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The U. 5, Government attorney said further, "Can it fce believed that the Governor of I ouisiana intended conclusively to grent a domain 15 milei vide and over ^0 miles lor? (as large as an ord'nary county), for the rer< purpose of a cov Den ? And that he would have sanctioned e survey end completed title, if the surveyor of the province hed reported to hire, a* vas hip duty, that Boisdore declined to move hir family, white or b^ac't to tha place, or to employ his slaves there, with theexceotion of a sinpl< covhe&d; and that the improvement? of the piece vas so slight as it could veil be. amounting to only a trifling pntch of a fev acres ? Such a proposition shocks ell sense of equity, and is contrary to the settled policy of the Spanish government, vhich vns to make gratuitous grants for the purpose cf settlement end inhabitation, and not to the end of mere speculation.
“And, a?aln, the grantee right have hiE 'and surveyed, or he might decline; he might establish himself on the land, or decline; these acts rested wholly in his discretion. But if he fnilr-d to take rossession and establish himself, he had no claim to a title. So the Supreme Court of Louisiana held, reversing the district court.”
U.S. Supreme Court denied Boisdore in 1850
The case was argued in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1850
Attorney-General Crittenden sardonically exclaimed, "Boisdore never dreamed of such e magnificent principality for his cov pen as is claimed. *'
The "Bi? Court" vent alon? with this argument end the claim of the Boisdore heirs was denied.
Had the Boisdore heirs von this Fuit, the whole history of this area vould hsve been changed. The early settlers out east of Picayune, among them the Deviser, the Lees, the Jones, and many others, vould have been dispossessed and that vholc section of the country vould have belonged to that one family.
Be Hevla C1 elm T?ever Tried
Tn 1793 ^or‘ Francisco Hercetereo de Hevia registered a big claim for all the unoccupied land between VJest -lobolochitto Creek and Pearl River f r om their confluence up to the mouth of Black Creek vest of Cybur and thence running east alon,? an Indian path to the Hobolochitto. Another claim involving 30,000 to i+O^OO acres vas registered for land lying between the Boisdore prant and Pear1 River, including the general area of vhat is now Picayune, Nicholson and on down to Gainesville.
After the loss of the case in 1850 by the Boisdore heirs, suits involving the other two claims were never tried.
Spelling "Kississippi" is difficult enough, but to have had to spell and pronounce "Achoucoupoulous" vould have been so tough as to have probably driven off settlers vho vould not have wanted to live in an area, the na~:e of which they co'Id not spell or pronounce.