Catahoula County Louisiana Archives Photo Document.....Bowie, James FMC Inventory October 12, 1832


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James "Inventory of Assest" was filed and is now located at the Baton Rouge 
Archieves, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  The following information was included in 
the inventory:

State of Louisiana }
Parish of Catahoula}
 
Be it known to all whom it may concern know you that I, Samuel Lightner, Judge 
of the Parish of Catahoula aforesaid Did on this twelfth day of October in the 
year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Two repair to the late 
Plantation of James Bowie deceased a Free man of Colour when and where I took 
an Inventory of said deceased to be appraised the property of the said 
deceased as follows            

640 Acres of Land in the Bushley five hundred dollars          500.00
50 Acres of Land of the A[illegible] Tract fifty dollars             50.00
One Negro Man named Charlie six hundred dollars              600.00
One Negro Man named Thomas six hundred dollars             600.00
One Negro Woman named Salina four hundred fifty dollars  450.00
350 head of Cattle fourteen hundred dollars                       1400.00
150 head of Hogs three hundred dollars                               300.00
13 head of Horses four hundred & fifty five dollars                455.00
One Note  [illegible] for Sixty dollars with                              60.00
ten per cent Interest there abouts after date
One Note for Seven dollars twenty five cents                           7.25
One note for [illegible] in the Hands of Richard King
Isaac Baldwin payable to Robert King for Seventy Eight
dollars fifty six and one fourth                                               
78.56 1/4

One note on James Doss for seven dollars                               7.00

One Improvement for water rights fifty dollars                      50.00
                                                                               
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          4557.81 1/4             

Some James Bowie Transactions as recorded in the Catahoula Parish records:


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