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MAISON CHENAL & LACOUR HOUSE PROPERTIES & COLLECTION A Louisiana French Creole Tout Ensemble ABSTRACT OF TITLE OF
“NICHOLAS LACOUR HOUSE” OWNED BY DR. AND MRS. JACK HOLDEN
HOUSE ORIGINALLY LOCATED ON UPPER PART OF BRUNSWICK PLANTATION IN SECTION 14-T4S-R9E
Abstracted by Brian J. Costello
from the conveyance, civil suit and probate record of the Pointe Coupee Parish Clerk of Court, New Roads, Louisiana and Superior Council Records, Louisiana State Museum, April-May 2003.
SC 1746-27412: Jean Baptiste Bara dit LeBlond sells to Nicholas LaCour (I): a plantation fronting 16 arpents on the Mississippi River, bounded by ___Rocancourt and Pierre Barra, “with fences, barns and other buildings.”
Census of 1766: Jean Baptiste LaCour listed with eight arpents’ frontage on the Mississippi River, probably inherited from his late father, Nicholas LaCour. To the west was the property of Jean Baptiste’s younger brother, Nicholas “Colin” LaCour, also fronting eight arpents, and which was probably an inheritance from their father as well.
Nicholas LaCour (the father’s) holdings were said to measure 16 arpents on the river, offering the possibility that this plantation was split into equal sections for his sons Nicholas “Colin” (western half) and Jean Baptiste (eastern half) (Thomas. Ledoux, Chapter XLIV).
CB 1790-1729: Inventory of the succession of Jean Baptiste LaCour: a plantation fronting 12 arpents on the Mississippi River by a depth of 40 arpents, including a house 55’ wide, with galleries front and rear, a court and garden, plus outbuildings, household effects (note: inventory begins in the salle, but does not differentiate various rooms thereafter): a cherry sofa, a resting bed, 2 small cypress tables, 2 walnut corner cupboards, small walnut table, 24 chairs, 2 old armchairs, 2 new armchairs, a poor mirror, a small bed, a quire de vitre (?), a box containing 17 Spanish bridles, a poor cypress armoire with iron hardware, a small black walnut buffet with iron hardware, 2 middle-sized jars, a large jar, a poor locked walnut armoire, 5 cypress tables, linens, 20 silver spoons, 20 silver forks, 2 silver sauce spoons, 12 silver coffee spoons, 12 horn handled knives, 12 silver handled knives, 72 plates, 24 dishes, two pair of old candlesticks, 24 coffee cups, 6 café au lait cups, garniture de chiminee (mantel ornaments), 7 soup bowls, a tin pitcher, 2 porcelain vases, a compote, a crystal carafe, 3 pair of andirons, chimney fixtures, 2 salad bowls, various items of crockery, tubs, cookware, bottles and a tasse d’indigo d’argent (silver indigo cup). Outdoors: tools, carts, farming implements,
carts, a caliche, 10 horses, a mule, 46 sheep, 31 hogs, 21 oxen, 64 head of cattle and bulls, 70 slaves.
Year 1806: United States Government confirms that the title of Marie Anne Leonard, Widow of Jean Baptiste LaCour, to Section 14-T4S-R9E, including the subject property.
CB 1814-3617: Widow Jean Baptiste LaCour transfers to son-in-law Vincent Ternant pere: the subject property (it had been mortgaged to Julien Poydras, and Ternant had acquired the mortgage and paid it off).
NOTE: CB 1814-3618: Vincent Ternant pere agreed to house mother-in-law, Widow Jean Baptiste LaCour, in his False River residence; the two became involved in litigation concerning this arrangement, however, in 1815 (4th JDC-300).
FURTHER NOTE: CB 1825-1709: Widow Jean Baptiste LaCour died while residing with her granddaughter Clarisse Boisdore LaCour and Clarisse’s husband, Nicholas LaCour II, who was also nephew-by-marriage to the Widow, in the young couple’s home, one plantation downriver of the Widow’s former plantation on the Mississippi. The inventory of the movable effects she left in her granddaughter’s house-which could have been the furniture the Widow had in her former residence (the subject property), included: In the parlor: two cypress corner cupboards, cypress table, cypress bed, 12 old rush-bottom chairs, two armchairs, large earthen jar, pair of andirons, brass candlestick on the mantel; Bedroom: two cypress beds, small walnut table, pair of andirons, large jar, chamber pot, old gun and marble mortar on the mantel, mahogany armoire with linens, clothing, silver place setting for six, silver ladle and six tableau (valued at $25 alone); Small room adjoining: small walnut bed, small cypress table, box of candles, old cypress cupboard with crockery, glassware, pepper mill, two baskets and two candlesticks; Back gallery: large jar, two tubs, cypress table “with stands”.
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