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1773 |
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| North America:Virginia Legislature appoints a Committee of Correspondence to coordinate protests with other colonies. Theologians urge that freed blacks be sent back to Africa. George Rogers Clark lays out Louisville which will be named by the Virginia legislature in 1780 to honor France's Louis XVI. Daniel Boone leads more settlers to Kentucky, but Indian attacks chase the settlers back to Virginia. John Dickinson publishes papers about Tea Tax. The Boston Tea party ends the year with support by Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams. Tea in other ports is left to rot or returned to England. | |||||||||||
| Europe: French Surgeon Morveau disinfectants as British physicians publish major advances in medicine and child birth. The Tea act passed by Parliament favors the East India Company which has has years of stock in London due to colonial nonimportation. Jesuits expelled from Holy Roman Empire as Pope Clement XIV dissolves the Society of Jesus, disrupting the well organized Catholic educational system of Europe. | |||||||||||
January 1773
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Pedro Duplessis Segundo - Francisco Doriocourt. Sindico Procurador General Pedro Deverges Mayordomo de Proprios Juan Bautista Garvin. |
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April 1773
Denis Braud leaves for France in April 1773, abandoning his post as Receptor de Penas de Camara, and thus his seat on the Cabildo. He has tried to sell his post several times finding no takers because the collector of fees and taxes is not a popular post. From Rochelle France he writes that he wishes his wife Juana Lemelle to have the post, which is an unusual request. The post will be sold at auction by governor Luis de Unzaga. |
May 1773
In the Spring of 1773 the Cabildo learns that merchants are using false measures to underpay duties on imported liquors. It establishes the office of fiel ejecutor (inspector of weights and measures) naming Juan Escant, a master cooper, to the post. |
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December 1773
December 1 Louis Landry reports that the inhabitants of Attakapas and Opelousas that had agreed to build a stockade at the mouth of Bayou Plaquemine have disappeared. They have cut down the trees needed, but have left in such a hurry that they left the cut trees in disarray. Fusilier is commander of these posts. Mr. Dauterive is planning to install a sawmill on nearby Bayou Jacob and asks Andry if he can use the cut trees for its construction. His report continues at Manchac where the commander Mr. Louis Dessalles receives gifts for the Chitimachas purchased from Mr. Boisdore, an Opelousas merchant. |
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In 1773 the planters on the Cabildo begin efforts to control fugitive slaves who are committing crimes while at large. The Cabildo agreed to assess all slaves and compile a census of them. The resulting tax would be used to pursue the fugitive slaves and compensate them if the slaves were killed as fugitives. The regulation covered all of lower Louisiana from Balize to Natchitoches. Unzaga calls a cabildo abierto to ask slaveholders at large to modify and support the application for royal authorization. The Cabildo begins enforcement immediately, royal approval comes four years later. Like all taxes, collection was a problem. Slave owners were also compensated when slaves died protecting their master’s homes and property or doing public works. The demands of this fund exceeded the Cabildo’s efforts to keep it solvent. |
Charles de Gran Pre is Commandant of Pointe Coupee Post from 1773 to 1781 |
Jacques Dupre David Bannister Morgan Thomas Urquhart |
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