Scope and Contents This map contains depictions of Louisiana territory and the surrounding areas, such as Florida, Carolina and as north as the Great Lakes. This map also depicts areas near Louisiana as inhabited by Indigenous peoples, such as the Apache and the Padoucas tribes. Inscribed in type, "The Landing Place of Fyrnand Soto in 1539" in middle on recto; Inscribed in type, "Explanation: [house] Habitations of the Indians [asterisk] Promiscuous Nations [plus sign] Nations destroyed [snake emblem] Course...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Written in French, this is an account of a trip to the Algonquin Indian country in Canada (New France) depicting the life of the Indians. It is a bound document entitled "Relation du Voyage Faict en l'annee 1645 au Nom du Roy au Pays des Algoumequins Dans la Nouvelle France ou Canada, et de la maniere de vivre des sauvages" (Narrative of the Voyage in year 1645 in name of to country of Algonquins in the New France or Canada,...

Translated Title A Region of America, Now Called Virginia, Discovered for the First Time by the English at the Expense of Sir Walter Raleigh Descriptive Title Early map of the colony of Virginia Transcript (DCI) Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta primum ad Anglis inuenta sumtibus Sir Walter Raleigh, equestris ordinis viri Anno dominae MDLXXXV regni vero Sereniss: nostrae reginae Elisabethae XXVII Hujus vero...

Translated Title

Map of the United States of America

Description

From catalog info:
U.S./Canada/Mexico
Thierry, French Engraver
Paris: [1830]
Scale: 1:15,400,000
Atlas plate no.75 from Geographie Moderne.
Shows Louisiana and Oregon Territory as part of U.S. Oklahoma, shown as part of Arkansas Territory.
Not found in Phillips

Description

Hand-bound document written in French, entitled "Relation du Voyage faict en l'annee 1645 au Nom du Roy au pays des Algoumequins dans la Nouvelle France ou Canada, et de la manière de vivre des Sauvages" (Narrative of the Voyage made in the year 1645 in the Name of the King to the country of the Algonquins in New France or Canada, and the manner of living of the savages). Thirty pages in length, signed G.H. at the end of the document. Illustrated with five pen and ink drawings.

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Typescript of an essay titled "The Removal of the Cherokee" by John Madden. Describes how the comissioner J.F. Schermerhorn arranged the Treaty of 1835 in absence of Cherokee officers. By this treaty, the Cherokee Nation ceded to the U.S. all territory east of the Mississippi River. Includes history of the removal from June 1838 to March 1839. Folder 65