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| Abstract : November 12, 1682. [Quebec.] La Barre to Seignelay. Remarks on La Salle's discoveries. 14 pp. AC., C 11, 6: 59. Margry, II. 302 (ext.). |
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| Abstract : June 27, 1683. Frascati, Italy. Bernou to Renaudot. References to maps made for Seignelay: New Mexico by Bernou; North America by Bernou and Coronelli. Course of the Mississippi to the sea. To use Father Zénobe [Membré's] work and La Salle's discoveries. Asks for news of Cussy, Pouancey, La Salle, and La Forest. 2 pp. BN., MSS. fr., n.a., 7497: 18. |
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| Abstract : 1684. [Paris.] Replies to observations on the memoir relating to Quivira and Theguayo, by Peñalosa. References to the western country, La Salle, the route from Quebec to Mexico, etc. 10 pp. ASH., 115-9:no. 11. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : May 14, 1717. Memoir on the Mississippi [River]. History of the discovery of Louisiana; De Soto, La Salle, Iberville; products; kind of settlers to send out; Spanish trade; Indians; mines; Canadians for the colony; Illinois; tobacco; composition of the Mississippi Company: etc. (Copy.) 40 pp. BI., Ancien Fonds, 488:528. |
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| Abstract : June 5, 1720. [Paris.] Note on payments to Father Charlevoix, on account of his explorations for the Sea of the West. 1p. AC., F 1, 21:277. |
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| Abstract : November 3, 1728. [Fort Beauharnois.] Gonnor, Jesuit among the Sioux, to Beauharnais [Beauharnois]. Account of the discovery of a great river having tides, lying northwest of Lake Superior, which might serve to find the Sea of the West; summary of La Vérendrye's memoirs; voyage an the new river. (Copy.) 15 pp. ASH., 5:no.20. (LC.) BN., MSS.fr., n.a., 2550:123. |
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| Abstract : January 23, 1731. [Paris.] Memoir for the king. Discovery of Sea of the West; analysis of letters from Beauharnais [Beauharnois] and Hocquart; usefulness of the post at Ouinipeg to keep the fur trade from the English. 6 pp. AC., C 11e, 16:128. |
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| Abstract : March 6, 1662 to July 1662. Journal, by Nicolas de Freitas, of the expedition of Count Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa, governor of New Mexico, to Quivira. (Copy. Spanish, with French translations. Preceded by Jean Nicolas Delisle's notes on Peñalosa, his voyage to Quivira, and Coronelli's map of New Mexico.) 20 pp. ASH., 115-11: no. 4. (LC., French text only.) |
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