Tag: Louisiana

Colleen McCann

1835 Deed Recording Exchange of Slaves and Land inherited by sisters Eliza Perrie Bowman and Mary Ann Gray from mother Mrs. Lucy Perrie

Enslaved Names, Plantation, Slave Holders, Transcription

West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana On March 24, 1835 two married half-sisters recorded a transaction wherein they deeded to each other Enslaved Persons and property they had inherited from their mother

Colleen McCann

Catherine Rucker Turnbull’s Will, 1831, West Feliciana, Louisiana

Plantation, Slave Holders, Transcription

Less than a year before Catherine Turnbull’s death, she created a will determining her burial wish to be interred in her Inheritance Plantation cemetery with other family members. She identified