State of Louisiana
Parish of Saint Landry |
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| Pursuant to an order of the Probate Court & at the request of the administrator, I George King, Parish Judge and ex-officio auctioneer in and for the aforesaid Parish have this day the seventh of October in the year one thousand and eight hundred and thirty five, proceeded to the residence of Doctor Jean Bte. ---- Isabelle situated in the Bayou Chicot settlement & distant about twenty eight miles from the Court House of said Parish, in order to sell at the public auction all the property belonging to the Estate in community between the widow and heirs of the late Jeremiah Walker deceased, payable as following, to wit, one third of the purchase money in all the month of March in the year 1836. One third in all the month of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and the remaining third in all the month of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, purchasers to give approved personal security and the slaves to remain specially mortgaged to the said estate until the final payment of the purchase money and the interest which may accrue thereon, it being stipulated and clearly understood that all sums not punctually paid will bear interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum [ ] the time they fall due until the payment thereof. The sale having been advertised according to Law, and the terms & conditions proclaimed aloud to the people attending the same -- we [have] proceed to sell and adjudicate to the last and highest bidding as follows (to wit) |
| First - a negro
man named [Feal] aged between thirty five and forty years sold to Jesse Campbell for five hundred and fifty dollars security John T. Heath ------------ |
$550.00 |
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[John T. Heath] |
[Jesse Campbell - X] |
| 2nd - a negro woman named Abby aged about twenty two years sold to John Walker for eight hundred and fifty dollars security --------------------- |
850 |
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[John Walker] |
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