( )
( )

to (Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)

The census for 1800 of Ovachita, Avoyelles, Rapido, Lago de Cataolo, Cotaille and Bayo de Buyes. (The names of heads of families, number of persons in each family, their religion, both Catholic and Protestant, and the total population for each place are given).

V-2-i D. (Spanish) 15pp. 4to.

(1800)

Lonergan, O.F.M., Father Patrick
Pit(t)sburgh, (Pennsylvania)

to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)

Since the Catholics in this region near the Ohio River in the United States of America are very poor so that they cannot build a church, it is with the hope especially of converting heretics that Lonergan asks (Penalver) to appoint a priest from the Diocese of New Orleans as pastor there.

V-2-i A.L.S. (Latin) 1p. 8vo.

1800

(Lusson, Father Leandre)
( )

to (Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)

The census for 1800 for the parish of St. Charles, Missouri: 709 souls, an increase of 32. The church has 288#, 15s. There 50 non- Catholics. There have been 8 marriages, 10 burials, 42 baptisms, 13 marriages of non-Catholics.

V-2-i D. (French) 1p. 8vo.

1800

(Lusson, Father Leandre)
( )

to (Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)

The census for 1800 for the parish of St. Ferdinand of Florissant, (Missouri): 286 souls, an increase of 22. The church has 700#. There are 50 non-Catholics. There have been 18 baptisms, 1 marriage, 5 burials.

V-2-i D. (French) 1p. 8vo.

1800

(Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)

(This manuscript is stained and illegible in part. The following can be read:) Narbonne ... diaconate(?) ... Lubeck(?) ... priesthood(?) ... Hector de Sabran ... a license from the above bishopric(?) ... to exercise his ministry ... has incurred no censure ... in Baxa Saxonia ... Londres ... (17)92 ...

V-2-i D. (Spanish) Copy(?) 2pp. 4to.