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El Padre Francisco Javier Alegre, S.J.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Alfred E. Lemmon
Affiliation:
Historic New Orleans Collection
Guillermo Nañez-Falcón
Affiliation:
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Abstract

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Inter-American Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1988

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Footnotes

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Alfred E. Lemmon is responsible for the introduction and transcription of the original Spanish document, Guillermo Nañez-Falcón prepared the translation.

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41 Deck, Alegre, (4) notes that the year was 1751.

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50 Alegre, , Historia, 10,Google Scholar gives the date of death as 1788.