Succession of Elias Carter, LaSalle, La.

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SUCCESSION OF ELIAS CARTER, Sept 1842
State of Louisiana }
Parish of Catahoula}     Be is Remembered that on this 3rd day of September
A.D., a family meeting comprised of the persons having after named being
relatives commissions by affinity and friends of the minor heirs of Elias
Carter, dec'd commenced at the office of the undersigned Judge for the purpose
of deliberating upon matters connected with the interests of said minor to
wit:
Samuel Walker, Simeon Duke, Shalom Young, Harmon Brown, M.G. Brown, John W.
Stone_________  all of whom being duly sworn and organized proceeded to the
consideration of the Subject presented to them; the undersigned Judge in his
capacity of Notary Public presiding___The Subjects presented for the
consideration of the meeting rose the following to wit:  ___The situation of a
suitable person to be appointed Tutor of Barton Mortimer Carter one of said
minors under the age of puberty___The purpose of dividing the slaves of the
Succession of Elias Carter or in Kind considered as to the benefit or injury
such division might produce to the minors___  What property of the Succession
it will be proper to sell and the times at which it shall be sold:  And the
property of authorized the Tutors on behalf of the minor heirs to notify and
confirm a contract of Sale and exchange made by the late Elias Carter dec'd
and Thomas L. Duke dec'd by which Elias Carter it is alleged gave a certain
Negro woman named Maria and one child to said Duke for all the right title and
interests of said Duke in and to the improvement and establishment made by
Carter & Duke on Little River as the same mentioned as property of Said
Carter's Succession___  Which Said contract was never carried fully into
effect by executing conveyances between the Said parties or in any manner
reducing their agreement to a meeting.______  This subject being considered
this meeting came to the following conclusions to wit:  ___   They recommend
Samuel P. Stone as a suitable person to be appointed Tutor to Barton Mortimer
Carter the minor under puberty. ____  They recommend and advise as most to the
interest of the minors that the slaves be divided in Kind but that they remain
under the charge of Isaac L. Baker until the crop is gathered.____  The place
in the pine woods to be delivered on the 1st of January to the purchaser and
the improvement on Little River to be delivered to the purchaser immediately
on his complying with the terms of sale meaning the right of Isaac L. Baker to
stay on the place until the crop is gathered.  The meeting advise the Sale of
all the property of the Succession except the slaves and they advise the sale
to be made on the following terms and conditions to wit:_____ For all Slaves
of twenty dollars or under cash____for all terms above twenty dollars and over
one hundred dollars on credit of one year and for all slaves above one hundred
dollars a credit of one two and three years from the day of sale  payments to
be made in equal consideration statements purchasers to give notes with good
and sufficient security in solids or notes stipulating interest at the sale of
ten percent for commission from date if not punctually paid and to be drawn
payable at the office of the parish Judge of the parish of Catahoula_____ A
Special mortgage also to be retained in the tract of land in the pine hills as
additional and further security.______
The meeting and hearing evidence of the contract between Elias Carter and
Thomas T. Duke came to the conclusion that the Same ought to be satisfied and
respectively authorize the tutors to the minors to consummate the Said
contract on their part.___
In forth whereof the members of the meeting hereunto Personally Subscribe
their names on the day and date herein first above written._______

J.W. Stone,  Samuel Walker, H.M. Brown, M.S. Brown, Simeon (X) Dukes, Absolom
Young
James G. Taliaferro, Parish Judge & Ex officio Notary Public

Court of Probate Parish of Catahoula, November 1842

Ordered that the proceedings of the family meeting herein before detailed
homologated and confirmed and that Sale of the property of the Succession of
Elias Carter dec'd, except the slaves, be made on the terms presented by Said
family meeting after the legal advertisements have been made.______It is
further ordered that the Slaves & the proceeds of the sale of the property of
the Said Succession be partitioned among the heirs as prayed for by the heirs
of age and as recommended by the meeting on behalf of the minors.
Done and Signed in open Court this 7th day of November A.D. 1841___
James G. Taliaferro, Judge of Probate

To the honorable James G. Taliaferro Parish Judge and ex officio Judge of
Probate in and for the Parish of Catahoula, La.____
The Petition of Nancy Stone, Elizabeth Baker, Emeline Duke & Sarah Carter, the
said Nancy Stone & Elizabeth Baker being herein duly assisted by their
husbands Samuel P. Stone and Isaac L. Baker, with respect showeth that a
family meeting was conducted on the 30th of September 1841 to deliberate on
matters presented by these petitions in a petition filed in your office on the
20th of September aforesaid, and the proceedings of Said family meeting is
herewith presented and these petitioners pray that Said proceedings may be
homologated and approved & prays as in duty bound & c_______  S.P. Stone
Petititoners further represent that Attny  they concur in the Terms of the
sale prescribed by Said meeting on the part of the minors, and they pray that
Said
sale be made on the terms & conditions set forth in Said proceedings & prays &
______________           S.P. Stone, Attny

(Transcription provided by Pat Ezell,  PatEzell@worldnet.att.net)