Marriage: Pierre Baillio & Catherine Poisot
Source: Book I, Book of Conveyances, Document #337, Natchitoches Parish
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MARRIAGE CONTRACT OF PIERRE BAILLIO AND CATHERINE POISOT

The document is badly torn, worn, and faded and is impossible to make an
accurate translation.

Marriage Contract - April 4, 1763

Before the notary and clerk of court of the post of Natchitoches and in the
presence of the witnesses who signed below, were personally present Pierre
Baillio, soldier of the Company of Dutillier, son of Jean Baillio and
Catherine Lafon, native of Negrepelisse, Parish of St. Anne, bishopric of
Montauban, province of Quercy, on the one hand, and Catherine Poisot, daughter
of Remy Poisot and Anna Marie Pilipe, native of the Parish of St. John the
Baptist, at the post of Natchitoches........indecipherable.......Qubec. Mr.
and Mrs. Poisot, father and mother, alleging and stipulating for the said
Catherine Poisot, their daughter, on the other hand, which parties have agreed
in complete freedom and without constraint and with the advice and counsel of
their parents and friends, here below named, to agreement and contact of
marriage that follow....that is to say on the part of the said Pierre Baillio,
Messrs. Franton Cloteaux, ??, Joseph Lattier, corporal of the ...and on the
part of the said Catherine Poisot, Messrs. Dominique Monteche, Lieutenant of
the Militia, and Jean Louis Borme, Ensign also of the Militia,

Mr. Pierre Baillio and Catherine Poisot have promised and promise by these
presents to take each other and get married by law, faith, and sacraments of
marriage solemnized before out mother, the Holy Catholic Apostolic, and Roman
Church as soon as they will be called upon to do so, and it will have been
decided by their parents and friends.

The future husband ad wife will not be responsible for debts contracted before
their marriage, but, on the contrary, they will be paid and acquitted by the
one who contracted them without the property of the other being held
responsible.  All the husband's and wife's moveable and immovable property
will be looked upon in common according to the custom of Paris.

The said future husband has endowed the future wife with the sum of one
thousand livres. 

It has been agreed that the survivor of the two will take by preference and
before division on the movable property of the said future community according
to the inventory which will be made of it; that is to say, in counting it at
the choice of the survivor up to the sum of five hundred livres to
enjoy..indecipherable..as property belong to him.

It will be permissible to the said future wife, being worthy of her position,
to accept or to renounce the said future community, in doing which will resume
freely and without obligations what she will have brought to that community of
either by succession from her father and mother..otherwise and also that..free
of all debts and mortgages whatever although she will be morally bound and she
will be removed of responsibility for all the movable and immovable property
of the said future husband and for the sincere friendship that the said future
husband wife have said they have for the advice of their parents and friends
and to give each other evidence of it, they have made and they make by these
presents an irrevocable mutual and reciprocal donation between living persons
in the best form that can be made, each considering the movable and immovable
property, acquisitions and gains that will be....indecipherable....at the time
of the first to die--the whole by the survivor as property to him belonging
without being obligated to give bail for it except for the inheritance
property for which the survivor will give bail to enjoy the usufruct during
his live a donation which they reciprocally accept.  They will be--to have
inscribed in the registrar's office of the Superior Council of Louisiana and
elsewhere necessary contributing for this purpose as their special and general
lawyer, the bearer of these presents to whom they give the power to make and
in case there is any issue born or to be born from the said future marriage,
the said future donation will be null as if not having been made and effected,
because thus they bind each other and renounce..Done and passed at
Natchitoches in the fourth day of April of the year 1763

Thus signed
Poisotes
Bailliot (Pierre Baillot)
Joseph Lateer (Joseph Lattier)
Catherine Poisot
Borme (Jean Louis Brome)
Frantom Clorteaux (Franton Cloteaux)
Carnd,  notary officiating

Note: The signiture is Bailliot but the document spells it Baillio.