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| Abstract : April 1, 1729. New Orleans. Périer to the minister. Illinois country; Fox Indians; agriculture, flour and food stuffs; Missouri post; navigation of the Mississippi. 6 pp. AC., C 13, 12:15. |
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| Abstract : April 25, 1729. New Orleans. Périer to the comptroller general. Illinois country, its flour, mines, Negroes, peltries; war with Foxes; dispute with Canada over control of Illinois. 6 pp. AC., C 13, 12:19. |
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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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| Abstract : August 26, 1729. New Orleans. Périer and La Chaise to Council of the Indies. Movements of the company's ships; arrival, mortality, distribution and prices of Negroes; Renaudais' private trade; lumber; tobacco; rice; peltries; carpenters; Estienne's memoir; Chastang chief bookkeeper; Prevost replaced by Bussy; mail; Kolly's memoir discussed; freight charges; powder; death of Desliettes, Du Tisné in charge of Illinois post; trade at shops; Bernaudot-Du Buisson murder case; Capuchin chapels; barley; bricks, tiles, pottery; Duval's death, Arbaud takes his place as cashier; clerks; merchandise in storehouses; paper; harness. 28 pp. AC., C 13, 11:351. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : September 9, 1729. Fort Royal, Martinique. Rhuais to Gov[ernor] Champigny and Orgeville, intendant. Requests permission to sail for Louisiana with his cargo of Negroes, repairs being finished and food supplied. 2 pp. AC., C 8, 55:n.p. |
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| Abstract : December 1, 1731. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. News of the retrocession made public in Louisiana; Jesuit missionaries; members of the Superior Council; numbers, rations, pay, clothing and discharge of soldiers; leakage in shipments of wine and brandy; prices of merchandise; flour and bread; accounts of storekeeper and treasurer; Indian presents; fortifications; colonial administration, finance, agriculture and commerce; Negroes. 14 pp. AC., C 13, 13:108. (Miss.) |
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| 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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| Abstract : [1732]. Memoir on the wretched conditions in Louisiana. Natchez and Chickasaw massacre; scarcity of settlers and troops; English desire to possess the colony; tobacco; merchandise; food; munitions; need of Negroes; Indian trade. 10 pp. AC., C 13c, 1:160. |
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| Abstract : 1735. Statement regarding the cultivation of wheat in the Illinois country in 1718, by Zebedee de Breda, employed by Jesuits; its cultivation by the settlers since 1720. 1p. BN., MSS. fr., n.a., 2552:161. |
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