Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana

(This document is water-stained, making it illegible in many parts. It seems to be concerned with correspondence about) the establishment of parishes at Aboyelles, Rapido and Ovachita, (Louisiana). (There are drafts and letters and copies of letters to and written by) Penalver, Baron (Francisco Luis Hector) de Carondelet, Juan Ventura Morales, Carlos de Grand-Pre, Father John Maguire, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos and Juan Arsena. Father John Brady, (O.Carm.) is mentioned in the last letter of the document). Father Isidro Quintero (acts as notary and secretary. Three census reports submitted by) Father P(ierre) J(osef) Didier, (O.S.B.) from St. Ferdinand of Florissant, St. Louis of the Illinois and St. Charles of the Missouri (are also in this document. The first paper is dated) June 7, 1797; (the last is dated) July 22, 1798.

V-1-i D.S., A.L.S., Drafts and Copies (Spanish) 47pp. 4to. 8vo.
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