The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-27
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1877

peuta 'front.' on the Bayou st. John, bounded by
the said Bayou, the Canal oarondelet, the
Bayou Road and D'Orgenois street-about 240
kThe said Evariste Blanc declares that his
right to the said plantation is based as follows:
By act passed by Louis A. Blanc. before Eco
Broutin, the 9Th Of February, 1885, Louis A.
Blanc bought from Almonaster certain qusnt-
" OF Hand, being pertinn Of the land object Of
these presents; by act OF 18th or April 1916, be-
fere N. Broutin, notary public, the said Evsriste
Blanc bought from the said Louis A. Blanc the
portion of land acquired by the latter rs afore-
said; Mr.. N. M. Vidal bought from Mr.. Louis a.
Blanc q portion Of the land which the lat
ter had bought from Almonaster and obtained on
| the Goth March, 1900 from the Spanish govern
quired from L. A. Blanc. BY act Of Oath July.
| 1904 before Pierre Pedesclaux, notary, N. III.
Vidal seld to Daniel Clark part OF the land which
| belonged to him by the acquisition from l.. A.
Blanc and the Spanish grant. And by act OF 90th
October, 1921, before Phi. Pedesclaux, notary,
the testamentary executors OF CLARK sold to Eva
rste Blanc part Of the land which the said
CLARK has had from Mr.. Vidal"
q. Pretensions of Daniel Clark and Mrs. Myrs
CLARK Gaines.
By act Of sth February, 1898, [ths act is cited
| above1 before Foo. Broutin. notary, Louis A.
| Blanc bought OF Andres Almopaster Roxas q
portion OF land, containing Ia arpents, fronting on
| the road leading to Bayou st. John, bounded on
| the north eide by the SAID road, on the south by
Canal Osrondelet, east by Susrez and west by
Louis Blanc and the Bayou st. John.
L. A. Blanc sold q portion to Daniel Clark
on the - day Of -, IS; IL. a. Blanc ap-
He also sold portion to N. Ii. Vidal OF that
| bought Of AlmGnaster. Vidal obtained conces-
government for another portion OF land adjoin-
/ ing that purchased OF Blanc. and by act OF Gath
July, 1904 before Pierre Pedesclaux, notary pub
| lilo, Vidal sold to CLARK the land he purchased
Hal khrG vsot
grant.
Obserudtion.-The above pretensions Of CLARK
do not cover the whole tract; butwhether they do
or not matters not, for the whole was, and il, Gov
cred by three french grants, to wit:
/. A grant to stephen Langlols, 2lst 5eptem
Der, 1720; 2. A grant to d. Proyanche. 18th April,
| l72t, eight arpents front on the Bayou st. John
| by forty In depth. The whole acquired by and
part sold by Louis Brazillier alias Touranzeau;
| remaining eight arpents front on the bayou by
twenty-five arpents deep.
8. A grant to Dame Gaiwre de Monleon, OF
| May 10, 1755 1.-THE tract OF land, then vacant,
situated and lying in the rear Of the city OF New
Orleans and ut the top OF the Bayou st. John, "
| etc.
These two tracts were united in the possession
| OF Desprez and Brazillier, and were sold and
| conveyed by them to the children and heirs Of
Joseph Chalon and Dame Elizabeth Desruis
seaux, his wife, with life interest only to the par
ents,. per act before Du Garlic, notary, the 10Th
l OUbUUeIs ltff, Auu Cuuu HUI ues auu wore NV
aienated till they we're sold by the said children
per act before Phi. Pedesclaux, notary, 9th
July, 1870, and conveyed by them in the names
Of "Dame Elizabeth Desruiesesux, their mother.
| and OF f. D'Hebecourt, their vendee, constituted
by said act the representative of Joseph Chalon,
their father, to the purchaser, and o,cner (now
Arrowsmith) OF 'another land" so called in the
said act or ''the remainder" Of the m1sureeyed
plantation then known as the "Roquigny Plants-
tion," composed of t,co lands derived from the
French government.
| The Council then adjourned.
| THOJ. G.. RAPIER, Secretary.