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Abstract : December 12, 1720. Biloxi. Request presented to the Company of the Indies by the Superior Council, regarding some brandy and a silk mill belonging to Michel Delaire of the Demeuves plantation, shipped to Louisiana on one of the company\'s vessels. (Copy.) 1p. AC., C 13c, 4:215.

Abstract : January 22, 1721. Biloxi. Local directors to Company of the Indies. Diron\'s inspection of the posts; need of troops; Old and New Biloxi; La Tour admitted to the Superior Council; Beranger\'s trip to St. Bernard Bay; Alibamu (Alibamon) and Choctaws; Chickasaws attack the Yazoo post; domestic animals, silkworms, masts, mills, mines, and trade with Spaniards. (Extracts.) 24 pp. AG., Corr., 2592:101, 117.

Abstract : April 24, 1721. Biloxi. Bienville and Delorme to Company of the Indies. Lochon\'s efforts in the silk industry. (Ext.) 1p. AG., Corr., 2592:106.

Abstract : January 2, 1764. London. Guerchy to Choiseul. Information on emigration of French Protestants to Louisiana at the instigation of Gilbert and Bouliton, ministers. 2pp. AE., Angleterre, 455:5

Abstract : October 28, 1763. London. Comte de Guerchy, French ambassador, to Choiseul. Gilbert, Protestant minister, has drawn to London French Protestants from Poitou, Vivarais, and Languedoc, to send to Louisiana to take up the silk industry; the government has furnished considerable money. 2pp. AE., Angleterre, 451:481.

Abstract : October 10, 1716. [Paris.] Minutes of council, royal memoir to serve as instructions for L'Epinay as governor of Louisiana. Situation and origin of colony; Crozat's privilege; religion; Indian affairs; fort on Dauphin Island; military discipline; superior council; police; silk and tobacco; domestic animals; Indian slaves; relations with governor of Pensacola; Cadillac's affairs; La Tour; Bajot, and Mandeville; Nathez massacre. 19 pp. AM., B 1, 9:444; AC., F 3, 68:n.p.

Abstract : August 1, 1730. New Orleans. Périer to the comptroller general. Chickasaw conspiracy and French terror; Périer's Indian policy; English aggression; Diron-Périer trouble; land clearings; cultivation of tobacco, cotton, indigo and silk; buck-making; garrison and fortifications; map of Anglo-French boundary and Indian allies; importance of Illinois. 19 pp. AC., C 13, 12:328. (Miss.)

Abstract : October 20, 1716. Paris. Royal memoir, to serve as instructions for L'Epinay as governor. His duties toward the church; Indian affairs; troops; superior council; police; land culture, silk and tobacco; commerce; domestic animals; slaves; hostility of Natchez. 13 pp. AC., B 38:312. (LC.) AC., F 3, 68:n.p.

Abstract : November 1, 1728. New Orleans. Périer and La Chaise to [Company of the Indies]. Movement of the company's ships; lumber, rice and pitch sent to the Islands; informations about officials: Delisle, Hersant, Dumont de Montigny, Jensen and St. Ange; rice and wheat flour for troops; clothing for troops; Vincennes at Wabash post; Ursulines; Jesuit missions; Danville, midwife; death of La Tour and Girard, surgeons; pilots; English aggression; Spanish trade; plantations; Negroes; silk worms; Desliettes' action against Fox Indians. 16 pp. AC., C 13, 11:111.

Abstract : November 1, 1728. New Orleans. Périer and La Chaise to [Company of the Indies]. Movement of company's ships; retirement of certain officers; rice and wheat flour; clothing for troops; Jesuit missions; Ursulines; surgeons; pilots; coopers; merchandise; domestic animals; aid to the silk industry. (Abstract, with notes in parallel column.) 6 pp. AC., C 13, 11:119.

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