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title: Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas
Date created ms: 1767, 1788
Abstract: 1 map 42 x 55 cm.

title: Portrait of Spanish governor of colonial Louisiana Don Bernardo de Galvez approximately 1760s
Subject: Portraits, Government officials, Governors, Colonies, Galvez, Bernardo de, 1746-1786
Date created ms: 1766, 1786
Abstract: B&W photo, approximately 1760s. Spanish governor of Colonial Louisiana. Don Bernardo de Galvez (1746-1786).

title: Decision rendered by the Superior Council of Louisiana regarding the Dauberville suit against Villars [Dubreuil]
Subject: Documents, Law & legal affairs, Lawyers
Date created ms: 1766-08-23, 1766-08-23
Abstract: The attorney representing [Jean Pierre Robert] Gerard de Villemont and [Charles] Lesassier brought the matter of the debt of Villars Dubreuil to the estate of [Vincent Guillaume Le Senechal] Dauberville up before the Superior Council of Louisiana. Prior to deliberating, the Council heard a lengthy summary of the history of the case. The Council ordered Villars to comply with the terms of the agreement he had signed on 1766 July 10 [q.v.] under penalty of seizure of his properties.

title: Decision rendered by the Superior Council of Louisiana to the petition of M. Doucet
Subject: Documents, Law & legal affairs
Date created ms: 1766-11-10, 1766-11-10
Abstract: Lesassier and Villemont informed the Council that Villars [Dubreuil] had not yet complied with all his obligations under the Council's order of 23 August 1766. The petitioners listed the things that he had failed to do and then requested the Council to summon Villars to ratify the act of 1766 September 2, to pay 12,000 livres he owed, and to restore the livestock and indigo that were lacking. The Council ruled that Villars be so ordered.

title: Documents relating to the restitution to be made by Villars [Dubreuil] to the Dauberville estate, New Orleans
Subject: Documents, Estates, Lawyers
Date created ms: 1766-11-28, 1766-11-28
Abstract: [Jean Pierre Robert] Gerard de Villemont and [Charles] Lesassier represented the interests of the Dauberville estate. On November 10 their attorney Doucet asked Villars Dubreuil to ratify the act of retrocession of September 2, to make retrocession, and to pay 12,000 livres. On the 27th Villemont granted power of attorney to Doucet to have carried out the decrees of the Superior Council of Louisiana of August 23 and November 10. The 28th, Joseph Maison certified that he had served notice on Villars Dubreuil to comply with the orders of the Superior Council within twenty-four hours under penalty of seizures of his properties.

title: Instructions, New Orleans
Subject: Documents, Governors, Nobility, Ordinance
Date created ms: 1766-03-20, 1766-03-20
Abstract: Antonio de Ulloa, appointed Governor of Louisiana by the King of Spain, in New Orleans issued a twelve-point set of instructions to his associate, Juan Joseph de Loyola, Commissioner of War in the Province of Louisiana, to be carried out in attending to the transfer of possession of the colony. First, Loyola was to find the principal rules for taking possession in the decree issued by the King. In brief, the following were the major points that Ulloa made: Spanish officials had to follow a just policy in dealing with the greatly devalued paper currency in circulation in the colony; to bring prosperity to the colony the government had to support and encourage agriculture, particularly the cultivation and export of sugarcane, indigo, and tobacco, and the production of food staples for local consumption; French troops in the colony would be allowed to join the Spanish forces on the same footing and pay as the Spanish soldiers; the Capuchins, who under the French ministered to the spiritual needs of the colonists, would continue as before, but they would be joined by two Spanish Capuchins, Father Antonio de Mesones and Father Clemente Saldaña, and all clergy would receive maintenance from the government; the public hospital, financed by the collection of alms from local residents, would be retained and supported; the military hospital and school for poor orphan girls, both of which the Ursulines administered, would also receive government aid; regarding the administration of justice, the French laws and tribunals would continue unchanged.

title: Forfeiture of past interest
Subject: Documents, Business & finance, Debt
Date created ms: 1766-07-29, 1766-07-29
Abstract: Before Juan Bautista Garic, Notary of the Province of Louisiana, appeared Carlos Desasier [i.e., Lesassier], acting as tutor for Maria Luisa Dauberville, who stated that he had settled matters regarding interest due on money owed by Luis Villars Dubreuil to his ward. Villars had contracted the debt of 80,000 livres on 1758 May 16, and accumulated interest from that date to 1766 May 16 amounted to 33,400 livres. The Superior Council had ordered Villars to pay the sum on several occasions. Villars now having discharged as much of the amount as he could, Desasier by the present act forefeited the past interest due, but his action in no way altered the principal owed or interests due from 1766 May 16 onward.

title: Procès-verbal of a meeting of relatives and friends of Marie Louise Dauberville, an emancipated minor
Subject: Documents, meetings
Date created ms: 1766-08-05, 1766-08-05
Abstract: Before the Attorney General of the Province of Louisiana appeared Lieutenant Colonel [Jean Pierre Robert Gerard] de Villemont, acting on behalf of his wife Françoise Petit de Coulange, widow of [Vincent Guillaume] Le Senechal Dauberville, and for her daughter Marie Louise Dauberville. Also present were Charles Lesassier, Mlle Dauberville's guardian, and an assembly of local officials. Villemont and Lessasier presented to the latter a proposal for the retrocession by Villars Dubreuil of property he had acquired from the Dauberville estate. The group deliberated the plan to find the greatest advantage for Mlle Dauberville. They accepted it unanimously and reported the agreement to the Superior Council so that it could be enacted into law.

title: Official letter, New Orleans
Subject: Documents, Correspondence
Date created ms: 1766-03-20, 1766-03-20
Abstract: Juan Joseph de Loyola, Commissioner of War in the Province of Louisiana, transmitted to Governor Ulloa a copy of the articles of instructions signed by the Marqués de Grimaldi, the Spanish Minister of State. These dealt in part with the salaries of Spanish civil and military officials. The troops were to receive the same wages as French soldiers in the colony. The new paymaster would be Sergeant Major DuBurg. To sustain the value of the old paper currency and to maintain public confidence in it, the Governor was to secure paper bills from merchants and use these to pay one-third of each soldier's salary. The other two-thirds would be paid in silver specie. [This item is attached to and and filed with Ulloa's Instructions of 1766 March 20 to Loyola.]

title: Documents relating to the suit of the representatives of the Dauberville estate against Villars [Dubreuil], New Orleans
Subject: Documents, Estates
Date created ms: 1766-12-10, 1766-12-10
Abstract: On December 9 Villars Dubreuil certified that he had replaced a household slave and had paid to [Charles] Lesassier the interest due from [1766] May 16 to September 2. He also promised to pay the 12,000 livres that he still owed. On December 10 attorney Doucet, acting for [Jean Pierre Robert Gerard] de Villemont, requested the seizure of the properties of Villars Dubreuil.

title: Act of retrocession, New Orleans
Subject: Documents, Law & legal affairs
Date created ms: 1766-09-02, 1766-09-02
Abstract: Villars Dubreuil retroceded to the widow Dauberville, now wife of [Jean Pierre Robert] Gerard de Villemont, and to Mlle Dauberville a property and dwelling situated half a league upstream from New Orleans. He guaranteed that he had made repairs and construction in accordance with the agreement of 1766 July 10. He also restored to the Dauberville estate thirty-one slaves, whose names were listed.

title: Floor plans and specifications for residence, warehouse, and two dovecotes to be constructed by Villars [Dubreuil]
Subject: Documents, Floor plans
Date created ms: 1766-07-08, 1766-07-08
Abstract: [The present item relates to the retrocession case in which Villars was involved and for which there are a number of related documents in the collection.] The floor plans and detailed specifications were drawn up and agreed upon by Messrs. Villars Dubreuil and [Jean Pierre Robert Gerard] de Villemont, and former obligated himself to construct on the property of the succession of the deceased [Vincent Guillaume Le Senechal] Dauberville a two-story house, a two-story warehouse, and two dovecotes. [The document is interesting for the information it gives concerning building materials and construction techniques used at the time.]

title: Promissory note, New Orleans
Subject: Documents, Correspondence, Debt, Business & finance
Date created ms: 1766-07-29, 1766-07-29
Abstract: Villars Dubreuil acknowledged that he owned 28,000 livres to Villemont and promised to pay back the sum in four years. As security he gave a mortgage on twenty slaves, whose names he listed.

title: Receipt, New Orleans
Subject: Documents, Business & finance
Date created ms: 1766-07-29, 1766-07-29
Abstract: Lesassier acknowledged having received, on behalf of his ward, from Villars Dubreuil interest in the amount of 33,400 livres on the principal of 80,000 livres that Villars Dubreuil owed Mlle Dauberville.

title: Statement of accounts
Subject: Documents, Business & finance
Date created ms: 1767, 1767
Abstract: Lesassier listed two sums in the amount of 28,000 and 11,200 livres that [Jean Pierre Robert Gerard] de Villemont had sought to recover from Villars [Dubreuil]. This was followed by an extract from the proceedings of 1767 March 17.

title: Proposals made by Villars [Dubreuil]
Subject: Documents, Proposed works, Land
Date created ms: 1766-07-10, 1766-07-10
Abstract: Villars Dubreuil proposed to give back a property to the succession of the deceased [Vincent Guillaume Le Senechal] Dauberville on the following terms: 1) he would retrocede the entire property in question, making certain repairs on buildings according to the 1766 July 8 agreement; 2) he would return all Negroes who were on the plantation at the time of purchase, along with any children they might have had, and would pay, in addition, 12,000 livres to make up for loss of value over the years; 3) to compensate for depreciation of tools, equipment, and indigo plantings, he would pay 200 livres; 4) to indemnify the difference between purchase price and present value, he would construct on the land, according to specifications in the contract of 1766 July 8 (q.v.) a residence, a warehouse, and two dovecotes; 5) as final compensation, he would give the succession one male slave and a number of head of livestock, which together had a total value of 5,000 livres.

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