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| Abstract : May 31, 1724. New Orleans. Pauger to Council of the Indies. Complaint against local councillors; speculation in supplies; deserters; extract of request for supplies made May 29. 2 pp. AC., C 13, 8:69. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : June 1, 1724. New Orleans. Chevalier de Morand to the king. Asks for a land grant, Negroes and supplies. 2 pp. AC., C 13, 8:187. |
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| Abstract : March 9, 1724 to March 12, 1724. New Orleans. Minutes of the Conseil de Régie, [on] La Chaise's report on prices for merchandise. (Copy.) 6 pp. AC., C 13, 8:111. |
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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 22, 1723. New Orleans. Memoir by the Sieur l'Erbanne [Derbanne], relative to the post of Natchitoches. Fort, Garrison; Indians; cattle trade with the Spaniards of Adayes; Illinois, Mobile [and] Balize. (Copy.) 3 pp. AC., C 13c, 4:38. |
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| Abstract : November 1, 1728. New Orleans. Périer and La Chaise to [Company of the Indies]. Movement of company's ships; retirement of certain officers; rice and wheat flour; clothing for troops; Jesuit missions; Ursulines; surgeons; pilots; coopers; merchandise; domestic animals; aid to the silk industry. (Abstract, with notes in parallel column.) 6 pp. AC., C 13, 11:119. |
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| Abstract : March 28, 1729. New Orleans. Périer to the Abbé Raguet. Attacks La Chaise's report relating to clerks and storehouse; company's disapproval of Périer's part in Beaubois-Raphael trouble; his loss of favor with the company. 4 pp. AC., C 13, 12:5. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : March 25, 1729. New Orleans. Périer and La Chaise to [Company of the Indies]. Negroes, their arrival, mortality, distribution and sale; loss of boat, Illinois convoy; Father D'Outreleau goes to Wabash post; sawmill; lumber; canal; domestic animals; prices of tar and pitch; indigo; tobacco; Jesuits and Capuchins; powder sent to St. Augustine; copper money and notes; Vincennes and the Wabash post; Illinois post and war against the Foxes; plantations; passports required to go from post to post; French-Indian marriages; Bruslé goes to France, Balcousse takes his place; arrival of John Kennedy and John Canadet from Carolina; brickyards; Prat goes to Mexico. (Abstract, with remarks in parallel column.) 28 pp. AC., C 11:322. (Miss.) |
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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 : August 15, 1729. New Orleans. Périer to the minister. Census and map of the Mississippi; growth and shipment of tobacco; sickness; food shortage; selfishness dominant trait of inhabitants; asks for advancement. 5 pp. AC., C 13, 12:24. (Miss.) |
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