| Description | New York, Captain Forbes and his proceedings with the inhabitants of Illinois
Enclosures:
Information of the state of Commerce in the Illinois Country, given by Captain Forbes of His Majesty's 34th Regiment, copy
List of Spanish forts or posts, and settlements on the Mississippi, from the Missouri to the sea, with the number of troops and inhabitants at each, copy
State of the settlements at St Vincents on the Ouabache, copy
State of the settlements in the Illinois country at Kaskakias in 1767, copy
Extract of a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkins, 18th Regiment, to Major-General Thomas Gage, dated Fort Chartres, 13 Sep 1768, will use every means to prevent the specie being sent out of the country, is told that a fort is built on the south side of the Missouri at its junction with the Mississippi, by positive directions of Don Ulloa, necessity of a garrison at Post St. Vincent, and elsewhere, an immense trade is said to be annually carried on by the French to this place, a priest is much wanted here, collusion between the merchants on this and the other side, to the detriment of British interest, petty French disputes etc. |