Iberville County Louisiana Archives Deed.....Blanchard, Olivier - Longuelpee, Jean August 26, 1796 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Crystal Devillier oneonone@cox.net December 23, 2006, 9:10 pm Written: August 26, 1796 Date: August 26, 1796 Sale - Jean Longuelpee to Olivier Blanchard A tract situated in this District on the right bank of the Mississippi river, adjacent above to that which he has just sold to Michel Gareuil and below to that of Mr. Joseph Lebalanc, called Adoux, containing three arpents ten toises and four feet and thereabout of front on the said river on the depth of eighty, the buildings, enclosures which are thereon, in a word, such as it comprises and contains actually without excepting the arpent squared of land which Mr. Michel Gareuil had reserved for the site of his house, who declares herein that he dispossesses himself of this property with the reserve, nevertheless, of the cypress trees which are found sold to divers persons on all the front of the said land up to the forty arpents of depth; which belongs to him (vendor) for having been purchased in part of the same Mr. Gareuil and the remainder at the time of the sale which had been made of that which belonged to a person named Tranquil Olivier, as it is so confirmed by act (torn part) deposited in the archives of this Commandant. (a note at the bottom of the above deed states:) The three arpents, ten toises and four feet mentioned in the act hereinabove, are sold with all the fan which might correspond to it, in proportion of the front. Signed by Olivier Blanchard and Jean Longuelpee Nicholas DeVerbois, Commandant Additional Comments: Transcribed from original French in 1978 by Delma Abadie File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/iberville/deeds/longuelp209gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb