Alcance y Contenido:

Correspondencia de los gobernadores de Luisiana y Florida con el Conde de Santa Clara.
Legajo 1502. 1796-1799. (a) Correspondencia con el Gobernador de las Floridas. (b) Id. con id. reservada.(c) Id. con el subinspector general. Santa Clara 4; Capitanes Generales 454.) B, 33 cm., 550 documents. All of the items listed above are present; the last contains nothing relating to the United States. The letters relating to the United States are scattered through the period from apr., 1797, to may, 1799. They are arranged by months within the two groups; the letters of each governor are together within the months. The material relating to the United States consists of letters to conde de Santa Clara, captain general of Cuba, from:
(a) 1798, oct. 10-1799, apr. 6. Enrique White, governor of Florida Oriental, nos. 89-159. Series continued in legajo 1550; see legajo 1501. 1799, feb. 15, mar. 24. Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, governor of Luisiana, nos. 204, 205. See legajos 1500, 1501; cf. legajo 154-2. 1799, mar. 30-may 1. Francisco Bouligny, acting governor of Luisiana, nos. 207-249, 251-256. Cf. legajo 154-2. (b) 1797, apr. 22. Barón de Carondelet, governor of Luisiana, reservada nº 1. 1797, sept. 24-1799, mar. 16. Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, reservada and muy reservada nos. 2-5, 9-11, 13-19, 22-25, and 6-8 (apparently should be reservada). Cf. legajos 154-1, 154-2. Some of the foregoing letters are accompanied by drafts of replies, and there are some other drafts of the captain general to the governors. Subjects treated by White: 1798, situado; relations with the americans on the Florida frontier; plan of the United States and England to seize Florida. By Carondelet: 1797, rumored attack on Luisiana by the english from Canadá. By Gayoso de Lemos: 1797, events at Natchez; Ellicott; commission of Tomás Power; 1798, relations with Kentucky; designs of the United States against Luisiana; movements of United States troops; visit of the Duke of Orleans to Luisiana. Most of the letters of all the governors transmit petitions and military reports, and acknowledge the receipt of royal orders and correspondence. The extra drafts transmit reales órdenes. Listed, the part relating to the United States