All exracted probate records (File prob005) ; Catahoula Par., Louisiana
Probate records submitted by Houston Tracy, Jr
Date: 9/25/99
  




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These abstracts were taken from the Original Probate files and loose Original
records recovered from the basement of the courthouse in Harrisonburg, La. 
They are not a complete listing.  It seems, that when the courthouse was last
remodeled and the addition was made to the original structure, which houses
the Clerk of Court's office and other offices, that an effort was made by the
Mr. Book who was then Clerk to arrange the loose originals in time for the
rededication of the courthouse and corresponding with the American
Bi-centennial Celebration in 1976.  Time ran short and many errors in stuffing
the envelopes occurred in filing.  A volunteer later created an index, but
only used the name on the envelope, not the actual contents, some which should
actually have been placed in another file.


     Filed as A-5:  Succession of Andrew Hunt Adams.
Order of the court to take an Inventory is dated 30 Sep 1837 at New Orleans,
La.
The Inventory was taken by John W. Stone and Robert Fristoe, as Appraisers and
witnessed by Luman Phelps and Gilbert Wingfield.  It included 1015 acres on
Deer Creek, being the same purchased by Adams from Antonio Courville on 7 Sep
1834.  Also, 1354 acres on the right bank of Deer Creek or Bayou Chereril,
being the same purchased by Adams from Julian De Leon on 7 Aug 1831.
No valuation of the property was made by the appraisers, due to their lack of
knowledge of the exact location of the properties (boundaries of the land).