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| Abstract : February 23, 1720. [Paris.] Minister of War to Le Page, artillery officer at Condé. Regarding workmen he has secured for the minister's plantation in Louisiana. 1p. AG., Corr., 2566:no.690. |
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| Abstract : [December 1716.] Paris. Crozat's memoir, composed on his return from Louisiana. Discusses possibilities in trade, agriculture and mines; gives reason for his failure; asks to be relieved of the colony. 10 pp. AC., C 13c, 2:142. |
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| Abstract : October 20, 1716. Paris. Royal memoir, to serve as instructions for L'Epinay as governor. His duties toward the church; Indian affairs; troops; superior council; police; land culture, silk and tobacco; commerce; domestic animals; slaves; hostility of Natchez. 13 pp. AC., B 38:312. (LC.) AC., F 3, 68:n.p. |
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| Abstract : October 20, 1716. Paris. Royal memoir, to serve as instructions for Hubert as ordonnateur in Louisiana. Duties toward the church; administration of justice; military discipline; expenses of the colony; supplies for troops; commerce; settlements; agriculture. 17 pp. AC., B 38:301. (LC.) AC., F 3, 68:n.p. (ext.) |
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| Abstract : September 30, 1725. New 0rleans. [Superior] Council to Council of the Indies. Loss due to the Saone going aground; encouragement to farmers to cut lumber; Renault, in charge of mines in Illinois; trade by officers. (Abstract, with remarks in parallel column.) 4 pp. AC., C 13, 9:241. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : August 28, 1725. New Orleans. [Superior] Council to Council of the Indies. Need of Negroes; discontent among farmers; indigo; French supplies; Natchez tobacco; Le Blanc sent to Louisiana; Duvergier, Desliette and Du Tisné; merchandise for Illinois; lumber exported. (Summary, with remarks in parallel column.) 5 pp. AC., C 13, 9:239.(Ill., Miss.) |
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| Abstract : March 8, 1724. Paris. Directors of Company of the Indies to the Conseil de Régie in Louisiana. Permission to councillors and employees establish plantations; promise them grants along the Mississippi. On the back, a list of persons who have left their plantations near New Orleans to go to Illinois. (Ext.) 2 pp. AC., G 1, 465:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : October 22, 1723. New Orleans. D\'Erbanne [Derbanne] to Company of the Indies. He is sending a memoir on the post of Natchitoches. Situation of the fort; garrison; nature of the soil; settlers; Adayes; Indians; Spaniards refuse to trade with the French; food supplied to Spanish post at St. Bernard Bay; asks to be reimbursed for this; the Red River. (Copy.) 2 pp. AC., C 13c, 4:102. |
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| Abstract : October 24, 1723. [New Orleans.] Desfontaines, director general of [the] Coetlogon and Deucher plantation, to La Jonchere. Arguments against growing tobacco and in favor of the cultivation of indigo; Negroes brought from Natchez to Chaouachas to cultivate indigo. (Ext.) 6 pp. AC., G 1, 465:n.p. (LC.) |
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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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