Guide to the Louisiana Miscellany Collection, 1724-1837

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.