Text begins: “According to your request to state my claim to land on the Mississippi… My terms are one dollar per acre to such as will go and settle on the land.”
Creator:
Peters, Samuel
Created:
1815-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This is an official collection of documents recording the accounts and explanations of expenses for the Franciscan administration of Iti, detailing items and their costs, as well as correspondence concerning staff and operations. Little documentation has survived about this mission in the foothills of the Andes. The records also mention the Guar...
Created:
1784 - 1789
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This manuscript concerns the resettlement of Indians of three villages: Pambú, Surubabé, and Axará to the island of Assumpçao in the Rio São Francisco in Brazil. Alvares handed down these decisions after touring the area. The decrees concern instructions for housing, appointments of local officials, delivery of clothing, protection of the I...
Creator:
Alvares, Manoel de Gouvea
Created:
1761
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
