Iberville County Louisiana Archives Court.....Landry, Et Al November 7, 1791


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Source: Transcribed Court Document
Written: November 7, 1791

Date: November 7, 1791
At the request of Mrs. Anne Marthe Blanchard, widow of Jean Olivier Landry; of 
Jean Landry; of Paul Landry; the two latter as paternal uncles of Louise 
Amarante Landry, minor daughter of the said Jean Olivier Landry. Who explained 
that the latter contracted a partnership with Jean Landry, his brother, that 
during this partnership, Jean Olivier Landry died, and because of debts 
contracted for the same partnership, they will proceed to the sale of objects.

Date: October 30, past, and the portion, that is, the half due to Anne Marthe 
Blanchard, not being sufficient to acquit the debts of the sucn. there 
remaining a sum, so that the remainder of property left by the decd. will have 
to be inventoried, as follows: movables. There is also belonging to the sucn. 
A tract situated in at Lafourche containing about four arpents and a half of 
front on the ordianry depth, adjacent above to the lands of Paul Braud and 
below to those of Mr. Jean Landry. That in consideration of such, it cannot be 
included in the inventory, since it is within the jurisdiction of the 
Commandant of Lafourche, Louis Judice, who will make the inventory and 
afterwards the same to this Commandant.

Date: November 8, 1791
Inventory of land of sucn. of Jean Olivier Landry. At request of Mrs. Anne 
Marthe Blanchard, widow of the late Jean Olivier Landry, mother and tutrix, of 
Louise Amarante Landry; and of Jean Landry, paternal uncle and under-tutor of 
the said minor. 
On a tract belonging to the succession of the said deceased, situated in this 
District on the left bank of the river, between Messrs. Paul Braud and Jean 
Landry, which tract is of four arpents and twenty toises of front on the 
ordinary depth, meanwhile this land narrows to the end of the forty arpents, 
to 1 degree and a half.
* * and that said land being abandonned since a very long time, that is is 
found as a cleared land, without any buildings and but the enclosures, fallen, 
in ruin.
Liquidation, and family meeting in which Mrs. Anne Marthe Blanchard, mother 
has been named tutrix of the minor, Louise Amarante Landry, and under-tutor, 
Jean Landry, her uncle. 

Date: November 9, 1791
Mrs. Anne Marthe Blanchard, widow of Jean Olivier Landry, appears for herself 
and for Louise Amarante Landry, her minor daughter with the consent of Jean 
Landry, uncle and under-tutor of he minor, that she accepts the estimation of 
the property and she promises and obligates herself toward the minor until the 
minor reaches the age of majority or marries, to pay certain sums to the 
minor, and until then, she mortgages all her property to the said minor, for 
payment of said sums.

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

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