New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07
Second Judicial District Court for the Parish o,
Jenerson-NO. 1914.
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by NASH Il HODGsON.-w. T. Hobo
| u SON auctiOneer-Ottce No 5 Carondeet
| street-On SATURDAY. February I, 1874, at twelve
| o'clock NJ. at the st. Charles Auction Exchange in
! the basement rotunda of the St. Charles Hotel in
this city, by virtue and IN pursuance of an order
| of the Hon. Don A. Pardee, Judge of the Second
Judicial District Court for the parish of Jefferson
dated December 10, 1873, court docket No. 4074 in
! the matter of Edgar Drouet administrator of the
Drouet ct al, heirs of j. B. Drouet and wife, for
| partition, at public auction will be sold the fol'
'' VERY VALUABLE SUGAR PLANTATION.
| Lands. Stock. Agriculture! Implements. etc.
| to wit.
Description Of Sugar Plantation
I. A SUGAR PLANTATION. situated on she
| left bank of the Bayou Onatcha and Dupont. on
the Grand Isle of BarataIa in the parish of JET
ferson, having an area of i7o arpents 3os tolses
and % feet. Said plantation being composed of
| the following lots:
First-A TRACT OF LAND having front of a
league and half on the Grand Isle of Barataria;
said tract commencing on the Bayou aux Dies, ex.
tending TO the Bayou La Ponte or Dupont with
the reserv alton of tract of land commencing from
the point of the Bayou aux Dies, extending to the
| coulee, upon which the house of Dominique
Perrin, and is the same property purchased by j.
3. and E. DrOuet from FRANCOIS. Rigant per act be-
fore L. F. Care late notary public, on the twelfth
of October, 1929; said tract OF land being
curately and further described plan by Charles
| de Armas. deputy surveyor general, dated Septem
Der &c. 1859, the lot OF ground comprised within
| the letters A. B, G, d, E, F. G and A. said plat
with the further reservation of a tract or land
situated at the upper extremity of said tract 4,
3, Z, F, G aud A, measuring three arpents
! front on Bayou Ouatcha by six arpents in depth,
closing in the rear and designated on said plan,
claimed by the heirs of Pizan
| Secopd-Of the following sections and parts of
| sections sold with said panatisn, to wit
Fractional sections twenty-three and twenty
six west half OF the northwest quarter Of sec.
quarter Of section twenty and the fractional
west half of section thrty-six all in township six.
| teen south range twenty-three east, west of the
Mississippi river in the southeastern land district
| Louisiana, purchased from the government, Feb
ruary 49, l845, and with the above descrqed tract.
Ihird-A tract of land, situated i'll the district OF
Bar ataria in the parish of Jefferson, measuring
twenty arpents, more or less, front on the Bayou
Barataria or Ouatcha with all the depth that ma
! thereunto belong which Is about two leagues;
said property is bounded above by lands formerly
! belonging to Francois Tisopherne BOutte below
by lands formerly belonging to Victor CouOn, and
in the rear by Bayou PurOt or PerO, said tract
tanning about 2569 arpents more less, acquired
| from the Messrs. st. Pc by act passed before
the total area of sugar plantation 1897 arpents. 900
tOises moro or less.
to plant from l25 to 40 arpents also of first
! year stubbles and over 100 acres OF second year
stubbes
The fertility of these lands are known 20 be OF
| the best in the State. and have nearly always av.
| eraged over hOgshead of sugar to the acre, and
the superior woodlands can not be surpassed in
| the State. The foregoing plantation and lands
will be sold in one lot and the Improvements the
same consist of good sugarhouee, with open ket.
ties and steam pans with splendid machinery.
very recently placed at an expense of over Sl2.
| 900, all in good working order. with extensive
barns stables and necessary OuthOuses good
quarters for over 100 hands and two commodlous
residences with all their dependencies.
With the above plantation will be sold the fol.
lowing described live stock, wood, agricultural i'm.
plemehts and movable effects, to wit: Forty
mules, six oxen, three bulls, twenty three milch
| cows thirty nine yearlings and calves nine large
CARTS four small carts, one stable cart. eleven
double plows, eight single plows five large four.
mule plOws, six wheelbarrOws, one foe. thirty.
ALA irty-
thirtythree brides, twenty pairs traces, nine sad
dies and breechngs, tfty-five cane knives thirty.
ye hoes esnteen shGvelS eighde e spades eey
thirty-two empty hogsheads. one barrel OF sui
phur all more or less
Description OF the lands. separate from the sugar
' PORTION ONE.
Attract Of land, situated in the parish Of JET.
fersOn, in this State, on the island of Barataria
having a front of twenty five arpents more or
less, the Bayou Barataria or 0uatcha, and ex.
tending through the said island and fronting OIL
the Bayou PeIo. being designated by the number
Surveyor General of the United States for Loui.
lana, deposited in the office of Edward Barnett
late notary public Said tract of land has super.
fetal area of 4O arpents, more or less Purchased
from the succession of John McDOnogh on the
fifth of April. 1859, by act before said Edward
'"' " PORTION TWO.
, 4 tract OF land, situated in The same parish,
between the Grand Coulee and Bayou kigolet
petit Coteau) in township sixteen south. range
twenty-three east having an area of about 5l4
arpents 3i5 toses, said tract being composed of the
following sections and parts of sections Fractional
northeast quarter of northwest quarter of section
thirty five fractional southwest quarter of north
east quarter of section thirty five; the west half
of southeast quarter of section thirty-fv and
onal east half of southeast quarter of section
thirty.fiv township sixteen south range twenty.
three east Of the Mississippi river and north
west fraction of east half of section two and
north fraction of east half of west half of section
two, IN township seventeen SOUTH range twenty
three east and also that part of section six lying
between Grand Couiee and Bayou Rigolet as per
is 1885, and deposited in the Office of Charles K.
Fortier then notary public. Purchased from he
saccs ssion of John McDonogh, June l. 1860. by act
before said Charles E. Fortier, notary public.
PORTION THREE.
:. tract Of land known as the Grand Coseau.