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Legajo 2363. 1793-1794, [1787-1792]. Luisiana española. Miscelánea. A, 11 cm., 163 documents. The documents cover the two years indicated, and are arranged in chronological order. There are also some copies of documents of 1787-1792. The legajo contains the following letters: 1793, Baron de Carondelet, New Orleans, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; Baron de Carondelet to Wm. Panton (drafts) ; Baron de Carondelet to Tomas Portell; Luis de las Casas, Havana, to Baron de Carondelet; Carlos Dehault Delassus, Tardiveau and Audrain, New Orleans, to Baron de Carondelet: Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Baron de Carondelet; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos to Tomas Portell; Alexander McGillivray, Mobile, to Baron de Carondelet; Estevan Minor, Baton Rouge, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; Zenon Trudeau, St. Louis, to Tomas Portell; 1793-1794, Baron de Carondelet, New Orleans, to Duque de la Alcudia, reservada nos. 6, 8, 9, 35, except, index only, no. 8 (drafts; see legajo 178) ; Zenon Trudeau, St. Louis, to Baron de Carondelet, nos. 109, 110, 185; 1794, Baron de Carondelet, New Orleans, to Luis de las Casas, reservada nos. 104, 109 (drafts), 116, 119 (originals) (see legajo 1447) ; Benjamin Fooy, Holkey, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Baron de Carondelet, reservada no. 45 (draft). Subjects treated in the letters:
1793, Indian affairs; establishment of the post at Barrancas de Margot; Protestant marriages; Medad Mitchell; transfer of families from Gallipolis to New Madrid; settlements at New Madrid and St. Genevieve; relations of the United States and the Indians; expedition against the Osages; 1794, expedition against Louisiana projected by the French in the United States; Upper Missouri Trading Company; peace with the Osages, establishment of a post in this nation; relations of the United States and Spain with the Indians. Documents other than letters: 1793, diary of Pedro Rousseau during voyage from Natchez to New Madrid; permission granted to Louis Lorimier to carry on Indian trade; Registro indice, confirmando concesiones de tierra en el Distrito de Natchez, by Carondelet (draft) ; commissions to militia officers; regulations for trading on the Missouri River (French) ; oaths of allegiance taken at Nuevo Madrid (many), Natchez, and Cabahannocer:
memorials of Juan Meunier requesting monopoly of trade among the Poncas; copies of the treaty of Nogales of Spain with the Chickasaws, Creeks, Alibamones, Cherokees, and Choctaws; copy of the treaty of Boukfouka of Spain with the Choctaws and Chickasaws; copy-book of letters to Louis Lorimier (1787-1793) ; Journal á L. Lorimier, Cap Girardeau (1793-1794); 1794, copy of a proposition to form an American settlement west of the Mississippi and north of the Missouri; commissions to militia officers of Upper Louisiana; Mémoire politique pour servir á la suite de notre plan de population des Illinois (St. Louis, Apr. 24) ; documents relating to the estab lishment of the Upper Missouri Trading Company (Clamorgan); instruc tions of Clamorgan to Truteau; plan of Fort Confederacion; letter-book of Louis Lorimier; copy-book of letters and instructions to Lorimier; census of Nuevo Madrid. Some of these documents have been copied for Hlouck, and appear in his Spanish Régime in Missouri. Listed

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Gayoso de Lemos, Manuel (1747-1799)

Natchez (Misisipi, Estados Unidos)

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