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| Abstract : April 25, 1719. [Paris.] Minutes of council, on letter from Beauharnais [Beauharnois], Rochefort, April 13: support and clothing for girls destined for the Islands; council's reply asks Machault to have Company of the West transport them to Louisiana. 2 pp. AM., B 1, 41:366. |
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| Abstract : January 13, 1720. [Paris.] Minutes of council, on letter from Galisonnière, Rochefort, December 19, 1719: detention at Havana of two companies from vessels of Company of the Indies. 1p. AM., B 1, 50:141. |
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| Abstract : October 20, 1720. Paris. Minutes of council, on Valette's letter, on board the Comte de Toulouse, Bahama passage, August 23: Caffaro's death; mortality on board; supplies from Dauphin Island; Bienville and Le Gac; return of the Henri with crew of the Aurore taken by the Dryade to the Bahamas. 9 pp. AC., C 9b, 6:n.p.; AM., B 1, 52:233. |
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| Abstract : November 7, 1720. [Paris.] Minutes of council, on draft of a decree ordering the restitution of the Comte de Toulouse and the Marechal de Villars to Company of the Indies, with reservation of a tenth for the admiralty; detention of French vessels at Havana; contest with Spaniards over Pensacola. 4 pp. AM., B 1, 47:185. |
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| Abstract : November 1, 1728. New Orleans. Périer and La Chaise to [Company of the Indies]. Movement of the company's ships; lumber, rice and pitch sent to the Islands; informations about officials: Delisle, Hersant, Dumont de Montigny, Jensen and St. Ange; rice and wheat flour for troops; clothing for troops; Vincennes at Wabash post; Ursulines; Jesuit missions; Danville, midwife; death of La Tour and Girard, surgeons; pilots; English aggression; Spanish trade; plantations; Negroes; silk worms; Desliettes' action against Fox Indians. 16 pp. AC., C 13, 11:111. |
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| Abstract : June 3-4, 1729. Paris. Minutes of meetings of directors of the Company of the Indies. Shipment of deerskins on same basis as tobacco and beaver skins; soldiers; dredges; New Orleans public works; Mandeville's death, his place given to Louboey; shipbuilders; hemp; Natchez fortifications; land grants; Negroes for farmers; Illinois garrison; Secretary Chavannes recalled, Guy put in his place; peltry trade to go to New Orleans to thwart independent traders; movement of company's ships; secret deliberations of the Conseil de Régie; Fox war; exchange of furniture for sugar with islands; advance of salary to Montigny and Jantzen; surgeons for posts; gunsmith Pinet supplies guns to officials; pilots; rations for Negroes; orphans; Indian trade; Diron's Choctaw trade; powder; passports for Pinet's wife and slaves; tobacco; La Chaise's plantations; brickyard; Ursulines; silk industry. 10 pp. AC., C 13, 11:346. |
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| Abstract : September 9, 1729. Fort Royal, Martinique. Rhuais to Gov[ernor] Champigny and Orgeville, intendant. Requests permission to sail for Louisiana with his cargo of Negroes, repairs being finished and food supplied. 2 pp. AC., C 8, 55:n.p. |
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| Abstract : September 19, 1729. Fort Royal, Martinique. Champigny and Orgeville to the minister. Payments to be made to Company of Indies; deliveries made to a vessel from Louisiana; Company of Indies' slave-ship destined for Louisiana, sells cargo in Martinique; lack of experienced officers in Louisiana. AC., C 8, 40:n.p. |
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| Abstract : July 30, 1733. New Orleans. Bienville and Salmon to Diron and Crémont, at Mobile. Trade with the Islands; Olivier's request to make use of English ships at Mobile. (Copy.) 2 pp. AC., C 13, 18:203. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : February 4, 1734. Paris. Dartaguiette to Chauvelin, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Plan to take Havana with troops supposed to be destined for Louisiana; fear of England. 4 pp. AE., Esp., 419:22. |
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