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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
leans between Dr. Keep Col. Gross and Wm. White and that said ,vhite and Keep were to take possession of the lower plantation (Signed) Tno.l\IAS HooPER Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 20th. March 1826 G. LEGR.-\S Jco pee for the parish of Rapide I certify that I have long been acquainted with Thomas Hooper Esq. an inhabitant of the Parish of Rapide whose deposition is written above, that he is a gentleman of respectability and that his deposition is entitled to full credit Given under my hand and seal of office as Parish Judge in and for the Parish of Rapide this 20th March 1826. • (Signed) TH C Scon Par J ud.Q'e
8. NARRISH WRIGHT
Whereas I Narrish Wright Sheriff of the Parish of Rapide by virtue of a writ of firie facias to me directed against the goods and chattels Lands and tenements of Thomas Patterson Imfa Keep and Henry Haynes at the suit of William Waters did seize the following property to wit all the right title and interest of these defendants or either of them in and to ninety Arpens of Land and all the rights priviledges and appurtenances thereto belonging situated lying and being in the Parish of Rapicle on the right Bank of the Bayou Rapide in descending bounded below by Lands of Charles Curtis and above by the One hundred and eighty arpens of the same tract purchased by John and L B Compton at Sheriffs sale and being the remainder of the tract acquired by Imla Keep or Tho• Patterson and a Part of the same on which the said Keep now resides and having exposed the same to public sale according to Law on the 4 th of March 1824 for Cash when J and L B Camptan became the purchaser thereof for the price of four hundred dollars which I hereby acknowledge to have received and endorsed as a credit on the execution bearing date Ma.rch 4 th 1824 Now therefore Know all men by these presents that I the said Sheriff do in consideration of the premises and by virtue of the acts in such case made and provided grant bargain Sell assign and set over to the said J and L B Compton their heirs and nssigns all the above described peice or parcel of Land and all the riaht title interest or demand which the said Thomas Patterson Iml:i. JC:ep and Henry Haynes on the 15th day of June 1822 as at any time since had in or to the said property or any part tbereof there being the following special Mortgages on the same as certified by the Par- ish Judge of the Parish of Rapide in his certificate as follows I cer-
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