SALE OF LAND BY JAMES BOWE(R)S TO JOHN AND ROBERT BOWE(R)S Plaquemines Parish, LA.
Submitted By Gladys Stovall Armstrong


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Be it known that on this sixteenth day of the month of June in the year of 
eighteen hundred and fifty  six and the eightieth year  of Independence of 
the United States of America
    Before me, Jean Louis Marriany, Recorder in and for the Parish Of 
Plaquemines, therein residing  and duly elected, commissioned and sworn in 
the presence of the witnesses hereafter named and undersigned,
    Personally came and appeared JAMES BOWE(R)S, residing in this Parish in 
the state who declared that for ? Consideration of the price and sum of THREE 
Hundred dollars cash in hand  will and testify paid to him in ready money out 
of the presence of the recorder and witnesses and for which he grants full  ? 
and release ? by these present, grant, bargain, sell and transfer, assign, 
convey and set over with all lawful ?? to all his rights and ?
   Unto ROBERT BOWE(R)S AND JOHN BOWE(R)S, those last appearance herein duly 
represented by JOSEPH BOWE(R)S, also residing in this Parish ? present and 
accepting, furnishing(?)  for the~ (sic)  ? the heirs and assigns and 
acknowledging due delivery and promise thereof
   A certain track of land by undivided half being the lower half of Section 
Twelve , Township, Eighteen Range ?, being in this Parish of Plaquemines on 
the Left Bank of the Mississippi River at about sixty three miles below the 
City of New Orleans - together with all the buildings, improvements, titles, 
privileges, circumstances and  ? , thereon and thereunto belonging  without 
exception nor reserve and with all the rights, titles, privileges --? Their 
heirs and assigns forever to warrant  and ?   The land hereto conveyed 
against all legal claims and demands whatsoever.
    By referance to the records of Mortgages for this Parish up to the ? 
hereof there is no mortgage whatsoever recorded in my office in the name of 
JAMES BOWE(R) ( Spelled BOWS - G.A. ) against the land now sold.
    It is moreover agreed by these parties that the said ROBERT BOWS (BOWERS) 
and JOHN BOWS (BOWERS)  shall pay yearly to their said FATHER, the sum of TEN 
DOLLARS  as a part consideration of the present sale.
   The whole is accepted by the parties--? this present act
   This done and passed at my office in the court house of this parish, the 
day and month and year above.
Witnessed in presence of Messers August LESSEPH and DR. Leopold BOUSS--? 
Witnesses both known of the full age of majority and residing in this parish, 
who hereunto sign their names with the ? and me, the recorder, of the reading 
thereof - mine words---?

A. JESSEPH
ROBERT BOWERS
JOSEPH BOWERS
L. P. ?
J. L. MARRIANY, Recorder