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

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

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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.

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

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Castanedo, Juan de.

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Gurlie and Guillot.

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Alpuente, Matias de.

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Miró, Esteban, 1744-1795

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Salcedo, Manuel María de, -1813

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Lafon, Barthélémy, 1769-1820

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Broutin, Narcisse.

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Merieult, John F.

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Almonester y Roxas, Andres.

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Guillemard, Gilberto

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Pedesclaux, Pedro

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Bernard de Marigny was a wealthy Louisiana French Creole planter and politician. At the age of fifteen, he inherited his father's plantation just below New Orleans city gates, east of Vieux Carré. In order to pay his gambling debts, he began subdividing his plantation in 1806 to develop Faubourg Marigny, the first New Orleans suburb. Marigny was elected to the New Orleans City Council (1811, 1814), served as president of the Louisiana Senate (1822-1823) and ran two unsuccessful gubernatorial ca...