Alcance y Contenido:

Correspondencia y documentación oficial de los comisarios de límites, marqués de Casa Calvo y Manuel Salcedo.
Legajo 2368. 1803-1805. Luisiana española. Miscelánea. A, 8 cm., 189 documents.

The documents are scattered over the three years indicated, about three-fourths of the legajo being for 1803-1804. They are arranged in chronological order. The legajo contains the following letters: 1803, Casa Calvo and Salcedo, Nueva Orleans, to Vicente Folch; Luis Deblanc, Attakapas, to Manuel de Salcedo, nos. 143, 144; Carlos Dehault Delassus, Nuevo Madrid, to Manuel de Salcedo; Jacobo Dubreuil, San Marcos, to Manuel de Salcedo, nº 184; Vicente Folch, Panzacola, to indiann chiefs; Vicente Folch to Manuel de Salcedo, nos. 900-904; Tomás Hasset, Nueva Orleans, to Casa Calvo and Salcedo; Benjamín Hawkins, creek agency, to Vicente Folch; Manuel de Salcedo, Nueva Orleans, to marqués de Someruelos, nos. 357, 360, 382 (drafts; see legajo 155; cf. legajo 1555) ; Salcedo and Casa Calvo, Nueva Orleans, to marqués de Someruelos, nº 24 (draft); James Wilkinson, Mississippi territory, to Manuel de Salcedo; 1804-1805, marqués de Casa Calvo to Pedro Ceballos, nos. 27, 1, 41-45, 15, 47, 50 (except, indexes only, nos. 42-45), and reservada nos. 14, 19, 20; Casa Calvo and J. Martínez, Nueva Orleans, to Pedro Ceballos, nos. 2, 3; 1805, marqués de Casa Irujo, Filadelfia, to marqués de Casa Calvo; Carlos Dehault Delassus, Nueva Orleans, to marqués de Casa Calvo; Carlos de Grand Pré, Baton Rouge, to marqués de Casa Calvo; Carlos de Grand Pré to Vicente Folch, nos. 119, 140.

Subjects treated in the letters: 1803, navigation of the canal of Placaminas; cession of Luisiana; suspension of the right of deposit, re-establishment of the same; arrest of Bowles; Meriwether Lewis; transfer of Luisiana to the french; 1804, plan of the United States to explore the Mississippi, Arkansas, and Colorado rivers, measures to prevent this; historical notes on the boundary of Luisiana; exploration of the Missouri River by Meriwether Lewis; danger to the Provincias Internas from the possession of the west bank of the Mississippi by the United States; 1805, surrender of posts in Luisiana; Aaron Burr; determination of the United States to explore the Arkansas and Colorado rivers; progress of the expedition of Lewis and Clark; Kempers.

Documents other than letters: 1803, proclamation of Laussat regarding the retrocession of Luisiana; lists and appointments of militia offcers in Luisiana Superior; 1804, 'Memoire présenté au Congrés des Etats-unis d?Amerique par les habitans de la Luisiana' (printed) ; Vinache en réponse a Burthe (pamphlet); inventory of the archives at San Luis and Nuevo Madrid; instructions for the suppression of the insurrection at Baton Rouge, by Folch; inventories of arms, ammunition, utensils, etc., at San Luis, Nuevo Madrid, and Campo de Esperanza; regulations for the syndics of Baton Rouge; 1805, lists of arms, ammunition, etc., received at Baton Rouge from posts surrendered to France; valuation of public buildings at Nuevo Madrid, Arkansas, Galveztown, and Punta Cortada; inventory of the archives at San Luis; investigation of the disturbances at Baton Rouge. Some of these documents have been copied for Houck, and appear in his Spanish Régime in Missouri. Listed