Birth Certificate of:		Descas, Josephine 02-02-1853
Submitted by:			Tina White Barrett  December 2003
Source:				La State Archives Volume 71  page 1014

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Be it Remembered, That on this day to=wit  the Eleventh of April in the year
of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Eight and the One Hundred
and 2 of the independence of the United States of America before me S.
Choppin, M.D. President Board of Health and Ex-Officio Recorder of Births,
Deaths and Marriages, in and for the Parish and City of New Orleans,
personally appeared :

Charles Nelson, god father of Josephine Descas, a native of ------------ 
residing at----------------------------------------, who hereby declares
that on the Second day of February Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Three
(February 2, 1853) in the Third District in this city, was born a female
child, named

		Josephine Descas (white)

Lawful issue of  Xavier Descas a native of  France aged  --  years,
occupation Chief Stevedore  and Amelia or Emily ?utzer a native of Germany
aged  --  years.

Thus done at New Orleans, in the presence of the aforesaid C Nelson as also
that of Messes S. E. Hepburn  & P H Lanauze  both of this city witnesses, by
me requested so to be, who have hereunto set their hands, together with me,
after due reading hereof, the day, month and year first above written.
Charles Nelson		  S. Choppin            M.D.
President Board of Health and Ex-Office Recorder