Census of Arkansas Post - 1749 (Transcription, Translation and Description)

              		ARKANSAS CENSUS MADE 1749

		 Mrs. Leister S. Preslsy
	In 1749 Louis Xavier Martin de Lino Chalmette was Commandant at
Arkansas and made a census of the Post and surrounding area.   This is 
the first census of Arkansas that has been found.  He was a relative of 
de Vaudreuil, the French Governor, and this census was among the 
Governor's papers that were aboard the "L'Alcide" when it was captured 
at sea by a British vessel in June, 1755.  It is part of the Louden 
Papers and is now in the Henry S. Huntington Library, San Marcos, 
California. 

	The  paper is written in French and the following translation was 
made by Verne Vogt, Professor of French at Harding College.  He was
working from a microfilm copy and the old script is very hard to 
decipher.   Some places were blurred and the exact word could not be 
determined.  In some places they have been printed but marked with a 
question mark.  In other places the word was so uncertain only a blank space 
was left.
	This item is reproduced by permission of the Henry E. Huntington 
Library,  San Marcos, California.   Manuscript # LO 200.

General [handwritten] >Census< of the inhabitants, travelers, women, children, slaves, 
horses, >oxen< cows, hogs at the Post of Arkansas.

		Men    Women	Boys	Girls	Slaves	Horses	Oxen	Cows  Hogs
M. Delino    ----1-------1-------0--------0-------3-------1------2-------4-----0---
Linctot      ----1-------2-------2--------3-------7-------1------1-------10----10--
Flamant	P.   							 8-------17----0---				
Guillaume    ----1-------1-------0--------0-------2-------0------4-------6-----3---
La Froray    							 4-------6----- ---
Lajeunesse   ----1-------1-------1--------0-------0-------1------6-------9-----0---
Bourg        ----1-------1-------1--------2------- ------- ------3-------9-----0---
Paul Malette ----1-------1-------0--------3-------1-------0------3-------1-----4---
Novin 	     ----1-------1-------4--------0-------1-------0------0-------0-----0---

General Census of the travelers who remained on the river banks despite the 
(orders ( work) ? ) which were given them in the-----?

			         ------?------	
Arkansas River Bourgeois			White River		[handwritten note]
Brindamour-------  employees - 2  		Bourgeois Francoeur	>This was
Pertuy-----------      "     - 5 		 employees - 4		  my Joseph<
Michel Lalemant--      "     - 2
Bourg------------      "     - 3
Malette L'Ene ---      "     - 2		St. Francis River
Gagnette-------—-      "     - 4
Badoucy ---------      "     - 4		Bourgeois-Tourangeaux - Employees - 3

	
[handwritten notes]				   [stamp]
			
>Bourgeois means "better class" than			<Mrs. LEISTER E. PRESLEY
voyageurs?						1708 WEST CENTER AVENUE
Perthuis Pierre>					SEARCY, ARK. 72143>