Pensacola Beach
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names\World\continents\North and Central America\nations\United States\states\Florida\counties\Escambia\inhabited places\Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
A Sketch of the River Perdido, 1767
Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 53
Identifier: 3976.566
Description
From catalog info:Pensacola, FlordiaUnknown British CartographerBritish MMS Map - colored
Scale: one inch equals 2 milesShows Pensacola, Campbell town, Indian camps, iron mine, road to mobile, swamps Label Text This 1767 map was created for safe navigation of the swamps of western Florida, noting details like "choak'd up with logs." At the time, Great Britain had recently taken control of this...
Dates:
1767
An Accurate Map of Louisiana and the Territory in Dispute between the English and French, 1760
Item — Box 1, Folder: Map 43
Identifier: 3976.555
Description
From catalog info:G. Rollos (fl. 1754-89) English Engraver.London: The British Magazine [1760?]Scale: 1:7,000,000Not located in Phillips Label Text Made during the French and Indian War (1754-63), this map labels the British colonies of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia as "territories in dispute." While European powers fought to claim control of these regions, the map records elsewhere...
Dates:
1760
General map of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, 1794
Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 69
Identifier: 3976.655
Description
From catalog info:S.E. U.S.A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to the United States of Ameria, via Norht Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia:... LA & FLLaurie, Robert (1755-1836) & Whittle, James (d.1818)Colored boundaries.London:Laurie & Whittle, no.53, Fleet Street, 1794Scale: one inch equals 30 miles; 1:3,000,000.Two insets: Charlestown & St. Augustine.$17.50 in pencil on upper right portion of sheet. Plate no.38 on...
Dates:
1794
Manuscript Collection: John Howard Payne (Grant Foreman Collection)
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.169
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Howard Payne (1791-1852) visited the Cherokee country in the 1830's, and two of these letters are introductions to John Ross, the Cherokee Chief. There is an exchange of seven letters between them, mostly personal. Some letters and photostats concern the arrest of Ross and Payne. One letter from John Ridge offers his regrets that Payne cannot visit his house and mentions sending him various Cherokee papers. Payne was...
Dates:
1832-1945