St Landry County Louisiana Archives News.....Benoit Ney Plantation for Sale January 15, 1853 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bryant Walker http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005835 January 1, 2015, 11:41 pm Opelousas Courier, Opelousas, LA January 15, 1853 Vol. 1, No. 6, Page 2 Published on Saturday by Joel H. Sandoz & Andrew Meynier PLANTATION FOR SALE The undersigned offers for sale his Plantation, situated on Bayou Teche, in Petit Bois, in this Parish, measuring 700 arpents, more or less, with all the Buildings and Improvements thereon erected. There is on said plantation about 250 arpents of wood land. Said plantation has also a right to make wood on a wood land of 960 arpents, situated at about eight arpents from said plantation, ceeded by the Spanish Government for the use of the inhabitants of Petit Bois. For terms or other particulars, apply to Mr. Valiere Roy or the undersigned. BENOIT NEY. Barre's Landing, 15th Jan. 1853. ---- 3m. Additional Comments: Note: ARPENT = an old French unit of land area equivalent to 3,420 square meters (about 1 acre) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/stlandry/newspapers/benoitne461gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb