Populating the Barrera by Gilbert C. Din

Author:Gilbert C. Din [Din, Gilbert C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
ISBN: 9781935754459
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
Published: 2014-06-04T04:00:00+00:00

10. Din, “Immigration Policy of Miró,” 159.

11. For Spanish policy during the American War for Independence and at the subsequent peace conference, see Samuel Flagg Bemis, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1957; repr., Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1965); and J. F. Yela Utrilla, España ante la independencia de los Estados Unidos, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Lérida, Spain: Gráficos Academia Mariana, 1925). On boundary problems, see Bemis, Pinckney’s Treaty, 25-45; José de Gálvez to the governor of Louisiana, Aranjuez, June 26, 1784, in Louis Houck, ed., The Spanish Régime in Missouri, 2 vols. (1909; repr., New York: Arno Press and New York Times, 1972), 1: 237. Governor Miró proclaimed the Mississippi River closed on September 7, 1784. Miró to the Conde de Gálvez, New Orleans, June 14, 1785, AHN, Est., leg. 3885bis, exped. 11.

12. Navarro Latorre and Solano Costa, ¿Conspiración española?, 17-24; Lawrence Kinnaird, ed., Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765-1794, 3 Parts (Washington, DC: GPO, 1946-1949), 2: xvii-xix.

13. Royal order to Aranda, Aranjuez, June 28, 1787; Aranda to Floridablanca, Paris, July 9 and 11, 1787; all in AHN, Est., leg. 3889, exped. 6.

14. D’Argès to Floridablanca, (San Ildefonso), August 1, 1787; d’Argès memorial to Floridablanca, San Ildefonso, August 1, 1787; d’Argès to Floridablanca, San Ildefonso, August 4, 1787; all in AHN, Est., leg. 3884, exped. 13.

15. Ibid.; Floridablanca to Antonio Valdés, San Ildefonso, August 3, 1787, AHN, Est., leg. 3889, exped. 6.

16. (Valdés) to Floridablanca, San Ildefonso, August 9, 1787, ibid. The Court again approved the entry of American Catholic families in Louisiana and exempted them from paying the 6 percent duty on goods brought for their own consumption. Royal order to the governor of Louisiana, Madrid, July 14, 1787, ibid. For the post of commandant of the Natchez District, the Court considered the Irishman Henry White, sergeant major of the Fixed Infantry Regiment of Louisiana, who was then on a year’s leave. However, the Court determined the post to be below his merit, and it later selected Lt. Col. Manuel Gayoso de Lemos. Royal order to the governor of Louisiana, San Lorenzo, November 3, 1787, AHN, Est., leg. 3899, exped. 5. Gayoso arrived in New Orleans on April 12, 1789. Miró to Valdés, New Orleans, May 20, 1789, AHN, Est., leg. 3901, exped. 3; Whitaker, Spanish American Frontier, 82. For a biography of Gayoso, see Jack D. L. Holmes, Gayoso, The Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press for the Louisiana Historical Association, 1965).

17. D’Argès to Floridablanca, (San Ildefonso), August 16, 1787, AHN, Est., leg. 3889, exped. 6; minuta, with a marginal notation, ibid.

18. Floridablanca to d’Argès, San Ildefonso, August 19, 1787; Floridablanca to Valdés, San Ildefonso, August 20, 1787; both in ibid. Whitaker, in Spanish American Frontier, 83, believed that the d’Argès commission was designed to “encourage the secession of the American West.” However, the documentation does not confirm this. While Floridablanca probably briefly mentioned conditions on the western frontier, intrigue was not a part of d’Argès’s assignment.

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