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1712 “During the last fifteen years the number of settlers from France, that were added to the colony of Louisiana, amounted to about two thousand five hundred persons: and the public money expended on the colony during the same period, was no less than 689,000 livres. Yet the colony contained at this time only 4,000 whites, 20 negro slaves & 300 head of cattle. Louisiana is granted to Crozat by letters patent from the king of France, Louis XIV.” Lings Ch: 87.