Now, I wish I lived close enough to make a visit to New Orleans. What a city! George Ann >From: JohnnyMikeCraven@aol.com >Reply-To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] Index to the Archives of Spanish West Florida, 1782 - >1810 >Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 04:36:01 EDT > >Hello List Members, > > I just discovered a book at the library today which I think may be >of >great help to anyone who comes to New Orleans to do research. > > It is called "Index to the Archives of Spanish West Florida, 1782 - >1810" by Stanley Clisby Arthur (Polyanthos, New Orleans, 1975). > > In the 1930's, I believe as part of the WPA, a project was >undertaken >to translate and transcribe into English the papers of the Spanish >Government >of West Flordia, District of Baton Rouge. This project was completed in >1937 and produced nineteen volumes of translations and transcriptions, >copies >of which can be found at the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans. > > Arthur's book indexes each of the nineteen volumes and includes >references to the Choctaw, Chickasaw and other tribes. It also includes >the >names of people who have had an historical relationship with these tribes, >including one of my ancestors, Simon Favre, and others who have cropped up >on >the list on occassion such as John Turnbull. It includes references to >many >interpreters and to the surveyor Vicente Sebastian Pintado. It covers a >lot >of transactions concerning slaves, Free Negroes, Free Mulatoes, and it >covers >a lot of land transactions and who were involved. > > It really looks like an invaluable source to anyone researching >those >times and West Florida. I do not know where it is available outside >Louisiana but I imagine that some of the main libraries across the Gulf >Coast >would have a copy. > > John Craven > New Orleans > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to CHAHTA-L list discussions on history, culture, language. >Send msg. to CHAHTA-L-request@rootsweb.com >Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "subscribe" without the quotes, >nothing in the subject line, turn off signatures. >Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx