Articles of Agreement, Montpelier, 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.

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT	

     Articles of agreement made the sixteenth day of August 1814

between Willis Watson of the Parish of St. Helena of the one part

and David Kemp of the same Parish of the second part viz.

     Article 1st.  The said WIllis Watson agrees to cut the logs

and build a log house for the said David Kemp on his lot in Mont-

pelier in said Parish to be forty-six feet long by eighteen feet

wide the logs to be hewn inside and out.  To be composed of two

rooms or pens leaving a gallery of ten feet wide the whole length

of the house with a bolted door in front.  Two rooms of ten feet

square to be built of rough weather boarding on one of the gal-

leries.  To be one story and a half.  To have seven doors and

seven windows with batten doors and shutters with proper facings.

The lower floor of one of the large rooms with the gallery and

entry to be dressed and laid together with a plain joist.  The re-

mainder of the lower flooring to be laid rough with a plain joist.

The upper flooring to be laid rough.  The joist of the two large

rooms and galleries to be dressed and set into the joist plate.

The whole to be covered with boards of three feet three inches

long of good heart boards to be hung with pins and made tight.

The whole to be finished in three months from this sale.

     Article 2.  David Kemp is to furnish only the plank, sawed

-------, hinges and nails necessary for the house and to provide a

sufficient number of hands to assist one day in raising the house.

All hauling of logs or lumber for the house shall be done by said

David Kemp.

     Article 3rd. The said Willis Watson promises that all the

above mentioned work shall be faithfully done in a workmanlike

manner.  And also that he will build on the same lot a kitchen of

sixteen by eighteen feet with a wood chimney to built of logs

scraped (?) inside and out with a door and shutters and calim

roof, to be finished at the above mentioned period.

     Article 4.  The said Davis Kemp promises to pay said Willis

Watson two hundred and fifty dollars which is to be in full of

the above work as soon as the same is completed.

     In witness whereof the parties hereto set their hand and

seals this day and year aforesaid.

     Willis Watson (seal)
     David Kemp (seal)
     Witness D. Wright

     
The above is from the St. Helena Parish Courthouse, Clerk of Court from some 
original papers.
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