St Landry-West Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives News.....Manette Duplessis succession February 5, 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 9, 2015, 9:19 am Opelousas Courier, Opelousas, LA February 5, 1853 Opelousas, Louisiana, February 12, 1853, Vol. 1, No. 10 Sheriff's Sale State of Louisiana In matter of Succession of Manette Duplessis, deceased --- Sixth District Court --- Parish of West Baton Rouge -- No. 427. By virtue of an order of the Honorable Sixth District Court, in and for the Parish of West Baton Rouge and State of Louisiana, & to me directed in the above entitled suit, will be offered at public auction, at the Court House of this Parish, on Saturday the fifth day of March 1853, commencing at the hour of 11 o'clock A. M., and continued from day to day, if necessary, the following described property belonging to the succession of Manette Duplessie, deceased, inventoried and appraised as follows, to wit: The sixth share of a Tract of Land, situated in the Parish of St. Landry, said State, on the right descending bank of Bayou Courtableau, containing about three hundred arpents (superficial) more or less, bounded in the rear by Bayou Carron, and on the one side by land of the heirs of Vedrine, known as McGarry or Vedrine Land, (said land is inventoried as belonging in part to the estate of Manette Duplessis, deceased wife of Jacques Blanchard [)]. Terms of sale --- Cash for the one sixth of said undivided share; for the remaining five sixths, a credit of six and twelve months will be given, payable in two equal instalments; purchasers to furnish security to the satisfaction of the administrator or his attorney in fact. HARRISON ROGERS, Sheriff Sheriff's Office, St. Landry, 22d January 1853 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/stlandry/newspapers/manetted489gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb