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Correspondencia y documentación oficial de Esteban Miró. 1786-1789
Documentación varia. 1787-1789
Padrones de Panzacola, Attakapas, Opelousas y Mobila. 1784-1786.
Legajo 2361. 1787-1789 [1780-1786]. Luisiana española. Miscelánea. A, 7 cm., 160 documents. The documents are scattered over the three years indicated, and are arranged in chronohogical order. There is also one document covering the years 1780-1786. The legajo contains the following hetters: 1787, Francisco Cruzat, San Luis, to Antonio de Oro; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Francisco Cruzat; 1787-1788, José de Ezpeleta, Habana, to Esteban Miró; Vicente Folch, Mobila, to Esteban Miró, nos. 21, 67; 1788, Luis Bertucat, San Marcos de Apalache, to José de Ezpeleta; Miguel Cantrelle, Cabahannocer, to Esteban Miró; Alejandro McGillivray, Pequeño Talassie, to Arturo O?Neill (originals and copies, many); Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to José Valliere (drafts); José Vázquez Vahamonde, Baton Rouge, to Esteban Miró, nº 69; 1788-1789, Carlos de Grand Pré, Natchez, to Esteban Miró, nos. 667, 669, 671, 827; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Alejandro McGillivray (drafts); Manuel Pérez, San Luis, to Esteban Miró, nos. 26, 28, 30, 35, 56, 58, 59, 61 ; 1789, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Esteban Miró; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Vicente Folch. Subjects treated in the letters: 1787, disturbances caused by the osages; indian affairs at San Luis; land grants at Tinza; relations with the United States; 1788, indian trade at Apalache; condition of the fort at Apalache; relations with the alibamones; relations of Georgia and the United States with the creeks, difficulties in the adjustment of peace; need of a fort on the Tombecbé; indian affairs at San Luis; osages; 1789, Col. George Morgan; relations with the creeks; establishment of L?Anse à la Graisse; cultivation of tobacco at Natchitoches. Documents other than letters: 1787, description of Avoyelles; instructions to the commandants of Opelousas and Santa Genoveva; estimate of the cost of the Fuerte San Carlos de Barrancas; copies of orders published at San Luis (1780-1787); inventory of the archives at San Luis; census of Mobila and Punta Cortada; 1788, instructions to the commandant of Arkanzas; plan of San Luis; plans of buildings at Baton Rouge; oaths of allegiance taken at Natchez (many); census of Opelousas and Natchez; list of american families arriving at Natchez; 1789, oaths of allegiance taken at Natchez (many); oath of allegiance taken at L?Anse à la Graisse. Some of these documents have been copied for Houck, and appear in his 'Spanish Régime in Missouri'.Listed