Natchitoches Parish Louisiana Archives Land Claim.....John Hartman Apr 22, 1836

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Copy of Land Claims in the Late Neutral Territory between the Rio Hondo and Sabine 
Rivers
Opelousas Office, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana 
Transcriber’s notes are in brackets [ ]
Copy obtained from Donald W. Johnson,  1936-2004, former UsGenWeb Louisiana 
Archives contributor; Mr. Johnson obtained the copy from the Louisiana State Archives, 
Choctaw Road, Baton Rouge, LA
Transcribed by Deandra L. Norred, April 2010

No. 7  John Hartman of the Parish of Natchitoches assignee of Ivan Mora filed his notice 
claiming 640 acres of land situated in the late Neutral Territory between the Rio Hondo 
and Sabine Rivers being Section No. 33 in Township No. 9 North of Range M9 West.  This 
claim is founded on habitation and cultivation by Ivan Mora on and previous to the 22nd 
of February 1819 who conveyed his right to the claimant on the 27th day of July 1835.  
The evidence of John Lum and Henry Carls taken the 22nd of April 1836 states “that 
Antona Mora settled upon the land in question in the year 1817 and continued to 
occupy, inhabit and cultivate the same himself and after his death, by his son John Mora 
to the year 1836 that he resided thereon on the 22nd February 1819, that he has a 
dwelling house and about eight acres enclosed and planted in corn.”  We are of opinion 
that this claim ought to be confirmed.