Plan du Fort des Yachoux, concession de Mgr. le duc de Belle Isle et associez, detruit 1729

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Plan du Fort des Yachoux, concession de Mgr. le duc de Belle Isle et associez, detruit 1729
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Title:
Plan du Fort des Yachoux, concession de Mgr. le duc de Belle Isle et associez, detruit 1729
Description:
Map of the region around Fort St. Peter (also known as Fort St. Pierre, St. Claude, St. Charles, and Snyder) as it appeared ca. 1722. The region formed part of Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle's land concessions in provincial Louisiana, and later became part of Warren County, Mississippi, about 12 miles northeast of Vicksburg on the Yazoo River. Keyed to 20 references, including details of the fort, named land concessions, and slave quarters. The settlement was abandoned by the French following the massacre of settlers in 1729 by local Indians. From French army officer Dumont de Montigny's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737.
Creator:
Dumont de Montigny
Date:
[1747]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Newberry Library
Collection (local):
Newberry Library Collection
Subjects:
Land grants--Mississippi--Warren County--Maps--Early works to 1800
Fortification--Mississippi--Fort St. Peter--Maps--Early works to 1800
Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
Fort St. Peter (Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Warren County (Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de, 1684-1761
Places:
Mississippi > Warren (county) > Vicksburg
Extent:
1 ms. map : hand col. ; 217 x 312 mm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:2,920]
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991477238805867
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with north at left.
Note on verso: No. 6, page 123.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, gray, red).
No. 6 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
Related map published as Plan de la concessíon de le M. Blanc et assocíes aux Yazoux in Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane (Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753) v. 2, bet. p. 84-85.
Photostats of related manuscript maps in the Service Hydrographique library (Paris), numbers C 4044-64 and C 4044-65, form part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library).
Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Call #:
Ayer MS 257 map 6 (NLO)