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Louisiana land grants collection, 1785-1802.

Title: Louisiana land grants collection, 1785-1802.

Correspondence, land grants, petitions, and related documents concerning Louisiana. Individuals represented include José Amestoa; Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop; Luis Héctor, barón de Carondelet; Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; Esteban Miró; Juan Ventura Morales; Miguel Morales, Abraham Morhouse; Joseph Rabatta; Manuel Serrano; and Nicolás María Vidal.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70982131 View

Ellis, Richard. Ellis-Farar papers, 1768-1871 (bulk 1804-1833).

Title: Ellis-Farar papers, 1768-1871 (bulk 1804-1833).

Legal documents, bills and receipts, and correspondence of Richard Ellis, Mary Ellis Farar and Captain Benjamin Farar, Jane Ellis Rapalje and George Rapalje, Abram Ellis, and members of their respective families. Legal documents consist of papers pertaining to the settlement of the estates of the above family members, including deeds, wills, surveys, indentures, slave inventories, and confirmation of land ownership. Also included with legal documents are contracts for work performed by craftsmen and overseers on the various plantations. Bills and receipts consist of those for merchandise and for work and repairs performed at the plantations; doctor bills for family members and their slaves; and bills for tuition to College of Louisiana. Correspondence consists of letters between various family members and friends concerning news such as illnesses and marriages, and plantation matters such as crop conditions and letters to and from overseers. Also includes letters to Jane Repalje from William Kenner concerning the voyage by steamboat his family made from Natchez to New Orleans and their experiences when they settled in New Orleans.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

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Segret, Jean Baptiste. Jean Baptiste Segret legal document, 1785 Oct. 11.

Title: Jean Baptiste Segret legal document, 1785 Oct. 11.

Legal document describes the terms of the settlement of a commercial lawsuit involving a business contract between Jean Baptiste Segret, referred to in the document as Juan Bautista Segret, and Jean Reynaud of New Orleans, La. The document states that Segret, acting on Reynaud's behalf, has the right to seize properties of Juan Peschoux, who has defaulted on a loan. The document bears the signature of Esteban Rodríguez Miró, governor of the Spanish American provinces of Louisiana and Florida.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320453024 View

Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies., 1765-1802.

Title: Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies. 1765-1802.

Photostats of a selection of important manuscripts and documents regarding Indians from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain, particularly the section of Papeles procedentes de Cuba.

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Stetson, John Batterson, 1830-1906. Stetson collection, 1766-1797.

Title: Stetson collection, 1766-1797.

These are microfilm copies of part of the Stetson Collection at the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. This set is part of a much larger collection of some 7,000 documents (approx. 130,000 sheets) photocopied from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain, in the 1920s under the patronage of John Batterson Stetson Jr. The larger Stetson Collection concerns all phases of Spanish activity in the Southeast Borderlands from 1518 to 1819. Most of the selected documents here are from Seccíon 5, "Gobierno Audiencia de Santo Domingo" and "Papeles Procedentes de la Isla de Cuba." They pertain chiefly to Spanish Louisiana, Spanish West Florida, and the second Spanish period in East Florida. Since the documents were filmed prior to the reorganization of legajos in the Archivo General de Indias, see the conversion table by Paul E. Hoffman in the inventory folder for comparison with current organization of the legajos. See also "A List of the Papeles de Cuba Material found in the Stetson Collection" prepared by Bruce Chappell in 1976.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/399711912 View

Miró, Esteban, 1744-1795. Miro, Esteban, official letters, 1783-1791.

Title: Miro, Esteban, official letters, 1783-1791.

Nineteen letters fro Don Esteban Miro regarding the Louisiana area. Twelve letters addressed to the M. Y. A. ("Muy Ylustre Ayuntamiento") relate to: Bernardo de Galvez (4 items); the repair and establishment of a charity hospital (3 items); laws and regulations (3 items); charity for victims of fire (1 item); and the need for a smallpox quarantine (1 item). The subjects of other letters include disputed land in Natchez, a surveyor report of the District of Punta Corta (La.), and two legal matters in the German Coast.

ArchivalResource: 2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82544248 View

Parsons, Edward Alexander, collection 93-492; 2009-324; 2012-099., 1678-1928, 1951

Title: Parsons, Edward Alexander,collection 1678-1928,1951

The material in the Edward AlexanderParsons Collection, 1678-1928, 1951, comprises a wide variety of manuscriptdocuments relating the American South, primarily around Louisiana.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00015/00015-P.html View

Miró, Esteban, 1744-1795. Esteban Miró letters, 1782-1792.

Title: Esteban Miró letters, 1782-1792.

Official correspondence (in French and Spanish) written to Alexandre de Clouet, Commandant of Attakapas and Opelousas, and to Monsieur St. Marc Darby and Juan de la Villebeuvre, government officials at Opelousas, pertaining to administrative matters including succession claims, civil suits, a land grant request (Feb. 5, 1787), road construction (Feb. 14, 1784; June 9, 1790) and a decree restricting the movement of Acadian and Malaguenian inhabitants (March 4, 1789).

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262830202 View

Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825. James Wilkinson letters to Esteban Miró, and related documents, 1788-1793.

Title: James Wilkinson letters to Esteban Miró, and related documents, 1788-1793.

Seven ALS, 1788-1791, written by James Wilkinson to Esteban Miró, governor of Spanish Louisiana, regarding the influence of Spain in western United States territory, and nine related autograph manuscript documents. Wilkinson's letters concern his relations with Spanish officials, including Miró; Diego Gardoqui y Arriquibar, Spanish Minister to the United States; and Martin Navarro, Intendant of Louisiana. The letters discuss Wilkinson's involvement in Kentucky politics and his interests in Mississippi River commerce, including discussion of his views on the founding of the colony of New Madrid by George Morgan. A letter to Miró dated Sep 17, 1789, 30 leaves, is written in the form of an essay, in which Wilkinson summarizes for the Spanish government his views on relations between Spain and western United States territory. Related documents are "Extracts of letters from Don Diego de Gardoqui, October 4, 1788 & October 10, 1788," consisting of excerpts from two letters to George Moore, undated, copied in an unidentified hand; ALS from Gardoqui to Major Isaac B. Dunn, an associate of Wilkinson, Oct 7, 1788; copy of an ALS from Wilkinson to Gardoqui, Jan 1, 1789, in an unidentifed hand; copy of a letter from General Arthur St. Clair to Dunn, Dec 9, 1788, copied by Dunn, with an appended note, signed, from Dunn to Wilkinson, Jan 15, 1789; ALS from Wilkinson to Manual Gayoso, Governor of Natchez, Jul 8, 1793; two AL, written in code in unidentified hands, dated Apr 17, 1790, and undated; and two autograph manuscript documents listing code numbers with word translations. Wilkinson's letter to Gayoso and one of his letters to Miró, Nov 4, 1791, discuss his service as a United States army officer during Indian wars in the Northwest.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77634521 View

Pérez Romero, Hijos de. The despatches of the Spanish governors of Louisiana to the captains-general of Cuba 1766-1791 / photographed for the Carnegie Institution of Washington by Hijos de Pérez Romero, Seville.

Title: The despatches of the Spanish governors of Louisiana to the captains-general of Cuba 1766-1791 / photographed for the Carnegie Institution of Washington by Hijos de Pérez Romero, Seville. 1766-1791.

Photographic facsimiles of official civil dispatches from the Spanish governors of Louisiana to their superior, the captain-general of Cuba, from 1766-1791.

ArchivalResource: 20 v. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33006483 View

West, Elizabeth Howard, 1873-1948. Elizabeth Howard West papers, 1783-1942.

Title: Elizabeth Howard West papers, 1783-1942.

Papers are chiefly typewritten transcriptions of correspondence between officials representing Spanish colonial rule in Louisiana and Florida, among them Esteban Miró, the governor of Spanish colonial Louisiana, and representatives of Panton, Leslie, and Company, a firm of Scottish traders that began trading with the native peoples of the U.S. Southeast during the Revolutionary War. The correspondence was accumulated by Elizabeth Howard West in preparation for writing a monograph on the firm. The correspondence largely concerns the efforts of William Panton, an agent in the firm, to obtain permission to trade with Native Americans within the territories controlled by the Spanish; complaints about American competition, the interference in the firm's work by American settlers, and the destruction of its trading posts; and the movements of Alexander McGillivray, leader of the Creek nation and a friend and associate of Panton. Another sequence of letters concerns the efforts of Panton's executor to secure compensation for losses and debts owed to the firm by citizens or inhabitants who were subjects of British rule at the time the debts were incurred but became citizens or inhabitants of the United States following the American Revolutionary War. A separate group of correspondence pertains to Elizabeth Howard West's scholarly writings and her attempts to track down documents associated with Panton, Leslie, and Company in Great Britain and the United States.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181643595 View

Huntington Free Library,. Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies, 1765-1802.

Title: Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies, 1765-1802.

List compiled March 20, 1926 by Reina Mercedes. Photostats of a selection of important manuscripts and documents regarding Indians from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain, particularly the section of Papeles procedentes de Cuba. This includes correspondence, reports to Congress, census information, and treaties, with a focus on New Orleans and southern Indians during the late 1700s. Correspondents include Pierre-Joseph Favrot, John Doughty, Esteban Miró́ and other governors and authority figures. Documents are not necessarily complete, though some are. Probably compiled for someone's research in the 1920s. Paraphrased from the 1926 guide: "Report on a few scattered documents on Indian affaris, found in the General Archvies of the Indies. Attention was confined to communications to and from Indians ("direct discourse"), to treaties, commissions, etc. The documents photocopied are not related to each other, the collection being, in fact, only an indication of what material exists at Seville. The idea was to hear through these documents what the red man had to say for himself, and what was said to him, with as little interference by white mediators as possible."

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/540380541 View

Museo Naval (Spain). Archivo Central de Marina. [Archivo Central de Madrid, Museo Naval, Madrid MS. 569 [microform].

Title: [Archivo Central de Madrid, Museo Naval, Madrid MS. 569 [microform]. 1766-1800.

ArchivalResource: 6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46993358 View

Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825. James Wilkinson letters to Esteban Miró, and related documents, 1788-1793.

Title: James Wilkinson letters to Esteban Miró, and related documents, 1788-1793.

Seven ALS, 1788-1791, written by James Wilkinson to Esteban Miró, governor of Spanish Louisiana, regarding the influence of Spain in western United States territory, and nine related autograph manuscript documents. Wilkinson's letters concern his relations with Spanish officials, including Miró; Diego Gardoqui y Arriquibar, Spanish Minister to the United States; and Martin Navarro, Intendant of Louisiana. The letters discuss Wilkinson's involvement in Kentucky politics and his interests in Mississippi River commerce, including discussion of his views on the founding of the colony of New Madrid by George Morgan. A letter to Miró dated Sep 17, 1789, 30 leaves, is written in the form of an essay, in which Wilkinson summarizes for the Spanish government his views on relations between Spain and western United States territory. Related documents are "Extracts of letters from Don Diego de Gardoqui, October 4, 1788 & October 10, 1788," consisting of excerpts from two letters to George Moore, undated, copied in an unidentified hand; ALS from Gardoqui to Major Isaac B. Dunn, an associate of Wilkinson, Oct 7, 1788; copy of an ALS from Wilkinson to Gardoqui, Jan 1, 1789, in an unidentifed hand; copy of a letter from General Arthur St. Clair to Dunn, Dec 9, 1788, copied by Dunn, with an appended note, signed, from Dunn to Wilkinson, Jan 15, 1789; ALS from Wilkinson to Manual Gayoso, Governor of Natchez, Jul 8, 1793; two AL, written in code in unidentified hands, dated Apr 17, 1790, and undated; and two autograph manuscript documents listing code numbers with word translations. Wilkinson's letter to Gayoso and one of his letters to Miró, Nov 4, 1791, discuss his service as a United States army officer during Indian wars in the Northwest.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702150338 View

Derr, Lucile Elizabeth. Lucile Elizabeth Derr M.A. thesis, 1927.

Title: Lucile Elizabeth Derr M.A. thesis, 1927.

Copy of Lucile Elizabeth Derr's master's thesis, "Administration of Estevan Miro, 1784-1791," (University of California Graduate School, Jan. 1927). Also included is an appendix of translations from the original Spanish documents (1781-1791).

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70781884 View

Louisiana. Court of Pleas. Court records of Spanish New Orleans, 1784-1808.

Title: Court records of Spanish New Orleans, 1784-1808.

Manuscript records of the proceedings in eight court cases involving local citizens and interests. All began during the period of Spanish domination of the city. The cases represented in the records are: Fermin Songy vs. the succession of Pedro Rillieux (1799), Hilario Boutte vs. Claudio Chabot (1791-1800), Martin Braquier vs. the succession of Gilbert Antoine St. Maxent (1796-1798), Lorenzo Sigur vs. Isabel Larroche (1795-1796), Sigur vs. Andres Almonester y Roxas (1798), Claude Treme vs. Gilberto Guillemard (1804-1808, including documents dating back to 1797), proceedings instituted by Francisco Blache to execute the last will and testament of Luis Blondeau (1799-1803), and the succession of Gilbert Antoine St. Maxent (1784-1803). The Boutte vs. Chabot record includes testimony by the latter's wife describing the imprisonment and illness of her husband, along with details of her own business ventures. The extensive record of the St. Maxent succession documents the estate of one of colonial Louisiana's largest landowners. Also included in one of the record volumes are minutes of the Court of Pleas for the Orleans Territory (1804). Many of the documents in this record group were prepared and signed by the notary publics of the city, including Pierre Pedesclaux, Rafael Perdomo, Narcisse Broutin, and Carlos Ximenes. Also included are papers signed by the members of the judicial tribunal hearing the suits, including governors Carondelet, Casa Calvo, Miro, Galvez, and Gayoso de Lemos. Abstracts and/or partial translations are available for portions of the records. While these records probably originated in the same tribunals represented in the collection of Spanish Judicial Records held by the Louisiana State Museum, the present collection is identified as part of the municipal archives in an inventory prepared in 1845.

ArchivalResource: 9 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25730381 View

Natchez Trace Collection provincial and territorial documents, 1759-1813.

Title: Natchez Trace Collection provincial and territorial documents, 1759-1813.

Lawsuit records, wills, estate inventories, notarized bills and accounts, contracts, slave sales and manumissions and other civil records reflecting the shifting jurisdictions and cultures of colonial Louisiana and Mississippi. many of the documents are written in two languages; a few are in French, Spanish and English. Although the bulk is from Louisiana and Mississippi, a small number of items is from other states, territories and countries.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft., 9 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76174996 View

Balsinger, Valantin. Valantin Balsinger petition, 1785-1787.

Title: Valantin Balsinger petition, 1785-1787.

Petition of Valantin Balsinger requesting land in Iberville Parish, La. (1785) accompanied by a document showing the land as surveyed by Carlos Trudeau and granted by Governor Esteban Miro (1787).

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70665713 View

Forstall, Nicolas. Nicolas Forstall letter, 1790.

Title: Nicolas Forstall letter, 1790.

Official letter (in French) from Nicolas Forstall, Opelousas, La., to Estevan Miro requesting authorization and funds to repair road to New Orleans in the vicinity of Bayou Courtableu.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/268676555 View

White, Diego. Agreement, 1789.

Title: Agreement, 1789.

Letter in Spanish, with an English translation, from Diego White [General James Wilkinson?] to Governor Don Esteban Miro, dated New Orleans, giving the substance of the agreement between Don Diego de Gardoqui, minister of Spain, and certain Americans in the proposed state of Franklin, Cumberland, and elsewhere, relative to an alliance between the trans-Allegheny pioneers and Spain.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787101 View

Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825. James Wilkinson papers, 1784-1824 1794-1817 (bulk dates)

Title: James Wilkinson papers, 1784-1824 1794-1817 (bulk dates)

This is the correspondence of James Wilkinson, a soldier and politician during the American Revolution and the early Republic.

ArchivalResource: 29 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15287586 View

Panton Leslie and Company Collection, 1739-1847

Title: Panton Leslie and Company Collection 1739-1847

ArchivalResource: 19375

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Parsons, Edward Alexander, 1878-1962. Parsons, Edward Alexander, collection, 1678-1928, 1951.

Title: Parsons, Edward Alexander, collection, 1678-1928, 1951.

The material in the Edward Alexander Parsons Collection, 1678-1928, 1951, comprises a wide variety of manuscript documents concerning the American South, primarily Louisiana and surrounding areas.

ArchivalResource: 6 ft., 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496828487 View

Miscellaneous Spanish and French records of New Orleans, 1789-1816.

Title: Miscellaneous Spanish and French records of New Orleans, 1789-1816.

Manuscript records from the colonial, territorial, & early American periods. Many items are financial in nature, including bills, vouchers, receipts, etc. Among these are documents relating to the construction and repair of the Cabildo, market buildings, jails, hospitals, bridges, & levees. Several items deal with efforts to repair dangerous breaks in the city's levees. One document lists the merchant vessels that docked in New Orleans during 1797. There are numerous documents dealing with the municipal lighting department, including "chimney tax" records, basically censuses showing the number of fires or chimneys present in each of the city's buildings. There is a ca. 1804 inventory of the contents of the notarial office of Narcisse Broutin for the period 1790-1803 & there are records giving the names of local tavern keepers as well as payrolls of the municipal police officers. The latest item in the collection is an 1816 report on the subscription made for the purpose of supplying clothing to the militia during the 1814-1815 British invasion. This report lists amounts subscribed by named individuals, supplies purchased, & materials delivered to the various units stationed in the area. It is the City Archives Collection's most detailed manuscript dealing with the Battle of New Orleans. Among the individuals represented by one or more documents in the collection are Governors Carondelet, Miro, & Salcedo; the architect-builders Gilberto Guillemard, Barthelemy Lafon, & Gurlie and Guillot; merchant J.F. Merieult; & municipal officials Andres Almonester y Roxas, Juan de Castanedo, Pedro Pedesclaux, Matias de Alpuente, & Rudolph Joseph Ducros. The documents were numbered & arranged into their present order by the WPA. The WPA also prepared Spanish transcripts from the documents, as well as English translations. Because both the Spanish & English typewritten versions use the WPA order & numbering system, we have retained that arrangement for the original records as well.

ArchivalResource: original manuscripts 1 cu. ft.typewritten transcriptions and translations 8 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25501384 View

William R. Shepherd Papers, 1554-1931

Title: William R. Shepherd Papers 1554-1931

Author, historian, lecturer, and professor of history. Transcripts, 1554-1814 and undated, from Spanish archives, correspondence, notes and drafts of articles and speeches; newspaper clippings. The collection relates to Shepherd's activities in Spain while collecting data for his (1907). Much of the same material was later photocopied for the Library of Congress. Guide to the Materials for the History of the United States in Spanish Archives

ArchivalResource: 2,500 items; 18 containers; 8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012149 View

Miró, Esteban, 1744-1795. Miro, Esteban, royal transmittal records, 1783-1791.

Title: Miro, Esteban, royal transmittal records, 1783-1791.

Twenty letters from Don Esteban Miro transmitting copies of peace treaties and royal orders, decrees, resolutions, appointments and edicts. The majority of the letters are addressed to the M. Y. A (Muy Ylustre Ayuntamiento). Two letters contain copies of peace treaties between King Charles and the Dey of Algeria, and between Great Britain and Spain (Article VI), each signed in 1786. Letters transmit royal statements regarding laws and regulations (6 items), commerce (3 items), political appointments (4 items), Louisiana militias (2 items), church matters (2 items), and the smallpox epidemic (1 item).

ArchivalResource: 2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85376560 View

Pérez Romero, Hijos de. The despatches of the Spanish governors of Louisiana to the captains-general of Cuba 1766-1791 [microform] / photographed for the Carnegie Institution of Washington by Hijos de Pérez Romero, Seville.

Title: The despatches of the Spanish governors of Louisiana to the captains-general of Cuba 1766-1791 [microform] / photographed for the Carnegie Institution of Washington by Hijos de Pérez Romero, Seville. 1766-1791.

Photographic facsimiles of official civil dispatches from the Spanish governors of Louisiana to their superior, the captain-general of Cuba, from 1766-1791.

ArchivalResource: 8 microfilm reels : negative.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44419839 View

Miró, Esteban, 1744-1795. Estevan Rodriguez Miró passport and receipt, 1789, 1790.

Title: Estevan Rodriguez Miró passport and receipt, 1789, 1790.

Passport issued in New Orleans to Greenbourg Dorsey gives him permission to settle in Louisiana and describes the conditions under which permission was granted (July 19, 1789). Also included is a receipt in Spanish (July 26, 1790) issued to Dorsey at Natchez.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263084433 View