ii.
To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.--A l’honorable
Senat et à l’honorable Chambre des Representans des Etats-Unis d’Amerique, assemblés en Congres.
Without name of place or printer, n.d. [
New-Orleans,
1807.]
Folio broadside, one leaf (folded);
English and
French text in parallel columns.
On the back is written in ink a statement signed W. C. C. C. [i.e. William Charles Coles Claiborne, Governor of Louisiana), [punct.
sic--
Ed.] as follows:
Note--
Copies of the within Petition signed by several hundred of the most respectable Citizens of the Territory, have been transmitted
by the Mayor of New-Orleans, to Mr Campbell of Tennessee, with a request, that he would lay the same before Congress. W.C.C.C.
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iii. [THIERRY,
Jean Baptiste Simon.]
Examen des Droits des Etats-Unis et des pretentions de M
r. Edouard Livingston sur la Batture en Face du Faubourg S
te. Marie.
Nouvelle-Orleans: De l’imprimerie de
Thierry & Co.,
1808.
4to. 25 leaves; dated at the end le 22 Octobre 1808. This and the following entry (the translation into
English) are accompanied by 3 manuscript maps, as follows: i. drawn in colors, Plano de la Ciudad de Nueva Orléans y de las habitacion
Imediatas Fermado en Virtud del de reto del 172 Cab. y Cedula Real 24 diciembre 1798, certified by Tanesse on October 22,
1808, as being a true copy of the original; ii. Plan de l’habitacion, de Don Bertran Gravier. Reducido del Plan del dia primero
de Avril di Mil Secientos--ochenta y ocho para disposicion de la villa: (A.A.A.A.) N
a. Orleans avril 24 de 1788. Signé, Carlos Trudeau. Similarly certified by Tanesse on November 6, 1808; iii. Nivellement Général
de la Batture en Face du Fauxbourg S
te. Marie à l’allignement des Rues Gravier, Poidras, Girod, Julie et S
t. Joseph. Dressé par nous voyer de la Ville Nouvelle Orléans ce 4 Octobre 1808. Tanesse; the three maps on separate folio
sheets, folded.
McMurtrie 123.
Tinker, page 470.
On the title-page Jefferson has written
par Thierry. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and with several annotations by him written in the text.
Jean Baptiste Simon Thierry, d. 1815, journalist and dramatist, was born in France, came to the United States in 1804, and shortly afterwards founded
a printing press, and a newspaper, the
Courrier de la Louisiane
, in New-Orleans.
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iv. [THIERRY,
Jean Baptiste Simon.]
Examination of the Claim of the United States, and of the pretentions of Edward Livingston, Esq. to the Batture in Front of
the Suburb St. Mary.
New-Orleans: Printed by
Thierry & Co.,
1808.
4to. 26 leaves, without the folding plans.
A translation into
English of the previous entry.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and with annotations by him in the text.
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Derbigny’s Opinion.
v. [DERBIGNY,
Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon.]
Mémoire a Consulter, sur la Réclamation de la Batture, située en Face du Faubourg Sainte-Marie de la Nouvelle-Orléans. A la
Nouvelle-Orleans: Chez
Jean Renard,
1807.
[diacritics
sic
--
Ed.
]
