Alcance y Contenido:

Correspondencia y documentación de diversas personas de Florida Occidental.
Legajo 2352. 1785-1791. Florida Occidental. Estado de Mississippi. A, 11 cm., 270 documents. The documents cover the years indicated and are arranged in chronological order. Most of the legajo is of 1785-1786. The legajo contains the following correspondence: 1785, Francisco Bouligny, Natchez, to Esteban Miró, nos. 3, 4, 9, 16, 18, 33, 37, 40; Diego Gardoqui, Nueva York, to Conde de Gálvez, nos. 2, 3, 5, 7-16, 18-21; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Francisco Bouligny, nos. 99, 125; 1785-1786, Conde de Gálvez, México, to Diego Gardoqui (drafts); conde de Gálvez to Esteban Miró; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to conde de Gálvez, nos. 150, 198, 199, 225, 228, 229, 244, 246, 249, 302, 310, 311, 317 (cf. legajo 224 g); Arturo O¿Neill, Panzacola, to conde de Gálvez, nos. 3, 4, 5, 14, 17, 18, 22-25, 28, 31; 1786, 1787, 1791, Arturo O¿Neill, Panzacola, to Esteban Miró; 1788, José de Ezpeleta, Habana to Esteban Miró; Carlos de Grand Pré, Natchez, to Esteban Miró, nos. 655, 672, 677; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Martin Navarro; 1788-1789, Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Antonio Valdés, reservada nos. 38-40; 1789, Esteban Miró to Francisco Cruzat; 1791, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Elias Beauregard; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos to Esteban Miró, nos. 84, 122, 132, 144, and reservada nº 3; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Luis de las Casas, nos. 21, 201. Subjects treated in letters: 1785, Bourbon County and affairs at Natchez (much); funds received by Gardoqui; construction of the brig Galveztown; boundary of Luisiana and Florida with the United States; navigation of the Mississippi; McGillivray and indian affairs; demand of Georgia commissioners for the surrender of Natchez; 1786, McGillivray and indian affairs; hostilities of the creeks and the United States; relations of the United States to the indian nations; 1788, project of George Morgan to make a settlemet in Luisiana; plans of the alibamones to destroy the american settlements at Tombecbé and Tinza; 1791, O¿Fallon; commerce; admission of immigrants at Nogales; indian affairs. Documents other than letters: 1785, bando regarding commerce; copy of the treaty of Hopewell between the United States and the chickasaws; 1786, copy of the treaty of Miami between the United States and the Shawnees; 1787, instructions for Luis Bertucat, commandant of the new post at San Marcos de Apalache; diary of Bertucat; instructions for Juan Delavillebeuvre commissoner to the choctaws; 1789, bando of Miró regarding immigration; 1790(?), plan of the lands of the Virginia and South Carolina Yazoo companies; 1791, memorial of William Augustus Bowles to the king of Spain; instructions for the commandant of Nogales. Most of the documents in this legajo have been copied for the Department of Archives and History of Mississippi, and are listed in Robertson. Listed