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Cession of the Barrancas de Marg
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This document takes the form of a map followed by a verbal “representation.” The reproduction , which is included here, is a copy from the Archivo General de Simancas of a copy submitted by Manuel Gayoso de Lemos to the Baron de Carondelet, which he signed and then forwarded to Spain (see Figure 7). We have translated the text portion of the document. Representation of the Margo Bluffs or Chickasaw Bluffs on the Mississippi which Cliffs the Chickasaw Nation cedes to the Spanish Nation so that they should be able to occupy them in the way they choose forever without any future claim by the Chickasaw Nation to said Cliffs or the territory enclosed by the following boundaries: on the North by the Las Casas River or Chickasaw River and Fooy Island, from the mouth of Gayoso Creek to the Mississippi; on the West the Mississippi running two leagues from the mouth of the Las Casas River to the mouth of the Carondelet River; on the South the Carondelet River from its mouth to the ¤rst branch on the north side; and on the east, Gayoso Creek from its mouth in the Las Casas River to its source at where it is approached most closely by the ¤rst branch of the Carondelet River whose middle part will be marked with a straight line in the narrowest spot. Said boundaries will be marked on the Map by a gold line. The referred to cession was negotiated in the name of his Catholic Majesty by Colonel Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Governor of the District of Natchez with Ugulayacabé Mingo one of the ¤rst Chiefs of the Chickasaw Nation who withdrew afterwards to his Nation [and] took part in a general Council with [its] King, Chiefs, and Warriors who approved it and as a consequence named as envoys William Glover or Ulathaupayé and Payehuma to treat de¤nitively with the referred to Governor of Natchez about the expressed cession and its boundaries. Having ¤nally agreed to the same boundaries already established and marked on the Map to be on record perpetually the referred to Chiefs made their mark and the named Governor signed it with witnesses present under the seal of the Royal Arms in the partially laidout Field of San Fernando de las Barrancas where the Royal Flag is found ®ying and at the sound of small arms and thunder of artillery on twentieth of June 1795. Signature place: Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, William Glover (his sign), Sign of Payehuma, Elías Beauregard, Pedro Rousseau, Domingo Bontoux de la Blache, Manuel García y Muñiz, 16 Cession of the Barrancas de Margó or Chickasaw Bluffs to the Spanish Nation, June 20, 1795 Archivo General de Simancas, Mapas y Planos. M. P. y D. XIX-45; G. M. leg. 7244, copy. Figure 7. Representation of the Barrancas de Margot or Chickasaw Bluffs ceded by the Chickasaw Nation to the Spanish Nation (1795). Carondelet forwarded a copy of this document along with others relating to the cession of the Barrancas de Margot to Spain. Baron de Carondelet to the Duque de Alcudia, New Orleans, July 12, 1795, AHN, Estado, leg. 3899, Reservada, N.° 56. Courtesy of the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de España, Archivo General de Simancas, Simancas, MPD, XIX-45. Also in MDAH, RG 26, SPT, ledger 5, reel 5, following p. 886. Domingo Bouligny, Francisco Langlois, Joseph Zamora, Luis Favre, Benjamin Fooy, Antonio Cruzat, Juan María Perchet. A copy of the original that remains in my power, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos. El Baron de Carondelet 16. Cession of Chickasaw Bluffs to the Spanish Nation / 235 ...