Will of Marie Jeanne Barbier Hubereau.  Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Melrose Collection NSU


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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MARIE JEANNE BARBIER HUBERDEAU

November 17, 1769

Today, November 17, 1769, I Marie Jeanne Barbier, feeling ill in body but
sound in mind and understanding, and wanting to provide for that always
uncertain hour of death by putting down in writing my last wishes and
arrangements, have had gathered here seven of my friends, These are:

Sieur Dartigaux
Francois Rambin
Nicolas Laignon
Joseph Pavie
Andre Sclavon
Andre Rabin
Francois LeDoux

I name them, having convened them together in my home, and I have declared my
last wishes as legally binding.

I declare that I have lived and continued in the Holy Roman Catholic and
Apostolic Religion, and wish to die in the same so that I call upon the
infinite mercy of God, I entreat his pardon, the tears of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, and the intercession of my patron saint.

I wish to have the most simple of burials, and I refer here to the evening of
my funeral, and the number of Masses which will be said for the repose of my
soul, by the good intention of by beneficiaries named hereafter.

I give and bequeath to the Parish Church of this Post the sum of fifty pounds,
paid in one lump sum.  My wish is that my beneficiary here named, Marie Silvie
Huberdeau, I give her the responsibility for paying my debts against the
assets that there will be on the day of my death.  Also, it is my wish and
request to give and bequeath to my mother Louise Derbanne, the fifth part of
all my assets after the debts have been paid.

This has been my Last Will and Testament which I have dictated in my own words
ot Mr. Gorme, Captain of the Militia, Interim Commandant of Post Natchitoches,
because I am not able to write due to the weakness in my arms, I have, before
him and the aforenamed seven witnesses, signed below witha cross which is my
usual mark.

This document has been made in my presence.  I, Jean Louis Cesaiare Gorme,
Captain of the Militia, and Interim Commandant do hereby swear its
authenticity.
L. Gorme
Signed: Andre Rambin, Francois Rambin, N. Laignon, Dartigaux, F. LeDoux,
Joseph Pavie, Andre Sclavon, Louis Gorme