Iberville County Louisiana Archives Court.....Braud, Et Al December 21, 1791


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Source: Transcribed Court Document
Written: December 21, 1791

Date: December 21, 1791

Affidavit - Succession of Joseph Marie Braud

Eliene Marie Ameltwa, widow of Joseph Marie Braud, has two children: Joseph 
Allein and Marie Joseph Braud, and declares that she wants his property 
inventoried, and wishes to establish a tutor and under-tutor for the minors.



Date: December 2, 1791

Inventory - Succession of Joseph Marie Braud

At request of Elaine Marie Amelton, widow of Joseph Marie Braud.
Named the following:
Tutrix- their mother, Eleine Marie Amelton and under-tutor Charles Braud, 
their paternal uncle. 
Property:
A plantation situated on the right bank of the Mississippi river, containing 
about six arpents of front on the ordinary depth of forty arpents, in the 
meantime, narrowing in the depth to three degrees, which belongs to the 
succession for having been purchased by the late Joseph Marie Braud of Pierre 
Leblanc; the buildings, enclosures; adjacent above to the lands of Joseph 
Amelton and below to those of Paul Marie Landry.
On this said land there are five square aprents, the use of which belongs to 
Marie Joseph Landry, widow of Joseph Braud, mother of the said Joseph Marie 
Braud and this is to be inventoried only in the case that the she desires it 
to be inventoried and sold by the diwo of her late son, and the latter paying 
her the value of the said five square arpents. And in consequence, they 
proceeded with the estimation of the five square arpents, leaving from one of 
the points on the front of the said plantation. Whole inventory closed on 
December 22, 1791.



Dated: December 24, 1791

Declaration -
Appeared Marie Eleine Amelton, widow of Joseph Marie Braud assisted by Charles 
Braud, tutor of his minor brothers, and also tutor of the two minor children 
of Joseph Marie Braud; and Ignace Ameltwa, brother of the said widow, They 
declare they refuse appraisal as made. And therefore, order a sale to be made.



Date: January 15, 1792

Public Sale -
At the request of Marie Eleine Amelton, widow of Joseph Marie Braud, of 
Charles Braud, tutor of the minor children of the latter, as well as tutor of 
his minor brothers, and of Ignace Amelton.
A plantation situated on the right bank of the Mississippi river containing 
about six arpents of front on the ordinary depth of forty arpents, narrowing 
in the meantime in the depth to three degrees, adjacent to Joseph Amelton and 
below to those of Paul Marie Braud, or more thereof, such is detailed in the 
inventory. Adjudicated to Igance Amelton, Surety - Joseph Amelton, his father.



Date: April 17, 1793

Receipt - Commandant to Ignace Amelton, for receipt of the sum owed by the 
adjudication to him of the land, which sim was turned over to Widow Eleine 
Amelton who accepted same.


Date: April 22, 1793

Receipt - Mrs. Marie Eleine Amelton, Widow by first marriage of Joseph Marie 
Braud and by second marriage of Firmain Landry to Commandant, Nicolas 
DeVerbois, for receipt of sum due to her and heirs from the succession sale.

Additional Comments:
Transcribed from orginal French in 1978 by Delma Abadie

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