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Abstract : January 19, 1732. New Orleans. Périer to the minister. Indian affairs; Chickasaw hostility; English aggression; Fox-Illinois war; the Natchez; Illinois convoys; fortifications at Mobile and Natchez; tobacco, cotton, and indigo; usefulness of Ursulines; boats; New Orleans barracks; army officers; licentious women; German settlers. 12 pp. AC., C 13, 14:44.

Abstract : August 1, 1730. New Orleans. Périer to the comptroller general. Chickasaw conspiracy and French terror; Périer's Indian policy; English aggression; Diron-Périer trouble; land clearings; cultivation of tobacco, cotton, indigo and silk; buck-making; garrison and fortifications; map of Anglo-French boundary and Indian allies; importance of Illinois. 19 pp. AC., C 13, 12:328. (Miss.)

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.)

Abstract : October 27, 1728. Petit Goave. La Rochalar and Duclos to the minister. They have done all they can to aid the Company of the Indies to procure promptly from planters cargoes of sugar and indigo for their Louisiana vessels. 2 pp. AC., C 9, 28:n.p. (LC.)

Abstract : March 30, 1733. Petit Goave. Duclos to the minister. Receipt of certificate for twelve barrels of indigo seed delivered at Louisiana storehouse from Cap Français. 1p. AC., C 9, 37:n.p. (LC.)

Abstract : October 26, 1725. Paris. Decision of Company of the Indies, fixing the prices of indigo, pitch, tar, cotton, and lead, in order to enable settlers to pay their debts to the company. 3 pp. AC., C 13b, 1:n.p. (LC.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

Abstract : December 5, 1731 New Orleans. Périer and Salmon to the minister. Membership in new Superior Council; Canadian regulation of April 27, 1716, to be followed respecting precedence; farmers; merchandise; trade; furs; trade with Pensacola and Mexico; cultivation of tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton and hemp; pitch and tar; lumber; garrisons, artillery, and officers; Natchez Indians; Duverges' work at Balize; flour; notes; vessels; engineers; expenses; hospital, inventory; work of Ursulines. 34 pp. AC., C 13, 13:8. (Miss.)

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