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Correspondencia oficial de los gobernadores Esteban Miró, barón de Carondelet y Manuel Gayoso de Lemos. Correspondencia de Guillermo Bowles. Varios.
Legajo 2371. 1790-1799. Luisiana española. Miscelánea y Bowles. A, 8.5 cm., 265 documents. The documents are scattered over the years indicated and are arranged in chronological order. Most of the documents are in english. The legajo contains the following letters: 1790, Juan Forbes, Panzacola, to Arturo O¿Neill; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Jaime O¿Fallon; Alejandro Moultrie, Charleston; James O¿Fallon, Louisville, to Pedro Bryan Bruin; Tomás Washington, Charleston, to Pedro Bryan Bruin; Jaime White, Natchez, to Esteban Miró; 1790, 1791, Jaime O¿Fallon, Lexington, to Esteban Miró; 1791, William A. Bowles, Cowetah, to Arturo O¿Neill; Alejandro McGillivray, Pequeño Talassie, to Esteban Miró; Alejandro McGillivray, Panzacola, to Arturo O¿Neill; Esteban Miró, Nueva Orleans, to Luis de las Casas, nº 18 (draft); 1792, Guillermo Bowles, Camp, to James Burgess; Guillermo Bowles, Nueva Orleans, to Barón de Carondelet, Alejandro McGillivray, Mobila, to Barón de Carondelet; 1793, Guillermo Bowles, Madrid, to Duque de la Alcudia; 1793-1795, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Tomás Portell (drafts, many); 1794, Barón de Carondelet, Nueva Orleans, to Enrique Peyroux; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Harry Innes; James Robertson, Nashville, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos J. G. Simcoe, Miami River, to Barón de Carondelet; 1794, 1799, Harry Innes, Kentucky, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; James White, Miró District, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; 1794, 1796, Mitchel Lacassagne, Louisville, to Barón de Carondelet; 1795, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Nuevo Madrid, to Mitchel Lacassagne; Tomás Power to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; 1795, 1796, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Barón de Carondelet; Francisco Vallé, Santa Genoveva, to Barón de Carondelet; 1796-1797, Benjamín Sebastián, Nueva Orleans and Louisville, to Barón de Carondelet; 1797, William A. Bowles; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Natchez, to Percy Smith Pope (copies); Percy Smith Pope, Natchez, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (copies); Zenón Trudeau, San Luis, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, nº 298; 1797-1799, Esteban Minor, Natchez, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (many; one series forms a diary of events from oct. 1 to dec. 12, 1797); 1798, Guillermo Bowles, Londres, to Lord Grenville; Guillermo Bowles, Adelphi, to Duque of Portland (drafts); Daniel Clark, Nueva Orleans, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos to Zacarías Cox (draft) ; Carlos de Grand Pré, Baton Rouge, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, nos. 151, 184; José Hardcastle, Londres, to Guillermo Bowles; J. Reeves, Londres, to Guillermo Bowles; 1798-1799, Samuel Montgomery Brown, Nueva Orleans, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; Evan Davies, Whitehall, to Guillermo Bowles; Winthrop Sargent, Natchez, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; 1799, Guillermo Bowles; J. Brickwood, Croydon, to Guillermo Bowles; William Sabatier, Londres, to Guillermo Bowles; J. H. Cushing, Natchez, to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos. Subjects treated in the letters: 1790, projects of the Yazoo company, preparations for an expedition to make settlements; introduction of Mr. Cox; 1791, expedition to the Yazoo announced; progress of the enterprise; favor of Spain sought for the Yazoo undertaking; reported United States settlement at Muscle Shoals, violation of indian treaty; expedition of the United States against the Miamis; establishment of a united nation of the creeks and cherokees, with Bowles as director; measures to get rid of Bowles; 1792, capture of Panton¿s stores by Bowles; desire of the creeks and cherokees for peace with the spaniards; american emissaries to the choctaws and chickasaws; 1793, supplies for the squadron on the Mississippi; protest of Bowles against his imprisonnent, ready to make a treaty with Spain; 1794, projected invasion of Luisiana by the french from the United States; english post on the Miami;
english desire that Luisiana remain in control of Spain; navigation of the Mississippi; separation of the West from the United States and union with Spain; political ideas and condition of the West; necessity of definite propositions from Spain if anything to be done regarding separation; whiskey rebellion; 1795, separation of the West from the United States and union with Spain; difficulties of the priest at Santa Genoveva; 1796, effect of the treaty of 1795 between Spain and the United States, upon the projected separation of the West; 1797, suspension of the evacuation and drawing of the boundary line; affairs at Natchez: Pope, Ellicott Hutchins, citizens¿ committee, its activities, its petition, disagreements of the leaders of the american faction, arrival of Guión; 1798, account of imprisonment of Bowles by Spain; Bowles¿s desire to establish a free port in Muskogee; his desire for english aid; funds supplied to Bowles while in England; project for english missions in Muskogee; commercial relations between Kentucky and Luisiana, the commercial company formed in Kentucky for fostering this; 1799, relations of Bowles to the court at Madrid; views of Muskogee nation on account of the imprisonment of Bowles; english assistance sought; funds supplied to Bowles while in England; Wilkinson; indian affairs; character of Ellicott and Hawkins. Documents other than letters: 1795, project of James Clamorgan to establish a fortified post at mouth of río des Moines (french); 1798(?), diary of Bowles (?) while in prison; 1799, declaration of sovereignty by the Muskogee chiefs and desire that Bowles continue as director; proclamations of Bowles ordering americans and spaniards from Muskogee, and making Apalachicola a free port. Listed

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Bowles, William Augustus (1763-1805)

Gayoso de Lemos, Manuel (1747-1799)