Manuscripts

Penobscot Bay, Maine: An Ideal Plan of the River Penobscot

Description: Pen and ink manuscript map.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1779 August 6
Call number: DE 83
Creator: Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet (1727-1794)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from the American Art Association, 1926. George Washington to Charles Rene Chevalier Destouches?, 1781 February 22 (mssDE 1); George Washington to Charles Rene Chevalier Destouches, 1780 December 23 (mssDE 73), were acquired with the Charles-Reň-Dominique Sochet Destouches papers and subsequently transferred to the George Washington collection (mssGW) by Huntington Library staff.

Drawings of coats of arms

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A volume of 69 colored drawings of royal, papal, national, merchant, and military standards, family, and city coats of arms, and the black flag of filibusters.

DE 109

Plan of Spanish and Indian Bay in the island of Cape Breton [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

Manuscript map drawn by Charles Rivez, apparently copied from an earlier map. Drawn up for use in the French and Indian War. Locates Indian Town, with quarries, coal mine and the French shipyard. Shows the soundings of Spanish Bay and free deposits of coal and stone. Ink and wash, with outline in red.

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Charles-René-Dominique Sochet Destouches papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 117 items which covers the years 1754 to 1804; it is chiefly the papers accumulated by Destouches during his command of the squadron of Expédition particulière in September 1780 to May 1781. Included are letters, instructions, communications, intelligence reports, orders and regulations, accounts of salaries and provisions, reports of ships' activities, lists of French ships and their captains, and lists of English ships captured by combined French and Spanish fleets. Correspondents include Chevalier Anne-César de la Luzerne, Jean-François de Galaup compte de La Perouse, Antoine-Raymond-Jean-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine comte d'Alby, George Washington, and others. Also included is a journal of Charles H. d'Arsac de Ternay for the year 1780 and Destouches' account of the naval operations at St. Kitts and Nevis. The papers also include a volume of 69 drawings of various coats of arms, and military maps of Huntington Bay, Rhode Island; Gardiner and Plumb Islands, New York; Penobscot Bay, Maine; and Isle de France, by Nicolas Louis de Caille (circa 1754).

mssDE

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Fragment of plan for a windmill

Manuscripts

Autograph manuscript, pen and ink. (1 page)

HM 9399

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1754-1781 February

Manuscripts

A collection of 117 items which covers the years 1754 to 1804; it is chiefly the papers accumulated by Destouches during his command of the squadron of Ex̌pdition particulïre in September 1780 to May 1781. Included are letters, instructions, communications, intelligence reports, orders and regulations, accounts of salaries and provisions, reports of ships' activities, lists of French ships and their captains, and lists of English ships captured by combined French and Spanish fleets. Correspondents include Chevalier Anne-Čsar de la Luzerne, Jean-Fraṅois de Galaup compte de La Perouse, Antoine-Raymond-Jean-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine comte d'Alby, George Washington, and others. Also included is a journal of Charles H. d'Arsac de Ternay for the year 1780 and Destouches' account of the naval operations at St. Kitts and Nevis. The papers also include a volume of 69 drawings of various coats of arms and military maps of Huntington Bay, Rhode Island; Gardiner and Plumb Islands, New York; Penobscot Bay, Maine; and Isle de France, by Nicolas Louis de Caille (circa 1754).

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Penobscot Bay, Maine: An Ideal Plan of the River Penobscot

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