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Title Mémoire de Lxx Dxx officier ingénieur, contenant les evenements qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'à present ainsi que ses...

Creator Dumont de Montigny

Date 1747

Place France, Louisiana, Mississippi River Valley

Language French

Subjects Bookbinding, Bookplates, Indians of North America

Description Holograph ms.; title, preface, index, and list of Indian tribes are all on a different kind of paper, and in a different hand from the body of the ms.
Dedicatory epistle to the Duke of Belle-Isle, whose coat of arms appears in pen-and-ink at the top of recto of leaf [1].
Originally included 9 plates and 14 maps, 2 of which had been removed earlier. The remaining 12 maps and 9 plates have also now been removed from the ms., and are housed separately; cf. description of Ayer Ms. Maps 197-208 in The Newberry Library list of ms. maps in the Edward E. Ayer Collection / Clara A. Smith. Chicago, 1927; and Special Collections Info File.
Last [2] leaves include a list of Indian tribes familiar to Dumont, and an index.
Edited version printed as: Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane ... / composés sur les mémoires de M. Dumont ; par M. L.L.M. [J.B. Le Mascrier]. Paris : Chez Cl. J.B. Bauche, 1753.

Summary Journal of Dumont dit Montigny, French military officer and historian, written in France in 1747, which narrates events of his life between 1715 and 1747, including his experiences in Louisiana from 1719 to 1737. He fought in the attack on Pensacola, helped build forts in New Biloxi and Yazoo, explored the Arkansas River, and described in great detail the city of Natchez before the massacre of 1729. He includes accounts of expeditions against the Natchez, and the Chickasaws (1736), as well as his reasons for the misfortunes of the Company of the Indies and the retrocession of the colony to the King. Although he returned to France in 1737, he includes a second expedition against the Chickasaws, related to him by Jesuits travelling through Port Louis. The second section of the memoir describes Louisiana, settlements, and Indian practices and customs.

Extent [227] leaves, bound : ill., coat of arms, maps, plates ; 27 cm

Format Diaries, Early works, Manuscripts, Travel literature

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View record

BibID 991701998805867

Projects Tag Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2367px × 3363px 22.80 MB

File Created 09/06/2023

Filename 991701998805867_Ayer_MS_257_vol_01_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11ONTW

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