Vicente Sebastián Pintado papers
Language: spa
Number of pages: 1500
Subjects: Correspondence; Surveys; Deeds; Land tenure; Real property; Land grants; Colonies; Manuscript Maps; History
Description: Correspondence, bills of sale, court transcripts, testimonies, surveys, notebooks, plats, land grants, maps, petitions, and other papers relating principally to Pintado's duties as alcalde, commandant, and surveyor general of Spanish West Florida from 1799 to 1817.  Much of the collection relates to land deeds, purchases, and surveys in parts of present-day Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Includes a bound volume dated 1806 containing maps and text concerning property of Juan Lynd in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, La.  Correspondents include Christoval de Armas, Christopher Bolling, José Collins, Antonio Cruzat, Vicente Folch, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Charles Boucher de Grand-Pré, Ira Cook Kneeland, Manuel López, Juan Ventura Morales, Pedro Reggio, Captain Francisco Rivas, Patrick Tegart, and Charles Laveau Trudeau.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 17,619.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1979.

Gift, Mrs. Robert M. Adams, 1974.

Purchase, 1985.

Surveyor general of Spanish West Florida.

Collection material in Spanish and French.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008036