Alcance y Contenido:

Libranza de sueldos de empleados en Nueva Orleans y otros puestos. Documentos relativos a las familias llegadas de Canarias y Puerto Rico para repoblar la Luisiana.
Legajo 689. [1784.] Libranzas y relaciones. (Nueva Orleans 21.) A, 11 cm., 300 documents. The legajo is made up of libranzas (orders on treasury), nos. 1-72 and 16 variously numbered in copy, for the expenses in the ramo de población y amistad de indios, together with the vouchers justifying each of the accounts. These vouchers include lists of settlers and the amount of aid granted to them, as well as the individual account books of the families which received aid. The libranzas cover salaries of employees and expenses connected with the ramo de población y amistad de indios at Galveztown, Valenzuela, Tierra de Bueyes, Nueva Iberia, labradores de lino y cáñamo, extraordinary expenses, Ilinois (San Luis), and Arkansas. The documents are in order, in a carpeta for each of the above-named classes or places