1819 Grand Jury List; Catahoula Parish, La.
Submitted by Houston Tracy, Jr., Alexandria, La.Source:
Date: May 1998




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The State of Louisiana
To the Sheriff of the Parish of Catahoula - Greetings

You are hereby commanded to summons and cause to come before the 
District Court for the Seventh Judicial District, Parish of 
Catahoula & State aforesaid on the first Monday of October in the 
Year One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

James Gaster, William Mock, John Brown, William Lacey, Daniel 
Wiggins (Prairie) [used to differentiate between the other Daniel 
Wiggins, that lived in the Pine Woods), John Hood, Isaac Doyle, 
Isaac Pulford, James Patten, John Shrock, Andrew Loftain (sic), 
John Banister, Collins Winfrey, John Young, James Wright, James 
Stokes, John Murphy, Neille Bowie, Henry Kiper, Benjamin Gaster, 
Rhesa Bowie, Angus Bowie, Jonathan Haggerty, Neille Baker, Thomas 
Grayson, Reubin White, John J. Bowie, Jacob Humphries, John Gaster, 
Joseph Collins, Geo. Paul, William Doss, Phillip Brown, James 
Flower, Charles Matthews, Charles Craig, Frederick Galloway, 
Casper Young, Edward Lovelace, Fleming G. Ballew, Eli Templin, 
David McClure, Peter Williamson, Jacob McDonald, Saml. Leavins, 
Elijah Ford, David Devoires (sic) and Edmund Underwood.

Forty-eight good and lawful men of said Parish.  Free White 
Inhabitants and householders of the same, who have resided at 
least one year in the State of Louisiana to the end.  That they 
may be impaneled, sworn and charged to inquire for the Body of 
said Parish of Catahoula as the Grand Inquest, thereof and present 
all murders, felonies, misdemeanors, misdeeds, offenses and 
inquiries whatsoever and also the accessories of the same within 
the Parish aforesaid, Perpetrated and Committed and have then and 
there the Names of the Jurors so summoned together-in, with this 
writ.
  
Witness the Honorable H. A. Bullard, Judge of the District Court 
setting in and for the Parish of Catahoula, this 8th day of August 
in the Year of Our Lord 1819
  signed   William J. Clarkson, Clerk