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The Moore-Cannette Family
James Mathurin and Nicholas Carceaux, inhabitants of this jurisdiction, humbly pray and wish to make your honor their most humbe (stc) representations in order that you may be pleased to honor them with your protection.
Your petitioners are desirous to establish and cultivate a piece of land lying and being at the Cost of Beloxy which has never been claimed by any person, bounded on the east by the mouth of the Bay of the Old Fort, on the West by Lewis Foyar and on the south by the Sea; situated on a Point called Point of Dumanon, which said tract contains about Eight Arpents in front; and, the same 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 acknowledgement 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 submissive subjects.
Mobile, twenty-eighth 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 lifetime, 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 FAYARD's grant at that time must have been what was confirmed 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: Beginning at the Southwest corner of fractional Section No. 33 and run thence East 23.50 chains to a pine marked LFXIII, the concluded line between claimant and Angelique Fasiar; thence North 2?30"
West 80.06 chains to a post whence a pine bears North 78?E18 links and a pine bears S 140 ?22 links; thence South 80 chains to the seashore cornered on a White Bay, marked LFX III; thence East 59.99 chains to the place of beginning, containing 640.01 acres and having such shape, form and marks natural and artificial as are represented in the above plat and description. The 10th day of January 1824.
Thomas Bilbo,
Deputy Surveyor
Examined and approved (signed) William Brown Principal Deputy Surveyor
Louis Fasiar (Fayard) Grant - Confirmation of and Survey of the Grant ^ 143, confirmed April 25, 1812, re-confirmed March 3, 1819.
It is clear, then, that Louis and Martha had all their children and reared them on the Mississippi Gulf coast. (The original grant to Louis is in the Spanish Archives in Seville, Spain.) This family numbered six known children: Pierre (called Louis in many documents), Judith, Jacques, Alexis, Ursfn and Jean Baptiste.
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