The 11th, visited General Benjamin Logan whose house is situate 12 Miles from Danville. I confided to him the Commission entrusted to me; He told me he would be delighted to take part in the enterprise but that he had received a Letter a few days previously from J. Brown[32] which informed him that negotiations had been begun between the United States and the Spaniards respecting the navigation of the Mississipi and the Creek Indians; That a messenger had been sent to Madrid[33] and that any one of the United States that would venture
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the state legislature. A man of wealth and prominence, his family became intimately associated with Kentucky history. He died in 1839.
Pierre Tardiveau was a French merchant who had an extensive business in
the West, and connections in Bordeaux. With his partner, Honoré, he carried
on trade with New Orleans, and made frequent trips thither. Tardiveau
embarked in Genet's enterprise, and was appointed interpreter in chief by
Michaux, who appears to have used him to communicate with agents in New
Orleans. See Claiborne, Mississippi (Jackson, 1880), pp. 152, 153; also
American Historical Association Report, 1896, pp. 952, 1026, 1096. Tardiveau
removed to Louisiana when it came under American dominion.—Ed.
