Maybe I could pay to have a copy of the whole article from Le Raconteur made. There's so much there I wouldn't know what specifically to ask for. I recently sent this following email to our [email protected] discussion list. I got the information from http://books.google.com/books?id=sSoOutbxa5UC&pg=PA520&dq=Joseph+camile+degruy&hl=en&ei=RfE0TZHoOcWBlAfg173NCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false <http://books.google.com/books?id=sSoOutbxa5UC&pg=PA520&dq=Joseph+camile+degruy&hl=en&ei=RfE0TZHoOcWBlAfg173NCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false> Following comes from: Descriptive catalogue of the documents relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba deposited in the Archivo General de Indias by Roscoe R. Hill Do you think we should try to get the entire legajo? Note the names in this one: Jean Batiste Degruy, Pedro Foucher, Etienne Layssard, Antoine St. Amand,etc. Anyone know HOW to get a legajo??????? ---------------------------------- Legajo 215. 1798, [1780, 1786, 1789, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1797, 1800].Correspondencia Nacional y Estrangera de los Gobernadores de las Floridas y varias Autoridades Estrangeras. C, 36 cm., 900 documents. Most of the legajo is of the year 1798, all the months being represented. There are only a few documents for the other years noted. The documentation is badly in disorder. Most of it is in French, with a small number in English and Spanish. The legajo contains the following series of correspondence: (a) Letters to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, governor of Louisiana, from Manuel Andry, Allemands; César Archinard, Rapide; Elias Beauregard, Nogales; Gabriel Cerré, St. Louis; Aug. Chouteau, St. Louis; Jacques Clamorgan, St. Louis; Louis DeBlanc, Atakapas; Definiells, St. Louis; Jean Batiste Degruy, Chapitoulas; Carlos Dehault Delassus, Nuevo Madrid; Pierre Delassus DeLuzieres, Nouvelle Bourbon; William Dunbar, Natchez (also l797) , Guillermo Duparc, Pointe Coupée; Andrew Ellicott, Natchez; Jean Filhiól, Ft. Miró; Benjamin Fooy, Hope Field; Pedro Foucher, Habitation; Carlos de Grand Pré, Baton Rouge; Isaac Guion, Natchez; Joseph Joffrion, Avoyelles; Evan Jones, La Fourche; Louis Judice. La Fourche; J. Lamotte, La Fourche; Etienne Layssard, Rapide; Valentin Layssard, Rapide;Le Bretton D'orgenoy, Chapitoulas; Louis Lorimier, Cap Girardeau; Santiago Mackay, St. Andrew du Missouri; Baptiste Mayeux, Avoyelles; Leonard Mazange, Mon Habitation; Stephen Minor, Boundary Line Camp; Jean Baptiste Poeyfarre, Faubourg Ste. Marie; Tomas Power, Boundary; Antoine St. Amand, Allemands; L. Sigur, Iberville; Felix Trudeau, Natchitoches; Ate. Verret, La Fourche; Carlos de Vilemont, San Estevan des Arkansas; and Gregory White, La Fourche. ( b) Drafts of letters of Gayoso de Lemos to Dunbar, Duparc, Joffrion, Jones, Lamotte, Mayeux, Francisco Rivas, St. Amand, Ate. Verret, Vilemont, and White. (c) Letters of: 1780, John Campbell, Pensacola, to Bernardo de Galvez; 1789, Nicolas Forstall, Opelousas, to Estevan Miró; 1792, Baron de Carondelet, New Orleans, to Nicolas DeVerbois; Francisco Rivas, Manchak, to Nicolas DeVerbois; 1795,Esetevan Delamorandier, Avoyelles, to ;1797, Carlos de Vilemont, Ft. San Estevan de Arkansas, to Carondelet; 1798, James Durouzeaux, Coweittaw, to Vizente Folch; Juan Gautier, New Orleans, to Manuel Lanzos; John McDonald. Cherokees, to William Panton; and Estevan Minor, Natchez, to Isaac Guion. Subjects treated: Fixing of the boundary line between Louisiana and the United States (much); general affairs of the posts. Special and most important items: 1786, copy of the treaty of Hopewell between the United States and the Choctaws (Jan. 3); 1792, petition of the inhabitants of St. Louis asking that Didier be named priest (July 16); 1794, review of the militia (Sept. 8); 1795, census of slaves at Cannes Brulees (July 6); 1797, inventory of the archives at Iberville (Nov. 2); 1798, census of La Fourche (Jan. 1); census of the Faubourg Ste. Marie (Feb. 1); list of the expenses of the post of Nouvelle Bourbon and advance payments made by the commandant, Delassus DeLusieres (June 6) ; Descripcion Topográfica de la linea Divisoria, by William Dunbar (Aug. 31); inventory of the archives of La Fourche de Chetimachas (Sept. 26); and, 1798-1800, case between Israel Dodge and Joseph Fenwick regarding the payment for a house.