Alcance y Contenido:

Correspondencia de los intendentes de Luisiana y Cuba con los gobernadores Antonio de Ulloa, Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga y Bernardo de Gálvez. - Correspondencia del Intendente de Luisiana, Martín Navarro, con Bernardo Gálvez. - Documentación varia.
Legajo 82. 1766-1779, [1780]. Correspondencia del Sr. Unzaga a varias autoridades. B, 29 cm., 700 documents. The documents are scattered through the years indicated, there being only one document for 1780. The letters of each series are together, but otherwise the legajo is in disorder. The legajo includes the following series of correspondence:
(a) Letters to Bernardo de Gálvez from: 1777-1779, Martín Navarro, Nueva Orleans; Juan Ignacio de Urriza, Habana; and 1779, Bernardo Otero, Nueva Orleans. (b) To Martín Navarro from: 1772-1775, Luis de Unzaga; 1777-1779, Bernardo de Gálvez ( drafts) ; and 1779, Pedro Piernas, all of Nueva Orleans. (c) To Antonio de Ulloa from: 1766, Esteban Gayarre, Nueva Orleans; 1767, Juan José de Loyola, Nueva Orleans; 1767-1768, Miguel de Altarriba, Habana (with drafts of replies on the margin). (d) To Luis de Unzaga from: 1769, 1771-1776, Miguel de Altarriba, Habana; 1770, Pedro Enríquez Jiron, Habana; 1773, 1774, 1776, Martín Navarro, Nueva Orleans; 1775, Nicolás José Rapun, Habana; and Marqués de Santa Ana and Rapun, Habana. (e) 1779, Bernardo de Galvez, Nueva Orleans, to Juan Ventura Morales. The main theme of the legajo is finances. Altarriba treated of funds for new settlers, situado, and supplies for Luisiana. Loyola dealt with indian gifts, new settlements-officials and funds necessary, and pay of soldiers and sailors in Luisiana. Galvez wrote about finances, indian affairs, and new settlements. Navarro treated of the expedition of Galvez and the project to arm a corsair. Special items: 1767, lists of persons who had made voyages to Illinois and Natchitoches and who offered their services to Spain; 1765-1768, account of the situado of Luisiana; 1767-1768, permissions granted by Loyola for vessels to sail from Nueva Orleans; 1767, 1770-1779, monthly balance-sheets of the treasury of Luisiana by Esteban Gayarre, Martin Navarro, and Bernardo Otero (some months missing; forms one-third of the legajo) ; 1780, instructions for Martin Navarro as intendant of Luisiana