MF 1038, C13A, Volume 2, Bobine 3, 1701-1712

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Microfilm 3

Scope and content:

Quarrel between La Salle and Bienville; reports from Louisiana; Efforts to establish contact with the Spanish at Vera Cruz; relations with Indian tribes, marriages between French men and Indian women; forts and garrisons; troops and officers; settlers; missionaries. Relations with the Spanish at Pensacola. Establishments at Mobile. Ile Massacre (Ile Dauphine), Fort Luis, Lake Ponchartrain. The English attack Pensacola. The beaver trade; discovery of mineral deposits. The Canadians in Louisiana. La Salle's accounts, 1702-1706. Correspondence from Chateaugue. Bienville's quarrels with Church officials. Slave trade between Louisiana and Saint Domingue: 2 Indians for 1 Negro. Loss of brick Aventure. The 1708 Louisiana census (troops, settlers, cattle). Exploration of the Missiouri proposed by the La Salle. M. d' Artaguiette Investigates Bienville's administration; reports from Fort Louis. New settlement of Lake Ponchartrain. Food, supplies, and women urgently requested for Louisiana. Pensacola menaced by famine. Mandeville's reports. Plans for a trading company for Louisiana. Rivalry between Cananda and Louisiana; interventions of La Mothe Cadillac, governor of Detroit, later replaced by La Forest. La Mothe Cadillac appointed governor of Louisiana. Ile Massacre (Ile Dauphine) ravaged by a Jamaican privateer. Death of La Salle. The Mobile settlement destroyed by flood. La Mothe Cadillac's correspondence with the Minister and with Crozat. The Renommes's cargo damaged. Draft of a charter concerning Louisiana trade.

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