Succession of: Thomas Shropshire, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
File submitted and prepared by Donald W. Johnson 




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STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE

BE IT KNOWN THAT ON THIS DAY OF THE DATE, AND IN PRESENCE OF THE WITNESSES
 
HEREINAFTER NAMED, AND UNDERSIGNED BUYER, AND WILLIAM HOBBS RECORDING, AND
 
FOR THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA DULY COMMISSIONED AND

SWORN, PERSONALLY CAME AND APPEARED H. V. BABIN OF THE PARISH HEREIN, 

REPRESENTING GEORGE SHROPSHIRE OF THE PARISH ST. LANDRY, STATE AFORESAID,
 
BY VIRTUE OF A POWER OF ATTORNEY IN THIS BOOK TO BE HEREAFTER RECORDED.
   
THE SAID GEORGE SHROPSHIRE FOR HIMSELF AND REPRESENTING THE REMAINDER

OF THE HEIRS OF THOMAS SHROPSHIRE, DECEASED, BY VIRTUE OF POWERS OF ATTORNEY
 
FROM SAID HEIRS HEREAFTER TO BE RECORDED.

THE SAID H. V. BABIN ACTING FOR ALL SAID HEIRS WHO DECLARED HAT UPON THE TERMS

AND CONDITIONS HEREINAFTER APPLIED, HE HAS BARGAINED AND SOLD AND BY THERE PRESENTS,
 
DOTH GRANT BARGAIN, SELL AND CONVEY UNTO GRENVILLE M. PIERCE, ALSO OF

THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, HERE PRESENT PURCHASING AND ACCEPTING FOR HIMSELF

HIS HEIRS, AND ASSIGNS THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY TO WIT: A CERTAIN TRACT
 
OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED AT THE FORK OF THE COMITE RIVER AND HERICANE?

CREEK CONTAINING (AS PER A PLAT OF THE SURVEY OF SAID LAND HERE EXHIBITED) SIX
 
HUNDRED AND FORTY 98/100 ACRES, BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY LANDS OF MR. HOPGOOD(?)

AND COMITE RIVER, EAST BY COMITE RIVER AND HERICANE CREEK, SOUTH BY LANDS OF

SETH DAVID AND PARHARES, AND WEST BY THOSE OF PURCHASE. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD SAID LAND 

UNTO THE SAID PURCHASER, HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS, FOREVER WARRANTED AND DEFENDED AGAINST

THE LAWFUL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS OF ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHOMSOEVER, AND AGAINST ALL
 
INCUMBRANCES.

THIS SALE AND CONVEYANCE IS MADE AND ACCEPTED, FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF
 
THIRTY ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY DOLLARS, PAYABLE IN THE MANNER FOLLOWING TO WIT: EIGHT

HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS PAYABLE IN ONE YEAR FROM THIS DATE $580.00

SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE DOLLARS 66/100

PAYABLE IN ONE YEAR FROM THIS DATE      753.66

SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE DOLLARS 67/100

PAYABLE IN TWO YEARS FROM THIS DATE     753.67

AND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE DOLLARS 67/100

PAYABLE IN THREE YEARS FROM THIS DATE   752.67

MAKING SAID TOTAL PRICE OF THIRTY ONE HUNDRED

AND FORTY DOLLARS  3,140.00

AND FOR WHICH THE PURCHASER HAS MADE AND EXECUTED HIS FOUR

PROMISSORY NOTES, DATED THIS DAY, PAYABLE RESPECTIYELY, 2 AT

ONE YEAR FROM DATE, ONE YEAR FROM DATE, ONE TWO YEARS FROM DATE,

AND ONE AT THREE YEARS FROM DATE, AND FOR THE AMOUNTS RESPECTIVELY, AS

ABOVE SET FORTH AND AT THE PARISH RECORDERS OFFICE IN THE

CITY OF BATON ROUGE, DRAWN TO THE ORDER OF HIMSELF AND BY

HIM ENDORSED TO BEAR EIGHT PERCENT PER ANNUM INTEREST FROM

MATURITY UNTIL PAID, WHICH FOUR NOTES AFTER BEING DULY

PROCESSED, REVARIE?? AND SIGNED BY ME  RECORDER, TO IDENTIFY

THE SAME WITH THIS ACT WERE HANDED TO THE SAID H. V  BABIN,

AS AGENT AS AFORESAID WHO ACKNOWLEDGES POSSESION THEREOF

MORTGAGE WITH THE VENDORS PRIVILEGE BEING RESERVED BY THE

VENDORS AND GRANTED BY THE PURCHASER ON SAID PROPERTY UNTIL

THE FULL AND FINAL PAYMENT OF SAID NOTES.   AND THE PURCHASER

PROMISES NOT TO SELL  ALIENATE, OR ENCUMBER SAID PROPERTY TO

THE PREJUDICE OF HIS ACT AND, MOREVER, AGREES THAT THIS

ACT SHALL HAVE ALL THE FORCE AND EFFECT OF A CONFESSION OF

JUDGEMENT IN FROM OF SAID HEIRS OF SHROPSHIRE FOR SAID

AMOUNT OF THIRTY ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY DOLLARS WITH ALL

EVENTUAL INTEREST TO BE PAID AS AFORESAID.   THE FOREGOING

WRIT HAVING BEEN READ TO THE PARTIES WAS BY THEM AFFIRMED.

A    THE PURCHASER DISPENCED WITH THE PRODUCTION OF A

CERTIFICATE FROM THE RECORDER OF THIS PURCHASE AS REQUIERED

BY ARTICLE 3325 OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THIS STATE.   THUS DONE

AND PASSED AT BATON ROUGE IN PRESENCE OF T  W. BROWN AND

ORVILLE ADAMS, WITNESSES, WHO SIGN THEIR NAMES WITH THE

PARTIES AND ME, RECORDER, THIS EIGHTEEN DAY OF MARCH IN THE

YEAR OF OUR LORD EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO (1862)

T  W  BROWN

H.V. BABIN BY POWER OF ATTORNEY

WM. HOBBS
RECORDER

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