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The Merchant of Manchac

其他書名	The Letterbooks of John Fitzpatrick, 1768-1790
出版	Baton Rouge Bicentennial Corporation, 1978
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Adventurers & ExplorersBusiness & Economics / Industries / RetailingHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN	08071026879780807102688
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gxRSAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"John Fitzpatrick was one of the ambitious British merchants who swarmed into the lower Mississippi River Valley during the second half of the eighteenth century to make their fortunes on the frontier. Fitzpatrick arrived in New Orleans during the transition from French to Spanish rule over Louisiana, and his early letters from that city describe the economic chaos and turmoil of the political transition. Among his business contacts were some of the leaders of the abortive rebellion of 1768, as well as such powerful figures as Gilbert de St. Maxent. Exiled from Louisiana in 1769, Fitzpatrick settled at Manchac, a small British settlement on the east side of the Mississippi River just above the boundary of the Spanish Colony, and established himself there as a trader and planter. His letters to customers, suppliers, and friends describe the free-wheeling river trade in which he participated, the growth of Manchac as a center for British contraband trade between British West Florida and Louisiana, and the disruptions brought by the American Revolution." --