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| Abstract : December 5, 1731. New Orleans. Périer and Salmon to the minister. Ownership of the company's Negroes, brickyard, and plantation; ask whether they became the king's property by act of January 23, 1731. 8 pp. AC., C 13, 14:30. (Miss.) |
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| Abstract : [1732]. Memoir on the wretched conditions in Louisiana. Natchez and Chickasaw massacre; scarcity of settlers and troops; English desire to possess the colony; tobacco; merchandise; food; munitions; need of Negroes; Indian trade. 10 pp. AC., C 13c, 1:160. |
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| Abstract : January 6, 1732. German Coast, Louisiana. Van der Heck to the minister. Account of his voyage to Louisiana; asks that his goods be sent from France to his Louisiana plantation; asks for Negroes. 8 pp. AC., C 13b, 1:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : January 7, 1732. German Coast, Louisiana. Van der Heck to the minister. Description of his plantation; need of Negroes; industries to be developed - pottery, indigo; Indian trade. 6 pp. AC., C 13b, 1:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : July 19, 1732. German Coast, Louisiana. Van der Heck to the minister. Visit from Salmon; increase in size of plantation and number of Negroes; loan of money desired; mines. 4 pp. AC., C 13b, 1:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : March 12, 1735. Fort Royal, Martinique. Champigny and D'Orgeville to the minister. Chief and squaw, Foxes, sent from Canada to Martinique to be sold; can neither sell nor give them away; fear they will instigate negro revolt; ask permission to sell them in Orinoco, or if that be impossible, to let them live there among the natives. 2 pp. AC., C 8, 46:n.p. |
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| Abstract : February 20, 1738. New Orleans. Proposal from merchants of the colony, for formation of a company to carry slaves from Guinea to Louisiana. Terms; support of Bienville and Salmon asked; Couturier named commissioner of the company. Signed by D'Hautrive, Frenière, Bellaire, Bretton, Denne, Prat, Gautreau Fleuriau, La Vergne, Prevost, Barbier, Aubert, Broutin, Couturier. 5 pp. AC., F 3, 24:307. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : January 28, 1721. Fort Royal, Martinique. Feuquières and Bénard to the council. Transmits declaration of Capt[ain] Rosvelec Legris on the burning at sea of a vessel of the Company of the Indies with cargo of 260 Negroes [slaves] destined for Louisiana; two other vessels of the company expected; Negro cargoes for Louisiana. AC., C 8, 28:n.p. |
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| Abstract : April 17, 1730. Fort Royal, Martinique. Champigny and D'Orgeville to the minister. Attempts to justify their changing the destination of the Américain and sale of cargo of Negroes in Martinique; promise obedience to minister's orders. 6 pp. AC., C 8, 41: n.p. |
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| Abstract : December 7, 1730. Fort Royal, Martinique. Champigny and D'Orgeville to the minister. Arrival of the St. Louis, slave-ship of Company of the Indies, bound for Louisiana; sickness of slaves. 3 pp. AC., C 8, 41:n.p. |
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