Marriage Agreement, Bookter/McKie, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
File submitted by Mrs. Inez Bridges Tate and prepared by D.N. Pardue
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From publication "Old Montpelier, 1804, New Montpelier, 1904" 
compiled by Inez B. Tate and published by St. Helena Historical
Association, 1993.  Reprinted with permission.

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St. Helena Conveyance Book A, page 28

     Nancy Bookter and James McKie Marriage agreement.  Marriage is shortly intended - her

property consists of 342 acres situated on the River Tickfaw.  Nancy holds in her own right

by a grant from the Spanish Government excepting a mill seat and mill...., excepting a building

now used as a Courthouse for said Parish with three acres of ground surrounding the same

surveyed by James Harris on the 14th day of December last and the jail built thereon.

     January 12, 1814