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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 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 : [October 1729?] Paris. Abbé Raguet to the Comptroller General. Beaubois' memoir; bishop of Quebec and his opposition to Beaubois; company's letter of March 28, 1728. (Copy.) 4 pp. AC., C 13, 12:271. (Miss.) |
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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 : December 10, 1731. New Orleans. Périer to the minister. Indian affairs, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Tunicas, Yazoos, Natchez; defense against personal attacks; fortifications at Natchez and Mobile; munitions; boats and sailors; farmers; navigation of the Mississippi; canal, New Orleans; question of placing Illinois under Canadian control; troops; Diron's passport to France; friendship of Salmon and Périer; Baron-MacMahon trouble; advancement asked for Izet and Sauvole. 37 pp. AC., C 13, 13: 57. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : 1732. [New Orleans.] Itemized statement of sums paid for services to the state: civil, military, and judicial salaries; missionaries; Ursulines and the hospital; engineers; soldiers; employees. 13 pp. AC., D 2d, 10:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : March 28, 1734. Fort Tombigbee. English trade activity among Choctaws and its influence on French control. 4 pp. AC., C 13, 19:11. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : December 19, 1722. Paris. List of the persons composing the Superior Council and the Conseil de Régie in Louisiana; also clerks employed by Company of the Indies, with duties of each and his annual salary. 13 pp. AC., B 43:140. (LC.) AC., F 3, 241:n.p. |
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| Abstract : December 19, 1722. Paris. Order by the commissioners, to admit Bruslé, Fazende, Perry, Guilhet, and Masclary, as first, second, third, fourth, and fifth, councilors respectively, of the Superior Council and of the Conseil de la Régie Général of Louisiana. 2 pp. AC., B 43:152. (LC.) |
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