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| Abstract : October 30, 1726. New Orleans. List of farmers and planters who desire Negroes; number stated. (Marginal notes explain the applicant's fitness to receive slaves.) (Copy.) 12 pp. AC., G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : July 1, 1727. [New Orleans.] Census of farmers and planters in the New Orleans district. Enumeration of heads of families and members in family group, French servants, Negro and Indian slaves, cattle, horses and hogs. 28 pp. AC., G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : May 20, 1725. New Orleans. Council to Council of the Indies. Negroes; domestic animals; farms; construction work; Germans quit Law's grant; clothing for troops; shortage of merchandise; cultivation of tobacco; complaints against Pauger; Jarry de St. Denis kills La Salle. (Abstract, with marginal notes.) 8 pp. AC., C 13, 9:140. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : March 26, 1722. Paris. Decree of Council of State, ordering, in conformity with letters patent of April 1717 (q.v.), all products of the Islands and French colonies (even those arising out of the slave-trade) to pay a duty of three per cent to the Ferme du Domaine d'Occident. [Printed.] 4 pp. BN., MSS.fr., 21777:77. |
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| 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. |
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| Abstract : October 1716. Paris. Edict, permitting inhabitants of French colonies to take to France their Negro slaves without thereby freeing them. 10 pp. BN., MSS.fr., n.a., 2549:34; AC., A 28:116; BMM., MS.73, vol. 3:319; AN., AD VII. 3 (printed). |
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| Abstract : May 15, 1725. New Orleans. Father Raphael to the Abbé Raguet. Loss of the Bellonne; councillors; the church and religion; position of clergy; conversion of slaves and Indians; morals and character of officials. 16 pp. AC., C 13, 8:399. (Miss., Ill.) |
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| Abstract : 1725. New Orleans. Register of burials in New Orleans, relating to 97 persons interred "in the cemetery of this parish [city]." In rare cases, Father Raphael registers deaths which occurred elsewhere, such as Natchez "where there was no priest yet." The majority of the deceased are between twenty and thirty years old. Numerous infants and a few persons of African-descent are included in this list. Service historique de la Défense, département Marine - Lorient (SHD-M Lorient), 1 P 274, Bundle 9. |
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| Abstract : April 1, 1726. April 4, 1726. April 6, 1726. New Orleans. [Superior] Council to Council of the Indies. Arrival and distribution of Negroes; complaint against La Chaise; shop established in New Orleans. (Abstracts, with marginal notes.) 3 pp. AC., C 13, 9:251. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : August 28, 1725. New Orleans. [Superior] Council to Council of the Indies. Need of Negroes; discontent among farmers; indigo; French supplies; Natchez tobacco; Le Blanc sent to Louisiana; Duvergier, Desliette and Du Tisné; merchandise for Illinois; lumber exported. (Summary, with remarks in parallel column.) 5 pp. AC., C 13, 9:239.(Ill., Miss.) |
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