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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Protestant settlers in Spanish New Orleans recently forced to leave due to mandate from Spanish court ordering Protestants to depart America; Gov. Galvez softened it to allow pre-treaty residents to stay if they qualify per colony laws, leading some to convert to Catholicism and swear allegiance to Spain.
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CHARLESTOWN, March 7.
A GREAT number of Protestant settlers in the Spanish province of New Orleans have been recently obliged to quit that place. About twelve months after the peace, Gov. Galvez received a peremptory mandate from his Court, ordering all Protestants to leave the Spanish government in America. The Governor humbly remonstrated, that such an edict, carried into impartial execution, would leave his Majesty's settlements in the Mississippi naked and defenceless; after some explanation, the tenor of the mandate was so far softened, by allowing all those who were here previous to the treaty, to remain, provided they qualified agreeable to the laws of the colony. Notwithstanding which, a number of them, thinking it unsafe to remain under the protection of a power so little to be depended on, or an enlarged train of thinking, being unwilling to leave a harvest of Spanish dollars, waited upon the Governor with an offer, that he was willing to qualify by becoming a member of the Roman Catholic church, and a subject of the King of Spain, His Excellency complied, and administered the oaths of allegiance, another said, that I was an old bygone, body moon hind to remain which have paid—
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New Orleans
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Recently; About Twelve Months After The Peace
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protestant settlers obliged to quit or qualify by converting to roman catholic church and swearing allegiance to spain; mandate softened to allow pre-treaty residents to remain if compliant with colony laws
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A great number of Protestant settlers in the Spanish province of New Orleans have been recently obliged to quit that place. About twelve months after the peace, Gov. Galvez received a peremptory mandate from his Court ordering all Protestants to leave the Spanish government in America. The Governor remonstrated that impartial execution would leave Mississippi settlements defenceless; the mandate was softened to allow pre-treaty arrivals to remain if they qualified per colony laws. Some settlers, deeming it unsafe or reluctant to leave economic opportunities, offered to convert and become subjects of Spain; Gov. Galvez administered oaths of allegiance. [Text becomes garbled thereafter.]