Antoine Decuir estate | Louisiana Slave Conspiracies

Place Type:

Estate

Owner:

Antoine Decuir

Post / settlement:

Pointe Coupée

Coordinates:

-91.35033, 30.61309

Notes:

Based on the land claim description in the American State Papers we assume this to be the plot referenced by the entry number 5 even though the OB number does not appear on the historical survey plat map. The American State Papers confirms Antoine Decuir's ownership of this plot as early as 1788.

Acreage:

676

Acreage Notes:

Acreage based on information in the American State Papers.

Associated People

Antoine Decuir

Sources for Location Information

Survey Plat Map T5S R11E, 1853, LA - Louisiana Meridian, original survey

T5S_R11E_S50

Based on the land claim description we assume this plot to be be the one referenced by the American State Papers entry number 5 for Antoine Decuir.

American State Papers: Public Lands, Volume 2. 1809-1815

p. 257, No. 5

No. 5. Anthony Decuir claims a tract of land, situated in the county of Pointe Coupée and fronting on the False River, containing eight hundred superﬁcial arpents, bounded on the upper side by land ofJoseph Decuir, and on the lower by vacant land. It appearing to the Board, from an order of survey exhibited, that the same was issued by the Spanish Government on the 12th day of July, 1788, in favor of the claimant, for the land in question; and it also appearing to the Board, from the certiﬁcate of Charles Laveau Trudeau, late Surveyor General of the province of Louisiana, that the aforesaid order of survey was duly executed on the 18th day of February, 1790; and it further appearing to the Board that all the requisitions under the ﬁrst section of the act of Congress establishing this Board have been complied with, the Board do hereby conﬁrm the claim of the present claimant.

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