WILLIAMS RESEARCH CENTRE - SELECT INVENTORY

• This institution has research material which Louisbourg does not hold as a copied manuscript from any other institution as follows:

(A) MANUSCRIPTS ABSTRACTED / TRANSLATED

Some examples from the Louisiana Historical Quarterly are as follows [NOTE the bevel reference at October 2, 1762]:

(I) Volume 2, Number 1, January, 1919

(i) Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana 
Filed No. 79. 
[p. 107]

Sale of House: Bienville to Dutisné. January 30, 1725. Monsieur De Bienville conveys a house and appurtenances to Mr. Dutisné, captain and commander in Illinois (now represented by Madame D. and by Mr. Roquet), for 4000 francs; 1058 francs being paid down, residue 2940 francs payable in a year; mortgage security. House about 32 feet long by 21 wide, with floors above and below; partitions, doors and windows, locks and hinges, front gallery; kitchen of stakes covered with bark. Lot of about 12 fathoms front by 25 deep, facing the Mississippi.

House of timber with shingle roof. ....

(II) Volume 3, Number 4, October, 1920

(i) [pp. 557-561]

Contract for Building the Hospital of the Poor, Passed Between Sr. Joseph Villars Dubreuil and Sieur Paquet. 1736. June 10. Both a translation and and a transcription of the original were produced.

(III) Volume 21, Number 4, October, 1938

(i) [pp. 979-994]

(a) Inventory of the Paris Duvernay Concession in Louisiana, 1726, edited by Walter Prichard. Translation of the Inventory, March 8, 1726.

"Inventory 
P.D. 
P. Duvernay 
(2359) 
No. 729

Inventory of the buildings...

[Example] ... A negro cabin with cypress posts squared on two sides covered with palmettos and with mud walls, 30 feet long by 18 wide, ...

An idem [a building] serving as a forge with posts in earth about 15 feet long by twelve wide covered partly with bark and the rest with palmetto in very bad condition enclosed with mud walls, ..."

(IV) Volume 24, Number 1, January, 1941

Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana, LXXXVI 
July - September, 1762 
By G. Lugano 
Revised by Walter Prichard

(i) [p. 241]

"August 9, 1762. -- Inventory of the Plantation of Philippe Frederic (Matisse), widower of the late Catherine Antony (Bernard), concerning furniture, utensils, horned cattle, sheep, hogs, fowls, made in the presence of Sieur Louis Falgous, Pierre Antoine Brou and André Fredericq, viz:

One plantation adjoining the property of his mother on the upper side, and the property of Sieur Vergille on the lower side, measuring three arpents frontage by a depth of forty arpents, together with improvements consisting of one frame house, twenty-four feet long by sixteen feet in width, furnished with a brick chimney;

One warehouse, twenty feet long and nine feet wide;

One rice-mill; One small cabin, one brick oven; one cattle pen; ...."

(V) Volume 25, Number 4, October, 1942

(i) October 1, 1763 - The Inventory of the assets of the Laforest succession was taken at the residence of the said deceased on October 1, 1763, as follows:

[p. 1157]

" ...Item, on said ground stands a house of brick between posts, with a double chimney, with ceilings and floors, with iron-trimmed doors and windows, with a gallery in the rear and one closet on the gallery , the said house measuring thirty feet in length by eighteen feet in width; on same ground stands also a kitchen in bad condition - for memorandum -- "

(VI) Volume 24, Number 2, April, 1941

Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana, LXXXVII 

(i) October - December, 1762 
By G. Lugano 
Revised by Walter Prichard

(a) October 2, 1762. 
No. 8271. 2 pp. 
[p. 545]

"Contract for the sale of lumber passed before the Royal Notary of the Province of Louisiana, residing in New Orleans. Appearers. Sieur Francois Roquigny, resident of this city; and Monsieur Augustin Chantalou, Councillor Assessor of the Superior Council of the Province of Louisiana.

Sr. Francois Roquigny promised, bound and obligated himself to deliver to Sr. Chantalou, during the month of December next, five hundred pieces of mill lumber, beveled on two sides, measuring from ten to twelve feet in length and one foot in width, sound, fine and marketable merchandise of good quality, for which Sr. Chantalou promised and obligated himself to pay at the rate of forty sols per linear foot, ... "

(VII) Volume 26, Number 3, July, 1943

(i) Index to the Spanish Judicial Records of Louisiana, LXXVII 
February, 1785 
By Laura L. Porteous 

(a) [p. 873]

"... Incidents. Santiago Le Duc vs. the Succession of the late Francisca Plazan, to collect a debt for professional services. ... 1779 ... 1780 ... 1781 ...1782 ..." [This is a detailed accounting of a surgeon’s bill and pages 876-892 at the very least should be photocopied]

(VIII) Volume 28, Number 3, July, 1945

(i) Southern Louisiana and Southern Alabama in 1819: The Journal of James Leander Cathcart 
Edited by Walter Prichard, Fred B. Kniffen, and Clair A. Brown, [pp. 735-921]

(a) Example from this Journal:

"The houses which are built of Mud, ... is mix’d with moss, with which every tree is nearly cover’d, it is put up by hand, without the use of the trowels on shelves places [sic] from one frame to the other, & becomes very hard & strong, when thoroughly dry, some plaster over, some white wash ... only, & the poorer class leave them in their original state, owing to the Scarcity of lime, their only resource being to bring clam shells from the Lakes, or Oister shells from the Sea shore to make it of; ... their doors & joiners work are done in the crudest manner, ... & few houses of the last description have any glass in their windows, in the whole extent of this country which we have visited, neither is there a single stone of any description, from the Balize to this place but what is brought here from other places ... -- "

- Also mentioned in this journal are street descriptions, class distinctions, tree descriptions (with their Latin names), other house descriptions, quarries, etc.

(IX) Volume 28, Number 4, October, 1945

(i) Index to the Spanish Judicial Records of Louisiana, LXXXI 
May, 1785 
By Laura L. Porteous (with marginal notes by Walter Prichard)

(a) [pp. 1301-1305]

August 17, 1785

"Account of expenses and supplies furnished for the careening of the Brigantine, the June Joseph, Jean Batailhey, Captain, and consists of the following, according to the receipts, namely: ..." 
[What follows is a detailed account of careening a Brigantine ship - an excellent description]

(B) ARTICLES

Some examples from the Louisiana Historical Quarterly are as follows:

(I) Volume 26, Number 3, July , 1943 
[pp. 722-754] 
H. Mortimer Favrot, "Colonial Forts of Louisiana"

(II) Volume 29, Number 3, July , 1946 
[pp. 559-659] 
Samuel Wilson, Jr., "An Architectural History of the Royal Hospital and the Ursuline Convent of New Orleans"

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