Iberville County Louisiana Archives Deed.....Mitchell, Roberto  - Dumford, Et Al  March 14, 1801

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Written: March 14, 1801

Date: March 14, 1801

Sale - Thomas Dumford, Testamentary Executor of the decd. Dn Juan Harrison, in 
accord with his (Dumford's) colleague, Dn Guillermo Stephen of the Merchants 
of said city (New Orleans) as confirmed by the contract dated Oct. 9, 1800 - 
To Roberto Mitchell


A tract of the property of the said deceased Dn Juan Harrison situated in this 
said District on the left bank of the Mississippi river, bounded on the upper 
part by lands of the Dominion of His Majesty, on which I hold a claim, and 
below by those of Luis D'Annequin, composed of eighteen arpents more or less 
of front with the depth which corresponds to it, which belongs to the 
succession of the above said deceased, Dn Juan Harrison for having been 
purchased, like this:
six arpents more or less of front, of Juan Carlos Comau, other six aprents 
also more or less, of front, of the deceased Pedro Clouatre according to the 
deeds executed before Dn Nicolas DeVerbois, Commandant who was we understand 
of the said District, on the first day of the month of September of the year 
passed of one thousand seven hundred ninety-five and the other six arpents 
more or less, of front remaining, was purchased by Santiago McDonnell of Simon 
Pedro Babin, resident of the mentioned District by deed executed before the 
said Commandant on the 26th of the same month of September of the mentioned 
year of one thousand seven hundred ninety-five, said sale being for the 
security of the above said deceased Dn Juan Harrison, and on account of not 
being able to satisfy, the said Santiago McDonnell, in the sum stipulated in 
the referred sale payable to the above said Harrison, the said sum, by order 
of the Governor General who was we understand, the Baron of Carondelet, as 
appears by the office of date 24th of November of the year of 1796 deposited 
in this archive, by which result, rests the mentioned land belonging to the 
mentioned succession. And I sell said land with the edifices and fences which 
are encountered on the same and in the same condition in which it is found.

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

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