Sundry papers...collected Anno Domini 1774 : 1682-1774. collection,
- 1 item. 1 container.
Open to research.
One volume (93 pages) containing miscellaneous papers, collected in 1774, including two treatises by Louis de Saint-Pierre on the cultivation of grapes, silk, indigo, and fruit trees in North America and particularly in the New Bordeaux colony in South Carolina; copies of a land grant and indenture between King James II and William Penn, Sr.; a brief history of Anson County, N.C. by J.A. Collett; account of a land sale on the Isle St. John (now Prince Edward Island); a plan of Mexican commerce; a statement of the reasons for a civil government in the British dominions adjoining the Mississippi River by Mountfort Brown, governor of West Florida; and proposals of the Marquis D'Aubarede concerning the settlement of the Mississippi River valley.
Transcripts. [S.l.].
Collection material in English.
mm 81048454
James II, King of England, 1633-1701. Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Agriculture--South Carolina. Fruit trees--North America Indigo. Silk industry--North America. Viticulture--North America.
Anson County (N.C.)--History. Bordeaux (S.C.) Florida--History--English colony, 1763-1784. Mexico--Commerce. Mississippi River Valley--History. Prince Edward Island.