Letter : New Orleans, to [John] Steele, governor of the territory of Natchez, 1801 May 1.

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Letter : New Orleans, to [John] Steele, governor of the territory of Natchez, 1801 May 1.

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Contemporary English translation of an official letter written by the Marques de Casa Calvo, governor of Spanish Louisiana, 1799-1801, to John Steele, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1802, and acting governor, Apr. 1 - Nov. 23, 1801, forwarding from the commandant of Nacogdoches notification of the death of U.S. citizen, Natchez resident, and contraband horse trader, Philip Nolan, at the hand of Spanish troops in the Interior Provinces, near present-day Waco, Texas.

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