(MISSISSIPPI) Message from the President for Running the

Sale 2287 - Lot 320

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(MISSISSIPPI.) Message from the President . . . for Running the Boundary Line between the United States and East and West-Florida. 8vo, modern wrappers; page numbers crossed out and renumbered in manuscript. [Philadelphia, 1797]

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"One of the first imprints relating to the Mississippi Territory"--Streeter sale III:1527. Relates to the efforts to take possession of what became Mississippi Territory from the Spanish in the wake of Pinckney's Treaty. The introductory message by President Adams recommends "the expediency of erecting a government in the district of the Natchez." Also includes a long summary by Timothy Pickering, and the text of correspondence between Andrew Ellicott and Spanish diplomats. Evans 33052; Sabin 24886. No copies known at auction since 1980.