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fayard Family
being property belonging to the Royal Domain of his Catholic Majesty; I dare hope, that your honor will be pleased to grant to your petitioners the tract of land prayed as above. In acknowledgment of which, your petitioners shall not cease in offering promises to heaven for the preservation of your honor's days.
We remain with profound respect and entire submission, Sir, your most humble servants and Subdued subjects.
Mobile twenty-eight of April, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-four
After checking that the property belongs to no one, Henry Grimarest, Governor of Mobile, gives the following decision.
Henry Grimarest, Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry, Civil and Military Governor of the Town of Mobile and its jurisdiction:
By virtue of the powers which the King, our Sovereign, has conferred upon me, I grant and confirm unto the said James Mathurin and Nicholas Carceaux the eight arpents of land which they solicit in the preceding Memorial; that is to say, to James Mathurin the four arpents situated on the West; and to Nicholas Carceaux the other four arpents adjoining thereto towards the East, which tract of land they shall enjoy during their life time, and after their death, to their lawful representatives, and the said land shall be used by them for cultivation, raising of cattle, cutting wood and in establishing a plantation thereon; and in virtue of this title, they can therefore enter in the enjoyment and possession of the said tract of land, and they shall be recognized as lawful owners thereof free from molestation by any person whatsoever in the course of their labours.
-And in order that this grant may appear at all times, let it be deposited in the Archives of this government, granting to the petitioners copies (of the same duly authenticated in due and legal form) of the same duly authenticated in due and legal form of law. Given at Mobile on the 28th day of the month of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, signed with my own hand and sealed with my Armorial Bearings.
(Signed) Henry Grimarest
Louis FAYARD1* grant at that time must have been what was confirmed forty years later by the General Land Office in Washington, as follows:
Pursuant to an order from the principal Deputy Surveyor of the Land District East of the Island of New Orleans, and in conformity with a Certificate ^143 from the Commissioners, appointed under authority of the Act of Congress of April 25, 1812, and recognized by a subsequent Act approved March 3, 1819,
I have surveyed a tract of land claimed by Louis Fasiar situated on the seashore in the State of Mississippi, being section No. 26 in Township No. 7 of Range No. 9 West of the basic meridian and South of the 31st degree of latitude and bounded as following, viz:
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