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Plan du vieux Fort du Billoxi, 2 etablissement

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Title Plan du vieux Fort du Billoxi, 2 etablissement

Date Created 1747

Place Miss.), Mississippi, Mississippi--Ocean Springs, Mississippi--Ocean Springs--Fort Maurepas

Language French

Subjects Fortification, Land grants, Manuscript maps

Description Note on verso: No. 4, page 69.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red).
No. 4 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 Map of the region around Fort Maurepas (also known as Fort Biloxi) on the eastern shore of Biloxi Bay as it appeared ca. 1720; later the site of Ocean Springs in Jackson County, Mississippi. Keyed to 12 references, including the government house, troop barracks, and land concessions.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 164 x 215 mm

Format Maps

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Projects Tag Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 257 map 4

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSJL3MT0

Original File Name 991477208805867_ayer_ms_257_map_004

Unique identifier NL11EMTC

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