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| Abstract : December 24, 1732. New Orleans. Ordinance, requiring farmers and planters to make a declaration to their militia captain of the number of whites, blacks, Indians, houses, animals, and guns on each farm; residents of New Orleans to make the same declaration to Prefontaine. 1p. AC., A 23:111. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : October 27, 1727. Paris. Council of the Indies to Périer and La Chaise. Tobacco and indigo culture, shipment, and prices; distribution and desertion of Negroes; boats; construction of churches at various posts; Capuchin-Jesuit affairs; Beaubois requests indemnity for losses in wreck on the Mississippi; schools; hospitals; ammunition; Diron\'s request for favors; bills of exchange, silver and copper money; death of Rouzault, storekeeper; passports and free passage to Louisiana for workmen\'s wives; floods damage Fort Chartres; Fort Orleans, Dauphin Island, and Biloxi abandoned; Vincennes commands on the Wabash, Desliettes and St. Ange in Illinois; hostility of Foxes; lumber; police; overseer of domestic animals; Swiss companies; garrisons at posts. Copy of reply, March 30, 1728, q.v., in the margin. 75 pp. AC., C 13, 11:66. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : November 2, 1727. New Orleans. Périer and La Chaise to Council of the Indies. Movement of company\'s ships; Negroes; merchandise needed for the Indian, Spanish, and domestic trade; domestic animals from Florida; accountants; Lassus, surveyor; Grandcamp-Louboey scandal; Chevalier de St. George a public charge; Ursuline question sent to Mornay for settlement; copper money and treasury notes; Broutin\'s appointment over Deverges and Devi; hemp; apothecary Damaron; coal, fruit trees, almanacs, drums harness, and clothing for Negroes needed; bakery; workhouse for women. 4 pp. AC., C 13, 10:184. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : October 17, 1729. Mobile. Diron to the minister. Account of his relations with Indians, 1725-1729; defends himself against Périer and Régis du Roullet; Negroes for farmers; shops; Fort Conde; killing of domestic animals. 23 pp. AC., C 13, 12:148. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : May 10, 1710. Marly. Minister to Artaguette. Price of land; approval of Le Roux\'s voyage; settlement on Lake Pontchartrain; Argoud\'s return to France; fortifications at Fort Massacre; Marie Grisot\'s trouble with Bienville; land grant of Marie Morienne, wife of Jean Baptiste Juchereau; Indian affairs; discipline for coureurs de bois; women settlers; construction of storehouse and mill at Mobile; Negro slaves; Pensacola-Mobile boundary; tin mines on the Missouri; domestic animals from Havana; tobacco at Mobile; La Salle\'s account against Iberville and Bienville. 16 pp. AC., B 32:41. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : October 7, 1699. Fontainebleau. Pontchartrain to Gallifet. Asks for details respecting the English colony on the coast of Florida. Return of Negroes, held by English. 2 pp. AC., B 21:426. |
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| Abstract : May 10, 1710. Marly. Minister to Bienville. Food bought and sold at Pensacola; English encroachments; Pensacola-Mobile boundary; the Renommée\'s cargo of foods and munitons; Indian affairs; Le Roux\'s voyage to Cap Français for powder; fortification of Ile Massacre; La Vente\'s conduct; conduct of coureurs de bois among Indians; Bienville\'s treatment of Marie Grisot, midwife; exchange of Indian captives for Negro slaves; official appointments. 9 pp. AC., B 32:36. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : March 13, 1726. New Orleans. Boisbriant to the minister. Complains of the company's promotion of La Chaise to the first place in Louisiana; English aggression among Indians; Vincennes' report from the Wabash; the Illinois post; Negroes for farmers. 13 pp. AC., C 13, 9:343. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : February 7, 1733. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Spanish piracy case; captain of the Vigilante seizes pirogue and Negroes; decision of Superior Council sent to viceroy of Mexico. 6 pp. AC., C 13, 17:36. (Miss.) AC., C 13, 16:194 (abstract). |
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| Abstract : March 6, 1733. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Funds of the colony; company\'s transactions, merchandise, notes, Negroes, rice, and horses; funds needed; bills of exchange; Capt. Frotin; Terisse de Ternan; Indian presents. 14 pp. AC., C 13, 17:78. |
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