Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier

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169 Notes abbreviations ADM Bolton, Herbert Eugene, ed. Athanase de Mézières and the LouisianaTexas Frontier, 1768–1780. 2 vols. ASP American State Papers. Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1832. BAM Béxar Archives. Microfilm Copy. University of North Texas Library. Denton, Texas. BAT Béxar Archives Translations. Microfilm Copy. University of North Texas Library. Denton, Texas. C13 Correspondance a l’Arivee en Provenance de la Louisiane. Archives des Colonies. Paris, France. Series C13, 1678–1819. Micro film Copy. Williams Research Center. New Orleans, Louisiana. Free Compiled from MC, NA, NC, PC; Mills, Elizabeth Shown, ed. Database Natchitoches,1800–1826: Translated abstracts of register number five of the Catholic Church Parish of St. François des Natchitoches in Louisiana ; Mills, Elizabeth Shown, ed. Natchitoches Church Marriages, 1818–1850. Copy deposited at Cammie G. Henry Research Center. Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library. University of Louisiana, Natchitoches. LH Louisiana History. LHQ Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Manumission Compiled from MC, NPCR, PC. Copy deposited at Cammie G. Database Henry Research Center. Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library. University of Louisiana, Natchitoches. MC Melrose Collection. Cammie G. Henry Research Center. Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library. University of Louisiana, Natchitoches. MPAFD Rowland, Dunbar, and Albert Godfrey Sanders, eds. and trans. Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion. Vols. 1–3. Rowland, Dunbar, Albert Godfrey Sanders, and Patricia Galloway, eds. and trans. Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion. Vols. 4–5. NA Mills, Elizabeth Shown, ed. Natchitoches Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana: 1729–1803. NC Mills, Elizabeth Shown, ed. Natchitoches Colonials: Censuses, Military Rolls, and Tax Lists, 1722–1803. NONA New Orleans Notarial Archives. Microfilm Copy. Civil Courts Building. New Orleans, Louisiana. NPCR Natchitoches Parish Conveyance Records. Microfilm Copy. Genealogy Library. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Dallas, Texas. PC Papeles Procedentes de Cuba. Archivo General de Indias. Seville, Spain. 170 notes to pages ix – x RDLF Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and Florida. Microfilm Copy. Williams Research Center. New Orleans, Louisiana. SD Audiencia de Santo Domingo. Archivo General de Indias. Seville, Spain. Slave Compiled from MC, NA, NC, PC; Mills, Elizabeth Shown, ed. Database Natchitoches, 1800–1826: Translated abstracts of register number five of the Catholic Church Parish of St. François des Natchitoches in Louisiana. Copy deposited at Cammie G. Henry Research Center. Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library. University of Louisiana, Natchitoches. SMV Kinnaird, Lawrence, ed. Spain in the Mississippi Valley, 1765–1794. 3 vols. SWHQ Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Trader Compiled from ADM, C13, MC, NA, NC, NPCR. Copy deposited at Database Cammie G. Henry Research Center. Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library. University of Louisiana, Natchitoches. preface 1. Recent works on San Antonio and Santa Fe include Ramón A. Gutiérrez , When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846; Gerald E. Poyo and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, eds. Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio; Jesús F. de la Teja, San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain’s Northern Frontier; Ross Frank, From Settler to Citizen: New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of a Vecino Society, 1750–1820. 2. Germaine Portré-Bobinski and Clara Mildred Smith, eds., Natchitoches: The Up-to-Date Oldest Town in Louisiana; Louis Raphael Nardini, My Historic Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Its Environment: A History of Natchitoches, Louisiana, and the Neutral Strip Area of the State of Louisiana and Its Inhabitants ; Ross Phares, Cavalier in the Wilderness. 3. Robert S. Weddle, The French Thorn: Rival Explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682–1762; Donald E. Chipman, Spanish Texas, 1519–1821; David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America; Daniel H. Usner Jr., Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783; Chipman and Harriet Denise Joseph, Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas. 4. F. Todd Smith, The Caddo Indians: Tribes on the Convergence of Empires, 1542–1854; Cecile Elkins Carter, Caddo Indians: Where We Come From; David La Vere, The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 700–1835; Gary Clayton Anderson, The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention; Smith, The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains; F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786–1859. 5. La Vere, “Barr, Davenport, Murphy, and Smith: Traders on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier” (M.A. Thesis: Northwestern State University , 1989); Dana Bowker...