Natchitoches County Louisiana Archives Marriages.....Perot, Azelie - Tauzin, Marcelin April 23, 1849 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lanelle Hanke lhbham@yahoo.com January 15, 2012, 7:21 pm NGHA records - Old Natchitoches Parish Courthouse Certificate No.: Marriage Contract (Page 41) Marcelin Tauzin & Marie Azelie Perot ---- Marriage Contract (written and signed 23 Apr 1849) Recorded Dec 20th 1869 State of Louisiana Parish of Natchitoches Before me THOMAS PLUMER JONES Recorder and Notary Public in and for the Parish of Natchitoches, and State of Louisiana aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, personally came and appeared MARCELIN TAUZIN, legitimate son of JOSEPH TAUZIN and MARIE CHAMARD both late of the Parish and State deceased, and the said Marcelin being of the age of majority and MISS MARIE AZELIE PEROT legitimate daughter of FAUSTIN PEROT and MARIE CELESTE BORDELON, also of the said Parish deceased, she the said Marie Azelie Perot being of the age of majority also, both acting and stipulating herein for themselves - Who severally declared that whereas an engagement and promise of marriage exists between them and in the expectation of the consummation of their marriage, they have mutually agreed to establish the rules and /and/ civil regulations by which the said marriage is to be governed, and that is as follows, to wit: Article first: there shall be a community of property between the contracting parties to date from the day of the celebration of their marriage - Article Second - The property of the future husband brought into the community consists of the following, viz: 1st The plantation on which the said Marcelin Tauzin now resides situated about two and a half miles above the Town of Natchitoches on the left bank of Red River descending bounded above by lands of BERTRAND PLAISANCE, and below by lands of HONORE FREDIEN, with the improvements thereon, containing about three hundred acres of which one hundred and fifty acres are cleared - 2nd Another tract of land, on the same river a mile above the last mentioned tract, containing two hundred and fifty acres of which about one hundred and ten acres are in cultivation, bounded above by lands of ALFRED HUBNER and below by lands supposed to be public lands now claimed by F. BARTLETT; it being the tract purchased from JOHN FRANCOIS LEVASSEUR - 3rd Twenty one slaves viz: WILLIAM, mulatto, aged 25 years - POLYCARPE (looks like), negro 26 - JOE, mulatto 30 - REMI, negro boy 10 - CATHERINE, negro woman 48 - PERINE, mulatress aged 20 years and her child FELICITY aged 1 year - JOSEPHINE, mulatress aged 17 years. JULIE, mulatress 22, and her child XAVIER, aged 3 years - GRACE, negress, aged 30 years and her three children HELOISE 5 years, PIERRE 3 years and VALERY, 1 year - ANNA, negress aged 37 years and her four children CELESTE aged 9, MARIE AUGUSTINE 7 years, PAULINE, 4 years and an infant boy - MELITE, negress aged 52 years, and one-third interest in DICK, a negro man, aged 80 years and owner jointly with AMBROISE LECOMTE and LOUIS GENTZ (looks like) - 4th Forty head of horned cattle, five work mules, three horses, one mare, ten sheep, two ox carts, one horse cart, one Barouche and harness, one yoke of oxen, corn, fodder, cotton, farming utensils, household furniture, one set Blacksmith's tools, kitchen furniture, lot of crockery ware - 5th A tract of land on Little River about two miles below the Town of Natchitoches, on the right bank, descending, bounded above by lands now, or lately, belonging to SUZETTE ROUQUIER, f.w.c. (free woman of color), and below by lands now, or lately, belonging to GRENEAUX & ADLE', containing about seventy acres, being the same purchased from the legal representatives of BOSSIER, FRERES - 6th An undivided third of another tract of land, which was owned jointly with Ambroise Lecomte and ALEXANDER BUARD, on Spanish Lake, containing about one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, purchased from government - All of the above and foregoing described property is the same purchased by the said Marcelin Tauzin at the sale of the effects of the succession of his deceased wife MARIE CONSTANCE LEVASSEUR, in community with himself and his deceased wife and is subject to the claims or interest of his minor children, issue of his marriage with the said Marie Constance Levasseur, deceased - Article third. The future wife brings into the community (the following written, then crossed out) the sum of Two Thousand dollars cash, to all her claims, rights and interest in the succession of her deceased father and mother or so much thereof as may be paid to her, which amount will hereafter be ascertained by proper receipts. Article fourth - The future husband makes of his future wife a donation of the sum of Two Thousand dollars, cash, to be levied out of his own proper effects, but in case of the death of the future wife without issue prior to the death of the husband, this donation is to be null and void - Article fifth: In addition to the property mentioned and described in Article second of this contract the said Marcelin Tauzin further declares that he also brings in the said future community the undivided half of a certain tract of land situate in the Parish of DeSoto in this State, fronting on the bank of Red River, and containing in all Six hundred and forty acres, and being the same purchased by LOVEZIN (LOOKS LIKE) TRICHEL at the succession sale of MRS. MARY TAUZIN deceased wife of THEOPHILE E. TAUZIN and by him transferred and sold to the said Marcelin Tauzin and to JOHN FRANCOIS LEVASSEUR - Also two slaves, WILLIS a negro man aged 38 years and PHILLIS his wife, aged 48 years lately purchased from MRS. J. B. BUARD for the sum of Eleven hundred dollars payable in two equal instalments [sic] one in the Spring 1850 and the other in the Spring of 1851 - which said slaves are to be paid for out of the funds of the future community, and in consideration of said payment so to be made hereafter by the said community the said Marcelin Tauzin sells transfers and delivers to the said community the said slaves Willis and Phillis, subject to the mortgage of the said Mrs. Buard - Thus done and passed in the Town and Parish of Natchitoches, in presence of the undersigned competent witnesses who hereunto sign their names together with the said parties and me the said Notary on this 23rd day of April in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty nine - three words erased before signing - /Signed/ Mlin Tauzin - Azelie Perot - Attest: F. VIENNE, J. F. Levasseur - T. E. Tauzin - C. E. GRENEAUX - Thomas P. Jones, Recorder. _______________________________________________________________________ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/natchitoches/vitals/marriages/perot248gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 7.1 Kb