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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:41:41 -0600
From: John Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Searching for a Louisiana Map
Sender: John Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
 
 
 
> Hello Maps-L!
 
I've checked the LSU map collection and haven't located the requested map so
this is being  forwarded to the list.  Please respond to the originator at the
end of the text.  Thanks.
 
John Anderson
Cartographic Information Center
LSU
 
 
 
> One of my off-site researchers is trying to locate two maps, hoping to
> obtain copies of each.  Any help you can offer will be appreciated.
>
> According to the researcher, the first map is entitled "Filhiol's extension
> east of Young's Bayou," which is apparently dated either September 25th,
> 1810 or 1870.  This Juan Filhiol map lists Frank Moore as the Parish
> Surveyor.
>
> Jennie O'Kelly Mitchell and Robert Dabney Calhoun list the second map of
> interest in their  bibliography of "The Marquis de Maison Rouge, the Baron
> de Bastrop, and Colonel Abraham Morhouse Three Ouachita Valley Soldiers of
> Fortune; The Maison Rouge and Bastrop Spanish Land Grants," an article
> printed in the April 1937 LOUISIANA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY.  The map is "the
> result of a survey of the Maison Rouge grant on April 14, 1819 by John
> Dinsmore which also may bear the date of March 27th 1820."    LHQ's
> bibliography notes that the original is housed at the Louisiana State Land
> Office.  Obtaining a copy  from the LSLO will most likely exceed this
> patron's ability to pay.
>
> Judy Bolton  ([log in to unmask])
> Special Collections
> LSU Libraries
>
> John Dinsmore, "U.S. Survey of Maison Rouge Grant", (1820). Original in
> Louisiana State Land Office.
 
 
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