A Frankfort newspaper reports that Louisiana will be ceded to the United States and in Washington City, the National Intelligencer reports that the port of New Orleans has re-opened. Amongst these political uncertainties, President Thomas Jefferson‘s planned Western Expedition continues.
Carte du cours du fleuve St. Louis [Map of the course of the St. Louis River]
Unknown cartographer perhaps 1732
Courtesy U.S. Library of Congress, available at a much higher resolution at www.loc.gov/item/2003623384/.[1]Carte du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis dix lieues audessus de la Nouvelle Orleans jusqu’à son embouchure ou sont marquées les habitations formées, et les terrains concedez i.e. … Continue reading
This map’s full title, translated in English, is “Map of the course of the St. Louis [Mississippi] River from ten leagues above New Orleans to its mouth, where are marked the habitations formed, and the lands granted [i.e. conceded], which have not been worked on.”
Frankfort Rumor
It is even said there is no doubt about the cession of Louisiana to the U. States, on condition that the latter settle all claims of their individuals against the French Republic, and pay 3 millions of dollars in the bargain.[2]22 June 1803, The Guardian of Freedom, Frankfort, KY cited in the Jefferson’s Secrecy.
New Orleans Re-opened
TRANSLATION
DON JUAN VENTURA MORALES, &c
I make known, that his excellency Sr. Dn. Pedro Ceballos, Secretary of state, and of his universal dispatch, has addressed to me, under date of the 1st of March last, the following royal order;
The king being informed of the proclamation which you have published, prohibiting the deposit of the merchandize and effects of the citizens of the United States at New-Orleans . . . , his majesty has thought proper to order that you permit the said deposit at New Orleans, without prejudice to what the two governments may mutually agree upon concerning the meaning which ought to be given to the said [1795] treaty, in respect to changing the establishment of New-Orleans for another on the banks of the Mississippi . . . .[3]The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser (Washington, DC), 22 June 1803 in “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers,” Lib. of Congress. … Continue reading
Notes
| ↑1 | Carte du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis dix lieues audessus de la Nouvelle Orleans jusqu’à son embouchure ou sont marquées les habitations formées, et les terrains concedez i.e. concédés, auxquels on n’a pas travaille [? 1732]. |
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| ↑2 | 22 June 1803, The Guardian of Freedom, Frankfort, KY cited in the Jefferson’s Secrecy. |
| ↑3 | The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser (Washington, DC), 22 June 1803 in “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers,” Lib. of Congress. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045242/1803-06-22/ed-1/seq-3. |
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