Athanase de Mézières and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1768-1780: Documents Pub. for the First Time, from the Original Spanish and French Manuscripts, Chiefly in the Archives of Mexico and Spain; Tr. Into English, Volume 2Herbert Eugene Bolton Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914 - Indians of North America |
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Angelinas River Antonio de Bejar Apaches arrived ATANASIO DE MESIERES Bancroft Coll BARON DE RIPPERDA BERNARDO DE GALVEZ Bexar Brazos River Bucareli captain chevalier governor chief Comanches command Cuba dear Sir Demecieres Document Don Atanasio enemies Espiritu Santo Estados Unidos excellent Sir expedition give governor of Texas guard Historia honor horses humble hundred Indians Interior Provinces journey kiss the hand leagues letter Lipanes live Lordship is kissed Los Adaes Luis Luisiana Majesty March Mexico Mézières MEZIERES rubric MEZIERES TO BERNARDO MEZIERES TO CROIX mission Nacogdoches Natchitoches North Orleans Osages Panis peace preserve your Lordship presidio of San Proc Prov province of Texas pueblo Quitseys royal San Antonio San Theodoro SEÑOR COMMANDANT-GENERAL Señor Governor Señor Governor-general sent September servant settlement Spaniards Tancagues Taovayas Teodoro tion trade tribes Trinity River troops Tuacanas UNZAGA Y AMEZAGA viceroy village Xaranames zeal
Popular passages
Page 268 - ... the Minister of Marine and of the Indies did me the honor to address to me in the name of the king, and which your Lordship had sent to me, an honor so signal that I avow both the confusion which it causes me, in view of the mediocrity of my services and of my lack of words in which to attest my 838 The reference is to Document 195.
Page 203 - The women tan, sew, and paint the skins, fence in the fields, care for the cornfields, harvest the crops, cut and fetch the fire-wood, prepare the food, build the houses, and rear the children, their constant care stopping at nothing that contributes to the comfort and pleasure of their husbands.
Page 270 - I had already arranged with three of the chief men of his own nation, whom I knew to be his rivals, that they should conduct him to Natchitoches, under the promise that he would share in the presents which I intended for them, and make an end to him on the road, being sure that there would not be lacking something to which to attribute his death, without causing suspicion of anything unnatural. This plan would have been carried out had it not been for the epidemic, which, taking away my agents, left...
Page 291 - Chavanons, and others; on the east by West Florida, Georgia, and Carolina ; and on the west by New Mexico and New Spain.
Page 267 - SIR : I have received the letter which your Lordship was pleased to write me regarding the one with which our worthy minister honored me. I will not tell you anything of my gratitude for your kindnesses, for could I do it? And what terms would be capable of expressing to you that which I always have for what I owe you? I have had the honor to testify to you, and I repeat it, that the best epoch of my life has been that in which I have had the satisfaction of seeing myself under your orders; and this...
Page 252 - ... positive enough to give him grounds for suspecting any breach of word. In case he keeps silent on this subject, it will be well not to speak to him of it, and to await the opening of the question on his part. He is lively and vivacious, and I have never known a man of his color more witty or keener. I have the honor to be, with respect, Sir, your very humble and very obedient servant, ATHANZE DE MEZIERES [rubric].
Page 248 - It is to him principally that we owe in this district a constant barrier against the incursions of the Osages; moreover, it is to the love and respect which the villages of the surrounding district show him that we owe the fact that they generally entertain the same sentiments for us. 299 Pap. Proc. de Cuba, leg. 192, no. 154. I have the honor to be very respectfully, Sir, your very humble and very obedient servant, ATHAN10 DE MEZIERES [rubric].
Page 267 - MY GOVERNOR: I received on the 25th, by M. Rose, who left Opelusas the 22d of the same month, the dispatches which you addressed to M. De Mezieres, Don Antonio Gil y Barbo, Juaquin Hortega, and Francisco Garcia, who has read your letter, having just arrived at that moment and being obliged to depart tomorrow for the town. I have resealed the packet which I am sending to Juaquin Hortega, and which I send, the same as the former ones, to Capue, by a messenger named Louis Bayonne as far as Nacodoches,...
Page 34 - The French continue to trade in guns, powder, and balls, which they exchange for ... beasts of burden. They do not raise horses and mules, hence, in order to supply the need, it is necessary to obtain them from the Indians in trade. To supply these it is the custom for the Indians to come and rob our lands, as in fact they are now doing. Indeed they have...
Page 246 - I repeat to your Lordship, therefore, the expression of deep gratitude which I feel for your kindness. I request its continuation for my family who remain in this post, and the permission, wherever I may be, to report to you my weak services and to claim your honorable protection. I have the honor to be with respect, Sir, your very humble and very obedient servant. DE MEZIERES [rubric]. 292 This is the reply to Document 198. 283 Pap. Proc. de Cuba, leg. 192, no. 1501 2»