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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78051045
Collection material in French and Spanish.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado, surveyor general of Spanish West Florida, were donated to the Library of Congress in 1974 by Cherrill W. Adams via Mrs. Janet Schroeder of the Duluth Public Library, Duluth, Minnesota. An addition to the papers was purchased in 1985.
The papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado were arranged and described in 1978. The collection was expanded and revised in 1998. The finding aid was revised in 2008, 2012, and 2013.
Maps in the Maps and Plats series of the Pintado Papers are described and listed in John R. Hébert, “Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General of Spanish West Florida, 1805-1817, the Man and His Maps,”
The Maps and Plats (Oversize) series was transferred to the Geography and Map Division in 2012, where it is identified as part of these papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Vicente Sebastián Pintado is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on six reels. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.
An image of map 12 is online at "The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps." Maps 33, 36, and 38 are described there. The maps in the Pintado Papers, now in the Geography and Map Division, are available online where they are described as part of these papers.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Vicente Sebastián Pintado Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado (1774-1829) span the years 1781-1842, with the bulk of material dating from 1799 to 1817. The papers consist of correspondence, bills of sale, court transcripts, testimonies, surveys, notebooks, plats, land grants, manuscript maps, petitions, and papers relating to Pintado's official duties as alcalde, commandant, and surveyor general of Spanish West Florida from 1799 to 1817. An undated Spanish/Talapuche Indian vocabulary is also in the papers. The papers include no record of his official duties in Havana. The collection contains four series: General Correspondence , Official Papers , Maps and Plats (Oversize) , and an Addition . Sixty-two maps and plats, originally part of this collection, were transferred to the Geography and Map Division in August 2012. They are included on the microfilm, and they are listed in this finding aid.
Spanish West Florida encompassed Louisiana from the Mississippi River to the Pearl River north of Lake Pontchartrain, the Gulf coasts of the present day states of Mississippi, Alabama (Mobile and vicinity), and western Florida (Pensacola and St. Mark's vicinity). The papers offer information on the critical transition in this region from the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 through the seizure and occupation of West Florida by the United States in 1813-1814 to the ultimate cession of East and West Florida by Spain to the United States by terms of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819. They provide insight into the multicultural relationships which developed in the area.
Place names that appear in this register are from this geographic area unless otherwise specified. Although some of the papers predate Pintado's appointment as alcalde in 1799, most of the material relates to land surveys, land purchases, and deeds from his appointment as alcalde until his departure for Cuba in 1817. After moving to Cuba, Pintado served as a military engineer. The papers include no record of his official duties in Havana.
The General Correspondence includes manuscript copies of many outgoing letters as well as communications from Christoval de Armas, Christopher Bolling, Antonio Cruzat, Vincent Folch (United States Governor of West Florida), Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (Governor of Baton Rouge), Charles Boucher de Grand-Pré (Governor of Baton Rouge), Ira Cook Kneeland (Pintado's deputy surveyor), Manuel López, Juan Ventura Morales (intendent of West Florida), Captain Francisco Rivas, and Charles Laveau Trudeau (Spanish surveyor in Louisiana). There is also documentation on the Nicolls raid in the Apalachicola River area and the Kemper brothers' raids in Louisiana, 1804-1805.
In addition to Pintado's personal and professional correspondence, the collection originally included part of the land records of Spanish West Florida. Maps , charts, plats, and land surveys now in the Geography and Map Division, many cadastral, relate to the coastal area from West Florida to the Mississippi River, with special attention to the Baton Rouge, Feliciana, Mobile, and Pensacola districts. This material is supplemented by correspondence between Pintado and his corps of surveyors including José Collins, Ira Cook Kneeland, Pedro Reggio (who became assistant surveyor after the death of Kneeland in 1812), and Patrick Tegart. Legal documents such as court transcripts, testimonies, surveys, land grants, deeds, and petitions are in the Official Papers.
The Addition to the papers consists of a bound volume dated 1806 containing five maps and written text concerning various properties of Juan Lynd located in the vicinity of Baton Rouge.
This collection is arranged in four series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78051045
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
Court transcripts, testimonies, wills, bills of sale, surveys, notebooks, land grants, petitions, deeds, and other papers.
Arranged chronologically.
Maps of the entire region of West Florida and of Baton Rouge and other cities and regions, plats of towns, plantations, and land ownership divisions. Available on microfilm only in the Manuscript Division; originals housed in the Geography and Map Division.
Arranged as numbered and described by John R. Hébert in "Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General of Spanish West Florida, 1805-1817, the Man and His Maps,"
Bound volume of maps and text re properties of Juan Lynd near Baton Rouge.