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were provided to the French in the early 18th century. Not much information on these local land transactions is preserved.
One interesting piece of evidence related to early French land grants in Hancock County is found in a Spanish deed from 1788 that references a much earlier transaction. In 1788, (or 1782 check this) Charles Souvigny (or Louvingy) and John Baptiste Roussere (Rousseve) were granted land along the East Pearl, near the Favre plantation. When Jean Baptiste Roussere purchased Souvigny?s deed in 1805, the following remark was appended to the deed transaction.
Remark: The original grant, 7 November 1733, by Mom. Bienville to M. Diron has not been produced, and is not mentioned except for the conveyance from Charles Marie de La Lande and his wife to Joseph Barbant de Boisedore, no evidence of M. Diron as original grantee, however, de la Lande, first seller, appears to have been confirmed to Bienville by Dabbadie, Director General of New Orleans, the chain of title from Mon. Bienville to the present claimant is unbroken.
No further primary evidence for French deeds in the region that eventually became Hancock County have so far been discovered in the archives.
War and Politics
The British and their ally Prussia emerged victorious from the ?Great War for the Empire? (1754-1763), known in North America as the French and Indian War (1756-1763)'.
Spain joined the war on the side of France in 1762 and invaded Portugal, an ally on England.
The Great War started over the issue of who owned the upper Ohio Valley, and the entire mid-section of North American. The North American phase of the War ended when the Governor General of French Canada, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, surrendered Montreal and Canada to the British on September 8, 1760.
Spain had entered the war as France?s ally only in the last year of the conflict. At the Treaty of Paris signed March 10, 1763, France?s colonial reign in the New World ended. To reward Spain for her support during the War and to restore Bourbon political ties, Louis XV of France donated the Louisiana Territory, including the ?Isle d?Orleans, to his cousin, Charles III of
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