Mississippi River

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...

Description From Map CardHerman Moll, (d.1732), GeographerJ. Nutt, London, 1717Scale: 1:20,000,000See Phillips Atlases, Vol. 1, p. 312 (Entry #557, vol.5 p.[7962]).Hargrett Collection, p.339 Label Text Herman Moll's 18th-century map shows European settlements and many Indigenous nations, including the Apaches in present-day New Mexico and the "Chicachas" (Chickasaws) and "Chaktas" (Choctaws) in present-day...

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From catalog info:
Southeast U.S.
Bowen, Emanuel (ca. 1720-1767)
London:(1764)
Scale:1:2,500,000; bar. English & French Leauges 20 to a Degree. 1 inch = 11 units.
[In Harris (John). Navigatium. atque itineratium bibliotheca, or, a completed collection of voyages and travels. fol. London, for T. Osborne, 1764 v. 2 opp. p. 323].
Hargrett Catalog, p.340 under 1764.
Phillips, Maps, p.295
Tooley's Dictionary, p.74.

Transcript (DCI) Col. Parvley wrote in 1746, That there was a Fall ¼ Mile long 12 Miles below Uforsee to which the French Boats MIght come & from thence transport what they please to any Town over the Hills. Mr. Kelly a Trader Said the French Boats came up formerly to great Uforsee.The River herein called Mississipi River is in fact only a large Branch of it and runs into it below the junction of the Ohio and Wabache in one Stream together with them. ...

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...

Translated Title

Map of America and Neighboring Seas

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La Petit Atlas Manitime, Volume I

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Copy of letter from John McLean to Chief John Ross. Recommends the exchange of Cherokee eastern lands for lands west of the Mississippi. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 71

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Copy of letter from John McLean to Chief John Ross. Recommends the exchange of Cherokee eastern lands for lands west of the Mississippi. Sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on eight pages. Folder 71

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Inscribed in ink on recto, "A Copy"

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Copy of letter from Secretary of War J. H. Eaton to Colonel Ward transmitting a copy of his July 29th letter to Colonel Montgomery, Cherokee Agent, setting forth the President's views on Indian removal. Five folded sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on 19 pages. Folder 40

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Inscribed in ink on recto, "Copy"

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Copy of remarks of President Andrew Jackson who with Joseph McMinn and David Meriwether negotiated the Cherokee Treaty of July 8, 1817. Sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink. There is a string attached to the document. Folder 11A