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Guide to the Louisiana Miscellany Collection, 1724-1837 / compiled, translated, and edited by Judy Riffel.

Title
Guide to the Louisiana Miscellany Collection, 1724-1837 / compiled, translated, and edited by Judy Riffel.
Author
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
Publication
Baton Rouge, La. (P.O. Box 1547, Baton Rouge 70821-1547) : Comite des Archives de la Louisiane, c2006.

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  • Riffel, Judy.
  • Comité des archives de la Louisiane.
Description
viii, 248 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
Summary
Abstracts of documents containing genealogical information found in the Louisiana section of Records of the states of the United States (four reels of microfilm) and Louisiana miscellany 1724-1837 (five reels of microfilm). Includes "Baton Rouge district land concessions, 1785-1798, in one volume, and regulations concerning general police, June, 1795, also in one volume. Other materials include Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe's journal historique, 1724; documents on French and Spanish management of Louisiana, 1731-1799; manuscripts of 1780 on Louisiana and Florida; surveyors' records, including correspondnece of François Gonsolin (sic), Louis LeBlanc (sic), Carlos Laveau Trudeau, on the Attakapas district; a record book of Spanish land grants, 1785-1799, of 186 pages; a surveyor's notebook, 1795-1797; thirty-six manuscript plats for land grants located mostly in the Baton Rouge district; vital statistics from a Bible and other sources; and a few papers each for Bernardo de Gálvez, 1776-1786, and Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, 1794-1797; correspondence of American and French officials relating to the purchase of Louisiana, 1803-1804 ... " -- Introd.
Subject
  • Louisiana Miscellany Collection (Washington, D.C.) > Catalogs
  • Library of Congress. Manuscript Division > Catalogs
  • To 1899
  • Manuscripts, French > Louisiana > Catalogs
  • Manuscripts, American > Louisiana > Catalogs
  • Louisiana > History > To 1803 > Catalogs
  • Louisiana > History > 19th century > Catalogs
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs
  • History
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
^^2005939211
OCLC
78054781
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library