1763 | order to expel Jesuits from Louisiana | FRENCH

This document was created on July 9, 1763. The WPA abstract included with this record tells us that these pages attempt to enact the "EXPLUSION OF JESUITS FROM LOUISIANA PETITION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL." The unidentified WPA worker who wrote this abstract includes a note to observe that "while the Attorney General's petition states that the Jesuits are disturbers of peace and own no concessions in the province of Louisiana, he makes no specific criminal charges against them to prove it and their plantation above New Orleans was sold for 180,000 dollars and another one at Illinois for 65,000 dollars."

What do you know about Jesuits in New Orleans? Help transcribe and translate this document to find out more, and for further reading on 18C Louisiana religious communities, you may want to check out Tulane Professor Emily Clark's The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 which was published by the Omahundro Institute in 1996.