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	Cabildo Digest
		Miro is sworn in and promised to present the usual bond within a short time.
		Miro invited all the owners of ships in the harbor to dress their ships and give the salutes which must be repeated three times.
		A document is presented to the Cabildo by Miro containing a Royal Title establishing a Captaincy-General of the Province of Louisiana, Pensacola, Mobile, Apalache and other territory formerly occupied by the British (independent of the Island of Cuba and the Indies) and naming Galvez first Governor and Captain General.
	nutrias.org /~nopl/inv/digest/digest1782.htm (1017 words)

	Cabildo Digest
		Don Luis de Unzaga, Colonel of the Royal Armies and Governor Elect of the city by authority of the King, was present at this meeting and was appointed as successor to O'Reilly during his absence.
		Don Pedro Piernas, Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Armies and Acting Commandant of the Province, informs the Cabildo of the surrender of Pensacola on the 8th inst., including all the forts held by the English in that Province.
		Miro informs the Cabildo of the intention of Galvez ("deceased Captain-General of this Province") to separate the command of the towns of Opelousas and Atakapas due to increased population.
	nutrias.org /~nopl/inv/digest/digest1.htm (2011 words)

	New Madrid - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The tract lay within the province of " Louisiana," and the grant to Morgan was a part of Gardoqui's plan to annex to that province the western American settlements, Morgan being required to establish thereon a large number of emigrants, whom he secured from New Jersey, Canada and elsewhere.
		Governor Estevan Miro of Louisiana, however, disapproved of the grant, on the ground that it would cause the province to be overrun by Americans; the settlers became restive under the restraints imposed upon them; Morgan himself left; and in December 1811 and January 1812 a series of severe earthquake shocks caused a general emigration.
		New Madrid was occupied by Confederate troops under General Gideon J. Pillow, on the 28th of July 1861, and after the surrender of Fort Donelson (February 16, 1862) the troops previously at Columbus, forming the Confederate left flank, were withdrawn to New Madrid and Island No. 10 (in the Mississippi about io m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /New_Madrid (321 words)

	The Conquest of the Old Southwest - Chapter XX
		One of the most interested observers of the progress of affairs in the State of Franklin was Don Diego de Gardoqui, who had come to America in the spring of 1785, bearing a commission to the American Congress as Spanish charge d'affaires (Encargados de Negocios) to the United States.
		During the period of the Spanish conspiracy, however, there is reason to believe that Miro endeavored to keep the Indians at peace with the borderers, as a friendly service, intended to pave the way for the establishment of intimate relations between Spain and the dwellers in the trans-Alleghany.
		The district of Miro is daily plundered and the inhabitants murdered by the Creeks, and Cherokees, unprovoked.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/TheConquestoftheOldSouthwest/chap20.html (2357 words)

	FONTENELL SUES FOR PERMISSION TO MARRY
		Wherefore, petitioner begs the Court to order the defendant to openly state the reasons he has for denying the requested authorization, and once he has done so to let petitioner know them in order that he may institute whatever action is necessary for the accomplishment of his just purpose.
		The contracting parties were DON JUAN FONTENELLE AND FRANCISCA BARUA (Barrois), The father, ROBERT JUAN FONTENELLE, Captain of the Militia, had sought to prevent the marriage and had presented the complaint to MIRO, All this notwithstanding, Father MARIANO had married the couple.
		MIRO, angered over the whole affair, demanded the removal of Father MARRIANO and asked that the Bishop take most energetic means to prevent recurrance of such abuses.
	members.aol.com /donald529/page8 (291 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Complaints were entered against Don Joseph Orieta and he asked the concession that he be not judged without listening to him, and that he will give with ready compliance, proofs against that which is said of him.
		An order has been issued to all the hunters who are in the River to return here inside of two months under the penalty of paying the expenses which they, occasioned for the savages who were sent in their search, they having stopped in the city where they said they were well protected.
		Don Joseph Orieta complained that he has not given good lodging upon his arrival, and he had said through Don Pedro Piernas that he should be granted proper entertainment because of the appearance of etiquette and in order to create good harmony, peace and friendship.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v003/v003p045.html (3969 words)

	University of Notre Dame Archives: Calendar (1780s)
		He has received (Cirilo's) letter of Mar. 29, (1786) and is asking the governor of Louisiana (Estevan Miro) to eject Father (______)Chambon of Tours from the colony; the three nuns may remain; their legitimate expenses are to be paid.
		He is enclosing a letter for the governor (Estevan Miro); Sedella may read it and retain it in case he thinks it should not be given to the addressee.
		Don Antonio Sanez Reguart, commissioner of the Marine and Don Geronimo Hixosa, honorary counselor of War together with Joseph Ventura de Aranalde, Tomas Antonio de Marien y Arnospide and Felipe de Orbegozo y Larranaga have formed a plan for the fishing company.
	archives.nd.edu /calendar/cal1780.htm (8370 words)

	Louisiana Timeline: Years 1492-1670
		Don Ricardo Wall is the Spanish ambassador to London, although he hailed from Ireland and was actually born in France.
		Don Carlos is her uncle and assures her that he will protect her from the scheming ex-minister.
		Don Carlos is very pleased with the reforms which have returned prosperity to Spain.
	www.enlou.com /time/years1492-1670.htm (5397 words)

	Spanish Texas, Section 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Miro, the Spanish governor of Louisiana, liked Nolan and was on good terms with him.
		He was married to Katherine Lintot who was known as the Yellow Duchess, not so much because of her strikingly beautiful blond hair but because she loved the color of gold and had many items including her clothing and carriage reflect this favoritism.
		When Don Manuel Gayso de Lemos was replaced as Governor of Natchez, it was Minor who received the appointment as the next Governor of Natchez.
	users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/chap1a.htm (3087 words)

	St. Matthew Roman Catholic Church
		Though the precise date that the first settler of present Monroe, Captain Don Juan Filhiol, arrived in the Monroe area cannot be fixed with exact certainty, Filhiol's own documents put him in our region, "Post of the Ouachita," on February 1, 1783, which is years before the Louisiana Purchase unified American Colonization efforts.
		Fort Miro remained the successor to the Ouachita Fort until May 1, 1819, when the name of the settlement changed to that of Monroe.
		The citizens of Fort Miro saw the arrival of the Steamboat Monroe as the beginning of a great age of trade proving that river traffic would be coming.
	www.stmatthewofmonroe.com /?fuseaction=history. (695 words)

	COL Benjamin Harrison
		When Morgan reached New Orleans, he found that Miro was not at all in agreement with Gardoqui regarding the establishment of a colony of Americans on Spanish land.
		Miro was not totally opposed to the New Madrid project particularly since it was well under way.
		But Miro would not stand for all the liberal policies that Gardoqui had assumed would be acceptable.
	www.shawhan.com /benharrison.html (7861 words)

	Historical Places of Louisiana: Neutral Ground
		Don Artur O'Neill governor of Pensacola suggests presenting "Magilbery" to governor Estevan Miro and St. Maxent at the Indian Convention.
		Don Nemesio Salcedo, commandant general of the interior provinces of Mexico, meets with the Committee on the Fortification and Defense of the Indies.
		The American's Rio Grande argument was immediately rejected and consideration was focused on the strip of land between the Sabine on the West and on the line between the Calcasieu and Mermentau Rivers so as to pass between Los Adaes and Natchitoches.
	www.enlou.com /places/neutralground.htm (2365 words)

	Welcome to Chatham, Louisiana
		Nobody was interested in settlement and the pursuit of agriculture, though there is a record that a Frenchman, Jean Bon, engaged in Indian trade and also acquired a large tract of land at Point Pleasant on Bayou Bartholemew.
		Filhiol was a Frenchman commissioned by Don Estevan Miro, Spanish military governor of Louisiana Province from 1785-1791.
		Don Juan Filhiol established the settlement known as the “Post of Ouachita,” which later became the city of Monroe.
	www.townofchatham.org /home/history.shtml (1018 words)

	LSU Libraries -- French-Language Materials in the LLMVC
		Official letter from Nicolas Forstall to Estevan Miro requesting authorization and funds to repair a road to New Orleans in the vicinity of Bayou Courtableu.
		Don Antonio Gras was an early settler, merchant, and shipper of Baton Rouge and Natchez, Mississippi.
		Letters from Miro to Alexandre de Clouet, Commandant of Attakapas and Opelousas, and to St. Marc Darby and Juan de la Villebeuvre, government officials at Opelousas pertaining to administrative matters including road repairs.
	www.lib.lsu.edu /special/guides/frencoll.html (11943 words)

	Spaniards, Scoundrels, and Statesmen: General James Wilkinson and the Spanish Conspiracy, 1787-1790
		His subsequent communications with Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miro aimed at convincing the Spanish authorities that his presence was no threat to Spanish control of the Mississippi.
		Miro granted the monopoly, restricting immigration to the New Madrid area on the Mississippi, but later rescinded this action.(73) Wilkinson's political defeat and [18] financial desperation led him in late 1789 to travel again to New Orleans.
		Estevan Miro to James Wilkinson, permit, new Orleans, 8 August 1788, The Political Beginnings of Kentucky, by John Mason Brown (Louisville, KY: The Filson Club, 1889), 101.
	history.hanover.edu /hhr/98/hhr98_1.html (6637 words)

	Miro genealogy and family history
		We are developing a system for the public to suggest specific resources for Miro and other names, to complement the more general data for Miro family search.
		MIRO GENEALOGY : RELATED ITEMS FROM YAHOO API - Please note that the technology used to extract data for Miro Genealogy is under development..
		areas north of the Ohio River, in the Miro District of Tennessee, on the Holston and Cumberland...
	www.peoplearchive.org /peep.php?ln=miro (1036 words)

	Pioneers of the Old Southwest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It would seem so, because, although this was the very aim of all Miro's activities so that, had he been assured of the sincerity of the offer, he must have grasped at it, yet nothing definite was done.
		Miro had other agents besides McGillivray--who, by the way, was costing Spain, for his own services and those of four tribes aggregating over six thousand warriors, a sum of fifty-five thousand dollars a year.
		Miro found that man in General James Wilkinson, lately of the Continental Army and now a resident of Kentucky, which territory Wilkinson undertook to deliver to Spain, for a price.
	www.kentuckyhighlands.com /kh/documents/history/pioneers_of_the_old_southwest/Pioneers_of_the_Old_Southwest_10.asp (8755 words)

	Spanish Texas, Section 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		There the young Irishman, now known as Don Hugo Oconór (Irish names were "spanishcized" by themselves or by Spanish authorities or clerks), quickly rose in the ranks to be a Sergeant Major.
		Don Hugo Oconór awaited the King's pleasure for his next assignment.
		Don Pedro Alonso O'Crouley y O'Donnell came to Texas in 1774 as part of a scouting trip through New Spain investigating trade opportunities.
	users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/ch1.htm (6397 words)

	[No title]
		Don Estevan Miro was appointed temporary }{\fs24 governor}{\fs24 in 1784.
		Miro encouraged Americans to settle in the area now called the Florida parishes.
		He forced the Inquisition to leave, and because of his actions there was no Inquisition in Louisiana.
	www.latech.edu /tech/liberal-arts/geography/courses/310/text/document.doc1.doc (629 words)

	A Guide to the Edward Alexander Parsons Collection, 1678-1928
		Document stating that Don Bernardo de Galvez, Colonel of the Royal Armies, Intendant and Inspector Generak of the Province of Louisiana, gives to Pedro Lacoste titles to 40 arpents of land in front and on both sides of Bayou Nez Pique.
		Letter to Don Nicholas, Christmas and Davenport concerning rival claims of state of Georgia to the fort and district of Natchez based on prior peace treaty with Great Britain.
		ALS from Don Estevan Miro to the MYA.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utcah/00015/cah-00015.html (6316 words)

	ACADIAN-CAJUN Genealogy: Cajuns in the 18th Century: 1st Acadians in LA
		He brought Don Luis de Unzaga with him to be governor when he left.
		Miro became favored when he supplied tents and food to those in need.
		Miro also gained favor with colonists when he turned back Father Antonio de Sedella, who was sent from Spain to hold Inquisition hearings (...
	www.acadian-cajun.com /hiscaj2b.htm (3706 words)

	NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography
		These gathering were thought to be powerful because of the potential for planning uprisings and because of the belief that those gathering at Congo Square were practitioners of vodun or voodoo and other non-Christian religions.
		The tignon law enacted by Governor Don Estevan Miro of New Orleans in 1786 “…prohibited Creole women of color from displaying ‘excessive attention to dress’ in the streets of New Orleans” (McNeill 2004).
		According to the tignon decree, women of color had to wear a scarf or handkerchief over their hair as a visible sign of belonging to the slave class, whether they were enslaved or not.
	www.cr.nps.gov /ethnography/aah/aaheritage/FrenchAmA.htm (5352 words)

	Texas State Historical Association - Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online
		Ground by Don Antonio Cordero, governor of Texas.
		Bayou Don Manuel, and southwest of this bayou, Lake Terre Noir and
		Don Francisco Viana, we gave to one Indian believed to belong to the Texas
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /publications/journals/shq/online/v049/n1/contrib_DIVL798_print.html (7240 words)

	Tennessee History May 22 - 31 - Joelton.com - Joelton, Tennessee
		The stated mission of the department is to work in cooperation with juvenile courts, local communities, schools, and families to provide timely, appropriate, and cost effective services for children in state custody and at risk of custody so these children can strive to reach for their full potential as productive, competent, and healthy adults.
		David Campbell was named judge of the superior court; John Sevier, brigadier general of Washington District (East Tennessee); and James Robertson, brigadier general of Miro District (Middle Tennessee).
		The North Carolina Legislature named the Middle District, at the request of Robertson, for Don Estevan Miro, the Spanish governor at New Orleans, as the two exercised diplomatic relations.
	www.joelton.com /tennessee/may22-31.htm (1350 words)

	Joseph Stiggins Land Claim
		Don Estevan Miro, Colonel of the army, Governor of the province of Louisiana:
		Don Vicent Folch, captain of the regiment of Louisiana and commandant of Mobile.
		I certify that the land which is solicited is vacant, according to the information that has been taken from several inhabitants, and in witness whereof I sign this, the date as above.
	vidas.rootsweb.com /landjs.html (260 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Miro Cernetig reports on Justin’s bride-to-be, and analyzes why the federal parties catering to Québec, though he leaves out Jack Layton.
		The Post also features Don Martin’s take on her allegations, the Citizen has the latest on Belgium along with another Ottawa man incarcerated in Syria.
		For those who missed their government-sponsored Canadian values therapy last night, Don Cherry did indeed make the top ten list of Greatest Canadians.
	westernstandard.blogs.com /shotgun/2004/week43 (10896 words)

	Notre Dame Archives: ANO 1792/08/11
		(Note at end of document states that Estevan de Quinones, notary public, was informed by (______) Danican, a relative of Viel that the latter had already departed for Attacapas.
		He presents royal documents permitting him to exercise his ecclesiastical ministry in Louisiana and he asks for the curacy of Attacapas, which it was the intention of Governor Estevan Miro to give to him.
		Don Joseph Pontalba, captain of the infantry regiment of this province has given Miro the following memorandum: Father (Francisco de) Gace, a cousin of Pontalba, has come to Louisiana to obtain a curacy.
	archives.nd.edu /mano/17920811.htm (268 words)

	1828 DeWitt Colony Census-Surnames H-N
		He later joined the Royal Spanish army serving under Don Juan Filhiol, also a Frenchman by birth, a captain in the Spanish army since 1779 and commander of Ft. Miró, the single Spanish fort in the 1790's responsible for the Ouachita Valley in current northern Louisiana around Monroe.
		Miro denied the request as he still felt that the fort was unnecessary.
		While at Ft. Miro, de la Baume formed a life-long friendship with Felipe Enrique Neri, colonizer, legislator, and self-styled Baron de Bastrop, who had established a colony in the Ouachita valley.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/1828census2.htm (9744 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The sagacious and unscrupulous half breed Alexander McGillivray had placed the Creeks under the protection of Spain in 1784; and shortly afterward they began to be regularly supplied with ammunition by the Spanish authorities.
		Smith, informed me that the inhabitants of Cumberland, or Miro, would ask North Carolina for an act of separation the following fall, and that as soon as this should be obtained other delegates would be sent from Cumberland to New Orleans, with the object of placing that territory under the domination of His Majesty.
		I replied to both in general terms." Robertson, Bledsoe, and Smith were successful in keeping secret their correspondence with McGillivray and Miro; and few were in the secret of Sevier's effort to deliver the State of Franklin to Spain.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/tcotos06.html (5966 words)

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