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| Abstract : January 25, 1787. New York. Otto to Vergennes. Protest from southern states against all treaties ceding U.S. rights to Mississippi navigation; Virginia\'s measures to recover her influence over Kentucky; discussions between states over the Mississippi. 4pp. C |
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| Abstract : February 17, 1787. New York. Otto to Vergennes. State of Franklin incorporated in North Carolina, from which it was taken. 2pp. AE., États-Unis, 32:200. |
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| Abstract : July 15, 1787. New York. Otto to Montmorin. Mississippi navigation question in Congress: Jay\'s letter; Spain\'s opposition to a free river; letters from western states; reasons for prolonging negotiations. 4pp. AE., États-Unis, 32:308. |
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| Abstract : July 20, 1787. New York. Otto to Montmorin. A company offers Congress 5,000,000 piastres for five million acres of land between Lake Erie and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers; Harmar\'s post on the Ohio; ordinance of Congress to put all the West under one government; Congress offers large western land grants to French generals. 4pp. AE., États-Unis, 32:308. |
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| Abstract : September 25, 1787. New York. Crèvecoeur to the minister. Transmits map; details on mines located 170 miles below Pittsburg and fortifications discovered lower on the Ohio; seat of government for the Northwest at mouth of the Muskingum; Gen[eral] St. Clair as governor; development of the West; proposal for settlement near mines. 4pp. AE., États-Unis, sup., 4:304. |
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| Abstract : October 23, 1787. New York. Otto to Montmorin. St. Clair named governor of the Northwest Territory; troops to protect him against Indians. 1p. AE., États-Unis, 32:381. |
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| Abstract : June 5, 1788. New York. Moustier to Montmorin. Question of admission of Kentucky to the union; Creek war; Illinois claim to territory on the Wabash and the Ohio. 4pp. AE., États-Unis, 33:184. |
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| Abstract : June 26, 1788. New York. Moustier to Montmorin. Success of Ohio settlements depends upon Indian cessions; government for the West; land sales to a company in Illinois; Kentucky\'s admission. 5 pp. AE., États-Unis, 33:221. |
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| Abstract : March 12, 1789. New York. Moustier to Montmorin. Transmits memoir on Louisiana, which he hopes to see again under French domination; offer of a Frenchman, who is a native of Kentucky, to Spanish chargé d\'affaires, to send tobacco to Spain; new Spanish government at Natchez. 3pp. AE., États-Unis, 34:31. |
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| Abstract : [October 7, 1793. New York.] \"Les Français libres à leurs pères de la Louisiane\". Address of propaganda by Genet. AE., États-Unis, 39;91. Am.Hist.Assn.Rept., 1903, II.265. |
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