Land Records of Harbard Lapton Wiggins, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Houston Tracy, Jr., Alexandria, Louisiana


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ST. LANDRY PARISH, LOUISIANA
MISCELLANEOUS BOOK NO. 3, P. 134
ORIGINAL FILED IN THE 3rd FLOOR ARCHIVES AS # 6522

State of Louisiana, Parish of St. Landry
Be it known that this day before me Willard T. Cushman a Notary Public
duly commissioned and sworn in and for the parish and state aforesaid,
personally comes and appears, Harbard Lapton Wiggins of the State of 
Texas, Leon County, who declared that he had made constituted and 
appointed and does by these presents make constitute and appoint Thomas 
Richard Howard of the parish and State aforesaid his lawful Attorney in 
part for the purpose of selling a certain tract of land or a part of said
tract containing one league of land situated in Texas between the rivers 
of Big and Little Neches granted to Candido Sanches the 30th day of July 
1835 by the Commissioner, George Antonio Nixon and purchased by him from 
the said Sanches August the 15th 1839 and to give title to a part or a 
whole of said league of land and to receive payment and to give legal 
receipt for the same. And to perform all things needful and necessary to 
be done in and about to the premises.

Thus done and signed in the presence of Willard G. Cushman and E.S.
Cushman who also signed these presents with me Notary this 18th day of 
June A.D. 1864.    Interlineations are acknowledged.

(signed)  H. L. Wiggins                 
Witnesses: Willard G. Cushman      E.S. Cushman
Willard T. Cushman, Notary Public

NOTES:  Harbard Lapton Wiggins (b ca 1806 Warren Co., NC d aft 1865 Tyler
Co., TX) was the 2nd known child of Guillielmus Wiggins and Polly Royster.
Harbard married (ca 1834 TX) Mary Frances Manning (b ca 1818 MS ca 1854
Leon Co., TX) and they had 6 known children born 1835-1851:
Margaret, Anniston (shown as Halianta & Arminta on census of 1850 & 1860),
Susan, John H., Martha and Thomas. He immigrated to Texas (Tejas) in 1830,
then a State of the Republic of Mexico under Spanish reign. By 1835 he
acknowledged the Catholic Church and was enumerated as H.L. Wiggins, age
36, with his wife, Mary, age 22 and their daughter, Margaret, age 1.  He
fought during the War for Texas Independence and received 320 acres of 
land in Rusk County in 1838 for that service.  He assigned that property 
over to Mrs. Lucinda J. Brown in 1848.  He appears on a census of 1840 as
possessing 4605 acres held under order of survey and the above grant, but
with title confirmed by the Land Office.  He returned to Louisiana in 1837,
for his name appears as a witness to his youngest brother's marriage (John
Washington Wiggins) to Sarah Jane Cullom 26 August 1837 in Avoyelles
Parish, La.  Harbard sold his Headright Certificate #422 (granted by Texas
to anyone living there prior to the Texas Independence) he had received in
1838 from the Land Commissioners to Thomas H. Thompson in San Augustine
County, Texas 9 April 1848, but not recorded until 20 August 1874.
Harbard's name appears in the conveyance records of San Augustine, Tyler,
Leon Montgomery, Colorado, Panola, Harris, Jefferson and Freestone
Counties, Texas.