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Correspondencia oficial dirigida a los gobernadores de Luisiana Bernardo de Gálvez y Esteban Miró. Correspondencia y documentación varia. Tratados de amistad.
Legajo 2360. 1783-1786. Luisiana española. Miscelánea. A, 6.5 cm., 173 documents. There are documents for each of the years indicated, and they are arranged in chronological order. The legajo contains letters as follows: 1783, Domingo Cabello, Béjar, to Esteban Vaugine (copies); Caballero de Croix, Arispe, to Esteban Vaugine; José de Evia, Habana and Nueva Orleans, to Bernardo de Gálvez, with drafts of replies; José de Ezpeleta, Habana, to Bernardo de Gálvez; 1784, José de Gálvez, Aranjuez, to Esteban Miró; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to José de Gálvez, nº 216 (draft); 1785, Francisco Bouligny, Natchez, to Esteban Miró; Conde de Gálvez, México, to Esteban Miró; 1785-1786, Domingo Cabello, Béjar, to Esteban Miró (many) ; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Conde de Gálvez, nos. 209, 283 (cf. legajo 224 g); 1786, Benjamin Hawkins, Seneca, to Alejandro McGillivray; Martin Navarro, Nueva Orleans, to Marqués de Sonora, nº 375 (draft) ; Alejandro McGillivray, Pequeño Talassie, to Arturo O?Neill; Marqués de Sonora, El Pardo, to governor of Luisiana. Subjects treated in the letters: 1783, indian gifts; examination and charting of the Florida and Luisiana coast; attack of Colbert on Arkanzas post; plan to punish the Osages; 1784, indian trade; United States not entitled to free navigation of the Mississippi until the boundary is settled; 1785, indian trade and gifts in Texas; acadians; William Davenport, Nicolas Long, and Nathaniel Christmas; 1786, acadians; americans not taking the oath of allegiance to be expelled from the province; indian trade and gifts; peace with the comanches; projected attack of the United States on the Talapuches. Documents other than letters: 1783, muster rolls of the militia at San Luis;census of Texas indians; 1784, treaty of Spain with the Talapuches; tariff for indian trade; instructions for indian traders; treaty with the Chickasaws; copies of treaties with the Alibamones and the Choctaws: census of Panzacola; 1785, acts of the state of Georgia relating to Bourbon County (printed) lists of gifts for Texas indians; instructions for the comman dant of Natchez; census of Atakapas and Opelousas; 1786, instructions for the commandant of Arkanzas; spanish translation of the treaty of Hopewell; census of Mobila. Letter of Miró to Conde de Gálvez, nº 209 (july 10, 1785 ), has been copied for Houck and appears in his 'Spanish Régime in Missouri'. Listed