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Estate of  

Jean Vavasseur St. James Parish Clerk of Court

Convent, Louisiana

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 Summary 

Decedent died on April 1st, 1851 in St. James Parish, Louisiana

Testate; intestate Intestate (no will and testament)

Succession Nº 751

Filed April 14, 1851

Page Nº 21

Languages Louisiana French, English

Judicial District 4th Judicial District of LouisianaJudge Albert Duffel

Clerk of Court T. J. Gaudet

Recorder Victorin Roman

Petitioner Joseph Mathieu Vavasseur, also called Joseph Mathias Vavasseur

Succession administrator Joseph Mathieu Vavasseur

Attorney for counsel St-Marie Bérault

Widow(er) Mary Linder, widow in first marriage of the late James McAlpine

Legitimate heirs 1) Minor children of François Vavasseur, who predeceased his father:

(1) Octavie Vavasseur, (2) Oscalie Vavasseur, (3) Athénaïse Vavasseur

represented by their natural tutrix, Joséphine Arceneaux, widow of

the late François Vavasseur, residing in St. James Parish, Louisiana

2) Joseph Mathieu Vavasseur, residing in St. James Parish, Louisiana

3) Célestine Vavasseur, widow in first marriage of the late Adam Rhul

and the current wife of Jean-Baptiste Sosthène Mouton, domiciled in

Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Surveyors William J. Welham, Henri Baudet, Antoine Wèbre, Jean-Baptiste Keller

Land arpentage1 or acreage 2½ arpents wide by 29 arpents deep (see next page)

Slaves 25 (see next page)

Location of land Left bank of the Mississippi River, St. James Parish, roughly 60 miles from

New Orleans, between Jefferson College and the property of Henri Baudet

Total debt owed and paid $1,916.40 (worth roughly $59,887.50 in 2015)2 

Gross assets $23,970.39 (worth roughly $749,074.69)

Balance of assets after debt paid $20,201.19 (worth roughly $631,287.19)

1  Arpent  is a pre-metric French unit of land measure based on the Roman actus . In Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, allformerly part of French Louisiana, 1 arpent equals 0.84628 acre.2 Estimates in 2015 are based on Davemanuel.com's inflation calculator at http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php .

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 Slaves & PlantationSlaves

Name Description Occupation Age Children Value

1. Peggy None listed Old domestic 69 $1.00

2. Isaac Ditto Disabled 55 $1.00

3. Charlotte Creole negress None listed 50 $400.00

4. Charles None listed Ditto 46 $1,000.00

5. Cyrus Ditto Ditto 34 $1,000.00

6. Alexandre Ditto Ditto 29 $1,000.00

7. Aimée Ditto Ditto 31 valued with 4 minor children:

(8) Justillien, 9 years old; (9) Alexis, 7; (10) Justine,5; (11) Victorine, 3 $1,800.00

12. Jefferson Ditto Ditto 15 $1,000.00

13. Josette Ditto Ditto 12 $600.00

14. Mary Ditto Ditto 10 $500.00

15. Grégoire Ditto Ditto 21 $1,000.00

16. Berthilde Ditto Ditto 29 valued with 3 minor children:

(17) Léocadie, 8; (18) Madeleine, 5; (19) Joseph, 2 $1,800.00

20. Cécile Ditto Ditto 29 $600.00

21. Margueritte Ditto Ditto 20 valued with 1 minor son:

(22) Henry, 2 $800.00

23. Louis Ditto Ditto 18 $1,000.00

24. Rose Ditto Ditto 16 $800.00

25. Claire Ditto Ditto 14 $800.00

Total value of slaves: $14,102

Roughly worth today: $440,687.50

Rose was adjudicated to F. Kroll for $975.00.

Charlotte was adjudicated to the widow D. B. Sneed, mother-in-law of Joseph Mathieu Vavasseur for

$300 along with the horse named Bill, total $340.

 All other slaves adjudicated to Mary Linder, widow of the late Jean Vavasseur, including movables,

horses, and cattle, total sum of $20,578.25. Chopin and Roman hired unnamed slaves and paid the late Jean Vavasseur $331.50 in a bank note.

Plantation

Located on the left bank of the Mississippi River, approximately 60 miles from New Orleans, measuring 2½ arpents

wide, and 29 arpents deep, bordered above by the property of Henri Baudet and below by Jefferson College.

Total value: $3,000.00

Roughly worth today: $93,750.00

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