Vol. I, ff. 102, 1773. A detailed geographical description of South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida, authored by William Gerard DeBrahm from personal observations.
'REPORT of the General Survey in the Southern District of North America: delivered to the Board of Trade and Plantations in three seperate returns and sections, entering with the history of South Carolina and Georgia, then proceeding to the history of East Florida', &c. ; by William Gerard de Brahm, appointed Surveyor-General of the District 26 June, 1764. The report is compiled (see vol. 1, f. 2 b) from his surveys and observations made 1751-1771, and is accompanied by numerous maps and...
JOURNAL of Lieut. Robert Orme, giving a history of the expedition under Maj.-Gen, Edward Braddock against the French at Fort Du Quesne, in Pennsylvania, in 1755, from the General's arrival at Hampton, in Virginia, 20 Feb., to his defeat on the R. Monongahela 9 July, and his death from wounds, 13...
JOURNAL of an officer [of the 66th Regiment] who travelled over a part of the West Indies and of North America in the course of 1764 and 1765.
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Journal believed to be by Lord Adam Gordon, but not in his hand. The author briefly describes the people, manners, products, government, defences, &c., of the principal places which he visited on his route, which was to Madeira, Antigua, St. Christopher, Jamaica, northward through Yucatan Ch...
'A MEMOIR relative to the Island of Jamaica, shewing the nature and strength of the country, the situation of the retreats and military posts, together with the dispositions and general plan of defence established in 1782; by Major General Archibald Campbell, Governor and Commander in Chief' [K....
THREE TREATISES, in Spanish, relating to Mexico (see Gayangos, Cat. of MSS. in the Spanish Language in the Brit. Museum, 1875-1893, ii, p. 430), as follows:- 1. ' Relazion sumaria y puntual del tumulto y sedizion que hubo en M[exico] los 15 de Henero de 1624 y de las cosas mas notables que le p...
'BREVE Y SUMARIA relacion de los senores, manera y diferencias de ellos que havia en la Nueva Espana y otras provincias, sus comarcanas, y de sus leyes, usos y costumbres, y de la forma que tenian en les tributar sus vasallos en tiempo de su gentilidad', &c., by Alonso de Corita [Corita], de...
'DESCRIPCION y estado del Virreynato de Santa-Fee [Santa Fé de Bogotá, now Bogotá Nuevo Reyno de Granada, y relacion del govierno y mando del exmo senor Bailio Fr. Don Pedro Mesia de la Cerda, Marques de la Vega de Armijo', Viceroy of New Granada, by Dr. Don Francisco Antonio Moreno y Escandon, ...