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Contract between the King of Spain and the Marquis de Maison Rouge for the establishment of the Washita community in Louisiana in 1795
title
Contract between the King of Spain and the Marquis de Maison Rouge for the establishment of the Washita community in Louisiana in 1795
Subject
Legislators, Government officials, Legislative bodies, Land tenure, Right of property, Kings, Land grants, Rulers, Servants
Date Issued
1795-03-17, 1820-12-22
Abstract
Text, December 22, 1820. On the 17th of March, 1795, the governor of Louisiana entered into a contract with the Marquis de Maison Rouge, of which this document is a copy. Declaration of the Marquis de Maison to bring in to the Louisiana provinces thirty families for the purpose of forming an establishment on the lands bordering upon the Washite (Ouachita). A list of the colonies conditions are listed as well, including cost for families and servants. On the 14th of July, in the same year, this contract was laid before the king of Spain, by whom, as attests by the following, it was duly approved. Contact signed with the king and Marquis of Maison Rouge for the establishment of the Washita.
Act of Congress of the United States regarding land claim decisions in the Louisiana Territory
title
Act of Congress of the United States regarding land claim decisions in the Louisiana Territory
Subject
Documents, Legislation, Land grants
Date created ms
1824-05-26, 1824-05-26
Abstract
The title of legislation was "Act enabling the claimants of lands within the the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims." Those who had legally received French or Spanish concessions prior to 1804 March 10 could file a petition with the District Court of Missouri to substantiate the claim. The law outlined procedures and requirements for receiving titles. [The heirs of Jean Antoine Bernard Dauterive based their claim to Vermilion Prairie on this Act and on a subsequent one passed by Congress 1844 June 17.]
Act of Congress of the United States regarding land claims in the Louisiana Territory
title
Act of Congress of the United States regarding land claims in the Louisiana Territory
Subject
Documents, Legislation, Land grants
Date created ms
1824-05-26, 1824-05-26
Abstract
This is a French translation of the preceding entry.
Land claim decision rendered by the Land Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, in the claim of Hubert Bellanger
title
Land claim decision rendered by the Land Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, in the claim of Hubert Bellanger
Subject
Documents, Land grants
Date created ms
1816-11-20, 1816-11-20
Abstract
Hubert Bellanger claimed a tract of land of 663 acres on Bayou Terrebonne and presented proof that he had occupied the land prior to 1803. The Commissioners ruled that a claimant was not entitled to more than 640 acres and confirmed Bellanger's title only for that amount.
Land claim decision rendered by the Land Office, Saint Helena Parish, to the claim of John Rhea
title
Land claim decision rendered by the Land Office, Saint Helena Parish, to the claim of John Rhea
Subject
Documents, Land grants
Date created ms
1820-06-01, 1820-06-01
Abstract
The Land Commissioner recognized as valid the claim made by John Rhea to 1,015 square arpents in East Baton Rouge Parish. Rhea's claim was based on a Spanish grant made in 1789 to J.M. de la Barba.
Land Grant by the Directors of the Company of the Indies in the Province of Louisiana to M. [Jean Baptiste Le Moyne] de Bienville
title
Land Grant by the Directors of the Company of the Indies in the Province of Louisiana to M. [Jean Baptiste Le Moyne] de Bienville
Subject
Documents, Land grants
Date created ms
1719-03-27, 1719-03-27
Abstract
Bienville and [Marc Antoine] Hubert made the following concessions of land to the former on 27 March 1719: a cattle pasture on the other side of New Orleans, facing the city on the west and the Point Saint-Antoine of M. Hubert on the east and extending in depth to the southern shore of the Lake; a tract situated above and on the boundaries of New Orleans, along the Mississippi up to the bend below the Chapitoulas. The Directors of the Company in Paris approved the grant on 6 February 1720.
Petition of Benjamin Smith and Santiago [James] Smith, Baton Rouge post, to Governor Estevan Miró of Louisiana; survey order issued by Governor Miró
title
Petition of Benjamin Smith and Santiago [James] Smith, Baton Rouge post, to Governor Estevan Miró of Louisiana; survey order issued by Governor Miró
Subject
Documents, Governors, Petitions, Land grants, Surveying
Date created ms
1785-09-01, 1785-09-01
Abstract
The two Smiths, residents of the post of Baton Rouge, declared that they wished to establish a plantation about four leagues above the post, to introduce slaves on the land, and to cultivate it. They petitioned the Governor to grant them a concession of twenty-seven arpents frontage on the Mississippi, next to a place called Cipriera del Diablo. The land had formerly belonged to Felipe Comins [Philip Cummings?], but he had abandoned it many years ago. Governor Miró ordered the Royal Surveyor Carlos Trudeau to survey the land described by the petitioners so that a formal concession could be made to them.
Petition submitted by Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, to the Governor of Louisiana, the Baron de Carondelet
title
Petition submitted by Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, to the Governor of Louisiana, the Baron de Carondelet
Subject
Documents, Law & legal affairs, Land grants, Farms, Agricultural facilities, International agricultural assistance, Settlements, Proposed works
Date created ms
1796-06-20, 1796-06-20
Abstract
Bastrop petitioned Carondelet to make him a grant of twelve superficial leagues in the vicinity of Bayou Siard in the Ouachita district for the purpose of establishing an agricultural settlement. He would bring immigrants who would receive grants of free land not to exceed 400 square arpents. The limitation would impede the introduction of Negroes and the cultivation of indigo and would foster wheat production. Bastrop also asked permission to export to Havana flour produced at the mills that would be at Ouachita. He requested material support from the government for the colonists to assist them in getting started. Non-Catholics, he continued, should enjoy the same freedoms as those in the Baton Rouge and Natchez districts. [An English translation appears in: Mitchell and Calhoun, LHQ, XX, 371-372; American State Papers Public Lands, IV, 53, 435. This and the five other documents relating to the Bastrop grant are published in Spanish in: United States. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims. Report from the Secretary of the Treasury...(25th Congress, 2nd Session, Report Number 196), 124-128.]
Petition submitted by Ja[me]s [William] Cochran, Saint Louis, to Charles Dehault Delassus, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana [Spanish Illinois]
title
Petition submitted by Ja[me]s [William] Cochran, Saint Louis, to Charles Dehault Delassus, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana [Spanish Illinois]
Subject
Documents, Petitions, Land grants
Date created ms
1800-07-04, 1800-07-04
Abstract
Cochran stated that he wished to establish himself in the upper part of the province of Louisiana after having lived in the area for several years. He petitioned Charles Dehault Delassus to grant him a tract of land of 800 square arpents at whatever place in The Royal lands he deemed suitable.
Petition submitted by Josef Andoeza, New Orleans, to the Baron de Carondelet
title
Petition submitted by Josef Andoeza, New Orleans, to the Baron de Carondelet
Subject
Documents, Petitions, Land, Land grants
Date created ms
1797-06-07, 1797-06-07
Abstract
Josef Andoeza, resident of Barataria, stated that severe floods during the past two years had caused the loss of much of his livestock and forced him to abandon the land upon which he was established. He asked for a grant to another piece of land in the same district and requested a certain vacant tract, which had a frontage of one league but was quite narrow.
Petition submitted by Richard Tickell, [New Orleans?], to Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos of Louisiana
title
Petition submitted by Richard Tickell, [New Orleans?], to Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos of Louisiana
Subject
Documents, Petitions, Land grants
Date created ms
circa 1797-09, circa 1797-09
Abstract
Tickell, a recent immigrant to Louisiana from the United States, requested a grant of 300 acres in the District of New Feliciana at a site on Thompson's Creek about 2 1/2 miles northwest of Captain A. Blanchard's property. Neighboring landowners were Blanchard, Richard King, And John Raffray.
Petition submitted by [Etienne de] Boré, New Orleans, to the Governor of the Province of Louisiana, Estevan Miró
title
Petition submitted by [Etienne de] Boré, New Orleans, to the Governor of the Province of Louisiana, Estevan Miró
Subject
Documents, Petitions, Land grants
Date created ms
1784-12-10, 1784-12-10
Abstract
Estevan Boré [Etienne de Boré] stated that on the property he owned there was insufficient timber for construction of necessary buildings. Behind his land was a tract that belonged to the Crown. He requested title to this section and asked for permission to have the Royal Surveyor Carlos Trudeau measure the land and establish boundaries.
Land Grant Certificate No. 5.8.140001
title
Land Grant Certificate No. 5.8.140001
Subject
Land grants
Date created ms
1857
Abstract
Land grant certificate for Modeste Breaux, widow of Aurelien Breaux, Opelousas, Louisiana, 1857.
Land Grant Certificate No. 18200002
title
Land Grant Certificate No. 18200002
Subject
Land grants
Date created ms
1838
Abstract
Land grant certificate for Louis Breaux, Opelousas, Louisiana, 1838.
Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles at Fausse Pointe.
title
Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles at Fausse Pointe.
Subject
Acadians, Land grants, Exiles, Rivers, Bayous, Agriculture, Maps
Abstract
Map of Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles at Fausse Pointe.
Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles at La Pointe de Repos.
title
Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles at La Pointe de Repos.
Subject
Maps, Acadians, Exiles, Land grants, Land, Land use, Agriculture
Abstract
Map of Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles at La Pointe de Repos, the present-day Parks area.
Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles in Jeanerette.
title
Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles in Jeanerette.
Subject
Acadians, Land grants, Exiles, Rivers, Bayous, Agriculture, Maps
Abstract
Map of Spanish land grants issued to Acadian exiles in the present-day area ofJeanerette.
Land grant by the Baron de Carondelet to the Marquis de Maison Rouge
title
Land grant by the Baron de Carondelet to the Marquis de Maison Rouge
Subject
Documents, Land grants
Date created ms
1797-06-20, 1797-06-20
Abstract
This item is yet another copy of the Maison Rouge grant.
Land grant, New Orleans
title
Land grant, New Orleans
Subject
Documents, Land grants
Date created ms
1765-03-02, 1765-03-02
Abstract
Aubry granted to Sieurs Dauterive and Masse title to a place called Vermilion Prairie, where the two recipients proposed to raise cattle. The concession was made in consideration for the grantees' having ceded land they occupied in Attakapas to the newly arrived Acadians. All timber would be reserved for the King for construction of forts and warehouses and for the repair of ships.
Atala Chelette and family papers. Folder 01-01, 1819-1855.
title
Atala Chelette and family papers. Folder 01-01, 1819-1855.
Subject
Creoles, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Free African Americans, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, African American businesspeople, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, African American women, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Natchitoches Parish (La.), Commerce, Accounts, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Mortgages, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Women landowners, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Contracts for deeds, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Slaves, Emancipation, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Slave bills of sale, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Slave records, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Land grants, Receipts (Acknowledgments)(Acknowledgments) Invoices, Wills, Letters, Promissory notes
Date created ms
1819, 1855
Abstract
Primarily financial and legal documents of Joseph Perot, a free man of color, and Louis Fort. Of note is a true copy of an act of manumission by Louis Fort for a woman (described as a mulatto) named Angélique (1819), and, a document for the sale of a mortgage and a 20-year-old enslaved man named Joe to Joseph Perot by Aimee Barborousse Pantaléon, widow of Isidore Pantaléon (1840).

Legal contracts include a land sale contract between Louis Fort and John Baptiste Buard, the last will and testament of Louis Fort (1823), and a land grant for land formally owned by Louis Fort by the widow of the late Jean Baptiste Buard to Marie Rosalie Perot, Pierre Edmond, and Louis Onesime (1840).

Financial documents include bills for dry goods, a promissory note by Joseph Perot for the cost of gun repair (1848), and a statement of account from Dupleix Brothers to Madeleine, a free woman of color (dated 1853-1855). Other members of the Perot family, Buard family, and the Pelagie family are also represented. All but five documents are in French.

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