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Abstract : [1800.] Memoir by Goupilleau de Fontenay on Louisiana. Population; products cotton, tobacco, hemp, rice, etc.; industries sugar, lumber, and indigo; furs; government. 22pp. AC., C 13b, 1:n.p. (LC.)

Abstract : April 15, 1735. New Orleans. Bienville and Salmon to the minister. Trade with Spaniards at Balize, Mobile, Pensacola, and Adayes, by Beaubois and other priests; trade with French islands; growth of tobacco and indigo; silk worm; cotton and its ginning; pitch and tar; character of farmers. (Abstract.) Notes by the minister. 8 pp. AC., C 13, 20:52.

Abstract : April 24, 1735. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Cotton, its price, and gins; theft of colony\'s funds in La Pommeraye\'s possession; treasury report; card money; cash, bills of exchange, and notes; death of Cadet le Franc. 6 pp. AC., C 13, 20: 213.

Abstract : June 1, 1736. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Quarters for officers at New Orleans and Mobile; bedding for soldiers; review of troops; asks for a commission for his secretary, Courturieré ; cotton for government use. (Ext.) 3 pp. AC., C 13, 21a:254.

Abstract : June 10, 1736. New Orleans. Bienville and Salmon to the minister. Establishment of trade with Spaniards of Pensacola, Mexico, and Adayes; agriculture; tobacco, indigo, cotton, silk, hemp, and flax; need of Negroes; pitch and tar; trade with the Islands. 10 pp. AC., C 13, 21:25; 31 (abstract, with the minister\'s notes in the margin). (Miss.)

Abstract : June 1, 1737. New Orleans. Bienville and Salmon to the minister. Establishment of trade with Spaniards; Querlerec\'s application of South Sea methods to Spanish gulf trade; Marin\'s shipload of guns to Florida; Island trade; cultivation of tobacco, indigo, cotton, hemp, and flax; pitch and tar industry. 9 pp. AC., C 13, 22:37.

Abstract : July 15, 1724. Fort St. Louis, Santo Domingo. Girard and Ciron, directors of Company of the Indies, to directors of Company of the Indies, France. The Bellonne, bound for Louisiana, arrived July 3, sailed July 13; her cargo; Negro indigo-maker, cattle, and cotton seed. 4 pp. AC., C 9b, 8:n.p.

Abstract : November 24, 1725. Fort St. Louis, Santo Domingo. Girard and Ciron to directors general, Louisiana. Arrival of the Baleine; statement of food supplied; company\'s letter of July 27, 1725; refusal to send cattle and goats to Louisiana but furnishes cotton seed and gin; commerce and supplies. 12 pp. AC., C 9, 24:no.13. (LC.)

Abstract : March 1742. [Balize.] Léonard Callot, ex-inspector of public works and fortifications at Fort Balize, to the minister. Regarding a cotton gin and a machine for spinning silk; certificate of his services in Louisiana. 3pp. ASH., 67-2:no.16. (LC.)

Abstract : May 14, 1732. [New Orleans. Letter from] Périer. Chickasaw-Choctaw war; Tunicas defeat Natchez; Illinois-Fox war; merchandise; cultivation of cotton, tobacco, indigo, and hemp; Mississippi navigation. (Ext.) 14 pp. AC., C 13, 14:144. (Miss.)

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