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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
DEPOSITIONS CONCERNING BANKRUPTCY OF I11ILA KEEP
1. ISAAC THOJ.IAS
United states of North America, and state of Louisiana paresh of Rapide. This day appeared before me Gilbert Legrass a Justice of the pence in and for said parish Isaac Thomas who being duly sworn According to the Law of said State, did depose that he was ·acquainted with Doer Imln Keep in the years 1822, '1823, and 1824. 'That he was. his near neighbour and had as he believes a. pretty general knowledge of his affairs. During those years he is of opinion, • that Doer Keeps practice a.s a physician could not have yielded him on ·a fair estimate more than five hundred dollars a year. he also states that the Doc"' attention was principally confined to the cultiva-. tion of his farm. The said Thomas further states-That Doer Keep purch11sed pa.rt of the Land that he once .owned in this parish and which is now owned by the deponent of Col. Thomas Patterson- vVho had purchased jt of ,vat.ers and Leonard who held a :Mortgage for the ballance of the purchase money due by Patterson-to the amt of about four thousand two hundred dollars. The hall:mce of the Land the Doer bought of William Smith-who had a priviledge on it for the payment of the ballance clue him. Keep by his purchase of Patterson became bo·und to pay ,v aters and Leonard-failing in which they obtained a Judgement against Patterson on the Mort- gage-and had the Land sold on a twelve months bond-when this bond became due Keep was still unable to pay and procured this de- ponant John and L. B. Compton, Joseph and William Brown and John L. Lecroix to purchase up the bond and give him one and two years to pay it in- The. above parties did make that arrangement reserving their right to have the land sold and bought in by them for their security of the others. Keep paid part of the money due on the bonds at the time fixed-and this deponant paid the ballance-- and to secure himself for this and other debts bought the Lund and took a Conveyance from J and LB Compton- The land bought·of smith was sold to pay the ballance due on it When the deponant also became the purchaser. Sworn to, written in the deponents own handwriting, and Sub- scribed before me this 20th, March 1826 (Signed) I. THOMAS G. LEGRAfl Jee pee m and for the parish of Rapide .I certify that I have long been acquainted with Isaac Thomas Esqr an inhabitant •of the ,Parish of ~ap~de ~hose .deposition is written
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