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    • Letter, 1810 Oct. 29

    • Letter, 1810 Oct. 29

    • Willis, John B.; Letters; Slaves--clothing; Slave trade--Louisiana--History--19th century; Slavery--Economic aspects--Louisiana

    • William Willis was a colonel in the Louisiana Militia during the War of 1812 and later a Concordia Parish sheriff. His brother, John B. Willis, was an attorney of Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi. Letter from William Willis, Camp,...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1815 Jan. 12

    • Letter, 1815 Jan. 12

    • Willis, William; New Orleans (La.), Battle of, 1815--Personal narratives; Soldiers--Louisiana

    • William Willis was a colonel in the Louisiana Militia during the War of 1812 and later a Concordia Parish sheriff. A letter to William Willis, Natchez, MS, from Gab [i. e., Gabriel] Winter, New Orleans, providing an eye-witness account of the...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1805 May 22

    • Letter, 1805 May 22

    • Devall family; Buhler family; Letters; Ursuline Academy--Students; East Baton Rouge Parish (La.)--History--19th century; Family life--Louisiana; Women--Education--Louisiana--19th century; Love, Maternal; Mothers and daughters;...

    • Letter from Edith Smith Buhler Devall of Buhler's Plains, East Baton Rouge Parish, to her daughter Margaret Buhler, who was attending the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans. Devall mentions to her daughter that the family supports her studies, and...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1814 Sept. 5

    • Letter, 1814 Sept. 5

    • Commission merchants--Louisiana--New Orleans; United States--History--War of 1812; Louisiana. Militia; Kentucky--Militia; Brown & Ives; Merchants--Louisiana; Mobile (Ala.)--History--19th century; Creek Indians--History; Indians of North...

    • Letter from Talcott and Bowers, factors of New Orleans, to Messrs. Brown and Ives, of Providence, Rhode Island, commenting on the war situation in New England, Pensacola, Fla., Mobile, Ala. and New Orleans, La. The letter mentions British troops...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1812 Sept. 29

    • Letter, 1812 Sept. 29

    • Holmes, David, 1770-1832; Choctaw Indians; Pearl River (Miss. and La.); Choctaw Indians--Government relations--1789-1869; Indian agents--Mississippi; Indians of North America--Louisiana; Indians, Treatment of--North America; Favre, Simon, b. 1760;...

    • William C. C. Claiborne served as governor of the Territory of Orleans, 1803-1812, and as governor of the state of Louisiana, 1812-1816. Claiborne's letter from New Orleans, to Governor David Holmes of the Territory of Mississippi concerns...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter 1812 Apr. 8

    • Letter 1812 Apr. 8

    • United States--History--War of 1812; Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States; United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain; United States--Foreign relations--To 1865; Embargo; War, Declaration of--United States--History

    • William W. Bibb was a United States reprsentative and senator from Georgia. The letter, written from Washington, D. C. to Levin Wailes of Opelousas, Louisiana, discusses the United States diplomatic crisis with Britain, a ninety day embargo, and...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1815 Mar. 1

    • Letter, 1815 Mar. 1

    • Fort Daarby (La.); Fort Bowyer (Ala.); Gaines, Edmund Pendleton, 1777-1849; Louisiana--History--War of 1812--Personal narratives; Louisiana Purchase; Military bases--Louisiana--History--19th century; Bayous--Louisiana; Great Britain--History,...

    • The letter, written from Opelousas, Louisiana, to dear sir, relates William Darby's association with General Edmund Pendleton Gaines in the construction of Fort Darby ar the confluence of Bayou Terre, Bayou Boeuf, and Lake Levy. The letter...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1807 Sept. 16

    • Letter, 1807 Sept. 16

    • Correspondence; Letters; United States--Commerce--Netherlands; Netherlands--Commerce--United State; Merchants--Louisiana--New Orleans; Merchants--Netherlands; Meeker, Williamson, and Patton

    • Sales letter from Wilhelm and Jan Willink, Amsterdam, Holland, to the New Orleans merchant firm, Meeker, Williamson, and Patton, concerning the shipment of commodities and a Price Current on bottom of letter.
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1814 July 27

    • Letter, 1814 July 27

    • Louisiana--Politics and government--1803-1865;Letters;Yellow fever--Louisiana--New Orleans;Louisiana--History--1803-1865;Ethnicity--Louisiana;British Americans--Louisiana;Spanish Americans--Louisiana;French Americans--Louisiana;United...

    • Thomas Bolling Robertson was born in Prince George County, Va., graduated from William and Mary College in 1795, and practiced law in Virginia until he moved to the Territory of Orleans in 1805. In 1807, Thomas Jefferson appointed him secretary of...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1814 July 9

    • Letter, 1814 July 9

    • Letters;Baton Rouge (La.)--Description and travel--19th century;Saint Tammany Parish (La.)--Description and travel--19th century;Natural resources--Louisiana--19th century;Ecology--Louisiana--19th century;Louisiana--Emigration and...

    • Letter written by Thomas Robertson at Baton Rouge, La., to his sister, M.B. [Miss Mary B.] Robertson of Richmond, Va, in which he describes the Bogue Chitto, Tickfaw, Tchefuncte, and Tanghipahoa rivers in St. Tammany Parish, as well as Baton Rouge,...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1814 June 31

    • Letter, 1814 June 31

    • Letters;Louisiana--Description and travel;Louisiana--History--19th century;Legislators--Louisiana;Louisiana-Politics and government-1803-1865;United States. Congress. House of Representatives-Elections;Elections-Louisiana-19th century;Saint Helena...

    • Letter from Robertson in Saint Helena Parish in which he describes his visits to Pointe Coupee, Saint Francisville, and Saint Helena, specifically the people and hospitality he received and commenting on their manners and gentility. He mentions...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Plat, 1843 Jan. 25

    • Plat, 1843 Jan. 25

    • Plats;Land settlement--Louisiana--History--19th century;Surveys (land);East Baton Rouge Parish (La.)--Surveys;Bouligny, Ursino;Bouligny, Dominique, 1773-1833;Andry, Gilberto;Labatut, John B.;

    • True copy of plat and survey of land of Gilberto Andry and Ursino Bouligny, 1808, copy made 1843. The 2000 arpanes was granted to Ursino Bouligny on Dec. 18, 1808, on a plot of land situated in the District of Baton Rouge bordering lands of...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection

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