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| Abstract : September 12, 1717. Paris. Appointment by Company of the West of Boisbriant as commandant of Mobile and the surrounding country. 1p. AC., B 42bis:463. (LC.) AC., F 3, 241:n.p. |
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| Abstract : September 20, 1717. Paris. Royal commission to Boisbriant as commander on the Mobile and its tributaries, and acting commandant general in the absence of Bienville. Also, marginal note giving permission to serve under the company. 4 pp. AC., A 22:37, 38. (LC.) AC., B 39:453, 454; B 42bis:86, 463. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : March 7, 1716. [Paris.] Minutes of Council: subsistence of Cadillac and Tonty at Detroit; Mme. La Forest\'s request for seizure of Cadillac\'s property at Detroit; lieutenancy to La Forest, Tonty\'s place; money due La Forest. 3 pp. AM., B 1, 8:160; AC., C 11, 123:n.p. |
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| Abstract : October 6, 1721. [Quebec.] Vaudreuil to the council. Jesuits; Marest to be replaced at Michilimackinac. 13 pp. AC., C 11, 44:156. |
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| Abstract : April 18, 1761. Latremouille. Memoir by Rivoire on Louisiana. Quality of the soil; climate; expense to the king; schemes to establish chambers of agriculture and commerce, provide slave labor, and prevent slave revolts; finances, expenses for troops, fortifications, ships, and settlers; administration of justice; popular elections; the army. 41pp. AC., C 13b, 1:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : July 3, 1754. Fort Necessity. English capitulation to Coulon de Villiers. 3pp. AC., A 101:168; AE., Mém.et Doc., Amér., 10:135;139. |
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| Abstract : December 20, 1739. Margot River. Fontaine Mervé to the minister. Condition of troops and camps. 4 pp. BI., Ancien Fonds, 487:563. |
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| Abstract : September 26, 1756. Cadiz. Pedro Valmediana to Nicolas Tsparaytla. English motives for war on France; to establish English trade among Indians on the Wabash and the Ohio; priority of French in Louisiana; reasons for French forts on the Ohio; pretensions of English and French on the Ohio; English plan to cut the Louisiana-Canada communication. (Translation by Abbé Frischman.) 67 pp. AE., Angleterre, 440:290. |
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| Abstract : May 6, 1785. May 10, 1785. Louisville. Des Vouves-d\'Argès to Vergennes. Indian treaty; arrival of Capt. Davenport and Capt. Smith, who are to take possession of Fort Rosalie, Natchez country, and to settle boundaries between the U.S. and Spanish territory; details on the Danville convention; products and population of the West. 4pp. AE., États-Unis, 29:223. |
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| Abstract : February 2, 1793. Louisville. {George Rogers} G. R. Clark to Genet. Statement of his services in Illinois, and as Indian agent; desires to become a French citizen; proposal, if funds are supplied, to levy one or two regiments in the West to seize St. Louis, New Orleans, West Florida, and New Mexico; spies among Spaniards. (Translation.) 10pp. AE., États-Unis, 37:99. Am.Hist.Assn.Rept., 1896 I.971. AE., États-Unis, sup., 28:106. |
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