La Salle Inventory
of all things left in charge of M de Sieur Joutel, Nov 1685
at Fort St Louis

• 8 Cannon...with no cannon balls, (used bags of shot)
• 200 Firelocks...Guns
• 200 Cutlasces [sic]
• 100 barrels of powder
• 3000 pounds of ball (bullets)
• 300 pounds of other lead
• a few bars of Iron
• 20 packs of Iron (to make nails)
• Some Iron work (from the wrecked L'Aimable)
• Some tools such as hatches [sic] axes
• some sacks of beads, knives ete [sic], to trade to Indians
• 20 casks of meal
• 1 ½ casks of Wine
• 3/4 of a cask of brandy
• A few hogs
• one Hen with a few chicks
• one rooster

Note/ The hogs later increased to 70 and the chickens to about two dozen or more.

This inventory was given to M de Joutel by M de La Salle when he left on his first exploration trip after all had been assembled to Fort St Louis.