MF 1047, C13A, Volume 8, Bobine 12, 1723-1725 [scattered documents 1718, 1718, 1719, 1721, 1725, 1726, 1727]

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Microfilm 13

Scope and content:

La Balise and mouth of the Mississippi, navigation, workers needed as well as slaves. Quarrels opposing officers, administrators, engineers. Trade with the Indians and the Spanish. Relations with Canada. Church affairs. Sanitary conditions. Le Dromodaire returns to France. Concessions of land; landed nobility. Construction of public buildings, forts; public works. Le Profond crosses the Mississippi bar. A brick sails without clearance authorization, with deserters aboard, apparently for Havana. The engineer de Pauger opposes the "Conseil de la Louisiana". Arrival of Chameau. A post is established in Chickasaw coutry. The tobacco crop is damaged. Indigo. 500 negro slaves Expected. Manade, surgeon, founds a hospital and a botanical garden. Arrival of the Saint Andre and the Bellone. The records of M. d'Arembourg, head of German settlement, are examined. Workers for the colony. Distribution of food Supplies. Departure of the Profond. Trade with Biloxi. Salaries of people stationed in Louisiana. Bienville announces the cessation of hostilities between the French and the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes. La Bellone takes on its return cargo. The Captain of the Loire arrested. Plan to send 100 men from the Missouri, Osage and Illinois tribes to France, with interpreters. Financial and administrative problems. The slave trade. Cool relations between Mobile and Pensacola. Relations with the Missouri and the Illinois. Posts and troops reduced; missionaries increased. The Bellone wrecked. Tobacco grown in Natchez country. The Elephant and Saone return to France. The beaver trade via New Orleans. British intrigues in Wabash county.

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