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Certificate issued by the Légion d'Honneur certified that François Lambert, circa 1858-185
title
Certificate issued by the Légion d'Honneur certified that François Lambert, circa 1858-185
Subject
Documents
Date created ms
1858, 1858
Abstract
The Grand Chancellor of the Imperial Order of the Légion d'Honneur certified that François Lambert, a Frenchman living in the United States, having served during the period 1792-1815, had received the Medaile de Sainte-Hélène.
Uncut sheet of $100 notes
title
Uncut sheet of $100 notes
Subject
Women on bank notes, Money, Legal tender, Portraits on bank notes
Date created ms
1857
Abstract
Uncut sheet of $100 notes from the Citizens Bank of Louisiana.
Special report of the state engineer on the system of internal improvements
title
Special report of the state engineer on the system of internal improvements
Subject
Rivers, Louisiana, Public works, Louisiana, Flood control, Louisiana, Levees, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857
Special report of the state engineer, in answer to Joint Resolution No. 38, approved February 25, 1857
title
Special report of the state engineer, in answer to Joint Resolution No. 38, approved February 25, 1857
Subject
Wetlands, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857
Official letter from [Michel-Jacques-François], B[ar]on Achard, Paris, to [François Lambert, New Orleans]
title
Official letter from [Michel-Jacques-François], B[ar]on Achard, Paris, to [François Lambert, New Orleans]
Subject
Documents, Correspondence
Date created ms
1857-12-19, 1857-12-19
Abstract
Baron Achard was representing François Lambert in a pressing a claim against the French government. Achard requested Lambert to send documents to substantiate the claim. In regard to Lambert's inquiry about an army pension, the eligibility requirements were loss of limb in combat or thirty years' service, neither of which Lambert fulfilled. Lambert could not receive the Légion d'Honneur without producing a copy of his service record, which he had lost. The only decoration that he might claim was the Medaille de Saint-Hélène, which was granted to all who served under the Republic under the Republic or the First Empire
Freedom papers of New Orleans (La.), 1832-1858.
title
Freedom papers of New Orleans (La.), 1832-1858.
Subject
Free African Americans, Louisiana, New Orleans. Slavery, Louisiana, New Orleans, Slaves, Emancipation, Louisiana, New Orleans, Slaveholders, Louisiana, African American children, Louisiana, New Orleans, African American families, Louisiana, New Orleans, African American women, Louisiana, New Orleans, False imprisonment, Louisiana, New Orleans, Free African Americans, Illinois, Springfield, Governors, Illinois, Affidavits, Deeds, Legal documents
Date created ms
1832, 1858
Abstract
This is an artificial collection comprised of various documents that provide evidence of the free status of individual persons in the city of New Orleans during the years 1832-1858. Among the items are certificates from public officials, copies of notarial acts, extracts from the Registers of Free People of Color maintained in the Mayor's Office, extracts from records in the Orleans Parish Conveyance Office, court judgments, and affidavits from private citizens.

Each of these documents identifies the free person and makes some reference to the source of her or his freedom. Some items include additional information, such as the person's occupation, relations, or name of former slaveholder.

Some items appear to have been carried as proof of freedom by the named individuals. Others may be record copies retained in the files of the issuing agency.

Items of note include two affidavits relating to the imprisonment of John Shelby, a free man of color of Springfield, Illinois. In a February 19, 1857 affidavit written by Illinois governor William Henry Bissell, Bissell provides evidence that Shelby, mistakenly imprisoned as a runaway slave, is indeed a free person of color, born and raised in Springfield, Illinois. Bissell goes on to detail the skin color of Shelby's parents and Shelby's physiognomy, describing him as ""...a very dark Mulatto, the white Blood scarcely perceptible."" A related affidavit, written by Thomas Moffett on 20 February 1857, further verifies that Shelby is a free man of color and expresses concern over Shelby’s condition after three months in prison. The earliest document in the collection, dated May 11, 1832, is an Act of Emancipation of Slaves by Doctor James Ritchie, Executor of William M. Beal's estate, which confirms Beal's intention of emancipating Richard Jackson (described as a griffe), his wife Hester, and their children: John B. Jourdan (described as a mulatto), Louisa (described as a griffe), Charles or ""Jefferson"" (described as a griffe), John, son of ""John B. Jourdan"" (described as a mulatto); and Stephen W. Rogers (described as a griffe).

Two documents discuss a free person of color having purchased their freedom through an agreement with their slave owner. These items include an 1854 act of freedom documenting that a slave named Marie paid to Louis Banks the sum of $150, entitling her to her freedom, and, an 1858 acknowledgment of freedom by Adeline Davis, now of Paris France, for Jean (described as a mulatto), who paid her a sum of $300 for his freedom.

Extracts from the Mayorality of New Orleans' Book of Records include records for the following free persons of color: Jean Baptiste (described as a mulatto and a carpenter), Andrew Jackson Keller (described as a quadroon and a brick mason), Mary Forstall (described as a mulattress and a hairdresser), Joseph Devenport (described as a griffe and a minister), and Estelle (described as a free girl).

Other items represented include an 1856 act of freedom signed by D. Augustin certifying that Augustin Circe (described as a 21 year old mulatto), son of his free mulatto house servant (Marie Circe), is a free person of color; a 24 February 1857 copy of the emancipation of Alexander (described as a mulatto man of 24 years) by his aunt Phoebe Anderson, his owner and a free woman of color; a 1854 certificate of freedom for Charles Hawkins (described as a mulatto boy of seventeen years) certifying he has proven his freedom before the court and is authorized to remain in the state and to pass; a testament given by three citizens of New Orleans that Thomas Jefferson Martin is a free person of color and has been for more than ten years; and a certificate of freedom for Aurore. Two items are in French.
Cane River collection, 1857-1871.
title
Cane River collection, 1857-1871.
Subject
Creoles, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Free African Americans, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, African American landowners, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Land titles, Registration and transfer, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Letters, Sarpy, Jerome, born 1821, Legal documents
Date created ms
1857, 1871
Abstract
Various records from 1857-1871 comprising two letters, a legal document, land sale, and account sheet. Papers relating to free people of color include a land sale by Louis Gaspart Derbanne to Gerome Sarpy. Three items in French.
Sale of slave by James Catlett, no place, to Ferdinand Kennett, [Washington County, Missouri]
title
Sale of slave by James Catlett, no place, to Ferdinand Kennett, [Washington County, Missouri]
Subject
Documents, Slave trade
Date created ms
1857-1-20, 1857-1-20
Abstract
Catlett sold to Kennett a male slave named Michael, age thirty-one, for $1,200.
Etienne Mazureau (1777-1849)
title
Etienne Mazureau (1777-1849)
Subject
Lawyers, Louisiana, Legislators, Louisiana
Date created ms
1836, 1858
Name
Vaudechamp, Jean Joseph, 1790-1866
Abstract
Louisiana Attorney General, 1815-1817; 1821-1824; and 1832-1841 * Louisiana Secretary of State, 1817-1821 * Louisiana Legislature, 1823-1824 * Born in La Rochelle, France at the prelude to the French Revolution, 1777 * Employed at French law firm at age 13 * Joined the French Navy, was captured by the English and was taken to Spain where he acquired knowledge of civil law in both the Spanish and English languages * Returned to Paris in 1799 where he began to voice anti-Bonaparte sentiments * Expelled from France and arrived in New Orleans in 1801 * Spoke French, English and Spanish fluently and was a great orator * Represented Creoles who spoke only French and became very popular * Admitted to the bar in 1805 * Appears as counsel in the second and third cases reported in the first volume of Martin's Reports * Contributed to the compilation of A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans, 1808 , as he was well versed in both Spanish civil law and the Code Napoleon * Began a law practice with Edward Livingston * Won a judicial decision along with the help of Livingston, Moreau-Lislet and Derbigny, which ensured the recognition of Roman civil law in Louisiana * Married Judge Felix Grima's sister Aimée and they raised five children * Died of a fatal asthma attack at the age of 72 * Interred at St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 in New Orleans * Portrait attributed to Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp in portrait dedication article
Louisiana. Published by J.H. Colton & Co.
title
Louisiana. Published by J.H. Colton & Co.
Date created ms
1858, 1858
Name
J.H. Colton & Co.
Postcard from unknown to Sarah Turnbull Bowman, undated
title
Postcard from unknown to Sarah Turnbull Bowman, undated
Subject
Botanical illustration, Louisiana, American poetry, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857, 1914
Name
Bowman, Sarah Turnbull, 1831-1914
Lease on a slave
title
Lease on a slave
Subject
Slave records, Louisiana, Slaveholders, Louisiana, Slavery, United States
Date created ms
1857
Abstract
Lease on a slave "Mary" for period of five years, 1857. Signed by several members of the McMichael family.
Écrit pour le Moniteur de Franklin a 4 Décembre 1857.
title
Écrit pour le Moniteur de Franklin a 4 Décembre 1857.
Subject
Flirting, Louisiana, Unrequited love, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857-12-04
Letter from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 December 30
title
Letter from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 December 30
Subject
Sugar trade, Louisiana, Debt, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857-12-30
Name
Bowman, James P. (James Pirrie), 1832-1927
Cotton Invoice from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 November 2
title
Cotton Invoice from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 November 2
Subject
Commission merchants, Louisiana, New Orleans, Invoices, Louisiana, New Orleans, Cotton trade, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857-11-02
Cotton Invoice from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 February 4
title
Cotton Invoice from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 February 4
Subject
Commission merchants, Louisiana, New Orleans, Invoices, Louisiana, New Orleans, Cotton trade, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857-02-04
Cotton Invoice from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 February 4
title
Cotton Invoice from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 February 4
Subject
Commission merchants, Louisiana, New Orleans, Invoices, Louisiana, New Orleans, Cotton trade, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857-02-04
Cotton Invoice from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 February 4
title
Cotton Invoice from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 February 4
Subject
Commission merchants, Louisiana, New Orleans, Invoices, Louisiana, New Orleans, Cotton trade, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857-02-04
Bank Note from W. & D. Urquhart for James P. Bowman to C. A. F. Renshaw, 1857 March 30
title
Bank Note from W. & D. Urquhart for James P. Bowman to C. A. F. Renshaw, 1857 March 30
Subject
Bank notes, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857-03-30
Name
Bowman, James P. (James Pirrie), 1832-1927
Letter from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 January 2
title
Letter from W. & D. Urquhart to James P. Bowman, 1857 January 2
Subject
Sugar trade, Louisiana, Sugar, Transportation, Louisiana, Debtor and creditor, Louisiana
Date created ms
1857-01-02
Name
Bowman, James P. (James Pirrie), 1832-1927

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