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| Abstract : June 6, 1686. Villemarie. Denonville\'s instructions to Du Lhut. (Copy.) 2 pp. AC, C 11, 8:53. Margry, V. 23; Mich. H.C., XXXIII. 40; Wis. H.C., XVI. 125. |
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| Abstract : September 8, 1686. [Quebec.] Proclamation by Denonville. His intention to declare war against the Iroquois. Western affairs and the fur trade. 4 pp. AC, F 3, 6:270. |
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| Abstract : August 22, 1687. [Villemarie.] Denonville to Dongan. English aggression. The fur trade. English claims to French territory. 6 pp. AC, C 11, 9:54. |
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| Abstract : March 28, 1714. [Paris.] Minutes of council: ordinance of March 19 giving amnesty to coureurs de bois. 2 pp. AM., B 1, 8:248. |
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| Abstract : January 2, 1724. Fort Orleans, Missouri. Bourgmont to directors of the company. Fortifications; garrison; Negroes; lumber; trade in horses, peltries and corn; trouble between Bellisle and Bourgmont; Father Mercier; Indian slaves. 18 pp. AC., C 13, 8:210. |
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| Abstract : 1701. Mississippi. Memoir on the establishment of a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi, by Iberville. Mobile; Indians; English among the Chickasaws; Pensacola and its use to Spaniards and French; peltries from Illinois; Illinois-Wabash trade; cattle and horses from Santo Domingo. ASH., 67-2:no. 4; 135:no. 5 (LC). |
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| Abstract : July 9, 1701. La Rochelle. Iberville to Minister. New post proposed on coast of Louisiana. Pensacola. Food supply. Grant to Juchereau on the Wabash for a tannery. The fur trade. Opposition to English. Passage to families for Louisiana. Interpreters. Marginal memos. 22 pp. AM., B 4, 21:514. (LC). |
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| Abstract : June 2, 1736 to August 3, 1737. Fort St. Charles, Lake of the Woods. La Vérendrye to Beauharnais [Beauharnois]. Memoir in the form of a journal during the above period. Events at his western posts; Indian affairs; description of the country; journey to Montreal with furs. Sends map. 36 pp. AC., F 3, 12:248; ASH., 115-11:no.9. |
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| Abstract : May 27, 1733 to July 12, 1734. [J]ournal of events at Fort St. Charles during the above period, by La Vérendrye, who is ordered to establish many posts as an aid to the discovery of the Sea of the West. Sioux wars; iron mines; beaver trade; silver mines on Red River and the English colony there; journeys to Michilimackinac. 48 pp. AE., Mém. et Doc., Amér., 8:46; AC., C 11e, 16:173 (ext.). |
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| Abstract : August 29, 1716. [Paris.] Minutes of council, on posts established by the king's letter of December 27, 1714: in Mobile valley to hold Indians friendly to French; Natchez for trade with Mexico; Wabash, Missouri, and Illinois for peltries; Cadillac-Bienville trouble over Natchez; fortifications. 20 pp. AM., B 1, 9:273; AC., C 13, 4:211. (Miss.) |
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