Iberville County Louisiana Archives Court.....Landry, Et Al January 5, 1792


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Source: Transcribed Court Document
Written: January 5, 1792

Date: January 5, 1792
Petition to make inventory and to appoint tutor of minors. 
Appeared: Firmain Landry, who declares that during his marriage with the late 
Divine Babin, there were born 8 children named: Hypolite, Ferdinand, Marine, 
Auguste, Lendrie, Henriette, Carmelite, and Divine.


Date: January 7, 1792
At request of Firmain Landry.
Inventory - 
Appointed Firmain Landry, their father, tutor to the minors, and appointed 
Paul Marie Landry, under-tutor, their uncle.
A plantation situated on the left bank of the Mississippi river, adjacent 
above to the lands of Widow Ignace Babin and below to those of Paul Babin, 
containing about eight arpents of front, opening at about twelve degrees in 
the depth, the buildings, enclosures and all the objects appertaining to the 
plantation , therein including the mill, estimated --


Date: January 7, 1792
Inventory continued.
There is one arpent of cypress trees situated on the left bank of the river 
and on a tract belonging to Joseph Leblanc called Adoux, measuring from the 
lower boundary, on ascending, joining above to the cypress grove of Theodor 
Duga, which was included in the estimation of the plantation by reason that it 
is but the cypress trees which belong to Firmain Landry for the use of the 
said plantation.
A tract containing about thirty arpents of front on the ordianry depth of 
forty arpents, situated in the District of Manchack at the High Lands, bearing 
on and crossing the Bayou Ward near the concessions of the lands of Ignace 
Babin on one side and on the other, Jean Charles Ebert actually estimated --



Date: January 9, 1792
Debts to the succession, and by the succession. Recapitulation. Half belonging 
to the minors.



Date: January 10, 1792
Appeared Firamin Landry, who declares that he accepts inventory. And declares 
that he is indebted to the minors for their share and promises to pay to the 
tutor, Paul Mary Landry at first request, at their age of majority, and for 
which he mortgages his property.



Date: January 12, 1792
Family Meeting. Appeared: Firmain Landry, Francois Landry, Anselme Landry, 
Joseph Richard and Joseph Leblanc, brothers and brothers-in-law of Firmain 
Landry, who declared that by the inventory Paul Mary Landry, their brother, 
had been named under-tutor to the minors, but that they put in his stead, 
Pierre Simon Babin, materanl uncle of minors, who accepts the appointment.

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

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