Vincent Scivique to Bishop Dubourg, Donation of Land
St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by D.N. Pardue

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From the French Settlement Historical Register, published by the French Settlement
Historical Society, French Settlement, Louisiana 70733. The LaGenWeb Archives thanks
them for contributing this information.

Vol. 2, December 1977


VINCENT SCIVIQUE                               STATE OF LOUISIANA
TO                                             PARISH OF ST. HELENA
BISHOP DUBOURG                                 BOOK "B"
                                               PAGE 216

                      DONATION - GRAVEYARD

     Be it remembered that on this Fourteenth day of June in the
year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-four,
before me, L.H. Moore Parish Judge and exoficio Notary Public in
and for the Parish and State aforesaid, personally VINCENT SCIVIQUE
of the Parish and State aforesaid who produced an instrument of
writing in the words and figures following to-wit,

     On the Seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-four, we the undersigned being
authorized by Bishop Dubourg, have consecrated according to the
rules of the Church a graveyard or burying ground situated in the
land of Mr. Vincent Scivique one square of ground containing sixty
feet on each front which he the said Vincent Scivique abandons and
appropriates for the purpose for ever to be there interred all of
the corps who may belong to the heir family hereafter mentioned,
namely, Alexander Bernaguie, Vincent Scivique and Augustin Gregoire,
done and passed in the house of Mr. Vincent Scivique this Twenty-
first day of May 1824 in the presence of L.H. Moore, Parish Judge
and Exofficio Notary Public in and for the Parish of St. Helena and
State of Louisiana and Wm. Watson and Wm. Hodgson have subcribed the
same this date above written.

William Watson

                                            Vincent Scivique

William Hodgson

Signed in presence of L.H. Moore, P.J. & E. N.P. and ordered of
record this 14th day of June 1824.

Source:  Original is in the St. Helena Parish Clerk of Court's Office,
Greensburg, Louisiana

Submitted by Mercy A. Cambre.