Anthony Doherty land purchase, Tunica, LA, 1809

Transcription 5/7/2007 from microfilm of Spanish West Florida records, at Bluebonnet Regional Library. This filmed typescript was a translation done, I think, as a WPA project. The images are difficult to read.

Richard King, of Natchez, sells a tract of land in the Tunica section of Feliciana to Anthony Dougherty.

[original written in Spanish]

January 26, 1809

Robert Percy

Land sale

To

Anthony Dougherty

No. 8

Be it known to all who may [p. 260] see this act that I, Robert Percy, attorney for Richard King, as appears by the power which accompanies this, depose that I sell, really and with effect, to Anthony Dougherty, a tract of land of five hundred arpents, situated in New Feliciana between the branches of Bayou Bingaman about four miles from the mouth of Bayou Tunica, bounded on the north by land belonging to the said Dougherty, on the south by land of John Eldergill, on the east by land of Machiel Dewitt and William Brown, and on the west by unappropriated land, as appears by the figurative plan, certification and formal title which I deliver to the purchaser, which five hundred arpents of land were given and bequeathed to my said constituent by John Eldergill, as appears by his will, executed in the territory of Mississippi, on November 2, 1807, and I sell it to the aforesaid Anthony Doherty, free of encumbrance or mortgage, for the price and sum of two thousand pesos, which I acknowledge, of my own free [p. 261] will, that he has paid to my constituent, and for which I execute a formal receipt; in virtue of which, I re___ for my constituent’s right of ownership, possession, use, dominion, and seigniory which he had and has in the said tract of land, which right I cede and transfer to the purchaser, or to whoever may represent him, in order that, as his own property, he may possess, sell, exchange, or dispose of it at his will, in virtue of this act of sale which I execute in his favor in token of a real transfer, by which his having acquired possession has to be seen without the necessity of other proof, from which I release him, and I obligate myself to the eviction, security, and guarantee of this sale, in due legal form, with my property, present and future. I hereby insert the guaranteeing clause, renouncing the laws in my favor with the general one which may prohibit it.

And I, the said Anthony Dougherty, being present at the [p. 262] execution of this act of sale, accept it in my favor, receiving as bought the said tract of land for the price, and on the conditions, for which it is sold to me. In testimony whereof, this act is executed at Baton Rouge on January 26, 1809

I, Don Carlos Dehault Delassus, Colonel of the Royal Armies, provisionally charged with the civil and military command of this post and its district, certify that I know the grantors, who signed it with the witnesses, Antonio Crussat and Martin Visoso.

CARLOS DEHAULT DELASSUS RT. PERCY

ANTONIO CRUZAT Mark A

ANTO. DOUGHERTY