The Present State of the European Settlements on the Missisippi [sic]: With a Geographical Description of that River. ... By Captain Philip Pittman |
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Page 42 - Paget was the first who introduced water-mills in this country, and he constructed a very fine one on the river Cascasquias, which was both for grinding corn and sawing boards. It lies about one mile from the village. The mill proved fatal to him, being killed as he was working it, with two negroes, by a party of the Cherokees, in the year 1764. " The principal buildings are, the church and Jesuits...
Page 56 - ROI. -LOUIS , par la grace de Dieu , Roi de France & de Navarre : A nos...
Page 11 - East side of the river in 301! 2m North latitude, 105 miles from the Balize, as already mentioned ; all the streets are perfectly straight but too narrow, and cross each other at right angles. There are betwixt seven and eight hundred houses in this town, generally built with timber frames raised about eight feet from the ground, with large galleries round them, and the cellars under the floors level with the ground: any subterraneous buildings would be constantly full of water. Most of the houses...
Page 46 - In the year 1764 there were about forty families in the village near the fort and a parish church served by a Franciscan friar dedicated to St. Anne. In the following year, when the English took possession of the country, they abandoned their houses except three or four poor families, and settled...
Page 12 - The government of the several divisions of their colonies is in a governor, an intendant, and a royal council. The governor is invested with a great deal of power; which, however, on the side of the crown, is checked by the intendant, who has the care of the king's rights, and whatever relates to the revenue ; and on the side of the people, it is checked by the royal council, whose office it is, to see that the people are not oppressed by the one, nor defrauded by the other ; and they are all checked...
Page 13 - ... fums are lent, to make a beginning ; and this money is taken in gradually, and by very fmall payments. On the other hand, as it can be of no advantage to the planter to run fraudulently into debt...
Page 43 - English subjects in this country ; he keeps eighty slaves; he furnishes eighty-six thousand weight of flour to the King's magazine, which was only a part of the harvest he reaped in one year.
Page 26 - Florida; for it may with reason be supposed, that the inhabitants and traders who reside at Pointe Coupee, at Natchitoches, Attacappa, Arcansas, the Illinois, and the post of St. Vincent's on the Ouabache, would rather trade at this place than at New Orleans, if they could have as good returns for their peltry and the produce of their country; for it makes a difference of ten days in their voyage, which is no inconsiderable saving of labour, money, and time.
Page 2 - The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi," published in London by Philip Pittman in 1770, it is said: " The source of the river Missoury is unknown.115 The French traders go betwixt three and four hundred leagues up, to traffic with the Indians who inhabit near its banks. . . . From its confluence [with the Mississippi] to its source is supposed to be eight hundred leagues.
Page 45 - The commandant's house is thirty-two yards long and ten broad, and contains a kitchen, a dining-room, a bed-chamber, one small room, five closets for servants, and a cellar. The commissary's house (now occupied by officers) is built on the same line as this, and...