of the year 1795. There are only a very few documents for the other years noted. The documentation is disorganized. Most of it is in french. The legajo contains the following series of correspondence:
(a) Letters to Barón de Carondelet, governor of Luisiana, from Elias Beauregard, Nogales (1793-1795); Anselmo Blanchard, Nueva Feliciana; Miguel Cantrelle, Cabahannocé; Esteban de Lamorandier, Avoyelles; Charles de Latour, mon habitation; Carlos Dehault Delassus, Nueva Borbon; Guillermo Duparc, Punta Cortada; Juan Filhiol, Fort Miró; Carlos de Grand Pré, Natchez; Luis Judice, La Fourche; Francisco Langlois, San Fernando de las Barrancas; Valentin Layssard, Rápido; Pablo (?) Leblanc, Chapitoulas; le Bretton D¿Orgenoy, Chapitoulas; Luis Lorimier, Cabo Girardeau; José de Maison Rouge, Fort Miró; Santiago Masicot, Alemanes; Pedro Rousseau, galera la Venganza; Antonio Saint Armand, Alemanes; Zenón Trudeau, San Luis; Nicolás Verret, La Fourche; de Villiere, Confederación; and James Wilkinson (cypher). (b) Drafts of letters of Carondelet to de Lamorandier, de Latour, D¿Orgenoy, Judice, and Saint Armand. (c) Letters to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, governor of Natchez, from William Blount, Knoxville; Benjamin Fooy, San Fernando; M. Lacassagne, Louisville; Esteban Minor (Natchez); Pedro Rousseau, galera la Venganza; and James Wilkinson (copies). (d) Drafts of letters of Gayoso de Lemos to Benjamin Fooy, William Glover, Malcum McGee, and Ugulayacabe mingo. (e) Letter-book of the commandant of Confederación (Delavillebeuvre) to Carondelet (may 4, 1794-mar. 22, 1797). (f) Letters to Nicolás de Verbois from P. Belly, Iberville; Carondelet, Nueva Orleans; Luis Judice, La Fourche; José Leblanc, Iberville; Nicolás Verret, La Fourche; and Pedro Voisin, Iberville (these are bound together, and cover from nov. 13, 1794, to july 25, 1795). (g) Letters of Juan Delavillebeuvre, Confederación, to Manuel Lanzós (1794); Juan McDonald, Panzacola, to Enrique White; Francisco Vallé, Santa. Genoveva, to Tomás Portell and Luis Villiers, Creek nation, to Manuel Lanzós. Subjects treated: Indian affairs (most important and extensive ), relations with the Creeks, relations of the United States with indian tribes; lists of presents for Cherokees; negro slaves; statements of losses and application for relief by persons who suffered losses in the fire of 1788 in Nueva Orleans; papers regarding Adam Cloud; and justification of Augusto Baudin. Special items: 1788, proclamation of congress forbidding intrusions upon the hunting grounds of the Cherokees (sept. 1); 1795, census of premier quartier of Nueva Orleans; copy of the treaty of Basilea which was published in San Luis; proclamation of Carondelet against sedition and use of such terms as aristocrat and democrat (may 23 ); census of premier Cote des Alemanes (june 2); instruction of Grand Pré to alcaldes and commandants of volunteers of Natchez district with respect to indian war (june 13); census of second and third wards of Nueva Orleans (july); census of slaves at Alemanes (july 7); id. at Attakapas (sept. 10); id. at Natchitoches (oOct. 15); 1796, census of the quartier de la Metairie of Nueva Orleans (mar. 12

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