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

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.

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Creator

Dumont de Montigny

Date

[1747]

Scale

Scale not given

Language

French

Location

Newberry Library

Collection (local)

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

Subjects
  • Plantations--Mississippi--Natchez--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Land grants--Mississippi--Natchez--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
  • Natchez (Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places
  • Adams (county)
  • Mississippi
  • Natchez
  • North and Central America
  • United States
Extent

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

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Notes
  • 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 passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
  • 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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