MF 1063, C13A, Volume 21, Bobine 28, 1736

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Microfilm 11

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Relations with Indian tribes, tribal wars, English efforts to isolate the French from their Indian allies, relations with the Spanish, especially at Pensacola. Trade with the home country; naval stores. Food supply. Ships arrive from France and from the French islands. Artaquiette defeated by the Chickasaws. Troops arrive aboard the Girodne. News from the various French posts. Health and sanitation. Disappointment with tobacco crops. Slaves needed. Indian trade; merchandise requested by the Indians. A church is built at Natchitoches; other church affairs; problems with clerical personnel. Financial management of the colony; accounts. Public works at New Orleans, at La Balise, at Mobile; situation at the forts. Rumors of war; necessity of maintaining the Choctaw alliance. Relations with Vera Cruz. The Illinois fort. Medical doctors for the colony. Indian trade and prices; competition with the English. Consequences of the defeat of Artaquiette. Epidemic among the Fox Indians. Indian policy applied to the new English colony, Georgia. Events on the Ohio; 4 French are killed. The Perle, Reine des Anges and Comte de Maurepas arrive. Public opinions reports. Supplies arrive, including medicines. Card money instituted. Death of M. de Vincennes; situation in Wabash country. Swiss soldiers form Karrer's regiment. Missionaries. Correspondence from Mobile, form Artaquiette's brother.

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