Settlement of Daniel Eades Estate

Settlement of Daniel Eades Estate

The following is from the records of Eaast Feliciana Parish, LA.

      Co B "A"  pg 201 

                                        Sept 6th  1826

                                      

      State of Louisiana

      Parish of East Felilciana   Be it remembered that on this day of

      the date hereof

      Before me Thomas A. Scott, Judge of the Parish aforesaid and

      Exofficio Notary Public in and for the same, personally came

      and appeared Charity Eades, widow of the late Daniel Eads dec.

      of the one part, and Penelope Watson Daughter of the late

      Daniel Eads dec. of the second part, aided and asisted by her

      husband Michael Watson, and the said parties for the purpose

      of efficting an amicable solution of the Estate of the Late

      Daniel Eads dec. & hereinafter mentioned agrees as follows,

      _______, the said Charity Eads agrees and doth herein and

      hereby freely and fully give, grant, and relinquish to the

      said Penelope Watson her heirs and asigns, all the right, ____

      interest and claim in and to the following discribed  ___

      and personal property, of the Said Estate of the Said

      Daniel Eads dec. ______

      Negro man John supposed to be worth four hundred dollars        400

      Negro woman Viney worth four hundred dollars                             400

      Negro boy Joe worth two hundred dollars                                       200

      Negro boy Ben worth one hundred and seventy five dollars          175

      Negro boy Jim worth one hundred and seventy five dollars           175

      Negro woman Frankey worth four hundred dollars                         400

      Negro boy Jerry worth four hundred dollars                                    400

      Negro girl Jes__ima worth three hundred dollars                           300

      Negro boy Shepard worth three hundred dollars                            300   

      Negro girl Disda worth one hundred and seventy five dollars       175

      Negro girl Trucilla worth one hundred and fifty dollars                   150

      Negro girl Sarah worth one hundred dollars                                   100      

      Negro man Peter worth three hundred dollars                                300 

      Negro girl Rachel worth two hundred twenty five dollars                225

      Negro girl Sas__incy worth two hundred dollars                             200

      Negro man Jack worth five hundred dollars                                    500

      Negro man Perkins worth five hundred dollars                               500 

     

      One stud horse worth one hundred and fifty dollars                      150

      One gray horse worth one hundred and fifty dollars                      150

      One yoke of no horned oxen worth forty five dollars                       45

      One yoke of horned oxen worth fifty dollars                                     50

      One carriage worth sixty dollars                                                        60

      One ___ of blacksmiths tools worth sixty five dollars                      60

      One tract of land lying in the Amit _____  proposed to

      contain six hundred and forty acres worth six hundred dollars      600 

      Three beds and furnature  

      Thirteen head of stock cattle and twenty head of sheep

     

      and the said Prisilla Watson assisted by her husband

      Michael Watson as aforesaid, for the purpose aforesaid

      agrees, and doth herein and hereby freely

     

                   Copy ends here

     

      Her name is given as "Prisilla" in the last paragraph.

      It was clearly written this way, either the court clerk

      made an error, or possibly her middle name was "Prisilla",

      she had an aunt by this name.