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| Abstract : January 20, 1732. New Orleans. Memoir on Louisiana, by D'Ausseville. Account of his services to the state; discussion of Louisiana products, pitch, tar, peltries, shellwork, rice, corn, potatoes, wheat, barley, oats, tobacco, indigo, cotton, hemp, flax, fruits, medicinal plants, lumber and animals; mines; posts and garrisons; Spanish trade; English; Law's work; liquors; salt; local councils; Ursulines and the hospital; Natchez war. 48 pp. AC., C 13, 14:228. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : January 19, 1732. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Rectifies error in report of December 1, 1731, concerning Negroes, and tells of farmers' desire for black laborers. 1p. AC., C 13, 15:29. |
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| Abstract : 1732. Memoir on the Illinois country. Limits, soil, extent of farming, French population, Indians, Kaskaskia, Fort Chartres, English aggression, need of a fort on the Wabash, the fur trade. 13 pp. AC., F 3, 24:235. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : September 30, 1726. [Paris.] Order from the Company of the Indies to pay Busson one percent of the value of indigo received at the company's storehouse, beginning with the harvest of 1727 and continuing for three years, in payment for his work in teaching the farmers of Louisiana how to grow indigo. 1p. AC., B 43:653. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : October 30, 1726. New Orleans. List of farmers and planters who desire Negroes; number stated. (Marginal notes explain the applicant's fitness to receive slaves.) (Copy.) 12 pp. AC., G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : July 1, 1727. [New Orleans.] Census of farmers and planters in the New Orleans district. Enumeration of heads of families and members in family group, French servants, Negro and Indian slaves, cattle, horses and hogs. 28 pp. AC., G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : May 20, 1725. New Orleans. Council to Council of the Indies. Negroes; domestic animals; farms; construction work; Germans quit Law's grant; clothing for troops; shortage of merchandise; cultivation of tobacco; complaints against Pauger; Jarry de St. Denis kills La Salle. (Abstract, with marginal notes.) 8 pp. AC., C 13, 9:140. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : January 8, 1721. Paris. Ordinance by Company of the Indies, fining 300 livres to any one killing cattle or other domestic animals useful on the plantations or farms. 2 pp. AC., A 23:29; B 42bis:397. |
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| Abstract : January 9, 1721. Paris. Ordinance of Company of the Indies, prohibiting in Louisiana the cultivation of the grape and the growth of hemp and flax. Marginal note. 2 pp. AC., A 23:30; B 42bis:398. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : [1758?] Census of the farmers living around Fort Toulouse. 2pp. AC., C 13, 40:157. |
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