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Fragmented documents from Baron de Carondelet, 1799
title
Fragmented documents from Baron de Carondelet, 1799
Date created ms
1799
Name
Carondelet, Luis Héctor, barón de, 1748-1807
Abstract
Two fragmented documents with signature of Baron de Carondelet.
"Instructions to Our Courts of Admiralty, and to the Commanders of Our Ships of War and Privateers, Given at Our Court of St. James' " by King George III
title
"Instructions to Our Courts of Admiralty, and to the Commanders of Our Ships of War and Privateers, Given at Our Court of St. James' " by King George III
Subject
Documents, Commerce, Ordinance
Date created ms
1798-08-04, 1798-08-04
Abstract
Henry Merttins Bird and his partners were permitted to import from New Orleans to London, on ships of United States registry, "free from capture or molestation," cotton, skins, and other produce on ships of United States registry, "free from capture or molestation," cotton, skins, and other produce to discharge dents of £35,000 and £40,000 due them from John Francis Merieult of New Orleans.
Reports of taxes collected from inns, taverns, and billiard parlors in New Orleans
title
Reports of taxes collected from inns, taverns, and billiard parlors in New Orleans
Subject
Documents, Business & finance, Taxes
Date created ms
1798-12-31, 1798-12-31
Abstract
Spanish colonial officials in Louisiana, as the French before them, enacted regulations governing the operation of inns, taverns, and billiard parlors. The rules were to serve the dual purpose of facilitating the government's task of maintaining public order and at the same time raising revenues through the imposition of license taxes. The documents in this section are annual and quarterly reports made by City Steward Juan de Castanedo of such taxes collected in the 1790s. During this period the impost was 30 pesos a year, paid in quarterly installments, for establishments having no billiard table, 40 pesos annually for those with one table, and 60 pesos for those with two. The names of the license holders making payment appear in the documents. It is interesting to note the increase in revenues collected between 1794 (175 pesos per quarter) and 1799 (566 pesos per quarter). The document dated 1798 December 31 was a report of an annual tax collected on checkerboard and billiard tables set up along the levees of the city. [Additional material on the subject is to be found in: Holmes, "O'Reilly's Regulations...," Louisiana History, VI, 293-300; Holmes, "Spanish Regulations of Taverns...," The Spanish in the Mississippi Valley, J.F. McDermott, editor, 149-167.]
Act of sale of property, a transaction between Santiago Smith of Baton Rouge and David Ross of New Orleans
title
Act of sale of property, a transaction between Santiago Smith of Baton Rouge and David Ross of New Orleans
Subject
Documents, Sale of property
Date created ms
1798-01-08, 1798-01-08
Abstract
Before Jacobo Dubreüil, Commandant of the Fort of Baton Rouge, Santiago Smith sold to Davis Ross a tract of land that measured six by forty arpents and was situated about 3 2/3 leagues upstream from the fort behind a cypress grove called "Cipriera del Diablo." Smith and received from Ross' agent, Thomas Lilley, the purchase price of one hundred pesos in coins of the Mexican mint.
Act of sale of property, a transaction between Juan Grasy and Vicente Pintado, both of Baton Rouge
title
Act of sale of property, a transaction between Juan Grasy and Vicente Pintado, both of Baton Rouge
Subject
Documents, Sale of property
Date created ms
1798-05-18, 1798-05-18
Abstract
Before Colonel de Grand-pre, Commandant of the Baton Rouge post, Juan Grasy sold to Vicente Pintado, for twenty-one pesos cash, a tract of land measuring twenty-one feet frontage on the Mississippi. The property, which was part of a larger parcel owned by Grasy, was bounded on the south by Royal lands that formed the old redoubt of Baton Rouge.
Surveyor's certificate for land claimed by Estevan Watts, District of Baton Rouge
title
Surveyor's certificate for land claimed by Estevan Watts, District of Baton Rouge
Subject
Documents, Surveying, Certificates
Date created ms
1798-12-11, 1798-12-11
Abstract
Royal Surveyor Carlos Trudeau certified that his office surveyed and marked the boundaries of a tract of land for Estevan Watts. The property encompassed an area of 700 arpents and was situated in the District of Baton Rouge on the west bank of the Mississippi in front of Brown's Islands.
Surveyor's certificate for land claimed by Stephen [Estevan] Watts, District of Baton Rouge
title
Surveyor's certificate for land claimed by Stephen [Estevan] Watts, District of Baton Rouge
Subject
Documents, Surveying, Certificates
Date created ms
1798-12-11, 1798-12-11
Abstract
This is an English translation of the previous entry.
Reports on taxes collected on beeves, mutton, and flour and allocated to the lighting system of New Orleans
title
Reports on taxes collected on beeves, mutton, and flour and allocated to the lighting system of New Orleans
Subject
Documents, Business & finance, Taxes
Date created ms
1799, 1799
Abstract
The Municipal Council of New Orleans allocated for the funding of the city's illumination system a head tax on beeves and sheep slaughtered and sold in the municipal market and a tax on the number of barrels of flour the bakers of the city consumed for making bread. The imposts were collected and reported on a monthly basis. City Steward Juan de Castanedo had charge of the fund, but often appointed a deputy, who countersigned the monthly report, to make the actual collection. The final report was a summary of each month's receipts during 1799. The documents, filed in chronological order, were dated.
Shipping Agreement from unknown to John Turnbull, 1798 September 13
title
Shipping Agreement from unknown to John Turnbull, 1798 September 13
Subject
Bills of lading, Louisiana, Freight and freightage, Louisiana
Date created ms
1798-09-13
Receipt issued by Gabriel Martin, at Rapide, to Jean Baptiste Bauvay
title
Receipt issued by Gabriel Martin, at Rapide, to Jean Baptiste Bauvay
Subject
Documents, Sale of property, Business & finance
Date created ms
1798-11-26, 1798-11-26
Abstract
Gabriel Martin received 200 piastres from Jean Baptiste Bauvay [or, Beauvais] as payment for a plantation he sold Bauvay. The property, situated on the right bank ascending Bayou de Rapide, was bounded by land of the late Mathieu Nugent and that of Jacques Minar, a free black.
Jean Baptiste Meullion papers. Folder 01-01, 1798-1805.
title
Jean Baptiste Meullion papers. Folder 01-01, 1798-1805.
Subject
Free African Americans, Louisiana, Creoles, Louisiana, Meullion, Baptiste, 1763?-1840, African American plantation owners, Louisiana, African American slaveholders, Louisiana, Catholic Church, Louisiana, Opelousas, Corn industry, Louisiana, Bills of sale, Promissory notes, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments) Merchants, Louisiana, Saint Landry Parish
Date created ms
1798, 1805
Abstract
Receipts and a bill of sale record financial transactions between Jean Baptiste Meullion, a free person of color, and the merchants Louaillier Brothers, Bougaud, and M. Vavant. Also included is a promissory note given by Martin Donato to J. Loulie, as well as a bill addressed to Mademoiselle Belanier (Belarie or Bellazaire?) from the Church of Opelousas. Documents are in French except for one receipt.
Receipt from John Harbour to Catherine Turnbull, undated
title
Receipt from John Harbour to Catherine Turnbull, undated
Subject
Financial statements, Invoices, Receipts (Acknowledgments)
Date created ms
1799, 1832
Name
Harbour, John
Note of Articles sent by Johnson's Batteau for Catherine Turnbull, undated
title
Note of Articles sent by Johnson's Batteau for Catherine Turnbull, undated
Subject
Financial statements, Invoices, Receipts (Acknowledgments), Consumer goods
Date created ms
1799, 1832
Promissory Note from John Downey to Catherine Turnbull, undated
title
Promissory Note from John Downey to Catherine Turnbull, undated
Subject
Promissory notes
Date created ms
1799, 1832
Name
Downey, John
Account Statement from Webb Nash to Catherine Turnbull, undated
title
Account Statement from Webb Nash to Catherine Turnbull, undated
Subject
Financial statements, Invoices, Receipts (Acknowledgments), Tuition
Date created ms
1799, 1832
Name
Nash, Webb
Account Statement from unknown to Catherine Turnbull, undated
title
Account Statement from unknown to Catherine Turnbull, undated
Subject
Financial statements, Invoices, Receipts (Acknowledgments)
Date created ms
1799, 1832
Armand Allard Duplantier to Guy Allard Duplantier, 1798 June 02
title
Armand Allard Duplantier to Guy Allard Duplantier, 1798 June 02
Subject
Duplantier, Armand, 1753-1827, Family, French, Family relationships, Louisiana, Colonists, Family relationships, Louisiana, Trénonay, Jean Claude, d. 1792, Estate, Infants, Louisiana, Death
Date created ms
1798-06-02
Abstract
Armand Allard Duplantier, New Orleans, writes his brother, Guy Allard Duplantier, stating that he has received a letter from the addressee care of Sarpy. He mentions again a previous letter that came through another Allard's son. In the postscript, he says that he has befriended this Allard, and he speaks of the son's unhappiness in the colony. The writer expresses his surprise at learning that the will that he had been encouraging his family to find is in favor of Mademoiselle Nardy and not his mother. He states that this discovery is new proof of Claude Trénonay's capriciousness and lying. Duplantier states that Sarpy has not received the procurations that the recipient supposedly sent him but has received something from Mr. Faure. The addresser refers to the Prévieux family again in reference to Trénonay's succession. He briefly talks about indigo, slaves, and cotton. Duplantier expresses his regrets upon hearing that his sister-in-law's second pregnancy fared no better than the first, and he relates that he and his wife lost a daughter born two months previously. The writer says he would like to swap one of his sons for a daughter that the recipient might have.
Copied Promissory Notes from John Turnbull to Frederick Kimball, 1798 March 10
title
Copied Promissory Notes from John Turnbull to Frederick Kimball, 1798 March 10
Subject
Promissory notes, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Lumber, Louisiana, Baton Rouge
Date created ms
1798-03-10
Name
Turnbull, John, 1741-1799
Letter from Catherine Turnbull to Bartle & Cox, undated
title
Letter from Catherine Turnbull to Bartle & Cox, undated
Subject
Cotton trade, Louisiana, Business enterprises, Finance, Louisiana, Groceries, Transportation, Louisiana
Date created ms
1799, 1832
Name
Turnbull, Catherine Rucker, 1768-1832
Jean-Baptiste Drouillard passport, an 7 brumaire 19 [1798 Nov. 9]
title
Jean-Baptiste Drouillard passport, an 7 brumaire 19 [1798 Nov. 9]
Subject
Louisiana, Social life and customs, 19th century, Louisiana, Economic conditions, 19th century, France, History, Revolution, 1789-1799, Influence, Political culture, History, 19th century, Spain, Colonies, North America, Louisiana, History, To 1803
Date created ms
1798-11-09

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