Iberville County Louisiana Archives Court.....Dannequin, Et Al June 6, 1799


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Source: Transcribed Court Document
Written: June 6, 1799

Date: June 6, 1799

Declaration of Luis Dannequin before Jose Mollere, Sublieutenant of the 
Militia, presents a brief in the name of Dn Anselmo Blanchard, Captain of the 
said Militia, in order to petition for a second concession of a tract which is 
held by the said Dn Anselmo Blanchard in the District of Iberville, which 
tract I have sold to Dn Lorenzo Sigur, Captain of the referred Militia, 
understand that the said petition brief was made according to the plan made by 
the Land Surveyor, Dn Vicente Pintado, which is given as fact and ratify the 
same.
Dn Franco Bouligny, Colonel of the Regiment of Infantry of this Post, and 
Provisional Commandant of the Army of this Province of Louisiana for His 
Majesty, To Dn Franco Rivas, Captain of the Regiment of Infantry of Louisiana, 
Commandant of the Post of Iberville, having been informed about the present 
writing signed by Dn Lorenzo Sigur against Dn Anselmo Blanchard, both Captains 
of the Militia, on the invalidity of the sale of a plantation and tracts which 
the second made to the first, presents document for the named Sigur, and a 
declaration of Dn Luis Dannequin on acknowledgment of the documents the 
orginal of which precedes the answer, and certifications.




Date: July 20, 1799
Presented before me, Ximenes.
Petition - Dn Franco DelaRua, in the name and as attorney for Dn Lorenzo 
Sigur, in the procedure which is against Dn Anselmo Blanchard, on the 
invalidity of the sale which was made of a plantation and tracts, apprears and 
declares that this cause is admitted for proof, and asked that an order be 
dispatched to the Commandant Dn Franco Rivas, who is of the Post of Iberville 
in order that Dn Luis Dannequin, might declare the paper's contents. * * * 
Petition that the order might be served, and the said Commandant Dn Franco 
Rivas, to give notice of the second concession confirmed to Dn Anselmo 
Blanchard, and with all the cypress trees, * * * the Land Surveyor in the 
Post, Dn Vicente Pintado; that the said second concession is in the possession 
of Dn Anselmo Blanchard, having been ceded firstly according to plan, with the 
acknowledgment of the immediate neighbors.




Date: July 27, 1799
Decree - To present the documents referred to.


Date: July 27, 1799
Notification - Of decree to Dn Franco DelaRua.


Date: July 27, 1799
Notification - To Pedro Bertonier, of the said decree.




Date: August 20, 1799
I, Dn Franco Rivas, find it necessary to take the declaration of Luis 
D'Annequin and name Joseph Brasset and Franco Maurice witnesses, to appear 
before him. 
Acceptance: Franco Maurice and Josef Brasset accept the order that they act as 
witnesses.
Declaration - Dn Franco Rivas declares that the two witnesses have appeared 
before him. 

Franco Rivas certifies by the privious documents, that he does not have in his 
archives, any notice, about the 2nd concession, which was conceded to Dn 
Anselmo Blanchard, that the cypress trees are found behind the 40 arpents of 
depth of his possessions.

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

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