MF 1077, C13A, Volume 35, Bobine 42, 1751

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Microfilm 7

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The Ursuline convent. Officers arrive in the colony. Expenses of the Illinois convoy. Map of Mississippi. Reinforcements for Mobile. Other posts to be repaired and reinforced. The Swiss troops. Administrative measures regulating cabarets, slaves, markets, etc. More troops arrive aboard the Aimable Jeanne, the Pontchartrain. The Choctaws create trouble near the Natchez fort. English expansion must be stopped. Search for a new route to Santa Fe. Importance of Mobile and of the tribes in that region. Six companies garrisoned at Kaskaskia, strategically situated in reference to Canadian trappers, to Detroit, to the Wabash country. Arrival of supply ships. War threatens in Ohio country; the Wabash, Osage, Missouri and Illinois tribes seek a coalition designed to expulse the French; possible repercussions among the Arkansas. Michel reports on the colony, especially on financial and administrative matters. Accounting documents. Barracks for the Swiss. Quarrels among officers; the same young mulatto woman coveted by several of them. Michel, "ordonnateur", highly critical of Governor and Madame de Vaudreuil. The Arkansas post abandoned; the commander of the Missouri post assassinated by a soldier. Ships and men continue to arrive, but not enough food. Soldiers having deserted to the Indian returned by the latter with plea of clemency in their favor. Navigation on the Mississippi.

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