Land: Land Sale to Ambrose Wise, Claiborne Parish, LA
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by : Becky Campbell, Christiana, TN  bachile @ mindspring.com 
Date:  Feb. 2000




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State of Louisiana
 Parish of Claiborne
By Virture of the annex  Commission,  issued by Hyden A. Kennedy  Clerk of the District 
Court in and for the said parish, and duly directed, after having advertised for thirty 
clear days in the Claiborne Adovate, a weekly newspaper published in the town of Homer, 
said parish and state,  and after having procured  from the Recorder of Mortages of said 
parish a mortage certificate, and having complied with all other legal requirements, I 
proceeded, on the 12 th January, 1857, within the legal hours of sale, after reading my 
commission the mortage certificate and the advertising to offer for cash, to the last and 
highest bidder, at the court house door in the town of Homer,   all the land to the estate 
and succession of JAMES and  PERMELIA WISE dec'd,  and after having said the same in a 
loud and audible  voice for a considerable length of time, sold the same to AMBROSE WISE,  
he being the last and highest bidder, for the sum of one dollar per acre,  amounting in all 
to four hundred and thirty dollars  the land described as follows,   to wit:   the south 
half of the southeast quarter of the section nineteen [19] --- the northeast quarter and 
the northwest quarter of the section thirty [30]   the northeast quarter of the southwest 
quarter of the section thirty [30]  all in township  twenty three  [23] .


taken from records at Homer Court House  Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
April 1988

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