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Plan du Fort des Yachoux, concession de Mgr. le duc de Belle Isle et associez, detruit 1729

Map of the region around Fort St. Peter (also known as Fort St. Pierre, St. Claude, St. Charles, and Snyder) as it appeared ca. 1722. The region formed part of Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle's land concessions in provincial Louisiana, and later became part of Warren County, Mississippi, about 12 miles northeast of Vicksburg on the Yazoo River. Keyed to 20 references, including details of the fort, named land concessions, and slave quarters. The settlement was abandoned by the French following the massacre of settlers in 1729 by local Indians. From French army officer Dumont de Montigny's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737.

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Creator

Dumont de Montigny

Date

[1747]

Scale

Scale [ca. 1:2,920]

Language

French

Location

Newberry Library

Collection (local)

Newberry Library Collection

Subjects
  • Land grants--Mississippi--Warren County--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Fortification--Mississippi--Fort St. Peter--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
  • Fort St. Peter (Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Warren County (Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places
  • Mississippi
  • North and Central America
  • United States
  • Vicksburg
  • Warren (county)
Extent

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 217 x 312 mm.

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Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Oriented with north at left.
  • Note on verso: No. 6, page 123.
  • Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, gray, red).
  • No. 6 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 passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
  • Related map published as Plan de la concessíon de le M. Blanc et assocíes aux Yazoux in Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane (Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753) v. 2, bet. p. 84-85.
  • Photostats of related manuscript maps in the Service Hydrographique library (Paris), numbers C 4044-64 and C 4044-65, form part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library).
  • Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.

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