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No full textThe Laffite Study Group is a non-profit educational organization which aims to promote research in , and the dissemination of knowledge concerning Jean Laffite's role in American history, literature, and folklore.Editor's Corner: As the new Newsletter Editor, I wish to first of all express my appreciation to the previous editor, Pam Keyes
LHA Meeting A Success
No full textThe Louisiana Historical Association held its 1982 annual meeting at Lake Charles on March 4 - 6. There were several sessions and numerous intersting papers. Subjects of papers ranged from a history of the New Orleans Pilice Department to the underwater archaeology of the El Nuevo Constante, a Spanish merchantman wrecked off Cameron Parish in 1766
Jacinto Lobrano
No full textThe following was submitted by Bernard Eble of Jefferson, LA, who copied it from an old number of the New Orleans Daily Picayune
Laffite at Galveston
No full textSnake Island, or Galveston as it is more commonly known, was Jean Laffite's second base of operations. Much of what is known about Laffite's communal settlement there comes from Col. J.J. Thrasher's "Early History of Galveston" from the Galveston City Directory, 1866-67
The Laffite Network
No full textThe joint meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association and the Mississippi Historical Society will be March 12 - 14 1987 at the Holiday Inn/Crowne Plaza, New Orleans
Laffite's Tomb In Paincourtville
No full textA brief note concerning the tomb of a Jean Laffite in the Saint Elizabethville Cemetery, Paincourtville, Louisiana, appeared in Terrebonne Life Lines, vol. 3, no. I (Spring 1984), submitted by Alberta Laffitte of Houma
The Laffite Network
No full textCongratulations to LSG member Sylvie-Beatrice Robin on her marriage to M. Francois Feuillie in Paris on 12 March.Reminder: 1988 membership renewals are due
An Authentic Jean Laffite Letter
No full textIn the summer of 1918, U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams dispatched secret agent George Graham to interview Jean Laffite at Galveston. Laffite's letter to Graham dated 26 August 1818, reproduced here in facsimile, is one of several preserved in the records of Special Agents, Department of State MSS in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C
The Case Of The Schooner 'Dos Hermanos'
No full textDuring its February term in 1817, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in the matter of the Dos Hermanos, a case being appealed from the United States District Court for Louisiana