MF 1068, C13A, Volume 26, Bobine 33, 1741

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Microfilm 16

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Financial matters: accounts for 1740. Cost of the Chickasaw campaign. La Somme arrives; no flour aboard; M. de Rossel refuses to unload the canons at La Balise. Renaud's accounts with the Compagnie des Indes. Mines in Illinois territory. Supplies: medications, food, guns, ammunition, other merchandise required. Exports: tobacco, indigo. Navigation on the Mississippi. Shipbuilding in the colony; ship timber sent to France. Trade with Alabamas. A small detachment under the orders o M. Fabry accompanies traders to Santa Fe. Work to be done at La Balise, at Mobile. The Triton and Reine des Anges arrive. Indian tribal warfare; British and French rivalry. Mobile and the Choctaws. Letters of credit in circulation; card money and treasury bonds depreciated. Hurricane damage: La Balise, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Ile aux Vaisseaux: losses suffered. Defense plans in case of a British attack; Spanish forces. Hostilities in the upper Mississippi Valley; the Cherokees are on the warpath. Commerce between Louisiana and the French Islands (la Martinique, St. Domingue). Louisiana agriculture. The slave trade. Salmon severely criticizes Bienville's action in the Chickasaw campaign. Expenses of la Fee, la Somme, while in the colony. Tobacco production, furs, naval stores. Negroes born in the colony. Doctors needed. Settlers also. Pensacola re-fortified. Chickasaw and Natchez raids; unrest throughout the colony. Crops good outside hurricane area. English offensive in the Caribbean; l'Etenduere's squadron attacked.

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