rapides land land_catahoula.txt Land: Lost Records, From Outside SourcesSource: Catahoula Parish, Louisiana; Deed Book B, Page 47.The original document (which will bear the signatures of the parties) is filed in the fire-proof vault in the Clerk of Court's office as Conveyance or Deed 56-B. Copies at this courthouse cost $1 per page.Submitted by Houston Tracy, Jr. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Records dealing with residents of Rapides Parish, Louisiana pre-dating the June 1864 burning of the Rapides Parish Courthouse must be obtained from outside sources, other than the usual civil records, since those were destroyed with the courthouse building, then on Front Street along the Red River in Alexandria, Louisiana. These instruments, as in many other such instances, a duplicate of the transaction was filed for record in both courthouses, since the parties conducting business were from two different locations. Catahoula Parish, Louisiana; Deed Book B, Page 47.The original document (which will bear the signatures of the parties) is filed in the fire-proof vault in the Clerk of Court's office as Conveyance or Deed 56-B. Copies at this courthouse cost $1 per page. NOTE: This only an abstract of the text, not a verbatim transcipt. 1 November 1813 - Isaac McNutt of Rapides Parish, State of Louisiana receives from James Stokes of Catahoula Parish, State of Louisiana two negroes, Hannah, about 15 years of age and Jamesm her brother, aged about 8 or 9 years. In return, Stokes gives McNutt a certain tract of land situated in Catahoula Parish, containing 640 English acres. Located about 1 1/4 mile from the present seat of Justice (Harrisonburg, La.). A more particular description may be had by the land bearing certificate numbered 744 issued by the Board of(Land) Commissioners of the Western Land District (of Louisiana, then the Territory of Orleans). The parties agree, that should the title to the land fail, then McNutt should pay to Stokes, $800 with 6% interest, the estimated value of the negroes. (signed) I. McNutt James Stokes Witnesses (signed) Enoch M. Low, John Brown, Terry McCurkes (?) Recorded in Catahoula Parish, 7 March 1814 ------------------------------------------------------------ UNLOCATED LAND CLAIMS Filed with the U.S. Land Commissioners, Orleans Territory Old Board at RapidesJohn Paul claims a tract of lands of three hundred and twenty acres under several Acts of Congress for adjusting the claims to land within the Territory of Orleans by virtue of a settlement prior to the First of March 1807 situatedin the Parish of Rapide (sic) on Deer Creek.Decr. 9th 1807 (signed) Jno. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------ UNLOCATED LAND CLAIMSFiled with the U.S. Land Commissioners, Orleans Territory Old Board at Rapides No. 176 - March 9, 1813 - Deposition of Daniel Wiggins The Deposition of Daniel Wiggins taken on the Claim of John __?__y and theDeponent having been first sworn, deposeth and saith: That about eight years ago the land claimed was settled by William Mock, who inhabited and cultivated the same for about one year and then sold it to William Watley (sic), who inhabited and cultivated it about one year and ahalf, then he sold it to (Isaiah) Slater, and the said Slayter to Moses Carroll - The __?__ Land was actually inhabited and cultivated during the year_?_ by William Watley (sic), who was above the age of twenty one years and the Head of a family - and it has been inhabited and cultivated ever since. (signed) D. Wiggins Rapides County Before me on the 9th day of May 1809 (signed) John Thompson NOTE: Enclosed in another sheet of paper, on the reverse of which is written: NRR (Land District, North of Red River) Unlocated William Whatley, 640 acres -- No report, no location found. ------------------------------------------------------------ Register of Receipts, Southwestern Land District, Orleans Territory, 1805 Volume 2, Part 2 or Volume 2-A Microfilmed copy of records in the Louisiana State Land Office, Baton Rouge,La.P. 207 - Sale from Uriah Wiggins to Thomas Essex - 28 April 1798 Certified copy sent from the Rapides Parish courthouse by Rapide (sic) CountyJ udge Thomas Dawson on 18 Februrary 1806 to the Land Commissioners Office, who were hearing ownership claims to land, prior to the Louisiana Purchase 20 December 1803. Text written in French - Excerpt of subject matter as shown here is not a literal translation. Appearing before Don Joseph Chevalier Poiret, Alcalde of the Poste du Rapide Sieur Uriah Wiggins, who sells to Sieur Thomas Essex for 25 piastres his land with all improvements. Witnesses: Sieurs Guilliame (William) Cook and Gabriel le Doux P. 208 - Sale from Thomas Essex to John Young - 13 December 1803 Text in English - Abstract only, shown here.I, Thomas Essex have sold to John Young a certain plantation bought of Uriah Wiggins and lying two miles below the Cornshak (sic) on Wiggins Bayou (price is not shown), which title I do defend unto Jacob (sic) Young. Witnesses: Samuel Osborn, Michael Richey and Martin Harden Sale from John Young to Matthew Stone - 27 January 1806 Text in English - Abstract only, shown here. I, John young of the Territory of Orleans & County of Rapide (sic) sell to Matthew Stone for $500 a tract of land situated on Red River and joining a tract claimed by Alexander Innis containing 640 acres more or less. Tract of land was sold by Uriah Wiggins Senior to Thomas Essex and from Essex to me. I defend title against all claims. Witnesses: Isaac McNutt and Stephen Lacraw (sic, LaCroix) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SURVEYS OF LAND CLAIMS Filed with the U.S. Land Commissioners, Orleans Territory Old Board at Rapides Pursuant to an order from the Surveyor of the lands of the United States, South of the State of the State of Tennessee and in comformity with a Request of the Claimant I have surveyed for William Whatley a tract of land lying on the waters of Chickesaw (sic) Creek bounded as follows: Beginning at a pine marked W ... to creek ... to Holley's corner ... to a pine marked W N Containing 640 acres as shown in the accompanying plat of survey. 5 April 1806 (signed) Matthew Stone, Deputy Surveyor Chain Carriers: William Whatley, William Lee William Whatley Notice, 640 acres -- Entered Decr. 30th 1806 (signed) H. (Hatch) Dent, DyClk (Deputy Clerk of Court, supposedly 1st inRapides County) Reported No. 175 (interlined is the following) B No. 349 confirmed to Sprigg under the settlement of William WC-175 O.B. Rapides, March 9, 1813, Unlocated To the Register of the Land Office of the Western District of the Territory of Orleans, William Watley (sic) claims six hundred and forty acres of land situated, lying and being in the County aforesaid on the waters of Little River by virtue of his having actually inhabited and cultivated said tract of land on and previous to the twentieth of December Eighteen hundred and three which said tract of land he claims under the second section of an Act of Congress entitled an act for adjusting the titles and claims to land within the Territory of Orleans and District of Louisiana & under an Act of Congress supplemental to the before recited act and humbly prays the Honourable Board of Commissioners to confirm his claim. December 29th 1806 (signed) William Watley by his agent, Isaac McNutt