MF 1052, C13A, Volume 11, Bobine 17, 1728-1729
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Perier, governor of Louisiana, reports on aid sent to the Spanish at Saint Augustine and to the Talapoosa and the Coweta Indians to help them resist English pressures. Religious affairs: success of the Jesuit order in the posts. Perier opposed to Indian slavery. Lack of food, merchandise, supplies of all kinds; local harvest insufficient to meet needs; tobacco and rice harvests promising. Indian wars; the Fox (Renards) and Nipissings (Puants) against the French. Middleton, governor of Carolina, protests against French aid to the Spanish. Difficulty encountered in enforcing regulations against traders and trappers in Canada and in Louisiana; contraband. Epidemics at New Orleans: death of Mandeville. Arrival of the Duc de Moailles with 262 Negroes aboard (70 died during the voyage). War between the Fox and the Illinois. A vessel bound for Illinois country lost due to ice; establishment of a post in Wabash territory now appears to be impossible. Construction work at La Balise, the Ile de Saint Esprit. The English attach Saint Augustine. Economic and financial problems of the colony. The Venus arrives with 341 Negroes; return cargo: wood, tobacco and furs. Operating expenses of the Mobile settlement. M. de Vincennes visits the Miamis. Arrival of la Baleine. River, sea and land routes for inter-colony communications. Biloxi evacuated; military problems. Settlers; fur traders; agriculture. Diron reports on Mobile. Rivalry between the Caquchin and Jesuit Orders. French and Indian marriages. Sister Irancheoain de Saint Augustin. Maritime relations with Saint Dominque: la Galathee. Slave ship arrive.
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