Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies., 1765-1802.
Collection Number: 9254

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies., 1765-1802.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
9254
Abstract:
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.
Creator:
Huntington Free Library
Archivo General de Indias
Huntington Free Library
Quanitities:
.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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."
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Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies. #9254. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Favrot, Pierre-Joseph, 1749-1824.
Miró, Esteban, 1744-1795.
Places:
New Orleans (La.)
Subjects:
Cherokee Indians.
Chickasaw Indians.
Comanche Indians.
Creek Indians.
Explorers -- France.
Explorers -- Spain.
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Government relations.
Indians of North America -- Treaties.
Osage Indians.
Pawnee Indians.
Seminole Indians.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 4A P.C. 2360
Draft, De la Croix
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
Commission or certificate of captaincy, to be issued to Indians; MISSING
Box 4A P.C. 2362
# 1 New Orleans, draft
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, English, Talk of the Baron Carondelet....to great Chief Ifa-acho (4 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2362
# 2 Spanish letter of authority to Indians
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, draft or copy. (2 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2362
# 3 Munataba (?) to Governor Gayoso
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
1/2 pliego, English (1 photosheet)
Box 4A P.C. 187
This legajo once contained an original of a treaty with Creek Indians.
 1765
Scope and Contents
MISSING
Box 4A P.C. 187
Kbahanose. Census
 1768-09-05
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, original, signed by Louis Judice, of aborigines "dependants de la Coste de Louis Judice."; MISSING
Box 4A P.C. 213
# 4 Augusta, Georgia
 1768-11-12
Scope and Contents
Pliegos of extra size, English. Authenticated copy of a treaty, English-Creek. (5 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2357
# 5 Nachotoches
 1771-11-01
Scope and Contents
1 pliego. Authenticated copy, treaty, Spanish-Panis Piques (Comanches). (4 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 200
# 6 Pensacola.
 1781-03-03
Scope and Contents
British commission English, to Illasatabie, Gorget captain of the Chickesawbays. (1 photosheet)
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 7 Arispe. Census statement, 1
 1783-03-15
Scope and Contents
Census report of the Indian tribes north of Texas.
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 8 New Orleans.
 1783-09-20
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, copy. Maxent's instructions to Fourneret, interpreter, French. Enclosing lists of Upper, Middle and Lower Creeks. Lists are in English.
Box 4A P.C. 2360
Draft, report on or minutes of Congress
 1784
Scope and Contents
6 pliegos, Spanish-Talapuche (Creek), English. In such bad condition it will have to be studied and typed; MISSING
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 9 Pensacola. Treaty.
 1784-06-01
Scope and Contents
5 pliegos, Spanish-Talapuche (Creek), original, Spanish. (21 pages) (This treaty signed by Alexander McGillvray representing the Creeks.)
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 10 Pensacola.
 1784-06-01
Scope and Contents
2 pliegos, Tariff to govern Spanish-Creek trade, original. There is an authenticated copy in this same pegajo. (5 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 11 Pensacola.
 1784-06-01
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Points to be observed in Indian-Creek relations, in consequence of the Congress. Authenticated copy. There is another similar which indicates that this policy applied also to the Alabamans, Chickasaw and Chactas. (3 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 12 Mobile.
 1784-06-22-1784-06-23
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Tariff, Spanish-Chickasaw-Chacta-Alabaman, authenticated copy. (4 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 13 Mobile.
 1784-06-23
Scope and Contents
5 pliego, Treaty, Spanish-Chickasaw, original. (12 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 14 Mobile.
 1784-06-23
Scope and Contents
2 pliegos, Treaty, Spanish Alibamon. Authenticated copy. (3 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 15 Mobile.
 1784-07-13-1784-07-14
Scope and Contents
3 pliegos, Treaty, Spanish-Chacta, authenticated copy. There is indication that the original treaty also was here at one time. There is in this same legajo another authenticated copy. (18 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2360
# 16 New Orleans.
 1784-07-20
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Miro's instructions to McGillvray (acting as Spanish agent in the Creek Country.) (4 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 200
# 17 Hopewell.
 1786-01-03
Scope and Contents
2 pliegos, Treaty, Choctaw-American, original. In P.C. 2360 there is a copy of this treaty and of certain related harangues.
Box 4A P.C. 200
# 18 Mobile.
 1784-04-18
Scope and Contents
1 small pliegos, Favrot to Miro, original, enclosing reports on conferences with Chickasaws and Chactas, 2 pliegos, French.
Box 4A
New Orleans
 1787-06-01
Scope and Contents
2 pliegos, Miro to Sonora, original, enclosing 3. Transmitting copy of minutes of conferences held with Chactas and Chicasaws in presence of commissioners from Georgia. Both enclosures dated Yazoo, March 19; MISSING
Box 4A P.C. 200
# 19 Saint Louis.
 1787-10-16
Scope and Contents
two - 1 large pliego each, originals. Reports on conference with the Osages. (6 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 1425
# 20 New Orleans.
 1789-07
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Miro to Cabello, original (with enclosures) American Indian affairs. Some of these are treaties made by the United States with tribes living south of the Ohio River. The ministers were appointed by George Washington.
Box 4A P.C. 2362
# 21 New Orleans.
 1790-02-05
Scope and Contents
1 small pliego, Miro to Valiere, original, enclosing 1 sheet, original commission to Pakama, a Miamy Indian, to be Grand medal chief. (3 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2362
# 22 New York
 1790-04-09
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Doughty to the Choctaws, English copy, enclosing a message from Washington in New York December 17, 1789, English, copy. (5 photosheets)
Box 4A P.C. 2362
# 23 Tuskaetoka
 1790-06-20
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Chickasaw chief, to the commandant at Mibile, French, original. (4 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2362
# 24 New Orleans.
 1790-07-27
Scope and Contents
2 pliegos, The Governor (?) to Tante etoka and others of the Chickasaw Nation, draft, English. (7 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 1439
New York
 1790-08-07
Scope and Contents
Also, P.C. 200; 2 pliegos, Copies, Spanish, of the "Treaty of New York," American-Creek. Other copies in P.C. 1440 and 2362 MISSING
Box 4B P.C. 1440
# 25 New Orleans
 1790-08-12
Scope and Contents
2 pliegos, Miro to Las Casas, original, with its enclosures 4, 5, 6 (see note as to Nos. 1-3 on page 1 of enclosure no. 4)
Box 4B P.C. 1440
# 26 New Orleans
 1791-06-28
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Miro to Las Casas, original, with its enclosures, in part. (20 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 1440
# 27 New Orleans
 1791-07-15
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Miro to Las Casas, original, with its enclosures, in part. (11 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 1440
# 28 New Orleans
 1791-08-08
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Miro to Las Casas, original, with enclosures. (11 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2362
# 29 New Orleans
 1792-03-23
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, The Governor (?) to "My Children," draft. (3 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2362
# 30 New Orleans
 1792-04-20
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, The Governor (?) to Villebeuve, draft, enclosing draft, 1 pliego, proposed treaty with Chactas and Chickasaws and 1 pliego, list of merchandise.
Box 4B P.C. 2362
# 31 Natchez.
 1792-05-14
Scope and Contents
2 pliegos, Treaty, Spanish Chickasaw-Chacta, copy.
Box 4B P.C. 2362
New Orleans
 1792-07-06
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Treaty, between Carondelet and McGillvray, English copy. McGillvray acted for the Creek Nation; MISSING
Box 4B P.C. 2362
# 32 New Orleans
 1792-09-30
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Boukfonka. Villebeuve signs and harangue, French, addressed to the Chickasaws, enclosing two related pliegos, all in a cover.
Box 4B P.C. 2362
# 33 New Orleans
 1792-11-24
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, The Governor (?) to the chiefs, headmen and warriors of the Cherokee nation, draft, English. (3 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2362
# 34 New Orleans
 1792-12-18
Scope and Contents
1 pliego. The Governor to Pio Mingo and Ugula Yakabe, great chiefs of the Chickasaw Nation, draft, English. (2 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 1439
# 35 San Augustin.
 1795-08
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Quesada to Las Casas, original, with enclosures (American-Creek relations) (17 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 213
# 36 St. Ferdinand of the Bluffs
 1796-03-14
Scope and Contents
1 small pliego, Benjamin Fooy to Gayoso de Lemos, with enclosures (Pickering to various Chickasaws, Ugula Yackabee to Carondelet, the President to the Chickasaw Nation, Gayoso de Lemos to Ugataphe).
Box 4B P.C. 213
# 37 Hope Field
 1797-08-27
Scope and Contents
1 small pliego, Benjamin Fooy to Gayoso de Lemos, original, with enclosures. (6 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2367
# 38 Creek Agency
 1801-06-05
Scope and Contents
1 small pliego, Benjamin Hawkins to Casa Calvo, original, English, enclosing 2 pliegos, English, certain Creeks to Casa Calvo. (8 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2355
# 39 San Marcos de Apalache.
 1801-11-19
Scope and Contents
1 small pliego, Jacob DuBreuill to Vicente Folch, original. Enclosing a talk to the Upper Creeks and their reply. (8 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2355
# 40 San Marcos de Apalache.
 1802-08-24
Scope and Contents
1 small pliego, Jacob DuBreuill to Manuel Farcia, copy. Enclosing tabulation, Seminoles who attended the Congress and original of Spanish-Seminole Treaty August 20, 1802 (9 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2367
# 41 New Orleans
 1802-10-08
Scope and Contents
2 small pliegos, The Governor (?) to Jacob DuBreuill, draft, approving treaty with Seminoles. In P.C. 104 there is an authenticated copy of the treaty (see # 40); and thre is another tabulation dated August 19, of the Seminoles who attended the Congress. There is still another copy of the treaty in P.C. 2337 (4 photosheets)
Box 4B P.C. 2335
# 42 New Orleans
 1802-11-30
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, Salcedo (?) to Someruelos, draft, with enclosures: Spanish-American-Creek affairs. (25 photosheets)
Box 4B
# 43 Ft. Knox
 1798-03-10
Scope and Contents
A talk delivered to the Indians along the Wabash and vicinity by the commandant of Ft. Knox. The Captain advises the Indians to not listen to the words of either French or Spanish emissaries, but to capture such men and bring them to the nearest U.S. post where the captors will be rewarded with gun, ammunition, fifty dollars and a medal.
Box 4B P.C. 2362
New Orleans
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, draft, English translation: Talk of the Baron Carondelet Governor of Louisiana to Great Chief IFA-ACHO of the Creek Nation (4 photostatic sheets); MISSING
Box 4B P.C. 2357
Nachotoches
 1771-11-01
Scope and Contents
1 pliego, authenticated copy. Treaty, Spanish-Panis Piques (Comanches) (4 photostatic sheets) Note: This treaty was evidently made between the Spanish and the Comanches with the Pawnees acting as peace commissioners, AW; MISSING
Box 4B P.C. 2360
Pensacola
 Date unknown
Scope and Contents
"Points to be Observed in the Treating with the Talapuches, Alibamones, Chicasaws and Chactas." (3 photostatic sheets) Note: This document was listed as being the points to be observed in Indian-Creek affairs, in consequence of the Congress and was dated Pensacola June 1, 1784. It was evidently a case of transposition; MISSING