Natchitoches Parish Louisiana Archives Land Claim.....Ivana Josefa Ruiz Apr 21, 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. 6  Ivana Josefa Ruiz of the Parish of Natchitoches , filed her notice claiming 640 
acres of land situated in the late Neutral Territory between the Rio Hondo and Sabine 
Rivers, being Section No. 8 in Township 11 degrees 8 North of Range No. 9 West.  This 
claim is founded on habitation and cultivation by the claimant on and previous to the 
22nd of February 1819, the evidence of Manuel Bustamonte taken the 21st April 1836 
states “that the claimant Ivana Josefa Ruiz moved to the land claimed in the year 1814 
and resided thereon on the 22nd February 1819 and up to the year 1821 or 1822” that 
she cultivated the land in question from the time she first moved thereon / 1814 until 
she left the place 1821 or 1822.  He further states that he is about 73 years of age and 
has resided in the immediate neighborhood 23 years, that the claimant is about 43 years 
of age.  The evidence of John Lum also taken in this claim fully establishes that the land 
claimed was occupied, inhabited and cultivated by the claimant from the year 1815 until 
1821 or 1822.  We are of the opinion that this claim ought to be confirmed.