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COLONY -- 600 0~- THE:’ NEGROLS --/Jl 4 ‘f ^
WITH	BELONGIN'"	TO	15	//
CONCESSIONARIES AT 3^S££NE-.T BIL07J January -	1721
"MIGRATION AND WAR -- Louisiana: 1718-1721"
from the Memoir of Charles le Gac (director of the Comnany) translated by Glenn R. Conrad,
University of Southwestern Louisiana -- 1970 pages 6^-65
(This unsigned memoir is actually entitled "MEMOIR ON THE SITUATION IN LOUISIANA END WHAT IS TO BE HOPED FOR."
The translator has reproduced only that nortion of the memoir which deals with population figures. For the complete memoir, see AC., C13c, 329-331vers0-)
MEMOIR ON LOUISIANA
When M. Cro^at surrendered bis concession in Louisiana to the "Comnany of the Indies," there were about UOO white persons in the colony.
Then, between October 25* 1717 and the month of Kay, 1721,
^3 Company shirts and Saujon's squadron brought 7,020 people to the colony in the following categories:
Officers	122
Company Clerks and Employees	*+3
Soldiers	977
Company Laborers	302
Concessionaries or Their Agents 119
Engages*	2,^62*
Illicit Salt Dealers, Smugglers and Exiles	1,278
Women	1,215
Children	502
*An engage'' was a person, usually a craftsman, who contracted with the "Company of the Indies" or with a Louisiana landowner (referred to in this work as a concessionary) to work for three years Dn the concession (land granted by the French crown or the "Company of the Indies") or for the Comnan^. At the end of this contractual service, the engage (most of whom had brought their families with them to Lousiana)* was usually given a small tract of land and became a landowner in his own right.	Marcel	Giraud	refers	to
these people as men of	service	who	were to	do	whatever
they received orders to do within reason.