Land: Residents on the Rio Hondo in 1805, Sabine Parish, Louisiana
Source: Biographical & Historical Memories of Northwest Louisiana
Nashville & Chicag, The Southern Printing Company, 1890
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson





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RESIDENTS ON THE RIO HONDO IN 1805

Township 4, Range 12
John Yocum
M. Yocum
James Wilson
Phillip Winfree
A. Winfree

Township 5, Range 11
James Walker
Nicholas Jacks
Hugh McNeely

Township 5, Range 12
Jacob Leahy
Thomas Arthur
Thomas Gray
C. Anthony
Benjamin Winfree

Township 5, Range 13
Green Cook

Township 6, Range 12
Edmund Quirk
William Quirk
Thomas Gray
Joseph Montgomery

Township 6, Range 10
Samuel Holmes
Benjamin Morris

Township 7, Range 10
John H. Thompson
Benjamin Billis

Township 7, Range 12
Jose Antonio Manchac

Township 7, Range 13
Jacques Lepine
David Case
widow La Lena Paded

Township 8, Range 10
Manuel Gonzales
Jean Baptiste Perot
Andrew Bassum
Thomas Wilson
Jose Maria Procell (heirs of James Denney & Manuel Bustamento)

Township 8, Range 11
Louis Latham
F. Gonzales
Jose Rens

Township 8, Range 12
Antonia De la Sarda
Jose Estrader
Peter Partterson
John Cortez
Widow Ganissieu Parrierd

Township 8, Range 11
Robert McDonald
Louis Latham
Henry Quirk
Henry Stoker
Dennis Dios
William P. Davidson
Manuel Cherlon
James Kirkham
Hugh McGuffin
Maria Sanchez

Township 9, Range 12
Michael Early
John Litton
Asa Backum

Township 8, Range 12
Francisco Rosalis
Jose Bascus
Jose Antonia Rodriquez
John Maximillian
Widow ?erest Tova

Township 8, Range 18
Guilliam Bebee


In 1819-24 the above named proved their claims, and after the survey of 1832
located their claims anew.  The only relics of the first homes on the Rio
Honda were explored four years ago by Surveyor Vandegaer.  

In 1841 the sales of the Yates & McIntyre lands in Sabine reached importance. 
Thomas Ford, J. Tynes, Williamson Maines, John Seritchfield, Mary Langford, B.
Dally, James Lesley, W. H. Edmundson, Hosea Presley, William M. Polk, Willam
and B. K. Ford, Henry Hall, N. H. Bray, Samuel Eldrige, S. S. Eason, W. G.
Painter, J. G. Sibley, Elizabeth McDonad, C. Cherrington, Peter Buvens, J.
Anderson, John Graham, A. Arthur and D. G. Ethredge were among the first
buyers of the lands of those speculators