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    • Plat, 1804 July 30

    • Plat, 1804 July 30

    • Joyeuse, Marie Anne Chauvin; Krebs, Hugo Ernestus von; Krebs, Basile von; Pontchartrain, Lake (La.); Tchefuncta River (La,); Plats; Land settlement--Louisiana--History--19th century; Women--Louisiana--History--19th century; Women...

    • Plat of land in the district of the Tchefuncta River and Lake Ponchartrain, for Mariana Joyeuse [i. e. Marie Anne Chauvin de Joyeuse] widow of Hugues Hernetus Crebs [i. e. Hugo Ernestus von Krebs]. Land surveyed by Don Carlos Trudeau [i. e....
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Letter, 1812 Feb. 25

    • Letter, 1812 Feb. 25

    • Legislators--Georgia; Louisiana--History--1803-1865; Sugar trade--Louisiana; Sugar growing--Louisiana; Bibb, William Wyatt, 1781-1820; Teche, Bayou (La.); Opelousas (La.)--History--19th century; Attakapas District (La.)--History; United States. ...

    • Levin Wailes, Register of the Land Office of the United States, Territory of Orleans, 1810-1822. Letter to U. S. Representative William W. Bibb, Georgia, written from Opelousas, Louisiana, discusses an inexpensive method of raising and processing...
    • 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
    • Petition, 1808 Mar. 10

    • Petition, 1808 Mar. 10

    • McBride, John, of Mississippi Territory; Louisiana--History--19th century; Military governors--Louisiana; Petitions; Cotton machinery; Inventors

    • Handwritten endorsement signed by Grand-Pré, Commandant of the Natchez-Baton Rouge District, of a petition submitted by John Rollins of Natchez, agent for John McBride of Washington in the Mississippi Territory, for permission to introduce a new...
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection
    • Slave Bill of sale, 1814 Aug. 2

    • Slave Bill of sale, 1814 Aug. 2

    • Slave bills of sale--Louisiana; Slaveholders--Louisiana--History--19th century; Villier, Louis; King, George, Judge; Saint Landry Parish (La.)--History--19th century; Saint Martin Parish (La.)--History--19th century; DeBlanc, Louis;...

    • A slave Bill of sale by Mrs. Marie Jeanne Villier of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana to Louis LeBlanc of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Four witnesses signed the Bill of sale, Louis Villier, husband of Marie Villier, and George King (Judge), in...
    • 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, 1808 Jan. 30

    • Letter, 1808 Jan. 30

    • Meeker, Williamson, and Patton; West Indies--Commerce--United States; United States--Commerce--West Indies; Embargo, 1807-1809; Merchants--Louisiana--New Orleans; Commercial products

    • Letter from John Williamson, Havana, Cuba, to his employers the New Orleans merchant firm, Meeker, Williamson, and Patton, concerning trade and rates of exchange with the West Indies and Mexico, mentioning the Embargo, business houses in Havana,...
    • 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
    • Land grant, 1804 Jul. 3

    • Land grant, 1804 Jul. 3

    • Son, Antonio;Land grants--Louisiana--West Feliciana Parish;Land titles--Louisiana--West Feliciana Parish;Trudeau, Charles Laveau, ca. 1750-1816;

    • Title for land in West Feliciana Parish granted to Antonio Son by the Spanish government. Mentions survey drawn up by Don Carlos Trudeau [i.e. Charles L. Trudeau], surveyor general of Spanish Louisiana.
    • Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Collection

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