Plan du vieux Fort du Billoxi, 2 etablissement

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Plan du vieux Fort du Billoxi, 2 etablissement
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Title:
Plan du vieux Fort du Billoxi, 2 etablissement
Description:
Map of the region around Fort Maurepas (also known as Fort Biloxi) on the eastern shore of Biloxi Bay as it appeared ca. 1720; later the site of Ocean Springs in Jackson County, Mississippi. Keyed to 12 references, including the government house, troop barracks, and land concessions.
Creator:
Dumont de Montigny
Date:
[1747]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Newberry Library
Collection (local):
Newberry Library Collection
Subjects:
Fortification--Mississippi--Fort Maurepas--Maps--Early works to 1800
Land grants--Mississippi--Ocean Springs--Maps--Early works to 1800
Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
Fort Maurepas (Ocean Springs, Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Ocean Springs (Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Fort Maurepas
Mississippi > Jackson (county) > Ocean Springs
Extent:
1 ms. map : hand col. ; 164 x 215 mm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
Contact host institution for more information.
Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991477208805867
Notes:
Note on verso: No. 4, page 69.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, red).
No. 4 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]
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 4 (NLO)