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| Abstract : June 1, 1724. New Orleans. Chevalier de Morand to the king. Asks for a land grant, Negroes and supplies. 2 pp. AC., C 13, 8:187. |
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| Abstract : October 24, 1723. [New Orleans.] Desfontaines, director general of [the] Coetlogon and Deucher plantation, to La Jonchere. Arguments against growing tobacco and in favor of the cultivation of indigo; Negroes brought from Natchez to Chaouachas to cultivate indigo. (Ext.) 6 pp. AC., G 1, 465:n.p. (LC.) |
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| 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. |
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| Abstract : March 25, 1729. New Orleans. Périer and La Chaise to [Company of the Indies]. Negroes, their arrival, mortality, distribution and sale; loss of boat, Illinois convoy; Father D'Outreleau goes to Wabash post; sawmill; lumber; canal; domestic animals; prices of tar and pitch; indigo; tobacco; Jesuits and Capuchins; powder sent to St. Augustine; copper money and notes; Vincennes and the Wabash post; Illinois post and war against the Foxes; plantations; passports required to go from post to post; French-Indian marriages; Bruslé goes to France, Balcousse takes his place; arrival of John Kennedy and John Canadet from Carolina; brickyards; Prat goes to Mexico. (Abstract, with remarks in parallel column.) 28 pp. AC., C 11:322. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : April 25, 1729. New Orleans. Périer to the comptroller general. Illinois country, its flour, mines, Negroes, peltries; war with Foxes; dispute with Canada over control of Illinois. 6 pp. AC., C 13, 12:19. |
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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 : September 9, 1729. Fort Royal, Martinique. Rhuais to Gov[ernor] Champigny and Orgeville, intendant. Requests permission to sail for Louisiana with his cargo of Negroes, repairs being finished and food supplied. 2 pp. AC., C 8, 55:n.p. |
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| Abstract : September 19, 1729. Fort Royal, Martinique. Champigny and Orgeville to the minister. Payments to be made to Company of Indies; deliveries made to a vessel from Louisiana; Company of Indies' slave-ship destined for Louisiana, sells cargo in Martinique; lack of experienced officers in Louisiana. AC., C 8, 40:n.p. |
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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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