1. The enclosure (3 pp.; docketed by Wagner; printed in Carter, Territorial Papers description begins Clarence Carter et al., (28 vols.; Washington, 1934–75). description ends , Orleans, 9:581–82) is a copy of George T. Ross to Claiborne, 11 Feb. 1806, stating that he had gone in search of Casa Calvo and had received information at Attakapas that induced him to go to Camp Hamilton at Opelousas, where he learned the marqués was or would soon be at Natchitoches, one-hundred and sixty miles away. When he arrived there four days later, he found that Casa Calvo had left for New Orleans five days previously. From what Ross learned in his travels, he judged that the sooner Casa Calvo left Orleans Territory, the better. People who he believed were attached to the U.S. government told him that many efforts had been made to convince the residents of that part of the territory that they would not remain U.S. citizens much longer and that they had been induced to neglect registering their land titles or having their boundaries surveyed, a circumstance attributed to Casa Calvo’s arrival. The local Indians had quit their hunting parties, which agent John Sibley believed was the also the result of Casa Calvo’s influence, and Ross had met an interpreter who was traveling to the settlement to ask if the Indians intended to return to Spanish territory. Ross wrote that both by observation and information he considered Casa Calvo an enemy to the United States, and added “if he has so far forgot the feelings of humanity as to Tamper with Savages, with whom our Government is exerting every nerve to Humanize … he deserves the execration of every feeling breast!”