KING To BROUNSON, Land Sale, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Louisa King wife of Wartelle To Jno. Brounson
[Sale of Land]  Recorded 14th June 1836


State of Louisiana Parish  of St. Landry.  Be it remembered that on the day of
the date hereof before me George King Parish Judge of said parish and
ex-officio Notary Public in & for the same personally came and appeared Louisa
King wife of Pierre Wartelle of said parish & herein acting by & with the
advice and authority of her said husband who declared, That whereas her said
husband had by an act of sale executed on the first day of June in the year
one thousand eight hundred & thirty five before George King Parish Judge &
ex-officio Notary Public in & for said parish, sold aliened transfered [sic]
and conveyed unto John Brownson of the parish of Lafayette in the same State a
certain tract or parcel of land, situated in the aforesaid parish of St.
Landry & lying in the prairies Bellevue & being the same which the seller
acquired by deed of exchange with Dominique C. Sittig as per act passed before
Pierre Labiche on the 28th day of October 1829 and the same which the said
Dominique C. Sittig purchased at the public sale of the Estate of the late
Louis Chacere of said parish of St. Landry deceased, containing four hundred
and seventy superficial arpents--And whereas it is necessary to the
confirmation  of the title conveyed by her said husband to the said Brownson
that she should ratify publickly [sic] the said act of Sale--Now therefore the
said appearer Louisa King declared that it was her wish & intention to release
in favour [sic] of the said Brounson the above described tract of land from
any mortgage, claim or privilege whatsoever that she may now have or may
hereafter have on the same, whether resulting from her marriage with her said
husband or otherwise.  Wherefore I the said notary did inform her the said
Louisa King apart and out of the hearing of her said husband that she had by
Law a legal mortgage upon all the property of her said husband for the
restitution of her total effects wether [sic] brought in marriage or
subsequently acquired, for the restitution of her paraphernal effects of which
her said husband had the administration or enjoyment for debts by her
contracted with her said husband & for nuptial presents  & she the said Lousia
[sic] King did whereupon declare unto me that she was fully acquainted with
the nature & extent of her claims and privileges upon the property of her said
husband & that she did persist in her intention to approve and ratify the
aforesaid sale from her said husband to the said Brounson and to release all
her claims & privileges in favour of the said Brounson and she does hereby
formally renounce all her said claims rights & privileges of the aforesaid
tract of land sold by her said husband to the said Brounson in favour of the
Brunson [sic], binding herself & her heirs at all times to sustain &
acknowledge the validity of the aforesaid sale.  In testimony whereof she the
said Louisa King has hereunto signed with her said husband Pierre Wartelle as
consenting to and authorising [sic] this act of his said wife at Opelousas in
the aforesaid parish of St. Landry  in presence of John H. Overton & Benoit
Debaillon competent witnesses & before me the aforesaid Judge & Notary this
fourteenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty Six 
P. Wartell  --   Louisa King Wartelle  --Witness   J. H. Overton  -- Bt.
Debaillon    Geo. King P. Judge

Source:  Family History Library Microfilm #1412749, Item 3, Notarial Records,
St. Landry Parish, Page 5.