Alcance y Contenido:

Correspondencia y documentación de diversas personas de Florida Occidental.
Legajo 2353. 1792-1793. Florida Occidental. Estado de Mississippi. A, 13 cm., 228 documents. The documents cover the two years indicated, and are arranged in chronological order. The legajo contains the following letters: 1792, Barón de Carondelet, Nueva Orleans, to Conde de Floridablanca, reservada nos. 15, 18, 28, and común nos. 11, 19 (drafts; see legajo 177) ; Enrique White, Panzacola, to Barón de Carondelet; 1793, Barón de Carondelet to Duque de la Alcudia, reservada nº 10 (draft; see legajo 178); Carondelet to Juan Delavillebeuvre; Carondelet to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Juan Delavillebeuvre (drafts); Jáudenes and Viar, Filadelfia, to Barón de Carondelet; 1792-1793, Barón de Carondelet to Luis de las Casas, nos. 66, 97, and reservada nos. 57, 62, 63, 69, 73 (drafts; see legajo 152-1; cf. legajo 1447); Juan Delavillebeuvre, Boukfouka, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (in french); Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Barón de Carondelet, reservada nos. 2, 11, muy reservada nº 4, and común nos. 237, 19, 12, 10, 27, 33, 42, 76, 86, 94, 156, 157, 161, 176-178, 184, 189, 200, 253, 1-6, 8, 9, 12, 12 (some with drafts of replies; various series). Subjects treated in letters: 1792, indian affairs of Natchez district; índian gifts; Bowles; cession of Nogales to Spain; 1793, plans of the americans to settle on the Mississippi, Yazoo, and Tennessee; McGillivray and the indians; Panton and company; índian congress on the Yazoo held by Gayoso de Lemos (much); state of military defense of Luisiana; cession of Tombecbé to Spain by the choctaws. Documents other than letters: 1792, census of Natchez; diary of Esteban Minor, commissioner to the choctaws to discuss the cession of Nogales; treaty of Spain with the chickasaws and choctaws; Estado político de la provincia de la Luisiana, by Gayoso de Lemos; plan of Valenzuela; 1793, census of Natchez; treaty of Boukfouka between Spain and the choctaws; bando regarding comnerce; treaty of Nogales between Spain and the chickasaws, creeks, alibamones, cherokees, and choctaws. Most of this legajo was copied for the Department of Archives and History of Mississippi, and is listed in Robertson. Listed