Contributions

  • Riffel, Judy - Contributor
  • Comité des archives de la Louisiane - Contributor

Publication

2006 - Comite des Archives de la Louisiane, Baton Rouge, La. (P.O. Box 1547, Baton Rouge 70821-1547), Louisiana

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC976.3
  • LCCF372 .L53 2006

Description

Abstracts of documents containing genealogical information found in the Louisiana section of Records of the states of the United States (four reels of microfilm) and Louisiana miscellany 1724-1837 (five reels of microfilm). Includes "Baton Rouge district land concessions, 1785-1798, in one volume, and regulations concerning general police, June, 1795, also in one volume. Other materials include Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe's journal historique, 1724; documents on French and Spanish management of Louisiana, 1731-1799; manuscripts of 1780 on Louisiana and Florida; surveyors' records, including correspondnece of François Gonsolin (sic), Louis LeBlanc (sic), Carlos Laveau Trudeau, on the Attakapas district; a record book of Spanish land grants, 1785-1799, of 186 pages; a surveyor's notebook, 1795-1797; thirty-six manuscript plats for land grants located mostly in the Baton Rouge district; vital statistics from a Bible and other sources; and a few papers each for Bernardo de Gálvez, 1776-1786, and Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, 1794-1797; correspondence of American and French officials relating to the purchase of Louisiana, 1803-1804 ... " -- Introd.

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