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An Account of Louisiana : being an abstract of documents, in the offices of the departments of State, and of the Treasury.

Other author/creatorSibley, John, 1757-1837.
Other author/creatorUnited States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson)
Other author/creatorUnited States. Congress (8th, 1st session : 1803-1804)
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Washington, D.C.?] : Duane, printer, [1803]
Description50 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, xc pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 5197. ^A575643
General noteCompiled by direction of President Jefferson from information furnished by Dr. John Sibley, of Natchitoches, La., and others. Cf. Jefferson's Writings, edited by P.L. Ford, v. 10, 1899, p. 338, and Mitchill, S.L. Discourse on ... Jefferson, 1826, p. 27.
General noteTransmitted to Congress Nov. 14, 1803. Published in American state papers; Miscellaneous, Washington, 1834, v. 1, p. 344-356, with title: Description of Louisiana.
General noteWilliam Duane operated presses at both Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. in 1803. Ascribed to his Washington press in NUC and Shaw & Shoemaker.
General note"Appendix to an Account of Louisiana ..." p. [3], ii-xc, has separate title page. Appendix no. I is a digest of the laws of Louisiana. Appendices II-VI include census and population statistics.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 5197
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 5197).
Contains title Appendix to an Account of Louisiana ...

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