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| Abstract : July 21, 1736. Paris. Authorization granted by the Company of the Indies to Jean-François Boyer, ship owner in Marseilles, for him to engage in the trade of slaves, gold ore and other goods on the Guinea coast. Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône (AD13), 9 B 6, fol. 296, v. |
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| Abstract : [ca. 1759]. Plan by Bertrand for commerce and settlement of Louisiana: landing of troops and formation of village on Dauphin Island; building of four vessels in fifteen years; pirates; arsenals; store houses; negroes from Jamaica; shipbuilders from New England; silk making; plantations; sawmills; doctor and surgeon; exemption from duties for merchandise of the company. 25pp. AC., C 13c, 1:227. |
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| Abstract : [1726]. Memoir [by Bienville] on Louisiana. Administration of colonial affairs; criticism of the form of government; the commandant general; clerks at Balize, Illinois, and Mobile; engineers; justice; the conseil de régie, its composition; posts at Balize, Mobile, Fort Toulouse, Natchez, Arkansas, Yazoo, Illinois, Missouri, and Natchitoches; need of others; commerce with Spaniards of Pensacola, Adayes, and the Islands; products, indigo, rice, pitch, tar, and tobacco; mines; lumber; Negroes; concessions; Indian affairs. 65 pp. AC., C 13c, l: 362, 387. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : [1731]. Memoir on Louisiana. Soil; settlers at Biloxi; Natchez war; Bienville recalled to France; floods; evil practices of councillors; superior council cabals; climate; lumber; natural products; mines; Balize, New Orleans, Pointe Coupee, Natchez, Yazoo, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, and Natchitoches; Jesuits and Capuchins; trade with Spaniards; Choctaws, Natchez, and Chickasaws; English aggression; need of Negroes, troops and Canadian settlers; wax plantations. 22 pp. AC., C 13c, 1:375. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : June 5, 1768. Versailles. Minister to Foucault. Instructions on the sale to English of negroes and a house belonging to Kaskaskia plantation in hands of Father Forget of the Missions Étrangères, Illinois country. 1p. AC., B 129:557. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : November 27, 1753. Versailles. Minister to Kerlérec and D\'Auberville. Instructions for sale of the king\'s Louisiana negroes. 2pp. AC., B 97:350. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : January 1732. New Orleans. Census of New Orleans. Names of owner of house, and of members of family; enumeration of men able to bear arms, women, children, orphans, Negro and Indian slaves, mulattoes, horses, oxen, cows, hogs, and guns. 23 pp. AC., G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) BN., MSS.fr., n.a., 9300:289 [Margry copy]. |
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| Abstract : January 1, 1732. Illinois. Census of farmers at the different settlements in the Illinois country. Name of owner, whether married; enumeration of his children, legitimate or illegitimate; frontage of land owned; acres under cultivation; Negro and Indian slaves; oxen, cows, hogs, horses, mills, houses, and barns. 18 pp. AC., G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : November 24, 1721. New Orleans. Census of New Orleans and of settlements in its vicinity. (Enumeration of men, women, children, French servants, Indian and Negro slaves, cattle, and horses; report on soil, rice, corn, wheat, grains, indigo, silk, lumber; Mississippi floods. Plantations: name of owner, location, name of overseer, number of workmen; size and kind of last harvest; fortifications.) 15 pp. AC., G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) BN., MSS.fr., n.a., 9300:261 (Margry\'s copy, dated March, 1722). |
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| Abstract : November 12, 1724 to November 13, 724. New Orleans. Census of the German villages above New Orleans. Name of each farmer; place of birth; age; size of family; religion; land cleared; size of harvest; number of slaves, hogs, cattle; trade; whether industrious. General report on settlements. 28 pp. AC. , G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) BN., MSS.fr., n.a., 93 pp:271 (Margry copy). |
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