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Open book Concession des Chaouachas appartenante cy devant a Mgr. le duc de Belleisle et associez

Open book Memoire de Lxx Dxx officier ingenieur, contenant les evenements qui se sont passes a la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present ainsi que ses...

Title Concession des Chaouachas appartenante cy devant a Mgr. le duc de Belleisle et associez

Creator Dumont de Montigny

Date 1747

Place Mississippi--Natchez

Language French

Subjects Land grants, Manuscript maps, Plantations

Description Oriented with southwest at top.
Note on verso: No. 13, page 355.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red, grey).
No. 13 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passes a la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Memoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.

Summary Shows plantation on Saint Catherine Creek in Natchez, Mississippi. The plantation formed part of Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle's land concessions in provincial Louisiana. Identifies buildings, slave quarters, cleared fields and canals; keyed to references 1-23. From French army officer Dumont de Montigny's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 211 x 334 mm

Format Maps

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 257 map 13

BibID 147730

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 8281px × 5677px 269.03 MB

Filename 991477308805867_ayer_ms_257_map_013_01.tif

Unique Identifier NL11EHY1