Pintado, Vicente Sebastian, Papers, 1781-1842, Date acquired: 00/00/1986
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Pintado, Vicente Sebastian
- Extent:
- 6.00 items
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
Papers, 1781-1842, of Vicente Sebastian Pintado (1774-1829), alcalde, commandant, and surveyor general of Spanish West Florida from 1799-1817. The bulk of the materials relates to land surveys, land purchases, and deed covering the period 1800-1817. Correspondence includes copies of his outgoing letters as well as letters from Carlos de Grand-Pre, Captain Francisco Rivas, Ira C. Kneeland, Christoval de Armas, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Carlos Trudeau, Christopher Bolling, Vincent Folch, Manuel Lopez, Antonio Cruzat, and Juan Morales. Includes information on the Nicolls raid in the Apalachicola River area and the Kemper brothers' raids in Louisiana in 1804-1805.
With sixty-two maps and plat maps of the coastal area from West Florida to the Mississippi River, with special attention to the Baton Rouge, Feliciana, Mobile, and Pensacola districts. Among the papers is a list of vegetation found near Perdido Bay (ca. 1815), a Spanish/Talapuche Indian vocabulary, and a detailed 1813 map of Pensacola.
A detailed inventory appears on the first reel of the microfilm. Special Collections also has an inventory done by Dr. William S. Coker (West Florida Collection No. 221). This set of microfilm is MF 900.
- Acquisition information:
- purchased from Library of Congress, 1986
- Processing information:
Cataloged 1986
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Spanish language--Vocabulary.
Botany--Perdido Bay Region (Ala. and Fla.)
Talapoosa Indians--Southern States--Languages.
Florida--History--Colonial period to 1821.
Alabama--History--To 1819.
Mississippi--History--Colonial period ca. 1600-1775.
Louisiana--History--Colonial period ca. 1600-1775.
Louisiana--Governors--Biography.
Mississippi River Valley--History.
Florida--History--Spanish Colony--Sources.
Cartographers--Spain.
Mayors--Florida.
Judges--Florida.
Surveyors--Florida.
Maps--Florida. - Names:
- Trudeau, Charles Laveaj, ca. 1750-1816--Correspondence.
Bolling, Christopher--Correspondence.
Folch, Vicente--Correspondence.
Lopez, Manuel, d. 1860--Correspondence.
Cruzat, Antonio--Correspondence.
Morales, Juan Ventura, 1756-1819--Correspondence.
Nicolls, Edward.
Kemper, Nathan.
Kemper, Reuben, 1770-1826 or 7.
Kemper, Samuel.
Grand-Pre, Charles Boucher de, 1754-1809--Correspondence.
Rivas, Francisco, Captain--Correspondence.
Kneeland, Ira Cook, d. 1812?--Correspondence.
Armas, Christoval de--Correspondence.
Gayoso de Lemos, Manuel, 1747-1799--Correspondence. - Places:
- West Florida.
West Florida--Maps.
Florida--History--Spanish colony, 1784-1821.
Spain--Colonies--America.
Baton Rouge (La.)--Maps.
Parish of Feliciana (La.)--Maps.
Mobile (Ala.)--Maps.
Pensacola (Fla.)--Maps.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
Open to researchers, dependent on our compliance with U.S. Copyright Law, HIPPA requirements, donor agreements and other applicable state and federal statutes. Occasionally we may need to review a collection before permitting immediate access.
- Terms of access:
Digital photography, scanning, and photocopying of materials is prohibited. Permission may be granted by the Special Collections Librarian for such reprography dependent on issues of copyright, ownership, condition, donor agreements, etc. In general, staff do not make reproductions of copyright materials or materials for which title is not owned by the institution. Recent revisions in the U.S. Copyright Law extended the copyright of correspondence, letters, and other personal papers to the life of the author plus seventy years.
- Location of this collection:
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University Archives and West Florida History Center11000 University PkwyPensacolaFL32514USA
