Memoir on the Geography, and Natural and Civil History of Florida
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First published in 1821, Darby's Memoir served as the guide for the earliest American settlers in newly acquired Florida. This volume faithfully reproduces the original, including the large folded map on the inside cover. Handsomely bound and stamped, this volume offers scholars an affordable volume of rare work.
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A geographical description of the state of Louisiana : presenting a view of the soil, climat, animal, vegetable, and mineral productions ; with an ... an accompaniment to the map of Louisiana
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Lectures on the discovery of America and colonization of North America by the English.
(Title: Lectures on the discovery of America and colonizat...)
Title: Lectures on the discovery of America and colonization of North America by the English.
Author: William Darby
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP04373400
CollectionID: CTRG03-B492
PublicationDate: 18280101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
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Collation: 223 p. ; 17 cm
The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territories comprising a geographical and statistical description of the states Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio the territories of Alabama, Missouri, and Michigan and
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This book, "The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territories comprising a geographical and statistical description of the states Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio the territories of Alabama, Missouri, and Michigan and", by Darby, William, is a replication of a book originally published before 1818. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.
William Darby was one of the leading American geographers for a quarter of a century. A series of extensive explorations made by him, resulted in publishing his noted works.
Background
William Darby was born on August 14, 1775 in Hanover Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the eldest son of Patrick and Mary (Rice) Darby. Both parents were Irish, and settled in Pennsylvania a few years prior to the Revolution. In 1781 they migrated to the Ohio country, where William’s youth was spent.
Education
Without means of securing an education, Darby read assiduously, and at the age of eighteen began teaching school.
Career
After the death of his father in June 1799 Darby went to Natchez, where he became a cotton-planter. He suffered heavy losses by fire in 1804 and during the next five years was deputy surveyor for the United States. Conceiving the plan of a map and statistical account of Louisiana, he found government surveys inadequate and began a series of extensive explorations at his own expense. Interrupted by the British invasion, he acted as one of Jackson’s topographical staff in the campaign of 1814-15.
He returned to Pennsylvania in 1815, after having failed to secure aid from Louisiana officials in publishing his surveys. In Philadelphia, John Melish agreed to publish Darby’s A Geographical Description of the State of Louisiana, being an Accompaniment to the Map of Louisiana (1816, 2nd edition, 1817).
Using Darby’s statistical account and map, which Jackson and members of his staff considered accurate and valuable, the publisher compiled the Melish map of the United States, which was used as the basis for boundary delineation in the treaty of 1819 between the United States and Spain.
This map, which brought profit and prestige to Melish, left the explorer “to mourn for non-requited toil and mis-directed credit” until Congress appropriated $1, 500 as partial compensation.
In 1818 Darby was one of the surveyors engaged in running the boundary between the United States and Canada, made the trip to the Michigan territory described in and wrote, for Kirk & Mcrcein, The Emigrant’s Guide to the Western and Southwestern States and Territories (1818), valuable for its information upon French and Spanish land titles.
During the next thirty-five years he lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on a farm near Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, and in Washington, D. C. , where he was for some years a government clerk. He lectured widely, wrote and compiled much. He compiled three editions (1823, 1827 and 1843) of Richard Brookes’s ever popular General Gazetteer or Compendious Geographical Dictionary (London, 1762). Brookes’s work he found defective and he substituted his own so freely that Darby’s Edition bears little resemblance to the original. He wrote most of the geographical articles in Vols. XIII to XVTTI of the first American edition (Philadelphia, 1832) of Sir David Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. In 1833 he and Theodore Dwight, Jr. , prepared A New Gazetteer of the United States of America (2nd edition 1835). He contributed a long series of border tales under the signature of Mark Bancroft to Samuel C. Atkinson’s The Casket, a Philadelphia monthly magazine, and wrote upon public affairs under the pseudonym Tacitus for the Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D. C. ). He also published a Plan of Pittsburgh and Vicinity (1817), Memoir on the Geography and Natural and Civil History of Florida, Attended by a Map of that Country , Lectures on the Discovery of America and Colonization of North America by the English (1828), View of the United States, Historical, Geographical and Statistical (1828), Mnemonika, or, the Tablet of Memory (1829), and The Northern Nations of Europe, Russia and Poland (1841).
Darby was twice married: first, at Natchez, to Mrs. Boardman, a widow with a family of children “and quite handsome property”; she died October 23, 1814, and in February 1816 he married Elizabeth Tanner, sister of Benjamin and Henry S. Tanner.