Marguerite Decuir

Folder 9: Procès-verbal of auction of community property belonging jointly to François Jacques Ozenne and his deceased wife Marguerite Decuir, Saint Martin Parish, 1818 April 15-16 Document. Certified copy, dated 1818 November 5, signed by P[aul] Briant, Judge, Saint Martin Parish.

The community property holdings of François Jacques Ozenne and his deceased wife Marguerite Decuir, which were sold at auction before Judge Paul Briant, Saint Martin Parish, included a plantation on Bayou Tortu, a property near l'Ile du Large, household goods, livestock, and sixteen adult slaves. The document gives the age and describes the physical condition of each slave. Witnesses to the sale where Louis Chemin and Godefroy Decuir. A list of names of the persons present at the auction helps to clarify the interrelationships between the Ozenne, Decuir, and Beauvais families of Saint Martin Parish.

Folder 23: Statement of accounts for the partition of the proceeds from the Ozenne estate among the heirs, [Saint Martin Parish], circa 1820 April Document. Undated, unsigned. In French.

The accounting is of the proceeds from the estate of François Jacques Ozenne and his wife Marguerite Decuir.

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