Plan of the river Mississippi from the Indian village of the Tonicas to the river Ibberville, shewing the lands surveyed thereon as also the rivers Ibberville, Amit, and Comit, with the situation of the new town proposed at the Ibberville

Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789

Durnford, Elias, 1739-1794

[ca. 1773]

Scale 1:32,000.

English

William L. Clements Library

William L. Clements Library Collection

• Real property--Louisiana--Maps
• Mississippi River--Maps
• Manchac, Bayou (La.)--Maps
• Amite River (La.)--Maps

• Amite
• Louisiana
• Manchac, Bayou
• Mississippi River
• North and Central America
• United States

1 ms. map : col. ; 76 x 297 cm. with extension of river Iberville of 40 x 49 cm.

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• Finished, colored topographical map showing surveyed parcels and a proposed plan for a new town just to the north of the site of the former Fort Bute at the mouth of the Iberville River.
• No names of grant holders are given except for those of Governor George Johnstone and Lt. Governor Montfort Brown.
• See the Report of Lieut. Thomas Hutchins acting engineer in consequence of General Gage's instructions dated Pensacola 1 May 1773 for a description of the area.
• For a further discussion, see Hutchins, An historical narrative and topographical description of Louisiana and West Florida... Philadelphia. 1784.