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| Keywords: BroutinMargotCloseup.jpeg The watershed of the Riviere a Margot now called Wolf River in 1740 Everything above the red dotted line a Chickasaw trail is part of the Wolf River Detail from the map Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivierres onts etés relevé a l'estime les routtes par terre relevé mesurées aux pas par les Srs Broutin de Vergés ingénieurs Saucier dessinateur Drawn by a cartographer who only signed the name Demarigny the map concentrates on the surveys of Broutin Vergés and Saucier in Mississippi and Alabama Demarigny was probably Antoine Phillipe Sieur de Marigny Chevalier de St Louis 1722-1779 a New Orleans-based geographer and explorer Whether or not the composite map was drawn by Antoine Phillipe this specific map detail is based on surveys by his step-father Ignace François Broutin Capitaine Ingénieur du Roi chief engineer of the Louisiana colony during the Chickasaw Campaign of 1739-40 Broutin accompanied Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville governor of Louisiana up the Mississippi River on this military expedition and was charged with building fortifications Forte d e l'Assumption on the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff at the mouth of the Margot River and finding a way to move heavy siege weapons from Fort Assumption to Ackia the Chickasaw stronghold near present-day Pontotoc Mississippi A cannon-less Bienville suffered a bloody defeat at Ackia in 1736 Existing trails proved unsuitable for heavy wagons so Broutin explored a water-route via the Margot now the Wolf River after a small group of young Iroquois mercenaries reported for duty at Ft Assumption via the Margot claiming that one of the river's branches extended to within 8 leagues of the Chickasaw villages Broutin's party of French grenadiers and African slaves attempted the survey during the Wolf River Watershed's low water season February and encountered too many fallen trees snagging the channel Before spring rains could raise the water level Bienville secured a peace settlement with the Chickasaw and returned to New Orleans The other watersheds depicted on this map detail moving north to south include Nonconnah Creek and the intricate Coldwater River system A branch of the Little Tallahatchie is seen at the lower right corner although it is identified by Broutin as the Riviere des Yasoax Yazoo The Little Tallahatchie does however flow into the Yazoo much further south Library of Congress the original chart was purchased during personal visit to the foreign markets by Philip Lee Phillips Chief Division of Maps and Charts ca 1905-06 Full map viewable at http //memory loc gov/cgi-bin/query/h ammem/gmd field NUMBER+ band g4010+ct000681 1743 Demarigny probably Antoine Phillipe de Marigny and Ignace François Broutin Caption information sources Environmental Protection Agency Office of Wetlands Oceans and Watersheds http //cfpub epa gov/surf/state cfm statepostal MS Surf Your Watershed site Journal of the Chickasa War by an unidentified French officer 1739-1740 published in http //books google com/books vid OCLC29101939 id G1vBKrAoEnAC pg PR25 lpg PR25 22 PPA82 M1 Mississippi as a Province Territory and State John Claiborne 1880 pp 82-83 Basis for identifying the cartographer Demarigny http //books google com/books vid 0AUIesHPTUgYPun1yTrQS_b id cXQOAAAAIAAJ pg PA13 Creole Families of New Orleans Grace King 1922 pp 13-16 http //books google com/books vid 0ZSXnwAo5DsxDU9FT4 id pV9PHeqWEOUC pg PA44 Report of the Librarian of Congress 1906 pp 43-44 The http //www wolfriver org Wolf River Conservancy Maps of rivers of the United States Wolf River Tennessee Old maps of the United States Wolf River Tennessee Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Chickasaw PD-old-100 | ||||
