Land Claims, 1804-1820, Concordia Parish Contributed by Houston Tracy, Jr. (TreSearch3@aol.com) ** ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This file prepared for inclusion in the USGenWeb Archives by Houston Tracy, Jr. - TreSearch3@aol.com And contains only a few of those entries for this area, as appeared on copies I made for other claims of direct interest to me at the time made. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: During the Territorial years of Louisiana, 1804-1812, it was under a County and Parish governmental system. Concordia County encompassed all or portions of the areas now known as Concordia, Tensas and Madison Parishes. Extracted from records of the Louisiana State Land Office, Department of Natural Resources, Baton Rouge, La., for the Opelousas Land District Office, Register's Book 6, part 1 Land Claim Abstracts & Certified Copies conforming to the Originals. Microfilm copy from the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; Roll # 1676314 ************* P. 277 - Filed 17 Oct 1812 - No. 333 - James G. WILSON of the County of Concordia claims a tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres on the West Bank of the River Mississippi in the Bend below the Islands No. 98 & 99 in the said county bounded on the upper side by vacant lands and on the lower side by land claimed by Johnston WILLIAMS which tract has been inhabited and cultivated by the claimant as required by law, a naked Plat of Survey by John HUGHES, dated 1 Oct 1812 accompanies this notice. ************* P. 277 - Filed 17 Oct 1812 - No. 334 - Silas GALVIN of the County of Concordia claims a tract of land containing six hundred and sixty five acres on the West Bank of the River Mississippi in the said county, bounded on the upper side by vacant lands and on the lower side by land claimed by Stephen BRAGG, which has been inhabited and cultivated by the claimant as required by law, a naked Plat of Survey by John HUGHES, dated 1 Oct 1812 is herewith filed. ************* P. 278 - Filed 17 Oct 1820 (sic, 1812) - No. 339 - Benjamin H. WELLS claims a tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres on the East Bank of the Tensaw (sic, Tensas) Lake in the county of Concordia, bounded northwards by land claimed by Oliver MILLER, having a front of fifty five chains, & running back at right angles from the lake for said quantity. A naked Plat of Survey is herewith filed. Note: Surveyor's name is not shown, nor is the shoreline of the lake. ************* P. 278 - Filed 17 Oct 1812 - No. 340 - Shadrack S. Inmond (sic) claims a tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres on the East Bank of the Tensaw (sic, Tensas) Lake in the county of Concordia, bounded on the north by Benjamin P. WELLS, having a front of fifty five chains, & running back from said lake for quantity, which said tract has been inhabited and cultivated as required by law. A naked Plat of Survey is herewith filed. Note: Surveyor's name is not shown, nor is the shoreline of the lake. ************* P. 278 - Filed 17 Oct 1812 - No. 341 - Robert HUGHES claims six hundred and forty acres on Bayou Tensaw (sic, Tensas) in the county of Concordia about two miles from the Mississippi River, having a front of fifty five chains on said Bayou & running back at right angles therefrom northwardly for quantity. ************* P. 278 - Filing date illegible - No. 342 - Thomas NICHOLSON claims six hundred and forty acres on Bayou Tensaw (sic, Tensas) in the county of Concordia bounded on the upper side by land claimed by Robert HUGHES, ?_? the Bayou for front, with the depth of ??5.36 chains to include the quantitiy - which tract of land has been inhabited and cultivated according to law. ************* P. 281 - Filed 17 Oct 1812 - William ELLIOTT claims a tract of four hundred and seventy acres of land, forty chains front by the depth of about 115 chains on the right bank of a small bayou in the county of Concordia, about two miles in a westerly direction from the mouth of the Yazoo River (which is on the other side of the Mississippi River and would place this tract near present-day Delta, La.), bounded on the lower side by land claimed by Ralph PRICE & on the upper side unknown. A Plat of Survey is filed in the Claim of Martin PRICE No. 356. ************* P. 281 - Filed 17 Oct 1812 - Lewellen PRICE claims six hundred and forty acres of land, 55 chains front by the depth of about 115 chains on the right bank of a small bayou in the county of Concordia, about two miles in a westerly direction from the mouth of the Yazoo River (which is on the other side of the Mississippi River), bounded on the lower side by land claimed by Martin PRICE & on the upper side by William ELLIOTT. Note: No Plat accompanies this Entry number and that number as shown in Elliot's claim is not for Martin, but for Lewellen Price, as shown here. It would appear that Lewellen's land is between Elliott's and Martin Price's claims. Perhaps a survey of all 3 tracts will later be found. ************* P. 388 - Filed 30 Oct 1812 - Richard BACON of the county of Concordia claims a tract of land containing seventeen arpents front by forty in depth situated on the West Bank of the River Mississippi in the said county, near a Willow Point about one and one half miles above the Homochito (which is on the other side of the Mississippi River), and one half mile above the Grand Cut-off, which tract the claimant inhabited and cultivated according to law by preemption of Philip Traveno, formerly Commandant of the Post of Natchez.