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| South America & Caribbean:Previous Hispanola: 1790 In France Robespierre and his deputies talk equality of the blacks, but fear any real action in the Caribbean. The French Assembly says that free coloreds born of free parents are equal to whites. Vincent Ogé raises an army of 300 in the North Province as free coloreds attack Le Cap Francaise. The revolt is quickly suppressed. Most of the rebels are forced to confess to their evil deeds and perish in a grisly public execution. Aided by rebellious soldiers a mob of outraged free coloreds hack off the head of Governor Mauduit after he refuses to promulgate the French Assembly s decree of equality.Next | |||||||||||
| North America: The population of the United States is nearly 4 million. Philadelphia is the capital, but Congress makes plans to establish a permanent capital on the Potomac River, with French-American engineer Pierre L'Enfant as designer. Rhode Island becomes the 13th state of the Union. Congress forbids seizure of Indian lands, but it continues. General Arthur St. Claire is the first governor of the Northwest Territory. U. S. Patent Office opens. New England commerce stretches to China and around the world. | |||||||||||
| Europe: With gold and capitalists leaving the country, France prints paper money backed by lands confiscated from the nobility. A uniform system of weights and measures is devised in France. Music by Mozart; paintings by Lawrence, Raeburn. | |||||||||||
January 1790ñ
Spanish Officials: Alcaldes Ordinarios Primer -Joseph de Ortega Segundo - Andres Almonester. Sindico Procurador General Roberto Avant Mayordomo de Proprios Matias Alpuente. Rafael Perdomo will lose his escribano post because of usury. He is succeeded as a Cabildo escribano by Carlos Ximenez. The third Cabildo escribano post is filled by Francisco Broutin who replaces Luis Liotau. January 1, 1790 the Cabildo decides to allow all ranchers who wished to do so to supply beef for the city. The monopoly system that had lasted for years and the reliance upon butchers to run the market earlier in the Spanish era had failed by supplying unreliable amounts and quality of beef. January 6,1790 Twelfth Night parties are celebrated at Louisiana plantations. |
February 1790
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March 1790
March 12, 1790 Carlos de La Chaise is named temporarily to the post of Regidore Sencillo. Nicolas Forstall who purchased the office in 1772 will resume the post on September 4, 1795. March 18, 1790; Andres Almonester y Roxas becomes Alférez Real of New Orleans, purchasing the post from Carlos de Reggio who renounced his post on March 16, 1790. The post is confirmed on November 19, 1790. |
April 1790
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May 1790
May 21 1790 Spanish government issues a confidential royal order forbidding entry in the Spanish colonies of slaves, black refugees or mulattoes from French possessions. This embargo on blacks is a reaction to the French revolution last year and in anticipation to insurrections on French Islands in the Caribbean. |
June 1790
The 1790 Spring floods innundate most of the Tchoupitoulas district upriver from the city and the new levees are destroyed. Repairs are made from funds created to help victims of the 1788 fire. The land will pass to Lorenzo Sigur with a loan to help him maintain the levees next year. The deal is a bad one for every one involved as the loans are disputed in Havana and the river continues to flood in the area. Sigur re-abandons the land. In the spring 1790 the floods cause the enclosed public privy that the city has installed near the river and other toilets to overflow, putrifying the streets. A new regulation enforces placement of outhouses. |
July 1790
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December 1790
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Governor Miro grants some lots on the edge of the town, such as the lot to Elisha Winter of Kentucky who wants to establish a cordage factory (rope walk). Winter associated with Daniel Clark, is granted a long, narrow strip parallel to and just within the line of the old fortification from Decatur almost to Royal blocking Chartres. It is shown in a drawing by Charles Trudeau dated July 23, 1791. A new market structure is completed on the levee by contractor Augustin Macarty. |
Edward Douglas White Memorial is a plantation house built by slaves on the plantation in 1790. White, who will be born in the house in 1845, will serve as Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court for twenty seven years. The memorial is open to the public for a nominal admission fee. |
Father Antonio de Sedella who had been appointed
commissary of the Holy Office of the Inquisition for Louisiana begins
to invoke his power as inquisitor during a period when Governor Estaban
Rodriguez Miro is trying to promote Protestant immigration to Louisiana.
Auxiliary bishop Barcelona moves to stop him. The governor arrests Sedella
and deports him to Spain. He returns to the colony in 1793 cleared of
charges.
Dr. Jules Charles Despise, the second mayor of Mansura, Acquires a Louisiana French Colonial style dwelling still standing in Avoyelles Parish. Alexander Milne arrives in New Orleans and establishes a hardware business which does well after the great fires of 1788 and 1794. |
General Jean Baptiste Labatut arrives in Louisiana around 1781 and served under Andrew Jackson in the defense of New Orleans. His son marries into the family of Don Evarist de Barra, a Spanish Nobleman who had built a house with slave labor some time around 1790. In time it came into possession of the Labatut family which occupied it for many generations. The Labatut House shows a transitional period of Louisiana architecture with structure that is typical of earlier houses but a plan with a large central hall and Georgian details such as transoms and sidelights, which are typical of later fine houses. A HREF="hendersons-bio.htm" onMouseOver="parent.self.status=' Chronology of the life of Stephen Henderson'; return true">Stephen Henderson is born in Dunblane, Scotland in 1772 and comes to Louisiana about 1790. |
In 1790 the responsibilities of the former Minister of the Indies, Jose Galvez, are further divided between five cabinet ministries, the minister of commerce, war, marine, finance and justice. The change in administration has a negative effect on Louisiana’s administration. Many of its requests go unanswered. In 1790 a new and improved public market opens to replace structures lost in the 1788 fire. The first Spaniard becomes a regidore. Councilors on the Cabildo are usually of French descent. During Estaban Rodriguez Miro’s administration the Cabildo will reach the height of its power and prestige. After the indigo and tobacco crops decline and before they were replaced by cotton and sugar, the merchants of the colony take advantage of their newfound prosperity to buy cabildo seats. The dynamics of Carondelet’s administration also overshadows the councillors. |
Salt is evaporated from brine springs on Avery Island for the first time. It will be a vital source of salt for the Confederacy early in the Civil War. Fort Miro is built near Monroe, Ouachita Parish by Commandant Jean Filhoil and Lieut. Joseph de la Baume of the Ouachita District. Half of the timbers are furnished by officers; half by garrison and settlers. The Pitot House is built in 1790 by Don Santiago Lorreins and is bought by James Pitot in 1809. It is moved in 1970 to 1440 Moss St. on Bayou St. John and is open for tours. Whitney Plantation House is begun on the West bank and will be finished about 1815. The columns on the front are a Greek Revival modification added in the 1840s. The rear of the house still has its original columns. It is a private residence today. Alexander Milne |
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