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Abstract : November 19, 1731. Marly. Warrant for payment of the fourth Swiss company to serve in Louisiana. 1 p. AC., F 1, 30:98.

Abstract : November 26, 1731. Marly. Warrant for payment of the passage of four Swiss women to Louisiana on the Somme. [Minute.] 1 p. AC., F 1, 30:99.

Abstract : November 26, 1731. Marly. Warrant for advance of pay to 150 Swiss soldiers who are to go to Louisiana on the Somme. [Minute.] 1 p. AC., F 1, 30:100.

Abstract : September 2, 1732. Marly. Royal memoir to serve as instructions to Bienville as governor of Louisiana. Reasons for making him governor; religion, missionaries, Jesuits and Capuchins; Ursuline convent, at New Orleans, nun\'s hospital and school; administration of justice; history, composition, and jurisdiction of the superior council; power of the governor; police; care of Negroes; marriage to be encouraged; legal ages; sugar industry; growth of indigo, rice, wheat, cotton, hemp, and flax; tobacco, its price and market; pitch and tar; commerce of colony with French merchants, French Islands, Pensacola, and other Spanish colonies; military affairs, Swiss and French troops with equipment, militia, artillery, and fortifications; Indian affairs, Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Illinois, and others. 22 pp. AC., B 57:796. (LC.)

Abstract : September 2, 1732. Marly. Minister to Bienville and Salmon. Louisiana troops, rations, disapproval of better conditions for Swiss than French, reduction in lard and flour from France, Illinois products, pay, and powder; funds for Ursuline orphanage at New Orleans; disapproval of house of correction, as the number of dissolute women is decreasing; relations of Jesuits and Capuchins, recall of Father Hyacinthe, his passage to France on the Gironde; supply of wine and brandy. 3 pp. AC., B 57:810. (LC.)

Abstract : July 25, 1725. Paris. Ordinance of Company of the Indies, for the disbanding of Wonwunderlich de Merveilleux\'s Swiss company in Louisiana. Clothes, pay, debts, passage to France, reorganization, etc. 2 pp. AC., B 43:545. (LC.)

Abstract : May 15, 1732. New Orleans. Salmon to Beauharnais [Beauharnois], intendant at Rochefort. Report on the Swiss soldiers brought over on the Somme, and supplies furnished the captain. 2 pp. AC., C 13, 15:13.1.

Abstract : May 9, 1731. New Orleans. Certificate by Périer and Salmon of the number of Swiss soldiers the Somme landed at New Orleans. 1p. AC., C 13, 14:25.

Abstract : April 4, 1732. Mobile. Beauchamp to the minister. Chickasaw-Choctaw war; arrival of Swiss soldiers on the Somme; manufacture of pitch. 33 pp. AC., C 13, 14:104. (Miss.)

Abstract : March 30, 1732. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Receives new orders for Swiss troops under Duparc; their rations, lodging and equipment; Chastenoye-Gentil memoir on commerce between Louisiana, Santo Domingo, and Ile Royale; indigo seed. 2 pp. AC., C 13, 15:77.

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